It's almost like people are complicated and when you are forced to choose between two parties you almost always go for the stronger male person

I've observed this weird cognitive dissonance with outdoorsmen, since I am quite fond of fishing.

They tend to be a pretty hardcore MAGA bunch, but also don't like pollution because it messes up their sport. When you ask them about stuff like this (how can you support someone who pretty openly wants to mess up your pastime?), they get mad or change the subject.

I get it - people are complicated and can care about many things at once. Nobody likes it when someone is seemingly poking at their belief systems. Still - you'd think it'd give them some kind of pause.

I’ve observed that generalizations are usually wrong. There are plenty of MAGA people who care about the environment, and there are indeed MAGA people who couldn’t care less too.

It’s also strange to single out MAGA on cognitive dissonance- everyone, regardless of political affiliation has it.

At the end of the day blame the two party system. There are hundreds of thousands of people who voted for Obama and Trump, Biden and then Trump again. Let that sink in.

This historical period will be remembered by being a cause for legislation to introduce strict testing for mental illness in government positions. Ask any psychologist and it’s clear what it is, but they won’t say it publicly because of Goldwater “rule”. fact is they have the most dangerous and destructive mental illness known, and they captured the power exactly because of their disorderly mindset. Yet for months and years everyone is observing and discussing what people with a serious mental illness are doing when they are given highest post in power and unlimited money.

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wow, pretty much everything. great. How have they not learned from the last SEVEN times?! Can they be sued for this? Can they be fined by the government for this?

I just logged in and when I tried going to my profile section I just got a screen that said "Access restricted". Maybe because I'm logging in from my work laptop which I've never done before. I guess this is how they are trying to deal with the issue, preventing access of sensitive info from "suspicious" logins.

These debates have been done to death and mostly I also think that the article is a fairly typical strawman argument. Take the worst way to do a live coding test, point out the problems and then dismiss the whole idea.

What else are we supposed to do? Take the fact that you can talk a good game as enough of a signal to invest 10s of 1000s? Assume that everyone with 20 years experience is as good as everyone else?

The problem is that there are no reliable signals. Most Developers I have interviewed have a massively inaccurate ability to judge their own ability (in both directions). I've lost count of the number of times candidates have rpomised that they can just learn whatever they don't already know and haven't been able to do it to any degree.

Qualifications are meaningful in some contexts more than others but most people in the UK don't have comp-sci qualifications.

So yes, I will use various coding exercises because depending on the level, it shouldn't phase someone to be given something quite simple and to see how they approach it (do they write tests first? Ask some good scope questions? Explain why they've done something the way they did?)

I have failed one of these tests in the past thinking I was a good Developer (I am!) but I don't blame the test or the process, I realised that my approach was haphazard and not an objective good look to an Interviewer so it was actually helpful.