jtrek

Went a couple months without much beyond form letter "we have decided to move forward with candidates who better align with our needs" rejections. Got one internal apply going now for the sad mega Corp I'm at (but a better team, I'm told), and one referral got a call back.

I think referrals are still the way to go. Sadly even that only goes so far.

I assume this is trying to do a racism.

Making fun of NJ is like "omg epic bacon" or saying "I'm so random". It's really passé and unoriginal. It's extra funny when the speaker is from, like, Mississippi or someplace that's actually bad.

There I would equally call people out for pretending that they’re in fact bad shoes simply because they’re morally against them.

There might be some ambiguity in the word "bad" there. Some people might use it to mean "uncomfortable" and others to mean "unacceptable". Sort of like a boolean AND - for some people, for something to be good it must be functional AND ethically acceptable. If it fails either check, they're "bad". Humans are notoriously imprecise with their language. Some people might split apart the different components of good/bad, and acknowledge that the hypothetical horror shoes are comfortable, but that's moot because they wouldn't willingly wear them.

The difference here is that I remain unconvinced about the unethicality of using AI whereas with baby skin I don’t have that.

As I said, the line is in a different place for everyone. You're entitled to hold that belief. I'm glad we're on the same page about the baby skin shoes, though.

I can see that reading, but I think the joke would work the same with him bringing home any threatening partner. If it was an orc lady, the dialogue could be the same.

I mean, yeah, I think there's some low grade homophobia in here but not malice.

Unpopular opinion checks out.

I don't think "this thing is good" while ignoring the before and after context is a good policy. Presumably if there were very comfortable shoes made of baby skin and manufactured by child slaves, you would not wear them. (Or maybe you would!)

That's a very hyperbolic example, but my point remains that for everyone there is a line somewhere. For you, the AI stuff is on the acceptable side.

You can choose to ignore that and come tell me about the ethics of using AI [...] just note that you’re no longer addressing what I’m actually saying here.

So, right. It's a big thing you're ignoring. AI probably can make competent music and, if research continues, will probably improve. But the ethics and surrounding stuff still exist. People often don't want to just ignore that.

I thought it was cute. He wasn't mad about the gay. He was mad about the lack of murder.

It was a quick and easy way for cops to hit their quota, even if the DA didn’t end up prosecuting

I feel like if that sort of thing happens, you should be paid extravagantly. None of this "okay you can go" business after you've been fucked around.

Unpopular opinion: Masculinity doesn’t exist. There’s feminine things and then there’s everything else.

This seems to be a roundabout way of coming upon the idea of, like, defaults and privilege. Like how people will say the there's "sexual orientations: straight and political"

Device finger printing should be illegal.

Maybe I should try it again. I like the idea of the three action economy and teamwork from what I've read of pf2e. The mod didn't have all the normal tutorial stuff, if I recall.

Does it do initiative the same way as 5e? Because that sounds like it would make teamwork annoying. "I need you to distract them, but you rolled low on iniative and I can't just like wait for you to do it"

It didn't just happen like the stars moving overhead. People with names and bones did it.