I know this is the sad reality at most companies but when I put someone on a PIP I 100% expect them to improve and recover from whatever got them in the PIP.
Guarantee you there’s a non zero chance you are the reason for their pip.
I’ve been a cpo, a cdo, a head of design, a design mgr and an individual contributor. The sad reality is that rarely has a pip corrected anything and mostly it is used to push out individuals… individuals that often contribute great things.
You work with people you want to succeed… others throw them to the wolves and it’s called a pip.
I’d love to hear the situation that describes otherwise?
Possibly spoken like a true product manager? Reality is we are likely both in the meme because we are both acting rational in a world that has lost its mind.
What is wrong with the bottom of her face? I didn't know, I can't put my finger on it. Like it's out of proportion. Someone fucked with her character creation sliders too much and said "fuck it, ship it! We'll fix it in post."
Cant wait to see this. She's terrifying and Fielder is imho the perfect foil to interview her.
Its weird cuz she just ripped off a bunch of rich people, I dont really have any reason to hate her really but she's sort of emblematic of what is problematic of startup and tech culture and in a sense identify culture where being the first ___ founder/CEO or one of few ____ founders/CEOs/whatever is part of the pitch.
In a better world it would never have entered the equation much less overshadowed the actual lack of viable product/IP. How did no blood scientist/dr/expert not easily point out their premise was fatally flawed in a way that doomed the whole exercise, both internally and publicly?
There were some after the fact and it was exposed who were casually like "ya, the blood available from a pinprick to the finger doesnt suffice for the grand vision Theranos was sold as and predicated upon
I remember one former employee posted on reddit without naming the company, saying everything they were claiming was bs. A little later the scandal blew up and it was confirmed the guy worked for Theranos.
Under Trump’s FDA, she could just make a “donation” and it would be approved. Don’t kid yourself that these institutions are— or ever were —sacrosanct.
I'm not sure what they were doing needed FDA approval since it was a blood test and not something that actually goes into or touches a patient. Though I'm not expert on medical regulations so thats just a guess.
They were using an actual proper machine made by a competitor i thought? Like wasnt their flagship Edison thingy just a competing actually developed medical device?
The most depressing thing about this entire ordeal is that the woman stole lots of money, got busted because that money belonged to rich people, and is now after having been convicted and literally been to prison as far as i know, able to cash in on that further. Lets make a movie about that wonderful successful scammer.
I think there's a law in the states that criminals can't profit from the story of their crime. If I remember correctly, the money that would have gone to the criminal goes to restitution for the victims.
Assuming that is indeed the case, she still benefits considerably: she gets to stay relevant, develop celebrity, change or affect the public opinion on her. A normal criminal cant even get a job cleaning toilets sometimes.
I would imagine in many cases for images uploaded to an image host, the host is automatically changing the actual format of the image (this happens to me on some sites tho it is pretty rare in 2026). Or it was saved by someone who took a screenshot of the image instead of saving the actual image.
Why do PNG images with alpha transparencies exists?
Because when put on a background gif transparencies look dithered since gif transparencies are either on or off. There are no 50% or any other partial opacities.
If you are using gifs for like moving pixel art, that's great but if a designer wants a realistic still images with moving clouds in the background, PNG would be a way better option.
Yeah, it's just the thumbnail or whatever for the real image that truly has transparency. If anything, you should be angry at the search engine for even displaying this as a result when you select that you're querying for images with transparency.
A trailer dropped for some up coming movie with this chick in it and everyone’s been memeing the hell out of it.
Here’s a link to the KnowYourMeme page and the trailer is in there if you want to see where it’s coming from. I’m not directly linking it cause I’m not advertising for them.
Um, ackchually, PNG does not mean that it has an alpha channel. Even JPEG can have alpha channel (though its not standard feature and might break compatibility with some readers), but also AVIF and WebM.
