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Comment I was "shocked" by Fukushima deaths... (Score 1) 111

by Parker Lewis (#63151020) Attached to: Japan Adopts Plan To Maximize Nuclear Energy, in Major Shift

Past year, I was watching a documentary about German closing all nuclear plants, and then heard Angela Merkel saying that the reason was Fukushima disaster. I gone to Google and search about Fukushima deaths.

According BBC, the number is astonishing: 1 indirect death by cancer in 2018.

Comment Of course it runs faster... (Score 4, Informative) 49

by Parker Lewis (#62823839) Attached to: Report: 97% of Software Testing Pros Are Using Automation

Of course run an automated test suite runs faster then manual testing. But it'll take an incredible amount of resource (time and developers) to write the automation script. So, write it against stable parts of your software. Usually regression test suites.

If not, you'll spend a huge time and developers to write scripts to something keeps changing.

Not to mention that a lot of the automation tools, even Selenium, Pupetter and Playwrite, they'll fail a lot (i.e., false negatives). To the point that sometimes you have to disable the CI when you have a lot of developers submitting pull requests.

I'd suggest to people that really want to learn about testing (being a tester, developer, test manager, product manager), to read the International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB) basic syllabus.

Comment Re: No longer a problem? (Score 1) 101

This is how science works: constant evolution, dialectic. To every problem solved, the solution is not final: it's the one the fits the understanding and requirements of that era. Newton appeared to have the final word in gravity in 1687. If you want words in a stone instead of constant evolution, search by religion, where you can't argue due dogmas.

Submission + - A Billion-Dollar Crypto Gaming Startup Promised Riches and Delivered Disaster (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by Parker Lewis
Parker Lewis writes: Axie is a game tied to crypto markets. Players get a few Smooth Love Potion (SLP) tokens for each game they win and can earn another cryptocurrency, Axie Infinity Shards (AXS), in larger tournaments. The characters, themselves known as Axies, are nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, whose ownership is tracked on a blockchain, allowing them to be traded like a cryptocurrency as well.

There are various ways to make money from Axie. Players who own Axies can create others by choosing two they already own to act as parents and paying a cost in SLP and AXS. Once they do this and wait through an obligatory gestation period, a new character appears with some combination of its parents’ traits.

Every new Axie player needs Axies to play, pushing up their price. Alejo Lopez de Armentia, 39, started breeding last August, at a time when normal economics seemed not to apply. “You would be making 300%, 400% on your money in five days, guaranteed,” he says. “It was stupid.”

Axie’s creator, a startup called Sky Mavis Inc., heralded all this as a new kind of economic phenomenon: the “play-to-earn” video game. “We believe in a world future where work and play become one,” it said in a mission statement on its website. “We believe in empowering our players and giving them economic opportunities. Welcome to our revolution.” By last October the company, founded in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, four years ago by a group of Asian, European, and American entrepreneurs, had raised more than $160 million from investors including the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and the crypto-focused firm Paradigm, at a peak valuation of about $3 billion. That same month, Axie Infinity crossed 2 million daily users, according to Sky Mavis.

But since March, It had lost about 40% of its daily users, and SLP, which had traded as high as 40, was at 1.8, while AXS, which had once been worth $165, was at $56. To make matters worse, on March 23 hackers robbed Sky Mavis of what at the time was roughly $620 million in cryptocurrencies. Then in May the bottom fell out of the entire crypto market. AXS dropped below $20, and SLP settled in at just over half a penny. Instead of illustrating web3’s utopian potential, Axie looked like validation for crypto skeptics who believe web3 is a vision that investors and early adopters sell people to get them to pour money into sketchy financial instruments while hackers prey on everyone involved.

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