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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • If Democrats win control of the House, then it will happen earlier, because once the VP becomes President, the VP position becomes vacant, and can only be filled if both houses of Congress approve. And Democrats would likely use the “McConnell doctrine” to sit on any appointment made by President Vance and not act on it.

    That would effectively give Democrats an extra half vote in the Senate, because there would be no VP to break ties. And the next Democratic House Speaker would be next in line if, somehow, President Vance also leaves office.

    So, once the returns are in (with good news for Democrats), if the plan was to shove Trump to the side it will happen before the new House takes over, while Republicans can still pick a new VP.





  • For the same reason why they let so much water evaporate. They could convert some of that heat back into electricity, just like they could run closed-loop cooking systems, but it would cost more money than it would save. There’s no financial incentive to do so…

    … Until regulators start insisting! These datacenter folks have gobs of money, we shouldn’t be shy about requiring them to not ruin the local environment.

    It would be best to do it on a national level, otherwise these folks will just shift the development to someplace without the regulations.




  • It’s effective in terms of cranking out software. I’m talking about skilled senior engineers managing this directly. They know what they’re about. But at what cost?

    Those senior engineers became skilled by starting out as entry-level engineers who didn’t know all that stuff, but learned from the senior engineers before them (and by writing a lot of bugs that hopefully got caught by code reviews.) Now, companies are using AI as an excuse not to hire entry-level people.

    15 years from now, we will find there are no mid-level people to promote, because they never got their entry-level job and are now waiting tables.