I don’t really buy that. Even the Rs haven’t gone that far. Imagine how much worse things could be if they had.

You’re right, and let’s not forget the Franken recount that lasted until June. So a very brief window to get stuff done.

It’s Manchin, straight up. And then Ted Kennedy died and they lost the supermajority and had to pass what the Senate had already voted on because anything different would be filibustered.

Watch him mop the floor with Tucker on Crossfire.

Bastion.

Every election since I could vote (early 2000s) has been the most important.

Why? Because the results built the Supreme Court that curtailed every progressive policy achievement and accelerated our current descent into fascism.

Without GWB you don’t have Roberts or Alito. Without Trump you don’t have Gorsuch, Cavanaugh, or Barrett.

Those fuckers have lifetime appointments. One lost election sets us back decades. The only good time for a protest vote is the primary.

“Heulyn” pronounced Hay-lynn.

/c/toiletobserving

The PR isn’t public yet (it’s in my fork) but even once I submit it upstream I don’t think I’m ready to out my real identity on Lemmy just yet.

I just spent about a month using Claude 3.7 to write a new feature for a big OSS product. The change ended up being about 6k loc with about 14k of tests added to an existing codebase with an existing test framework for reference.

For context I’m a principal-level dev with ~15 years experience.

The key to making it work for me was treating it like a junior dev. That includes priming it (“accuracy is key here; we can’t swallow errors, we need to fail fast where anything could compromise it”) as well as making it explain itself, show architecture diagrams, and reason based on the results.

After every change there’s always a pass of “okay but you’re violating the layered architecture here; let’s refactor that; now tell me what the difference is between these two functions, and shouldn’t we just make the one call the other instead of duplicating? This class is doing too much, we need to decompose this interface.” I also started a new session, set its context with the code it just wrote, and had it tell me about assumptions the code base was making, and what failure modes existed. That turned out to be pretty helpful too.

In my own personal experience it was actually kinda fun. I’d say it made me about twice as productive.

I would not have said this a month ago. Up until this project, I only had stupid experiences with AI (Gemini, GPT).

The military is primarily compromised of poor rural folks. Conservatives outnumber liberals 2 to 1. I’m not sure what direction the other quarter (nonvoters) would break.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2018/10/17/troops-see-rising-political-tension-in-the-ranks-poll-shows/

The military skews right. Strongly. That’s a big part of the problem.

If you’re in the US like me, we should be aware the problem isn’t bright lights; it’s that our regulations don’t allow for the European beam alteration tech that will dim sections at a time based on oncoming traffic.

Brighter lights are a huge boon to safety, but we need the corresponding tech to keep it that way.

Spartz?

No love for jetbrains?

I always heard it as One Rich Asshole. TIL

If it’s domestic, there’s at least some recourse available. Facebook was fined $5 billion for the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

When they own the platform they can use it to serve you catered disinformation.

They can have your data but unless they can also decide what you see as a result, it’s not the same thing.

That’s the difference.

Franken should have been running for President. Smart, incisive, charismatic. Everything we needed.

Fuck.

In the US the ruling party fills lifetime judicial appointments, which means the 4 years of conservative rule can have decades of lasting impact that will thwart any progressive policies that the next leftish government tries to implement.