::: spoiler which one
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at wikipedia.org
Common meanings
Pip, colloquial name for the star(s) worn on military uniform as part of rank badge, as in the British Army officer rank insignia or with many Commonwealth police agencies
The seed of some fruits
The pyrena, also called a pit or stone, inside some fruits
Pip (counting), a small but easily countable item, such as the dots on dice or symbols on playing cards
Pip, a dot on a domino tile, refer Glossary of domino terms
Arts, entertainment and media
"Pip" (South Park), a 2000 episode of South Park
The Pips, the backing singers in the musical group Gladys Knight & the Pips
Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies, an art group
PiP Animation Services, a Canadian animation studio
The Pip, the nickname of a clandestine radio station of Russian origin
BBC Pips or The Pips, a timing signal broadcast by the BBC
Picture-in-picture, a broadcasting format
Finance and management
Percentage in point, a currency exchange rate fluctuation
Performance improvement plan, a management technique
Personal Independence Payment, a welfare benefit in the United Kingdom
Personal injury protection, a type of car insurance
Policy-ineffectiveness proposition, an economic theory
People
Pip, diminutive of Philip or Philippa
Pip (nickname), a list of people with the nickname
Pip (musician) (born 1992), contestant on Season 2 of NBC's TV show The Voice
Pip Devonshire (born 1966), New Zealand weaver
Pip Millett, English musician Georgia Willacy
Pip Simmonds, New Zealand freestyle skier
Scroobius Pip (born 1981), alias of rapper David Meads
Josef Priller (1915–1961), German fighter ace nicknamed "Pips"
Fictional characters
Pip (Great Expectations), Philip Pirrip from the Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations
Pip Pirrup, a student at South Park Elementary in South Park
Pip (Moby-Dick character)
Peregrin Took, (Pippin) in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy The Lord of the Rings
Pip, a major character in The Railway Series of books
Pip, in the British newspaper strip cartoon Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
Pip (Chrono Cross)
Pip the Troll, a Marvel Comics character
Pip, in the Grailquest gamebook series
Pip Bernadotte, in the manga Hellsing
Pip, an Animaniacs character
Pip, in the Nickelodeon animated show Back at the Barnyard
Pip, a nickname of Chiana, in the Australian television series Farscape
Pip, in the film The Halloween Tree
Pip, a persona featured on the Tori Amos album American Doll Posse
Pips, a fictional fairy in the animated film FernGully: The Last Rainforest and its sequel
Pip, an animated chipmunk in the Disney live-action/animated film Enchanted
Pip, an otter in the television series Bear in the Big Blue House
Pip the Penguin, in the animated series T.O.T.S.
Pip, from The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "A Nice Place to Visit"
Pip Fitz-Amobi, the main character of A Good Girls Guide to Murder
Schools
Pakistan International Public School and College (PIPS), a private residential school in Abbottabad, Pakistan
Pakistan Institute of Physics, a physics research institute of the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in Pakistan
Politics and government
Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services, a Pakistani government institution
Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, a Pakistani non-governmental organization
Police information point, a kiosk run by British police
Peruvian Investigative Police, a plainclothes police unit
Puerto Rican Independence Party, a political party
Personal Independence Payment, a British welfare benefit
Science and technology
Greenwich Time Signal, popularly known as the pips
Predicted impact point, the location at which a projectile is expected to strike
Profile ignition pickup, a term in automotive technology
Proper indecomposable past set, a causal relation in a Lorentzian manifold
Picture-in-picture, a video stream playing within an inset window of a TV or device screen
Biology and medicine
Peak inspiratory pressure (PIP), in mechanical ventilation
Plasma membrane intrinsic protein, a class of plant aquaporins
Poly Implant Prothèse, a former French breast implants manufacturer
Polymerization induced phase separation
Prolactin-induced protein, a protein in humans
Proximal interphalangeal joints, interphalangeal joints of the hand
Pairwise-invasibility plot in evolutionary invasion analysis
Psychosis-intermittent hyponatremia-polydipsia (PIP) syndrome
Pug impression pad, an object used for the census of tigers
Computing
Peripheral Interchange Program, a DEC and CP/M file transfer utility
Point in polygon, a concept in computational geometry
Policy Information Point, in eXtensible Access Control Markup Language
Private Internet Protocol
pip (package manager), a Python package installer
P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian, known as P.I.P.S.
