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  • As a long term LibDem voter, mainly because of PR, this is one of the few issues I disagree on.

    Another elected house isn’t desirable and I’m generally fine with it being a house full of experienced politicians and subject matter experts. I’d like to reform the appointment process to avoid the stuffing we’ve seen from Johnson and Truss. The Lords Spiritual should be ended as a group. I have no problem with community leaders being appointed, which may include religious leaders, but not as a fixed role in the house.

    I see all of that as fairly minor reform. Not rip it up and start again.



  • I think you’re underestimating how badly it taught them. I see a lot of developers (when interviewing) that are unable to reason about code.

    Lot’s of people learn how to cook by following recipes, but they don’t try to get work in catering or running restaurants. That requires a different level of understanding.

    SO was the coding recipe book. It was fine for hobbyists. Not professionals.




  • The Rust kernel devs are …

    1. …asking the maintainers to lock down APIs which the C devs purposefully leave malleable, in part, to avoid binary blob drivers being feasible.
    2. …asking maintainers to accept code into their subsystem whilst being told, you don’t need to know Rust to an expert level…trust us. Cross language interfaces always have nuance and make good attack vectors. Understandable that maintainers are cautious.
    3. …creating quite a lot of hassle for no a lot of improvement. Systems are only as resilient as their weakest components. The cross language interface is always going to be weak. Introducing a weakness to get improvements probably only succeeds at making the whole weaker.