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New comment by flippinfloppin in "Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay"

flippinfloppin — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:00:42 +0000

Just thinking about the day-to-day elevated stress that this would generate makes me glad I will never live in a place like that. It is weird to read people trying to downplay it as if it is nothing.

New comment by flippinfloppin in "Hertz is ditching even more electric cars"

flippinfloppin — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:23:06 +0000

The "not caring" aspect has been a problem in the US for a long time.

New comment by flippinfloppin in "React 19 Beta"

flippinfloppin — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:20:41 +0000

Hilariously so. But really what it means is that javascript eats the whole world (FE&BE) which, personally, I do not enjoy myself.

New comment by flippinfloppin in "Honda and Nissan might team up against Tesla and other EV rivals"

flippinfloppin — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:50:57 +0000

When they get around to making a $30K model, I definitely look forward to getting one.

New comment by flippinfloppin in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

flippinfloppin — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 11:48:04 +0000

Of all people to loose faith it would be Luke? Riiiight.

And Han and Leia just have to be divorced? Ok.

And their son just has to be evil. ... Ok.

I didn't even bother watching the last film so I don't know if Kylo has his own fun little redemption arc too or not, but no thank you.

New comment by flippinfloppin in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

flippinfloppin — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 09:05:34 +0000

It was 100% trained to be that way.

New comment by flippinfloppin in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

flippinfloppin — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:56:37 +0000

There is no way that this was unexpected. That is almost as funny a take as the results their "AI" is producing.

New comment by flippinfloppin in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

flippinfloppin — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:54:20 +0000

On the one hand it is stupid because the policies driving this are, let us say, "biased", but on the other hand it is hilarious to actually see the results of these policies in action!

Maybe it is so over the top so a that when they "fix" it, the remaining bias will be "not so bad".

New comment by flippinfloppin in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

flippinfloppin — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:49:43 +0000

It seems to me that trying "really hard" isn't a good thing though.

New comment by flippinfloppin in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

flippinfloppin — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:46:43 +0000

It should generate the image I ask for. As seen, if it explicitly refuses to generate images of white people and blathers on about problematic this-and-that as its "justification", there is a deep issue at hand.

New comment by flippinfloppin in "Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage"

flippinfloppin — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 12:14:18 +0000

If the solution to concerts is that you have to protect your ears yourself then I would argue that the concerts themselves should be held accountable.

I have tinnitus and it SUCKS. The people who threw the outdoor music festivals I went to in my 20s should be brought to trial...

New comment by flippinfloppin in "The weirdest bug I've seen yet"

flippinfloppin — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 09:45:19 +0000

And when you consider they end with the pitch "If you also enjoy collaborating with relentlessly curious people, we are hiring!"

What is effectively guessing which is what this article entails - without knowing the actual cause - hardly qualifies one as "relentlessly curious".

Personally I deeply dislike the random walk towards insanity that modern dev takes with the constant churn and layers of fixes upon fixes - react state is no good! use redux! use this! use that! And before you know it knowing what is actually going on becomes nearly impossible!

New comment by flippinfloppin in "Let fever do its job"

flippinfloppin — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 09:10:56 +0000

Since when?