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Even the house is unfairly tilted towards smaller states because of the 538 limit

Ever so slightly, definitely not as bad as the senate.

I'm all for doubling the size of the house, but that's more to combat gerrymandering. The larger the size of the house, the harder and less impactful it is to gerrymander. Though before that I'd definitely push for federal anti-gerrymandering legislation.


Either your head is 6 feet deep in the sand or you aren't really so non partisan

We have had secure elections for a long time, how is it that the only 2 that Trump has presided over are the ones that are a security concern?


Countless directors and managers are now cosplaying as engineers. I've seen so many myself and that's just my tiny slice of this engineering world


It is pretty funny to see the shoe on the other foot, since it's usually software engineers with unearned arrogance about other fields.


What fields do you see devs think they know about? I’ve never personally seen this with other devs I work with but obviously small sample size…


In my experience, product. There’s a pervasive view that product is easy, that anyone working in it is a dunderhead who gets in the way of engineers doing the really worthwhile work. In reality, it would just mean they rewrite the software five times and have zero customers.

Oh, design too. I’ve met many engineers who simply don’t see any value in design.


This. I'm a former teacher. I left to get a PhD in educational psychology, and now I'm a data scientist for a large school division. The number of ed tech companies I interact with who clearly have little grasp of research-based best practices in education is staggering. But they can all build slick-looking websites and dashboards.


The software is not the product.

You can't get a software person to understand this unless they learn the domain they are working in properly.


Just to flip this around and widen your view, but not everybody's idea of "worthwhile work" is measured by how many customers they have.

Note I can make this claim without calling anyone "arrogant", a "dunderhead" or even go as far as to imply they operate outside of "reality".


Literally everything. Just pick a topic and you'll see SWEs on Hacker News prognosticating about it as if they knew everything while knowing nothing but the surface.


Internet discussion != real-world professional fakery


If HN is any indication, many devs have hilariously naive beliefs regarding economics and philosophy and will absolutely refuse to engage with actual arguments or experts within those fields.


Devs like to pretend they know everything about everything.

Start a discussion about any topic, look at how many nerds will tell you that you are wrong.


find any econ related post on hn et voila


I don't think it is much of a problem that dabblers get into Internet arguments about things they are not experts in. After all the easiest way to get a correct answer/learn something is to say something wrong.

Of course this should be differentiated from a professional setting.

And under no circumstances should we put that stuff into the knowledge bases we base our "AI" on without making sure it takes into account the context.


There have always been people with no tech experience building startups generating spaghetti code. It's just that now it looks a lot more polished.


> It's just that now it looks a lot more polished.

Yes, and that is the problem. It used to be if a product looked polished it was fairly polished engineering wise as well if we compare to todays AI slop. You can see that on steam, before AI slop games a game that looked polished mostly worked. But today you can get a game that looks like they put in a lot of effort, but its all AI slop and everything is flaky and broken, I've had way more such experiences the last few months than before that.

A human coder that was capable of coding a complex game typically also was good enough and tested things to make most things work. There were bugs etc, but at least buttons did things.


Engineers cosplay as physicists and mathematicians every day. What's your point? Think of it pragmatically. If they can do the job they can do the role.


> If they can do the job they can do the role.

Obviously.

Can they do the job? Because right now, government decisions are based on AI generated code, which was verified by nobody who can do that. So the cost of an unsatisfactory answer is quite high.


Kagi does have some methods for enhanced privacy if you are concerned about having an account. See https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/anonymity.html


This already exists as something called dot phrases, which most doctors are familiar with. These are typically shared and refined and highly useful. You can find plenty of resources online as well.

This is just a hacky way of doing the same thing, all on your own, and a tremendously silly way to do it. Which makes sense because this is literally just an ad.


Sadly, no mention of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, or even mast cells at all


It'd have been interesting for them to discuss it, but from what I understand it looks like MCAS is probably an entirely separate thing (that can also be triggered by COVID), but because of the overlap in symptoms, many people who assumed they have long COVID actually had MCAS. And even after teasing those two out, there may be more conditions in the long COVID bucket.

And of course people can have both.


This is a blog on the root cause. MCAS would be an intermediate mechanism in making you feel sick, but something must have triggered the MCAS. Thats the autoimmune response.


MCAS is the underlying condition, which is then triggered by a Covid infection. This results in an escalation of baseline symptoms, which is what Long Covid is


Opportunity for all the big money to get something back out while they can, which collapses the whole thing


Same here. Anyone being even hesitant about AI is viewed negatively by management


This is the one case where management is right, they had to drag my (FAANG) org kicking and screaming into the AI future and it was worth it. We are moving 3-10x faster (team dependent).

Now the engineers I know that had the same skeptical tone as OP are the ones singing its praises and doing cool shit with it.


From what little you're saying, you guys might be more productive now and writing better code, finally decently documented, or you just hopped onboard a speeding slop train, or something to be defined in between. Hard to tell which.


Try commenting without using AI


No my choice.


Having long ago built an app that does gamecasts for multiple sports, similar to what you get from ESPN, every sport is completely different. There's almost nothing that matches up, except for the very basic concept of a box score. Even play by play has enough differences to be vastly different


I never once built an app for gamecasts, any sport, but even I do realize that sports are different... Not sure what made you(s) believe I'm suggesting the exact same UI for all the sports.


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