Precision Time Protocol Industry Profile, an IEC 62439-3 standard
Other uses
Battle of the Pips, an incident in World War II
Palisades Interstate Parkway, a highway in New York and New Jersey, United States
Pip Cliffs, Graham Land, Antarctica
IATA code for Pilot Point Airport, Pilot Point, Alaska, United States
Pips, a logic puzzle in The New York Times Games
Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate, also known as PI(3)P
Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate, also known as PI(4)P
Phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate, also known as PI(5)P
The Pip-Boy, a wrist computer in the Fallout video games
55 Comments
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 86 pts · 2d
Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 2d
I know this is the sad reality at most companies but when I put someone on a PIP I 100% expect them to improve and recover from whatever got them in the PIP.
realworldschlitz@lemmy.world · -17 pts · 2d
Guarantee you there’s a non zero chance you are the reason for their pip.
I’ve been a cpo, a cdo, a head of design, a design mgr and an individual contributor. The sad reality is that rarely has a pip corrected anything and mostly it is used to push out individuals… individuals that often contribute great things.
You work with people you want to succeed… others throw them to the wolves and it’s called a pip.
I’d love to hear the situation that describes otherwise?
Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 2d
Yeah sounds like you are in the meme. Dont project onto me lol.
achsonaja@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2d
One day old account that other one. Lots of negative takes in that time. Trolls be trolling.
realworldschlitz@lemmy.world · -17 pts · 2d
Possibly spoken like a true product manager? Reality is we are likely both in the meme because we are both acting rational in a world that has lost its mind.
Curious your job title?
Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2d
I told you to stop projecting on me ya creep. I'm grounded idk wtf you are talking about.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1d
Don’t feed the trolls
realworldschlitz@lemmy.world · -24 pts · 2d
Curious your job title…
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Curious your diagnosis…
Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1d
Jesus christ...
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Your job title: Terminally Online
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1d
What is wrong with the bottom of her face? I didn't know, I can't put my finger on it. Like it's out of proportion. Someone fucked with her character creation sliders too much and said "fuck it, ship it! We'll fix it in post."
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 2d
Cant wait to see this. She's terrifying and Fielder is imho the perfect foil to interview her.
Its weird cuz she just ripped off a bunch of rich people, I dont really have any reason to hate her really but she's sort of emblematic of what is problematic of startup and tech culture and in a sense identify culture where being the first ___ founder/CEO or one of few ____ founders/CEOs/whatever is part of the pitch.
In a better world it would never have entered the equation much less overshadowed the actual lack of viable product/IP. How did no blood scientist/dr/expert not easily point out their premise was fatally flawed in a way that doomed the whole exercise, both internally and publicly?
There were some after the fact and it was exposed who were casually like "ya, the blood available from a pinprick to the finger doesnt suffice for the grand vision Theranos was sold as and predicated upon
marcos@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 2d
They did. Every expert out there pointed out it's impossible.
scytale@piefed.zip · 19 pts · 2d
I remember one former employee posted on reddit without naming the company, saying everything they were claiming was bs. A little later the scandal blew up and it was confirmed the guy worked for Theranos.
scytale@piefed.zip · 35 pts · 2d
Her company was sinking its teeth into the medical field though. That could’ve killed people if they weren’t found out soon enough.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
How was it gonna get FDA-approved tho? Im sure its happened before in the past but i wonder what the plan was for that
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Under Trump’s FDA, she could just make a “donation” and it would be approved. Don’t kid yourself that these institutions are— or ever were —sacrosanct.
NoDignity@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
I'm not sure what they were doing needed FDA approval since it was a blood test and not something that actually goes into or touches a patient. Though I'm not expert on medical regulations so thats just a guess.
