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I would settle for representatives that actually represented the interests of the people rather than those of the wealthiest and their corporations.

Why do I think this news will not get the same coverage as the original announcement of the results? Am I too cynical? Or too wise in the ways of the world?

No no no…. You see, with AI, everyone and their dog is a developer now. 8.9 million looks pretty pathetic when considering the global computer-using population.

Danger. I believe this opens a RCE hole if the attacker sends a properly crafted sequence of terminal escape codes.

I would say the information environment makes it easier to control the population, because the goal isn’t necessarily to get everyone to agree on a desired agenda but rather to prevent us from reaching consensus on pursuing any opposing agenda. The goal is to divide and prevent unity.

Can we though? There is marked difference in how the government reacts to populist demands. Notably, they learned from Vietnam how to manipulate the population to divide public opinion. I am not sure people today can overcome such organized machinations.

Those boxes are not there to generate feedback. They are there to placate the user by implying that their voice will be heard.

And the difference will be as stark as steak is from stew. To be clear, “engineering-like” is not “engineering”.

The “should” trap is a big one. I found The Work by Byron Katie to be a very effective self-guided method for addressing those thoughts.

It is hard to believe that no one sees this coming. I can’t imagine it will happen any other way.

Read the Constitution. The 13th amendment that “abolished” slavery also explicitly reserved the right for the government to keep prisoners as slaves:

AMENDMENT XIII

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

When politicians act, they look for political wins, not financial ones. If they get both, great, but they could care less about fiscal responsibility. The system’s purpose is what it does.

Raw Jersey milk is 25-30% cream. You only need to add cream (back) to store bought milk.

We test every batch of milk for coliform and aerobic bacteria. I would never consume milk raw otherwise, and I would never recommend others do so either.

And we would never even think about selling it, despite knowing that our milk and eggs are demonstrably safe. My recipe makes one quart, so not sure why you inferred and implied that I am selling it.

We have a milk cow. We prep our ice cream from scratch in about 5 minutes: two cups of raw milk, 1/4 cup maple syrup, 1t-1T vanilla, 1/4t salt, and 6-8 raw egg yolks. Blend everything in a quart jar with an immersion blender and pour into a Cuisinart ice cream maker. AFAIK, you literally cannot buy anything close to this good.

As a small farmer, I have nothing good to say about the USDA or FDA. I would rant further, but I’ve kinda given up at this point. I’m selling my farm next year.

There are legal matters and ethical matters being discussed. Legally, it does not matter. Ethically, it does.

I discovers this 10 years ago with Yelp. I refused to pay, but still kept an account linked to Faceboook. When I deleted that account, apparently Yelp knew that and released some old negative reviews that previously had been hidden. One review was filled with lies, and I never had the chance to see it (much less respond to it) when I still had the account. That was the day that I learned what legal online extortion looks like.

Yes, it does. are you familiar with the rules for perjury? Once someone lies under oath, everything they say gets thrown out. The logic being that others cannot know what words can be trusted; you are done as a witness.

For some crimes, everything they are should be thrown out, because society should not be burdened with the trust that these people will not commit another similar crime. Removing them from society protects the very fabric of our society: our trust in others.

Child rapists, serial killers… these fuckers need to die, or society learns that we catch and release such predators back into the world. Where they become someone’s neighbors. Are you willing to let them move into next door to you? You think keeping them alive protects society?

That’s by choice. Spend more than you make and you can claim no profit. They could become profitable overnight by cutting spending, though that would also be akin to switching from a run to a walk in the AI race.

In other words, prepare to get medieval.

There is one in your area. They meet at the bar down the street after work.

It’s still a thing, but it is no longer based in objective reality.

As an embedded engineer, I tend to agree. Their hardware looks good, but I am not going to spend my free time getting their software to work as well as I know it could if they hired someone like me.

Huh, maybe I should contact them, since I am freelancing now….

Certainly no parallels with our manufacturing capabilities, no sir. /s

In the past decade, the Constitution hasn’t slowed down the courts from creatively interpreting its various clauses. Their decisions have effectively amended many of those fundamental (and arguably inalienable) rights. Repeatedly.

A belief held by the majority does not make it better simply for that fact. Not that long ago, the majority view was that slavery was a great thing, so I think you should see that argument falls fairly flat.

Offering birthright citizenship makes the US better than 95% of the other countries. Not worse.

After three decades slinging code, my stress response to high pressure tends to be inversely proportional to the size and competency of the org/team. Suitably sized and capable team? Not going to sweat too much about it. The smaller or less experienced the team, the more other factors come into play.

Lately, I have been working solo, so my stress tracks more closely with development cadence and deadlines. When seeing (or anticipating) the pinch here, I push back with “you can have features or deadlines, but not both”. If you do not push back, you will find yourself being tasked with writing fixes or features for an impossible deadline, and you are not going to have a good time.

Beyond that, your nerves should diminish over time, as you gain more confidence in your ability to produce production quality code. Use language servers and linters, run static and runtime analysis tools, enable every warning, treat warnings as errors, write tests, and so on. Warn the powers that be of the consequences of skipping such steps; once you have clearly warned of possible outcomes from such action (e.g. shipping bugs, slipped deadlines, dropped features), you should not need to carry the burden on your own shoulders.

Good engineering requires constant trade offs, and you should look for a new job if management does not understand and respect such principles. Good organizations should not be stressful places to work.

Show me the consequences. I hear there are supposed to be repercussions, but these asshats never seem to pay for their crimes.

Having been the guy to speak the uncomfortable truths at such meetings, I can tell you that does not end well for anyone. Expect to look for another job shortly afterwards.

That’s actually an argument in support of life existing in many places across the universe.