flipgimble

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by flipgimble 24d ago
I think this is a symptom of Big Tech and VCs scraping the bottom of the barrel to extract as much capital and social control from what remains of the good will for technology as a whole. They are literally running the internet into the gro
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by flipgimble 3mo ago
Doing a quick search in comments, and I see the prefix “enshit” used 5 times so far. That is telling. For most of my adult life technology was associated with unquestionable improvement and progress. We got used to a series of “revolutions”
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by flipgimble 6mo ago
I’d never support a repressive theocracy like the current Iranian regime and will not cheer on their propaganda operations. But let’s not confuse this Iran conflict with a legitimate war. Only congress can declare war and appropriate funds
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by flipgimble 6mo ago
SDF font rendering was an industry standard maybe from 2007-2010. and you probably won’t believe what happened to OpenGL since then. Don’t even look into at what people are doing with GPUs these days, you won’t like it one bit!
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by flipgimble 6mo ago
But they are not equal for everybody, that’s the point of corruption. If you are part of some in-group then you may have to pay lower bribes initially, and generally get away with more corruption to your benefit. But over time you will find
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by flipgimble 7mo ago
the "global damage" is largely because these tariffs were arbitrary, lacking strategic planning, and highly inflationary creating a turbulence tax. The frequent reversals and selective granting of exemptions showed that its anothe
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by flipgimble 7mo ago
'Another internal email reads: “One of the things we need to optimize for is sneaking a look at your phone under your desk in the middle of Chemistry :)”' As a parent this makes my blood boil. This is how a drug dealer talks. Fuck
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by flipgimble 8mo ago
xAI is getting picked because their company is encouraging and enabling sexual abuse and child porn generation on a massive scale. When called out on it they turned it into a commercial feature, and whined how they are being prosecuted for
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by flipgimble 8mo ago
I know what you mean about the country being split politically, but I think using the 50% number is a misleading illusion. Only 31.8% of the voting-age population voted for Trump, so 68% did not vote for these policies. I get that we often
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by flipgimble 9mo ago
It’s more accurately the “truck stop bathroom wall” of the world under new management.
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by flipgimble 10mo ago
The "Epstein class" of multi-billionaires don't need AI at all. They hire hundreds of willing human grifters and make them low-millionaires by spewing media that enables exploitation and wealth extraction, and passing laws th
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by flipgimble 10mo ago
The content on YouTube should qualify it to be preserved as a treasure of humanity. Think of all the college lectures, conference proceedings, sporting events, citizen journalism, podcasts that are the backbone of new communities and cultur
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by flipgimble 10mo ago
http://killedbygoogle.com/ - most Google products are for the temporary career advancement of some exec or product lead. Their only real product is advertising, everything else is a pretense to capture users attention and
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by flipgimble 10mo ago
Google subscriptions and services are so terribly mismanaged that I will be staying away, no matter how incredible this shallow fork of vscode may be. I remember a previous story months ago about Gemini that had Google PMs trying to hype th
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by flipgimble 11mo ago
I grew up in communist Poland before the fall of the wall in 1989 is just one story among many from this year that sounds like an echo of what my parent's told me they had to grow up with. That so many Americans, in the self proclaimed
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by flipgimble 1y ago
The “American boss” can also over-staff and then fire as they see fit and call it innovation. They hire way more people than they can employ long term, especially during another hype-driven tech bubble. They can get a few billion extra whe
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by flipgimble 1y ago
As someone who works in tech outside of the SV bubble this sounds like epicenter of marketing VC “enshittification” as being somehow “innovation”.
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by flipgimble 1y ago
Because to use lambdas you're asking the language to make implicit heap allocations for captured variables. Zig has a policy that all allocation and control flow are explicit and visible in the code, which you call re-inventing the whe
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by flipgimble 1y ago
My company issued a warning to developers to stay away from Gemini Code, mostly because the subscription model is such an impenetrable mess. Google AI Pro apparently does not give you any access to Gemini Code, nor do various Google Workspa
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by flipgimble 1y ago
I was rather disappointed and confused that the "Google One" or "Google AI Pro" subscription does not give you access to use Gemini API keys, and you can't use this Gemini CLI either. Google services have become a p
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by flipgimble 1y ago
If I'm reading this right, the last full zim archive of all of english wikipedia is wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim which is now about 16 months old. Is that right, or is are another more recent sources? The current US administration
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by flipgimble 1y ago
What he means is that Germans are less susceptible to the SV bullshit artists that are hyping up their bubble unicorns for VC money, inflating companies with workers just to sell them at peak of the hype before cutting all those “positions”
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by flipgimble 2y ago
Cursor overwrites the “code” command line shortcut/alias that’s normally set by VS Code. It does this on every update with no setting to disable this behavior. There are numbers of forum threads asking about manual solutions. This seem
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by flipgimble 2y ago
https://archive.is/1cC4N
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by flipgimble 2y ago
only if the rest of us do nothing and let them remake the world. It seems likely since the rest of us seem to be disconnected socially which makes any collective action more difficult. Its almost as if the fake "social" media was
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by flipgimble 3y ago
If ever an article needed an artist's rendition. I'd love to see the massive jaw structure to see how afraid I should be for my toes if some crazy billionaire decides to do a Cambrian Park. This worm is about a foot long after all
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by flipgimble 3y ago
Not the op or the author but any and all developers will make mistakes. Experience just moves the threshold of obvious mistakes into less obvious ones. What’s impressive is that the author built a system and presumably opened it to communit
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by flipgimble 3y ago
I’ve worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies and seen many examples of a disfuncional culture. I’ve seen in those places that PMs solve most problems with the one tool at their disposal: meetings. Incentives for promotions are such th
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by flipgimble 3y ago
Its fairly obvious that an anonymous stranger on the internet, or a politician proselytizing for their punative economic policies is _not_ that type of friend. But it seems some people derive a great deal of satisfaction out of imaginging t
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by flipgimble 3y ago
I think the story highlights a problem irrespective of the messenger. Some people cannot help but judge and opine on other's behavior where they have no context, or any moral basis to render that judement. We do this all the time in pr

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