grimpy

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by grimpy 20d ago
Blaise is trying so hard to be a engineer-philosopher but none of his work here is useful. I'm very confused as to why he gets so much attention here, it's very clear he's in dialogue with no one.
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by grimpy 2mo ago
Laggy experience (Safari, M3 air) talking about laggy experiences. I suspect the needlessly ornate demo controls (scaling, opacity, animation) contributing this -- playing with them has animation jank. Probably something up with the typogra
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The internet was already slop(sophia.ooo)
3 points by grimpy 9mo ago|2 comments
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by grimpy 10mo ago
This works until your leadership changes.
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What a prototype can be(sophia.ooo)
1 points by grimpy 10mo ago|0 comments
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by grimpy 10mo ago
There are two kinds of Unisom: diphenhydramine and doxylamine succinate.
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by grimpy 1y ago
this should be flagged; this is ai slop.
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by grimpy 1y ago
im quite of aware of what it is. this isn't just "make a brutalist website" it is "make a website that looks like ssi when meta has multiple platforms and means to publish the same message." it is much more intentio
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by grimpy 1y ago
why does this page have the same look as ssi.inc? feels kind of strange to copy that of all things?
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by grimpy 1y ago
This just means this with lots of capital can buy things for cheap. This is not a downside. Overall, they win.
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by grimpy 1y ago
this is a useless semantic position. could you frame innovation problems as "design" problems? sure. was the cotton gin framed as a "design" problem in the sense that it had some sort of epistemological lineage to the &q
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by grimpy 1y ago
I think it's inevitable (and fine) that aesthetic trends influence UIs, however, what is terrible (and already happening... again) is that people will create all kinds of faulty reasoning and justification as to why the new trend is em
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by grimpy 1y ago
Before I left Google, my org's leadership (recent external hires in the pursuit of ruthless efficiency) instituted a "5 minutes between meetings" rule. The intent was to shorten meetings and have time between them. Well, no o
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by grimpy 1y ago
> There's so many questions I genuinely don't have an answer for... > Has Congress made it illegal to use an off-brand messaging app for secure communications? _Why_ is it insecure? What is the probability that China is read
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by grimpy 1y ago
This is a nice collection. If you are making software, I implore you to do a quick and simple test if you plan on using icons: show them to some users and ask if they would know what they mean. There is a significant chance the icons are me
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by grimpy 2y ago
...and especially since this is a convention the author uses for all their articles. The AI images make the whole site look fake.
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by grimpy 2y ago
...and not just decades of art theory, but any familiarity with the actual art objects themselves. Looking at the author's other (prolific) posts, I can't help but wonder if this is AI spam.
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by grimpy 2y ago
Yeah, I get that this aesthetic is how a lot of people consume media these days, but the aesthetics combined with the subject matter is repulsive.
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by grimpy 4y ago
The tone of this article is asinine considering that no one forces anyone to specialize in a particular framework, specializing/investing in any technology is always a risk, and the point that fundamentals are good is non-controversial