That sounds awful. My first instinct would be to see where an FK constraint would fail, and then ask the business what it should be. There is no guarantee that every business case from way back needed an FK, or that anyone in the business knows which FK value should be there. It sounds absolutely miserable.
In my experince, adding proper constraints will not only ensure code can never write invalid data to disk, it will also help you realize when business rules are lacking or failed to consider edge cases.
Sweet is only unhealthy nowadays because of the sheer quantities of sugar we can consume as of he past 60 years. Before then, sweet stuff was a luxury. Hell, I've even heard that modern fruits are too sweet for zoo animals as we've bred them to have more sugar.
you can still read the flagged and dead comments. they are NOT censored. they are hidden to get out of the way, but they are not removed. if you want to know what is being flagged or dead, you can go and check. i do. that's exactly the point.
Instead of trying some solution from across the pond, TX could do what virtually everyone else does and that's connect to their grid to the rest of the US.
The last time Texas had a power crisis, I vaguely remember other grids not having enough spare capacity to be able to help Texas even if they had been connected. Bing connected to the rest of the US isn't necessarily a solution for this problem.
Texas' power failures were largely due to failures in natural gas production. This drove down natural gas supplies across a huge chunk of the country. It had a lot of knock-on effects in neighboring states where they were pushed near their limits as well, especially neighboring areas. Even Minnesota was affected by Texas gas production shortfalls.
> This isn’t just happening in Texas, of course. Utilities from Minnesota to Mississippi have imposed rolling blackouts to ease the strain on electrical grids buckling under high demand during the past few days.
The amount of energy deficit was like 30GW of power. Oklahoma's entire generation capacity is like 6.7GW. Arkansas has a little over 5GW. Both states were already massively straining to keep the lights on and had rolling blackouts. Even if you decided to redirect all the electricity from both states into Texas you'd still have a shortfall of an additional 20GW of power. So you'd need all the power of like six surrounding states to balance out that deficit.
Moving power from even further out causes a lot of challenges, so even if there was a good bit of spare capacity in places like maybe Illinois or something a lot of it wouldn't have made it down there.
There's a good chance even if Texas was connected, if gas failed the same way there would have still been massive outages. Now, would gas have failed if required to make the NERC's recommendations? That's another question. But just the basic idea of being on the other interconnection, it probably wouldn't have saved Texas from having massive outages.
You don’t really want the bar to entry for the roll of magistrate to be too high.
The page you linked states a magistrate must be at least 21, have a Batchelor’s degree, undergo a training program within one year of commencing the roll, with restrictions on their abilities until that and other milestones are met.
This points to the idea that any reasonable adult, with a proven ability to pass at least a baccalaureate, ought be able to administer the law to at least a level of basic competency while they simultaneously commit to the career path by undergoing relevant training.
Magistrates who are licensed attorneys have fewer restrictions and can progress faster.
Is there some other set of rules you would prefer?
Should the average higher-education-qualify adult be prevented from participating in the judiciary?
That doesn’t seem like an argument a citizen of a democracy wound intentionally make.
> Should the average higher-education-qualify adult be prevented from participating in the judiciary?
This might be a bit spicy, but I don't think that a bachelors degree should count as higher education anymore. So, no, the average higher-education-qualify adult shouldn't be prevented from participating in the judiciary, but I think the bar for 'higher-education-qualify' should at least be a post-bachelors degree specific to the field.
It seems like you are stating that women of the past were secretly unhappy, so the modern divorce rate is the system hitting it's relaxed state. That's a confusing way to support the way things are.
I'm not sure I'm supporting the way things are, so I don't know exactly what is confusing.
The comment I responded to has a fairly big assumption: that divorce is always a bad thing. I don't think that is a given.
People used to be quite stuck in the family or marriage system. Even when faced with violence and sexual abuse, there was often no way out. I've seen heartbreaking examples of this.
Though the tightness of past bonds may feel attractive in this era of fleeting connections, it was often not quite as cosy as what we long for. The freedom to move out of these traps was and is liberating for many. And yes, there is a cost to that freedom as well of course. I don't want to support anything, I just put a nuance here against a naive kind of nostalgia.
This style of concern trolling drives me up the fucking wall, given what we know about abuse statistics.
Step-fathers and live-in boyfriends are several times more likely to commit sexual or physical abuse on the mother's children than biological fathers. [1][2]
If biodad is actually abusing the children, then yes, by all means, get out.
But if you're leaving a non-abusive dad in order to "find yourself", or because you're "just not happy", you are, statistically speaking, endangering your children, unless you accept a lifetime vow of celibacy.
> This style of concern trolling drives me up the fraking wall,
It shouldn't because it isn't.
> given what we know about abuse statistics.
If marriages are safer for female spouses, I suggest it's because marriages have to compete with other relationships.
In my parents day (silent gen), marriage had little competition and were commonly a safe environment for abusers.
I personally witnessed mom in traction & my brothers broken. Most of her relatives/friends were mistreated by their husbands (possibly all but not everyone confided). Similar stores could be said by the children of that generation. And, my observations were far from unique. Family abuse was everywhere (victims confide in victims).
For my cousins' generation, many things are improved. eg:Their understanding of abuse. eg:The meaningful expectation for men to not mistreat their loved ones. eg:The expectation for men to support all obligations in a household (not just the ones they want).
Meanwhile, if we are more vocal about More Marriages than we are about better marriages, I suggest we have lost our way.
It didn't read to me as if the parent was talking about the abuse being done to the children but to the partner themselves, something that is far more common.
All of the divorces I know firsthand from my peers do not involve violence or sexual abuse, but more nebulous or obtuse statements about personal happiness and expectations from life.
I do think a culture of instant gratification and the myriad of stimulus that hits in rapid fire from all sides sets up even the most stalwartly to succumb to feelings or urges to do something opposite of their rationale, because they don't spend a lot of time ruminating and re-examining the source and cause of these feelings and harmonizing them with their goals and values, a sort of re-programming.
I am divorced, but do not want to go into the personal details. I did meet my ex when we were both in our twenties and did not have high body counts. Our divorce would be hard to define with cause(s). I know a large part of it was that my ex-wife struggled with giving up her career (that made her unhappy when she did not have kids) to be a stay-at-home mom when she pushed for having kids, but rejected my offer to stay at home if she wanted to work, and then happy she stayed home and vice versa all over again. Film and media echo this dislocation and dichotomy all the time. Films that show people working through things against all odds (yes a filmic reference but not to the point ;)) or the reality of dealing with everyday life with all of its tensions and releases, and unforeseen events and emergencies, is not common in non-action movies. Call it naive nostalgia, but I don't see that many happy divorced people who have not found someone. And the older we get the harder it is to find someone that can be more than a platonic friend.
I have now been remarried for many years with younger children, and we are all friends - my ex-wife and my current wife and my older children love their young siblings. I am very grateful to have kept those I love and care about around me. I will say that my current wife is traditional and not American and our differences and desires are not so dramatic and easy to harmonize with our life and family.
> It seems like you are stating that women of the past were secretly unhappy,
There's nothing secret or exclusive to women about it, much of our culture still reflects that it was widely recognized, including things like the wide variety of derogatory names for spouses (“ball and chain”, for instance.)