ElChinchilla@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Thats why I make it a habit of leaving blood wherever I go, no regulations.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Its just safer that way. Sow your Seed
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2d
They likely did kill people who were using it and would otherwise have consulted with a doctor.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
They were using an actual proper machine made by a competitor i thought? Like wasnt their flagship Edison thingy just a competing actually developed medical device?
Zensate@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
I mean they're killing enough people on their own
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 2d
The most depressing thing about this entire ordeal is that the woman stole lots of money, got busted because that money belonged to rich people, and is now after having been convicted and literally been to prison as far as i know, able to cash in on that further. Lets make a movie about that wonderful successful scammer.
Papazoo@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 2d
I think there's a law in the states that criminals can't profit from the story of their crime. If I remember correctly, the money that would have gone to the criminal goes to restitution for the victims.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
Assuming that is indeed the case, she still benefits considerably: she gets to stay relevant, develop celebrity, change or affect the public opinion on her. A normal criminal cant even get a job cleaning toilets sometimes.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
Her company faked lab results. People were falsely led to believe they had HIV or cancer.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2d
Netflix live action Rescue Rangers casting agent dream actress right there.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 9 pts · 2d
John Oliver would also self-admittedly fit in a movie featuring anthropomorphic mice. Just maybe not as well for Gadget, specifically.
lillardfair@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
Why'd you have to go and say a thing like that? Here I was, living my life with NO attraction to Elizabeth Holmes...
IamMoonPie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
Here I was having a nice “non-life altering” morning and you had to go and post a thing like this.
cabbagepatchcrabs@retrolemmy.com · 6 pts · 2d
Well shit, now I can't unsee it. How dare you!
Zink@programming.dev · 5 pts · 2d
I totally see it, and I am totally here for it.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
I’d watch it
GenXLiberal@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Cannot unsee it
paultimate14@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2d
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1d
Doesn't really work to advertise a film if I don't know what it is and it doesn't give me any desire to see it
TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 2d
Why is this so common, anyway? Why do so many images like this even exist?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 2d
It's probably because of communism.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 12 pts · 2d
I would imagine in many cases for images uploaded to an image host, the host is automatically changing the actual format of the image (this happens to me on some sites tho it is pretty rare in 2026). Or it was saved by someone who took a screenshot of the image instead of saving the actual image.
frog@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 2d
Why do PNG images with alpha transparencies exists?
Because when put on a background gif transparencies look dithered since gif transparencies are either on or off. There are no 50% or any other partial opacities.
If you are using gifs for like moving pixel art, that's great but if a designer wants a realistic still images with moving clouds in the background, PNG would be a way better option.
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1d
They mean 'fake' transparent pngs.
frog@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1d
Crap...
That makes sense.
Thank you for clearing that up for me.
RogueBanana@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 2d
They want you to pay to remove it
restingOface@quokk.au · 8 pts · 2d
Yeah, it's just the thumbnail or whatever for the real image that truly has transparency. If anything, you should be angry at the search engine for even displaying this as a result when you select that you're querying for images with transparency.
trebor_project@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1d
the_fuckler@nord.pub · 4 pts · 2d
Me too kid. Me too
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
.webp coming for you
Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1d
Can someone tell me why I’m seeing this woman around everywhere?
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
A trailer dropped for some up coming movie with this chick in it and everyone’s been memeing the hell out of it.
Here’s a link to the KnowYourMeme page and the trailer is in there if you want to see where it’s coming from. I’m not directly linking it cause I’m not advertising for them.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
new documentary coming out soon, called You Can See Everything
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1d
Um, ackchually, PNG does not mean that it has an alpha channel. Even JPEG can have alpha channel (though its not standard feature and might break compatibility with some readers), but also AVIF and WebM.
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de · -6 pts · 1d
::: spoiler which one From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at wikipedia.org
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Finance and management
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Schools
Politics and government
Science and technology
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