And days after? Makes no sense.

I used to get mad at these but it unironically sounds like a nice open culture

Dual citizen with Australia, sorry. Though it is fairly light paperwork for Americans who are in tech - as in the U.S., the best chances are to get in stateside with a big company that has an Aussie HQ (Atlassian, Xero, Canva, FAANG, etc.) and then transfer

I left and got two Sr SWE positions within 3 months. It’s like the 90’s down here

Correct. The border search exception is essentially a run around the fourth amendment and is a contentious subject in case law.

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

I was with you for a bit. But I disagree on a few points:

• I don’t think she was dragged down as much by Biden’s reluctance to drop out so much as her failure to differentiate herself from him. You could make an argument that Biden’s late exit and the lack of a primary worked against her. She also became known early on in his administration for being difficult to work with, but this might not have weighed heavily on the minds of a disengaged electorate.
• The “woke left” is basically ad hominem at this point. It’s a sort of shibboleth that right leaning voters understand but most left wingers and centrists tune out because it has been overused, sort of like “socialist” and “communist” before that. To be sure, there are irritating and unrealistic social justice warriors, but they are actually a minority and overrepresented in media.
• Gaza is a genocide. Don’t take it from me, take it from the ICC, the UN, various scholars, and many dispassionate third party observers. Not sure what you mean here, but in my opinion, genocide is not something to compromise on for the greater good. Kamala would have been better on this issue than Donald Trump, but this is a huge miscalculation by the people advising her.
• Denunciation of the far right is consistently a problem for Democratic leadership, with a few exceptions.

Democrats do need to realise that elections but particularly presidential elections are a gut check. People vote for the president that leads boldly and fearlessly. Someone who has conviction and doesn’t seem to deliver messaging that has been pre-planned. When Trump was shown to be inaccurate during the campaign, people liked him more because he appeared to be speaking extemporaneously.

That’s so well put. I’m thinking of finishing my electrical engineering degree just so I can get out of the increasingly strange web app industry

Agreed.

Need 60 votes in the senate and it’s 53 republicans in there atm

Being obtuse for a moment, let me just say: build it right!

That means minimalism! No architecture astronauts! No unnecessary abstraction! No premature optimisation!

Lean on opinionated frameworks so as to focus on coding the business rules!

And for the love of all that is holy, have your developers sit next to the people that will be using the software!

All of this will inherently reduce runaway algorithmic complexity, prevent the sort of artisanal work that causes leakiness, and speed up your code.

Why am I suddenly seeing this guy’s name every single day? Is it a Lemmy thing?

Australia by blood. I am sorry.

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This is a man who should never be trusted with the nuclear codes. I bought my ticket the day after the election and am now living permanently in a safer country.

America is cooked.

Respect.

I am Spartacus

I think we’re ideological allies but this is misinformed.

Only very few economists favour rent control: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_regulation because it generally decreases the amount of available housing and has other deleterious effects. I say this as someone who benefitted personally from rent control.

Generally, increasing the supply of housing lowers its cost: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_crisis There is discussion in there about zoning being a problem too.

I do think that we still need some policies to curb runaway housing asset appreciation (e.g. higher taxes on non-owner occupied housing).

As a senior dev, I agree but am impressed that you’re dealing with a functional architecture to begin with

I knew a guy who worked for TBI. He “loved” busting people for DUI. They need a psychologist to come in and tell them what validity means. Generally, however, DUI people need to have their licence removed permanently.

They actually stopped trying to kill Hitler for this reason later in the war