JamesBarney

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by JamesBarney 2y ago
I think guidelines and an equivalent of a trigger warning is a better solution. It's really hard to modify a campaign on the fly if for example someone is uncomfortable with cults but that's the primary driver of the storyline.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
You're right it's not ideal that races shoehorn you into certain classes, but on the other hand you don't want someone's race to be flavortext. I think there's a balance to be struck. I doubt DnD will find it on the
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
My guess is it's correlational. It's almost always correlational. Remember the knowing a second language reduced risks of dementia, turned out it was correlational. The real cause was under diagnosis in immigrants who were disprop
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
I really don't think that's true. It's combination of a couple of things. 1. Life is busy, it's hard to find time, and easy to put off 2. They are anxious about what to say, and it really sucks going to places where peop
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
I don't believe in banning websites but that website is unequivocally bad. It's a website that reinforces all the cognitive distortions of anorexia. It's the equivalent of a website for depression that says "You know how
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
I think not only is this possible, it's likely for two reasons. 1. A lot more projects get the green light when the price is 5x less, and a many more organizations can afford custom applications. 2. LLMs unlock large amounts of new app
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Which screenshot showed an AI advocating for suicice?
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Because every other time I've seen an outrageous example similar to this one, it seems far more mundane when given the full context. I'm sure there are lots of issues with character.ai and the like, but my money is that they are a
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
I just tried this and it worked fine. Right clicked on image, clicked "copy image" then pasted into a word doc.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Most personal assistants are not going to go find an hire a contract killer for their 200k a year job.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
I really don't think most billionaires know professional killers. Where would they have met them? The idea that someone at JP Morgan introduces you to them when their company IPOs doesn't pass the smell test for me.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Well now at $200 it's a little farther away from free :P
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
You can build a complex stateful widget in a MPA.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Claude api use is already as high as openai. I believe that market will grow far more over time than chat as AI gets embedded in more of the applications we already use.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
The idea that Chevron is purposefully building wind farms not to operate them sounds dubious to me at best. My guess is they bungled something up because wind energy isn't their core competency. Much more likely there is a room at Che
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
https://danluu.com/ballmer/ For the argument Ballmer didn't waste a decade but setup MS up for the success it's seeing today.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Almost everyone I know manager or not is usually ranking everyone they work with on various attributes. In fact it would be incredibly weird to ask a close friend who at their work kicks ass and who sucks and have them respond back, "I
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
https://www.andrewbenjaminhall.com/Hall_Thompson_Base_Turnou... Here's the study on turnout. And basically comes to the conclusion extremists motivate the opposing party base more than their own. Here are a couple of j
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Goal #1 is just an instrumental goal to goal number #2. Socialists underperform moderates in general elections. Hell even Kamala, a terrible candidate who just got trounced by Trump outperformed Bernie (who has literally everything going fo
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Trump also lies to voters. For instance every sophisticated analysis of his tariff plan have shown it will do the exact opposite of what he promises. The analysis is as bad as the analysis of Bernie and Warren's Medicare for all plans
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
That mattered quite a bit for a three reasons. 1. Kamala isn't a great candidate shown by her poor primary results in 2020. 2. She has all the baggage of running pretty far to the left in 2020. (Like saying she was for performing gende
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Look at senate and governor candidates that over performed and underperformed vs Kamala in their state. People have studied it for years and the basic finding is the classic one. Moving to the center wins you votes. You'll find that mo
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
I worked lots of places. Never worked for a manager I didn't trust to fire me. Most managers are pretty good but organizing lots of a people is really hard. And there is something like a leaky abstraction for every level of the organiz
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
In theory that's how it works. In practice the amount of documentation is onerous enough most managers just decide it's not worth the effort.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
An inexperienced good employee will slow you down far less than an experienced bad one.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
For white collar jobs management's job is to guide and mentor not babysit adults into doing a job they are paid a salary to do.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
And the problem with slow to hire, slow to fire is one day you might be incredibly slow to hire. And overall if you're looking to be employed as much of your life as possible quick to hire/quick to fire is obviously better based o
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Any individual woman has far more control over how she and her husband split childcare responsibilities than her employer who was not involved in who she decided to marry or how they decided to split up childcare and financially providing
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
This has been my approach in the past that only certain parts of the code are worth unit testing. But given how much easier unit tests are to write now with AI I think the % of code worth unit testing has gone up.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
I've spent soo much time in my life reviewing bad or mediocre code from mediocre devs and 95% of the time the code sonnet 3.5 generates is at least as correct and 99% of the time more legible than what a mediocre dev generates. It&#x2

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