A bit amusing. I took Anna Karenina off Gutenberg and used that as test data for some of my flashing algorithms. I called it the "Anna test". I could have used random data, but where's the fun in that? Besides, during dev, structured text showed the kind of error I got much better than random data would have.
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#12This reminds me of ‘The Jules Test’. Popularised (hyper locally) by my friend Jules. When renting a flat, simply head straight to the bathroom and flush the toilet. If the toilet flush is good, the flat is fine.
You can use "20,000 leagues under the sea" instead of Moby Dick.
Both were written at the same time, both deal with ocean adventures, and both (IMHO) are much longer than they need to be.
Then you can have multiple Jules tests, depending on occasion!
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#13not to pile on the particular software but the example just stuck in my memory, two years ago or so I tried out Logseq for note taking, and I still remember that it put a five page file (not even Moby Dick) into 'read only' mode because apparently at about 1k characters or a few hundred lines of text the app couldn't handle the performance impact, stumbling across discussions like this[1]
With the quasi supercomputers we have, that somehow apps that exist to edit and display text crap themselves on ordinary [1] https://discuss.logseq.com/t/logseq-unusable-for-long-form-p...
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#15And here I thought this was going to be, “do a push up every time you have to look up a word in the dictionary while reading Moby Dick.”
Or how to stay fit like an 1800s whaler. Where am I going to find a hook and a 200 pound chunk of whale blubber though?
Find your nearest Discord Mod Meetup.
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#16I use "War and Peace" for this.
I used war and peace to explain to a CEO how wasteful a mobile API was; twelve distinct items of data to display but we sent JSON larger than war and peace.
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#17This reminds me of ‘The Jules Test’. Popularised (hyper locally) by my friend Jules. When renting a flat, simply head straight to the bathroom and flush the toilet. If the toilet flush is good, the flat is fine.
You can use "20,000 leagues under the sea" instead of Moby Dick. Both were written at the same time, both deal with ocean adventures, and both (IMHO) are much longer than they need to be. Then you can have multiple Jules tests, depending on occasion!
> both (IMHO) are much longer than they need to be
I haven’t read moby dick but i dropped 20’000 leagues under the see a bit past half the book because of this. At some point the author spent pages and pages and pages describing the environment under the see, often repeating himself.
I’ll get back to that book at some point but yes, it’s longer than it needs to be.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can use "20,000 leagues under the sea" instead of Moby Dick. Both were written at the same time, both deal with ocean adventures, and both (IMHO) are much longer than they need to be. Then you can have multiple Jules tests, depending on occasion!
> both (IMHO) are much longer than they need to be I haven’t read moby dick but i dropped 20’000 leagues under the see a bit past half the book because of this. At some point the author spent pages and pages and pages describing the environment under the see, often repeating himself. I’ll get back to that book at some point but yes, it’s longer than it needs to be.
I think at that point in my life I quite enjoyed how much he laboured the details. But the book Ready Player One had a few areas where the author just listed pop references, on and on, which reminds me of that.
Something that helps me is just giving myself license to skip stuff. It's usually better I finish a book since I will never come back to it. So I just jump around a few pages if I get bored.
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#19This reminds me of ‘The Jules Test’. Popularised (hyper locally) by my friend Jules. When renting a flat, simply head straight to the bathroom and flush the toilet. If the toilet flush is good, the flat is fine.
You can use "20,000 leagues under the sea" instead of Moby Dick. Both were written at the same time, both deal with ocean adventures, and both (IMHO) are much longer than they need to be. Then you can have multiple Jules tests, depending on occasion!
Moby Dick had a much worse ratio of "size of good novel trying to get out / actual size", in my opinion.
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#20did jesse write this? i presume so but maybe hog bay has an anonymous forum