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The internet was already slop

grimpy — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:07:10 +0000

Article URL: https://sophia.ooo/writing/the-internet-was-already-slop/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46209931

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by grimpy in "I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer"

grimpy — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:06:14 +0000

This works until your leadership changes.

What a prototype can be

grimpy — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:28:00 +0000

Article URL: https://sophia.ooo/writing/what-a-prototype-can-be/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46058312

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by grimpy in "American Heart Association says melatonin may be linked to serious heart risks"

grimpy — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:08:28 +0000

There are two kinds of Unisom: diphenhydramine and doxylamine succinate.

New comment by grimpy in "Mother of All Demos (1968)"

grimpy — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:54:55 +0000

this should be flagged; this is ai slop.

New comment by grimpy in "Meta's Vision for Superintelligence"

grimpy — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:17:22 +0000

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 intentional than "lets make it look like web 1"

New comment by grimpy in "Meta's Vision for Superintelligence"

grimpy — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:54:47 +0000

why does this page have the same look as ssi.inc? feels kind of strange to copy that of all things?

New comment by grimpy in "Ask HN: Is HN Pro-Fascist?"

grimpy — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:47:40 +0000

This just means this with lots of capital can buy things for cheap. This is not a downside. Overall, they win.

New comment by grimpy in "The Perils of 'Design Thinking'"

grimpy — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 07:59:58 +0000

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 "design" discipline when it was invented? I suspect not.

the worst thing design ever did for itself was frame itself as "the" human-centered problem solving discpline. everyone is a human-centered problem-solver in the most general sense, in the same way that everything is a "design" problem in the most general sense.

New comment by grimpy in "The UI future is colourful and dimensional"

grimpy — Tue, 27 May 2025 02:54:02 +0000

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 empirically better UX when what likely is at play is a tiny bit of innovation and a lot of novelty.

IME, there could be a lot more clarity in product and UX if more people were honest with themselves and others about just wanting "better" looking UI.

New comment by grimpy in "Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room"

grimpy — Thu, 15 May 2025 14:15:52 +0000

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 one agreed upon which 5 minutes were to be shortened, and like the post, it often wasn't observed anyways. So the result was 10 minutes of confusion every half hour.

New comment by grimpy in "How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment"

grimpy — Thu, 01 May 2025 04:14:54 +0000

> 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 reading these messages in real-time? 100%? 25%? 0.2%?

Is your point that, in the space of your own lack of knowledge, that reasonable rational may exist? Could you share what gives you trust in this administration to be so generous?

New comment by grimpy in "Icônes"

grimpy — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 04:00:07 +0000

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 meaningless. Yes, context helps, yes, merely communicating difference helps, but, for the most part, nobody knows what any of these things mean.

New comment by grimpy in "Mountains, Cliffs, and Caves: A Guide to Using Perlin Noise for Procedural Gen"

grimpy — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 04:02:32 +0000

...and especially since this is a convention the author uses for all their articles. The AI images make the whole site look fake.

New comment by grimpy in "Narrative and the Structure of Art (2023)"

grimpy — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:57:59 +0000

...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.

New comment by grimpy in "Using drones to terrorize a city [video]"

grimpy — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 18:54:11 +0000

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.

New comment by grimpy in "The JavaScript era happened because we were fed a line"

grimpy — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:49:44 +0000

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.

I guess this is directed at people who take cargo cult blog spam seriously? or people who are debating what to learn? If its the latter, the entire post could be rewritten in a positive way that explains the value of learning the fundamentals. That would've been more productive than whatever this is.