Jeff Atwood

co-founder stackoverflow.com, discourse.org, blogger. Let's be kind to each other.

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2024-02-25 20:32:05

I try to avoid linking to Instagram in general, but this one just about killed me 🤣 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C15BLq-REjD/

2024-02-23 22:49:53

Nvidia has certainly come a long way. This was my second GPU, after the 3dfx Voodoo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIVA_128

2024-02-21 23:04:09

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@npub1c0m…xqjl they're buying the synergy between the hardware and the software

2024-02-21 22:38:35

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@npub1c0m…xqjl I have one word for you: Qualcomm. Wait two words. Qualcomm Sucks.

2024-02-21 22:32:29

TL;DR the "Al Capone theory" is that if a person misbehaves in one area, they are likely misbehaving in many other areas you may or may not be seeing. I agree with this. https://hypatia.ca/2017/07/18/the-al-capone-theory-of-sexual-harassment/

2024-02-15 00:06:58

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@npub1c0m…xqjl omg Alan Kay is such a gift. I remember when he posted on Stack Overflow, I was like, ok, this is what true success looks like (and of course his question was later closed as off topic)

2024-02-14 23:38:08

This one is wild even by the very high Ask A Manager historical standards. It should be titled "I was rejected [for a job] because there is something deeply wrong with me" https://www.askamanager.org/2024/02/i-was-rejected-because-i-told-my-interviewer-i-never-make-mistakes.html

2024-02-13 23:59:03

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And good lord, I wouldn't wish Synanon on my worst enemy. So brutal. Related: the absolute horseshit that is 'radical honesty' -- https://blog.codinghorror.com/trust-me-im-lying/

2024-02-13 23:58:15

Someone just wrote "When we optimize for freedom of communication by every participant" to me and I replied, "Do you want Synanon? BECAUSE THAT'S HOW YOU GET SYNANON." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanon

2024-02-11 00:21:25

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@npub156n…mvgw I personally think there should be an absolute cap on how much money any one family can have. We can debate the amount, but the amounts right now are so absurdly high, that helps no one.

2024-02-09 20:15:38

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2024-02-09 20:12:24

Casey Neistat is internet famous for all the right reasons. This is the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IiTdSnmS7E

2024-02-07 23:33:06

"Let me repeat that: the people who created the first Super Mario Bros. game are still at Nintendo 38 years later." https://newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/lateral-thinking-with-withered-technology/

2024-02-07 23:09:20

When you suddenly remember you plugged in the electric car to charge 🤣
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2024-02-07 20:59:55

It's strange, but I feel the overarching lesson of Twitter was "how snarkily funny can I be" whereas on Mastodon it's "how kind and generous can I be" and good lord I am so here for this change, even if it results in less clickbait and "engagement"

2024-02-07 04:07:31

"It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/chatbots-ai-neal-stephenson-diamond-age/677364/

2024-02-05 06:07:34

When someone really loves you, they delete all that ridiculous querystring nonsense from the end of the hyperlink before sending it to you. 💘

2024-01-30 04:55:18

“Many times when I identified as Libertarian, people said to me, “It’s just rich white guys that don’t want to be told what to do,” and I had a zillion answers to that — and now that seems 100 percent accurate.” https://www.cracked.com/amp/article_40871_penn-jillette-wants-to-talk-it-all-out.html

2024-01-10 02:24:37

Just tested VERY positive for Covid after a family trip to Las Vegas. I masked but apparently not enough.. keep those masks on indoors, everyone!

2023-12-22 03:52:53

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@npub14fs…qegk they're up to season 5, the final one! Watching it now...

2023-12-22 03:37:18

Fargo is a great series. Does justice to the movie. I felt Season 4 was a little weak, maybe due to the pandemic? But other than that, strong recommend! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_nice
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2023-12-19 19:45:30

"Every person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying."
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2023-12-10 20:18:34

"During the 1950s, the early days of the atomic age, the development of real atomic disintegrator pistols was the subject of serious speculation in the press." https://orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/toys/atomic-toy-guns.html
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2023-12-02 18:49:04

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@npub1utv…87lr tell me it was in a case!?

2023-11-17 19:09:05

“The most accurate image AI has ever generated” via https://skeeet.xyz/profile/justingarrison.com/post/3keb43sucp42n
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2023-10-28 08:32:18

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

2023-09-01 06:39:55

At least Mitch McConnell doesn't need to be rebooted as often as Windows 95 did

2023-08-29 22:08:53

"To have any hope of producing truly random data, you must reach outside the computer and sample the analog world." https://blog.codinghorror.com/computers-are-lousy-random-number-generators/

2023-08-10 17:53:34

I often find that a direction is more useful than "a plan"

2023-08-09 17:19:17

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@npub1utv…87lr I've been saying this a long, long time.. https://blog.codinghorror.com/app-pocalypse-now/

2023-08-09 17:13:40

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub18v8…8klv I remember discussing how "the internet is a fad" circa 1993 with a company that sold direct-connect phone modem technology. Didn't take that job..

2023-08-08 19:43:14

Reply STOP to opt out.

2023-08-07 02:59:22

There were only ever two truly great sci-fi authors: Philip K. Dick and Stanislaw Lem. Don't @ me

2023-08-05 19:11:11

left-digit bias: a car with 39,990 miles on the odometer sells for more than a car with 40,005 miles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing

2023-08-05 00:18:31

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@npub1c0m…xqjl easily c) and it's not even close

2023-08-04 22:35:11

"Meta quietly sunsetted the bulk of their metaverse aspirations last month. Good thing they didn’t rename their company Meta or anything." https://www.garbageday.email/p/platforms-is-the-same?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

2023-07-31 23:57:40

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@npub1c0m…xqjl none of these things you listed matter nearly as much as new battery tech will. All of it is rather quaint in comparison.

2023-07-04 17:40:20

People say "decentralization doesn't work as good as the centralized facebooks and twitters", but then I post here on highly decentralized Mastodon a silly little joke about the commando character in the old video game Command & Conquer from 1995 and get a response from someone who worked on the original game! .. uh, maybe it is working already? https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/110646289254212237