Hopefully I am grandfathered in

The NYT has issues going back 7 generations, it’s not like it started to go downhill recently

I have thoughts this is an excellent sample of those who watch Fox News

Our Omnibus draws samples entirely from the SSRS Opinion Panel, which has a probability-based recruitment methodology. No one can volunteer or sign up for the SSRS Opinion Panel; members are randomly selected and invited to participate. The panel recruits randomly selected panelists using a nationally-representative address-based sample (ABS) design with a randomly dialed prepaid cell phone supplement (RDD). This reduces the risk of bias and ensures that bots or fraudulent panelists are not recruited.

So, people who answer strange phone numbers. I think 15 years ago that would have been fine. But now, not so much, and I really don’t think this filter is talked about as much as much as I would like.

Try looking for “ssrs scams”, and mixed into that are actual experiences with the survey, by people asking about what they experienced. Also mixed into are the various actual scams that pretend to be legitimate.

A huge percentage of mentally healthy USA adults would not participate

Wow, just doing the bare minimum for a legislature is enough to let one grab national headlines.

I think nobody understands exactly how anything works, but enough of us understand our own little corner of tech to make new things and keep the older things going. I’ve been coding for decades, and proudly state I understand about 1% of what I do. This is higher than most

AI will make these little gardens of knowledge smaller for most, and yet again we, as the human species, will forever rely on another layer of tech.

Koch is old guard, they already lost too much influence.

It’s just drama that will not change that many things

Did his lawyers tell him to say this ?

Op article reminds me of parsing propaganda.

Yes, it mentions things I need or want to know, but it hides and misdirects.

These percentages are BS without context.

• 50% of the population could go out for a single day protest. Nothing changes
• 10% of the population could do daily protests. Nothing changes.
• 3% of the population could shut down the country, all hell breaks loose. maybe change maybe not.
• 1% of the population declares war. Remembered for a thousand years.

And even the larger peaceful protests can really change things if they have concrete and achievable political goals.

It’s not the size, it’s how you use it

Truly a victory for bipartisanship

This all assumes all years are measured by the same orbit with no mixing and matching planets or space habitats.

The standard earth year had not been adopted system wide

Rust is both a nice programming language, and an obnoxious social movement made of a small minority of Rust programmers who are very loud

It’s a planned disabling of ss.

The trepidation of news sources, or even most social media, to call it deliberate sabotage, gives them cover.

The majority of the American public does not deal at all with this level of tech. And the small percentage of people who understand can not influence anything.

Some socks have horrible return times

Sometimes it’s better to hope while closing eyes

People learn to pass tests, and do computer labs. They have hands on experience in several computer languages. But that is a far cry from what is really needed.

Probably most schools give the fundamentals regardless of country.

Can’t tell who has talent until they try to work a lot; often the people who do not code on their own are not very good, period

I think a student should at least do a few hours average work each week on their own projects , regardless of tech stack. It really shows after 4 years.

it’s like night and day between those that do this as a hobby and go to school ; verses the people who pass tests and do group projects in the labs but don’t do anything outside of what is required.

College computer programming programs normally do not train people to immediately work, unless the students spend thousands of hours coding on their own. Most comp sci students avoid this.

So, when a new dev graduates and they did not do that extra work, then the first year of paid work is them putting in those hours while being paid rather than doing it for free

That is very frustrating !

New devs generally suck, I sucked a lot.

The problem I fear today is that there are more crutches new devs can rely on, until they can’t.

And it’s not a sharp boundary between getting by and not being able to work it