Societal obligation in this case is literally basic minor respect towards the remaining people. And frankly, the loneliness epidemic HN like to talk about is closely related to the ideology where the only thing that matters is yourself.
Controversial statement I fully believe in. It is not a decline. Tech workers were always like that. We just liked to not talk about it and call everyone who notice "sjw". Because it felt shameful.
Only as long as that rule and determination is in accordance with supreme court politics. Otherwise they will find a way to twist the meanings again, so that they can ensure the outcome they want.
Chevron was always ridiculous. There’s no constitutional basis for executive agencies filling in accidentally ambiguous laws with their own sometimes expansive interpretations. Interpretation of the law has always been the domain of courts in common law systems.
In real world engineering, defects are part of the design and not bugs. Really they aren't even called defects, because they are inherent in the design.
Maybe you bump your car because you stopped an inch too far. Perhaps it's because the tires on your car were from a lower performing but still in spec batch. Those tires weren't defective or bugged, but instead the product of a system with statistical outputs (manufacturing variation) rather than software-like deterministic ones (binary yes/no output).
Which goes back to OP's initial point: SWE types aren't used to working in fully statistical output environments.
What is the utility of this sense of "bug"? If not all bugs can be fixed it seems better to toss the entire concept of a "bug" out the window as no longer useful for describing the behavior of software.
What is utility of any other sense? I expect null pointer to happen. It is still a bug. Even if it is in some kind of special situation we dont have time to fix.
> If not all bugs can be fixed it seems better to toss the entire concept of a "bug" out the window as no longer useful for describing the behavior of software.
Then those are bugs you cant fix. It is just lying to yourself to call them not a bug ... if they are bugs.
> Bring back those laws requiring fairness of media representation.
There is no way for this not being censorship and not being used to suppress less powerful opposition. Which is exactly how it was used in the past. Plus, just look what both sidesm currently does - it motivates journalists to write as if both sides were equal in situation where they clearly are not.
> Require that widely shared content is fact checked and that fact checking is automatically included while sharing and provide recourse for fact checking up to the legal system.
Fact checking is irrelevant to public opinion. And again, it is not that difficult to bias it.
I can understand someone who hates the state and wants to see it destroyed supporting Trump and Musk. They are obvious choices if you want to maximize the damage.
Isn’t that a given in 2024? I find it amazing that it still seems to be an issue in some places. Using a linter/formatter is a no-brainer at this point, and it’s been for years.
Societal obligation in this case is literally basic minor respect towards the remaining people. And frankly, the loneliness epidemic HN like to talk about is closely related to the ideology where the only thing that matters is yourself.
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