Paul Becotte

@juss_a_dude @kylegriffin1 The Supreme Court has ruled previously that this is not okay, and in those rulings set out guidelines that lower courts should apply to these cases. The district court followed those. The Supreme can change its mind with new rules, but didn't do that either. Thus, the dissent.

That doesn’t make sense. SCOTUS goes opposite of lower courts all the time. Just as appellate courts appeal decisions by lower courts, etc. “We should just do what the court below us did” is not a good dissent. What would be the point of appeals. Did you read any of the actual decisions?

Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan: "[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision. That is why we are supposed to use a clear-error standard of review—why we are supposed to uphold the District Court’s decision that race-based line-drawing occurred (even if we would have ruled differently) so long as it is plausible. Without so much as a word about that standard, this Court today announces that Texas may run next year's elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting. Today's order disrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge—that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right. And today's order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race. Because this Court's precedents and our Constitution demand better, I respectfully dissent."

@CynicalPublius @cajunlmt337 I'm pretty sure I remember briefings when I was in the service with the exact some message "you must refuse illegal orders" Of course, it doesn't say who decides which ones are illegal, which makes the whole thing kinda useless...

@cajunlmt337 Ummm.... Ratbrain? Falsely treating a lawful order as being unlawful is a violation of the UCMJ, and encouraging such unlawful behavior is the very textbook definition of sedition. Try to keep up. Now scram, Feces-4-Brains. Git.

Retired Army colonel here. This is sedition.

@badhombre Are you saying that you'd prefer a mayor who cant afford a $5000 vacation?

Zohran Mamdani’s first order of business as mayor-elect was jet-setting to Puerto Rico for a six-day stay at the ritzy Caribe Hilton in San Juan. Average nightly rate: $700–$800. Suckers.

@grahamneray @GergelyOrosz I'd argue that discussions about the candidates previous accomplishments do a lot more to prove their skills than the silly code tests we like for software jobs.

@paulbecotte @GergelyOrosz You think other industries don’t ask ppl to prove their skills?

A common complaint about tech interviews is how it asks to prove your skills... but professions like accounting, medicine don't do this! Be careful what you wish for: accounting, doctors & similar white collar jobs hire based on pedigree (school, past workplace) + warm referrals

@grahamneray @GergelyOrosz The same thing they do in other industries- try to understand the problems the candidate has faced, the approach they took to solving them, and the accomplishments they delivered in the process.

@paulbecotte @GergelyOrosz What do you think we should use instead?

@grahamneray @GergelyOrosz Because it doesn't do that. There is no thirty minute code test you can do that will accurately show whether a candidate can function as a senior engineer. Notice that training for the interview is an industry- it tests something other than your work skills

@GergelyOrosz What’s the objection to being asked to prove your skills?

@jimiuorio Or possibly they dont imagine soldiers hanging out near touristy areas for a month or two is going to do anything to help investigate gangs, or solve mental illness, or fix drugs and homelessness.

Ive stepped over pools of blood from a dead person in front of my parking garage twice in the last 3 years. One morning I couldn’t workout because gang bangers shot the windows out of my health club. Just last Sunday a kid from the trading floor got shot in the side of the head(gonna make full recovery I think) in the west loop. I can no longer ride the blue line L because it is a homeless encampment populated by aggressive and dangerous mentally ill drug addicts. I’ve seen people pummeled on the L and I’ve had to get off 3 times and take an uber from “medical emergencies” that turned out to be dead people…point is, if you’re some pampered upper crust activist who’s protesting federal help to make people safe you are a hateful cruel sociopath…

Wrote this post about my experience with earthly, a remote buildkit and lots of jenkins pipelines paulbecotte.com/blog/post/comb…

"The last thing we need is a patronizing message that however little you try, you're perfect just the way you are. No, the beauty of ideals is that they ask more of us. Ask us to pursue knowledge, fitness, and competence." world.hey.com/dhh/the-beauty…

@nareshshah139 @GergelyOrosz The logical thing to do when your revenue per employee goes up is to hire more. The last 70 years that cycle has played out countless times, always with the same result.

@GergelyOrosz Why do you solidly think that these companies will not reduce new hires? Especially when they can increase their revenue per employee significantly?

