Not surprised it’s a Republican.

The point of school is to learn stuff. Facts and methods. Teachers aren’t typically asking you to solve math problems or summarize a story because they need the answers.

One of the core pieces of capitalism - “You do the work and I keep the profits” - is undesirable. I would say it’s even unjust. Children would recognize it as a problem.

I’m so tired of hearing about AI at work. They don’t have the fundamentals of software development down - no tests. no linters. no automatic deployment. Dependency management is a joke. Code reviews are a rubber stamp. They only this quarter stopped people from SSH’ing onto the prod machine and making live, not in source control, changes. But they want everyone to start leveraging AI. Spending untold piles of time and money on it.

It would be far cheaper and more cost-effective to spend like, a week, on software development fundamentals.

Meanwhile, I’ve stubbornly forced my way through various processes and red tape to get a bare minimum of checks that run automatically on PR. This week it found someone had pushed a script with a fatal syntax error, gotten it reviewed, approved, and merged. My check goes live and flags this before it’s in prod. No one cares. Management still just wants to talk about AI.

Platforms could moderate their content. They choose not to.

The through line in this kind of thing is always people being selfish and reasoning poorly.

It’s like when someone says “I need to own a car! What if I need to move furniture??” It’s just emotional sludge that doesn’t stand up to reason with fair axioms.

I mean it’s horrible but the only way people change their mind is from social pressure.

I had a coworker that was very right wing and months of talking I got him to accept queer people can be filed under “live and let live”. That was a big improvement from where he started.

PragerU is awful right so I infer they mean this as a bad thing.

Most developers I’ve looked at would happily just paste the curl|bash thing into the terminal.

I often would skim the script in the browser, but a. This post shows that’s not fool proof and b. a sufficiently sophisticated malicious script would fool a casual read

I’m pretty sure conservatives axiomatically have a problem with women. That’s part of conservatism.