Just like all checks and balances in government, it assumes the branches are somewhat independent and ethical, at least claim to serve their constituents, and protect their own power. It’s up to the legislative branch or the judicial branch

I’m one of those who “do nothing”, if you’re measuring by commits and lines of code.

• as an architect, I spend way too much time doing diagrams and presentation
• as a point of engineering escalation, I spend a lot of time researching things no one can figure out
• as a stickler for code quality, I like nothing more than those days where my lines of code are negative

On the other hand, if you go by the amount of code I indirectly effect with best practices, code quality, appsec, and assisting developers, I affect all of engineering (hundreds)

Damn , 175 lb?

I only need a couple “real” passwords. They are long, complex, and backed by 2fa

Historically I re-used things from personal history. I know I shouldn’t but they’re easier to remember since I already memorized them. Usually they’re not public data, more like

• my first PIN of my first ever bank card is now additional authentication for my app with my current bank
• one password is the name and IP (with substitutions) of one of my favorite servers from a job 15 years ago when I ran my own lab
• I gotta admit, I still have some trivial passwords for things that seem trivial

But my passwords are mostly generated (and the password to that is complex and unique, plus requires additional Auth). Anything from the last couple years also has a unique generated email

My company is pretty serious about such things: I have generated passwords, two separate 2fa apps and a yubikey. Plus they have some annoying shit on the laptop that is sometimes annoying

There’s trash cans in the bathrooms and they all have changing stations… did he just change the kid outside? Is that a thing parents do?

Yes. We’re used to no facilities or disgusting facilities and ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Of course you’d have to be an idiot to not take advantage of facilities when they’re available

Similar here with Verizon: $48/line unlimited everything, no cap. However no mmWave (they want to charge extra), and data is throttled in Canada and Mexico

You’re thinking by too small. They will deport a few 100,00 with a lot of noise … and then not so much as they carve out a maze of exceptions to benefit their cronies at the expense of literally everyone else

Criticism of nclb is usually the incentive to teach to the test and on punishing schools that need help. Kids may get shortchanged on learning how to think, and on all the material not on the test. However reading is on the test. It’s an attempt to establish standards for reading and to raise them

US is way too big an oil consumer, way too slow on fixing it. Slowin it down even more is just bad, and we’re big enough polluters that it won’t just affect us

Also bad news for US: “drill baby, drill”! Oops

Worst of all, bad news for the environment, as US says “I told you so, plenty of cheap gas for my SUV”

Sorry, a bit frustrated with my fellow citizens

Are you just repeating what you hear on Fox News? There are lots of reasons to object to NCLB, but lower standards isn’t one of them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act

The cost of geoengineering solutions has been estimated to be

A thought experiment on developing a and maintaining an aircraft fleet to inject dust into the stratosphere. Assuming global cooperation. Assuming that solution works. Assuming you can scale up the dust production without driving up cost. Assuming there are no side effects. Assuming variations in weather don’t trigger war now that there’s someone to blame. Assuming it doesn’t disrupt our food production. Assuming it doesn’t lead to additional extinction events. Assuming -0.3°c over 25 years is enough

Yes, OP should definitely prepare for the worst and hope it doesn’t happen.

Mental Illness is not only an invisible disability but has been scapegoated before. “Just suck it up”, “fake”, I’m sure your brother has heard those and worse. While there’s no way to predict what they’ll consider “waste”, we know they can’t make their goal without cutting a lot of necessary programs. This one does seem risky

I’m sure that’s what most are doing. I’d even say that for most of Project 2025. That’s a conservative wishlist and I don’t see how Trump cares either way about most of it, but the people he’s putting in position clearly do. As long as they are “loyal” to Trump they can get pursue own agenda. As long as Trump remans center of attention and gets personal gain he’s probably good with whatever they want

Yet one of the parties is trying to invest in long term things like education, climate, infrastructure, trying to bring manufacturing back to the US, strengthen unions……

If my government is going to be irresponsible with money, I’d much rather it be for long term investments than lining the pockets of the wealthy or connected

While I don’t quite believe this connection, I want to point out that legacy car manufacturers heavily depend on imports, especially from Canada and Mexico …… but Tesla does not

Or who even pay attention to actual news

Yes, both.

• I’ve always been bad at remembering who I met or what we talk about
• I can doom scroll for hours without recalling anything of note
• when things are hectic the daily details disappears
• ask me a technical question and I’ll vomit entire manuals at you

• the best way to get affordable RVs, especially used EVs is to goose the market. Faster growth now gets us more used EVs than trying to make the current ones cheaper.
• the full rebate only applies up to $150k annual income for someone filing single. While it’s well above the median income, that’s far from wealthy, especially in high cost of living areas

Yes in this case it’s good to help those higher middle income people because they’re the ones where it makes a difference now and the most people benefit with the most market growth