Of the 10 most valuable companies in the world, 7 employ more software engineers than any other role (NVIDIA, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta), 2 are hardware (Broadcom, TSMC) and 1 is oil (Saudi Aramco). Getting into 7/10 of these is "easiest" as a software eng.

@WallStreetMav I mean- they also discontinued every car except one, and changed that from a kuxery sports car to an overpriced mid-level.

Go woke, go broke. Jaguar attempted a woke rebranding with cringe advertising, and all of their customers picked other luxury brands.

@kagpt2023 @charliekirk11 The EO that sparked the injunction is a good example. This ruling says that each individual affected by the EO would have to file their own lawsuit. Turns out, not everyone has equal access to file lawsuits.

@charliekirk11 In dissenting, Jackson wrote that the decision from the majority "will disproportionately impact the poor, the uneducated, and the unpopular. Sorry, but a law is a law regardless of how popular or poor you are. How the F does she think the Constitution works?

An actual quote from a SCOTUS expert who understands the current court well: “This is an unbelievable bloodbath for KBJ.” “It’s really a huge problem for the court to have 1 of 9 members essentially intellectually disabled from even adequately faking the ability to perform the job." Joe Biden explicitly picked KBJ for reasons of DEI rather than merit. Now, he has seriously injured the highest court in the land, but his own cause most of all. What an embarrassment.

@FBIDDBongino You're not planning to pardon them, right?

The Right to assemble and protest does not include a license to attack law enforcement officers, or to impede and obstruct our lawful immigration operations. We are thoroughly reviewing the evidence from yesterday’s incident in Los Angeles and we are working with the US Attorney’s Office to ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice. The days of chaos ruling the streets are over. Either obey the law, or go to jail, there’s no third option.

@LBoucherAuthor @leoknyc777 @Strandjunker When debating the ammendment, discussions were made about this issue- it was intended. The court ruled almost immediately on cases where children of visitors were denied entry.

@leoknyc777 @Strandjunker It was meant for slaves not for millions who engage in birth tourism.

Did you know? Trump’s ex-wife Ivana wasn’t an American citizen until 1988. She gave birth to Don Junior in 1977, Ivanka in 1981, and Eric in 1984. — Let’s cancel their birthright citizenship first.

@the_J6_Lawyer @StephenM In your example...what did the officer observe the person doing that was against the law? Being Hispanic?

It takes days or weeks to obtain a single warrant for a single criminal search. Requiring a warrant for Border Patrol to conduct an interdiction of an illegal alien is an act of legal insurrection against national sovereignty. Never in the history of our country or any country has a criminal judicial warrant been required to stop a foreign trespasser from invading your territory. Congress, indeed, has explicitly EXCLUDED all such procedures for alien removals. This is madness.

@ibuildthecloud I was using gateway to wsl2 and tried docker both inside the wsl2 container and docker desktop on the windows side, couldn't get it working. Was also right when they first released it, so good chance they have improved since

@paulbecotte Did for me. It's kind of a interesting flow because you start the ide, it detects and builds the devcontainer, and then starts the ide again, but now in the container.

oh hey, JetBrains support devcontainers now.

@ibuildthecloud I don't disagree that they're bad, but I understand the design choices they made and don't know what the alternatives look like.

Holy crap, I thought crapping on python was engagement farming, but the real trick is talk about prom/otel. I guess I'm not alone. This crap is madness.

@Dee_Hunter @fatherbraids @LeadingReport If people stop buying foreign goods amd all the industry comes back, the tarrifs make no money though, right? We have to pay for government one waynor another...

@paulbecotte @fatherbraids @LeadingReport Them tariffs is going to force big companies back on American soil. Which will bring the high paying regular jobs back to Americans. People won’t have to cry about not making a liveable wage. We going to be tax regardless. Why would want to be tax for making money???

BREAKING: President Trump’s plan to replace income tax with tariff revenue is ‘absolutely’ a possibility, according to National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett.

@Dee_Hunter @fatherbraids @LeadingReport Right. Adding 200% tarrifs to everything is going to raise prices much more than covid did. Your main point though- you could have tarrifs or sales taxes that repla e income taxes. The government gets the same number of dollars, but the distribution of who they come from changes

@paulbecotte @fatherbraids @LeadingReport Cost will always be passed on to the consumers no matter what that’s business 101. When inflation hit cost went up crazy but you still had to pay the IRS. You will actually save more money by not having to pay the IRS for making money.