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  • No. Humans aren’t deterministic machines that perfectly weigh available information and rationally decide on the best course of action. It’s not enough to have better policies, you also have to appeal to your voters emotionally.

    Harris didn’t do this, she instead decided to effectively spit into her voters faces by moving right on several issues while not giving hope that current issues will be resolved. People are hurting financially - one candidate said “I’ll fix it”, while the other said “there is no issue, nothing will change”.

    It doesn’t matter that her policies were better. She could have campaigned differently and gotten far more votes. It’s as much her fault as it is the voters.

















  • Yes, they can be written in maintainable ways, I didn’t disagree in my original comment. That doesn’t change that most of the projects I come across to this day are absolutely unmaintainable messes. I’m not talking about Python from 10 years ago, I’m talking about the projects I encounter now.

    The biggest issue is that you have to limit yourself to a mostly non-dynamic subset of Python if you want type checking etc. to work, and you have to write your own type definitions for many dependencies. Most projects don’t do that, they instead lean into the dynamic nature of Python, which makes them unmaintainable after little time.