If they’ve held office before then you’ll know from their track record what they are like without needing to trust the campaign trail blather.

Idk maybe they could spend a few months telling us their ideas, and then the people could go and pick the candidate they like the most, like some sort of election

You believe their lies?

And how does one typically get good enough at a job to “make good decisions”? And how would you know if they would “make good decisions” in that job?

What about her?

Electing a legislator is not electing a dictator.

No shit. But you presumably still want qualified people doing the job?

There’s not necessarily anything wrong with electing people without political experience.

I’m sorry - what? Of course there is. It’s a job that affects the lives of thousands to millions. Having experience with the systems, the laws, and seeing the results of legislation and the like is critical to being able to govern and legislate effectively.

You’re talking a lot of storage - it might be worth investing in some low-end server hardware. A Dell tower or something, maybe one off eBay if you’re looking to cut costs.

I picked up a PowerEdge T110II a long time ago and it’s been… flawless. Just a simple server with a 4x4TB RAID5. No hardware problems (aside from occasional disk failures over the years), easy to manage. It costs a bit more - but server hardware is often just more reliable and for a NAS that’s job #1. This server just runs.

I just upgraded the memory in it to 32GB for ~$100USD. Before that it had 8GB. I needed more for restic doing backups. I probably could have gotten away with 16GB but I figured I’d max it out for that price.

This week - Apache Airflow setup to automate running backups (replacing cron).

But that’s my point. It wasn’t a poll of FoxNews viewers as the article says. It was a poll of likely voters.

The mistake makes a big difference.

Fox actually has a pretty good polling team despite their many other deficiencies.

Suddenly I find myself strangely in support of debtors prisons…

Nearly 6 in 10 Fox News viewers disapprove of Immigration and Customs Enforcement,

The poll is of likely voters, not viewers. This is why cries of “fake news” land so well, not even basic fact checking.

You would be surprised at how much “common sense” has been disproved by science.

The devil is in the details.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., asked Noem whether Lewandowski has “a role in approving contracts” at DHS. Noem responded with a flat denial: “No.”

“But is he doing it anyway?”

Probably because it’s not illegal.

Sounds “woke”.

“and dangerous”.

If you’re locked in a room with a monkey with a machete - you may be smarter than the monkey, but you’re not ignoring it.

He’s too stupid and dangerous to be given that benefit of the doubt.

I’ve been accused of “gate keeping” when I tell people that this is a shitty way to deploy applications and that nobody should do it.

No shit. Why would they even say that?

Ahhh, self doubt, my old friend…

“There is probably a better way” is a fairly common feeling. In fact there probably is a better way. But at some point you need to be pragmatic and be happy with “good enough”. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good (enough) as they say…

That said - follow your intuitions as well that things could be done better. Don’t be afraid to just re-write a bunch of things to see if an idea works better. Like grouping things from some “common.php” into domain specific functionality (dates.php, db.php, etc.). Or re-working how your front-end works. Maybe read other code or ask for code review from people more experienced, or even from an AI (yes, yes, I know, but they can be useful).

One problem you can find yourself in is that you’ve created code that’s very difficult to understand, but since you’re “in it” right now you understand it completely. If you put the code down for a week or two and come back to it you may find it very difficult to re-learn. If using classes, creating a DAO layer, or some other pattern helps to make your code easier to read then it’s worth following.