Jeff Atwood

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

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2024-06-09 21:33:25

I'm a fan of this fan. Noctua FTW
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2024-04-11 01:48:14

".. according to the stat-tracking website FanGraphs, the average fastball in Major League Baseball was about 89 mph in 2002. A decade later, it had jumped to 91.6 mph. In 2022, it was 93.6 mph. Last year, the Minnesota Twins reliever Jhoan Duran led the MLB with an average fastball velocity of 101.8 mph." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/are-pitchers-pitching-too-hard/678010/

2024-04-10 00:22:45

"Economists have a metric known as the “four-firm concentration ratio,” sometimes deployed in shorthand as “CR4.” It is a measure of competitiveness in a market for goods or services. When four companies gain a combined market share that is greater than 40 percent, an oligopoly has formed." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/food-industry-monopoly-power/678005/

2024-04-01 21:53:40

This is literally why we invented the internet https://www.tiktok.com/@streetpizzallangollen/video/7343905593528257824

2024-04-01 18:27:55

Highly recommend the Steve Martin documentary! Such a fascinating person, and the whole “I was gonna get a doctorate in philosophy” thing was a big aha! moment for me in why his comedy was so innovative https://tv.apple.com/us/show/steve-martin-a-documentary-in-2-pieces/umc.cmc.7kkgskd7j0lomjoqdo97l80ql

2024-03-29 18:46:27

We're all experts in a dying field

2024-03-23 18:54:33

What's a good list of bands where pretty much every song they make (even if they are good songs, to be clear!) are pretty much the same? I got AC/DC and Cake. What about you?

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/

2024-02-21 19:47:53

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@npub1c0m…xqjl paradoxically the more you understand about something the more you realize you don't know

2024-02-15 20:20:39

I love talking to Lyft drivers, and it's always eye opening. One guy, I asked him "what do you like about the United States" and he said "I don't have to live in an active warzone any more" and I was like.. oh wow, the stuff I am taking for granted.

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 01:24:32

No, Internet Archive, thank you. And if you can, please donate too: https://archive.org/donate
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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 21:05:18

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 @npub1mmt…x7qq Glenn this thing is a goddamn masterwork. It is so incredibly good. You should be proud.

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

2024-02-08 05:30:11

never bet against sports betting. It's not exactly a coincidence that the Superb Owl is in vegas this year: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/espn-sports-betting-mobile-gambling/674967/

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

2024-01-11 23:45:56

a question for the ages https://www.reddit.com/r/Advice/comments/u3qipy/how_can_i_get_my_boyfriend_to_stop_digging_his/

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!

2024-01-07 04:47:48

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@npub1f6a…pnql it's fair, I will write up my viewpoint in substantially more detail tomorrow. There is no "intelligence" in LLMs.

2024-01-07 03:00:53

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@npub1f6a…pnql comments like yours aren't a helpful contribution to the discussion, IMO. But what do I know, I just founded Stack Overflow.

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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2023-12-21 20:01:38

10x developers, unite and take over!
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2023-12-19 19:45:30

"Every person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying."
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2023-12-16 07:19:01

Ah yes, the worst sequel of all time! OF ALL TIME!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_2:_Cruise_Control

2023-12-15 23:39:39

Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnUAcNZDiAI

2023-12-13 22:46:51

Quote tweet was a mistake, a feature that actively encouraged negative behavior. People who advocate for it.. don't really understand the problems with it. But they should:
"But easiest of all is the dunk, facilitated by the platform’s quote tweet feature. Go forth and find someone saying something absolutely bone-headed. Quote it with something sarcastic and feel those little dopamine hits come in as the likes rack up.
Twitter is great for and great at blowing up people’s lives
The person you’ve quoted, in the meantime, starts receiving replies of a certain strain. Some of them are merely mean, many are rather uncharitable, and a disappointing number are intentionally misreading the original post. If you, the quote-tweeter, are lucky, you hit a viral threshold, much to the detriment of the person you’ve quoted. When you get a thousand people yelling at you, one or two of them — at least — are going to take it to an extreme place. If you’re a woman or a minority or both, that place is very familiar."
https://www.theverge.com/c/features/23997516/harassment-twitter-sarah-jeong-canceled-social-change

2023-12-11 02:49:51

I said this before on the bird site but it really is true; I distinctly remember reading Ayn Rand as a teenager and thinking “this is some real bullshit she is trying to pull here”. As pulp it is fine, but this is not a serious philosophy for serious people.

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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2023-12-07 06:15:25

Wow the post apocalyptic world is so much worse than I possibly imagined it could be
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2023-12-02 22:12:01

"Hypnosis practitioners believe—and there’s some research to back this up—that the technique may amplify the effectiveness of more well-established psychological interventions and therefore has the potential to provide rare benefit to patients." 🤔 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/11/ibs-ibd-treatment-hypnosis/676160/?utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20231129&lctg=6050ed2c4953a53f1495995d&utm_term=The%20Atlantic%20Daily

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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2023-11-02 18:01:32

Is it just me or "do humans have free will" one of those completely pointless, abstract, hypothetical discussions that simply doesn't matter one god damn bit?

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.”

2023-10-11 23:50:01

I just noticed this GMail UI change, might have been around a while.. but educating the average user about the difference between Spam and Phishing seems like.. a lot? Must be a huge problem to put it at the forefront like this: 🪝
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2023-10-10 04:53:48

I had to have a somewhat uncomfortable conversation with a fellow traveller (10+ years older than me?) at the NM airport who was very clearly wearing a Spock/Kirk slash fiction shirt. I made a point of walking by him a few times to be sure I was seeing what I thought I was seeing. I just wanted to gently let him know what exactly he was signalling. He had definitely never heard the term "slash fiction" and pointedly asked me what it was. I was like.. uh.. er.. some people really want there to be a romance between Spock and Kirk and that created a whole.. uh.. genre of fan fiction? How does one explain any of this, really?

2023-09-01 06:39:55

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

2023-08-30 18:59:04

"If Apple was a country, its annual sales—nearly $400 billion last year—would make it roughly the 40th biggest economy in the world, ahead of Iran and on par with Denmark." the era of companies as nation-states has only just begun IMO

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/

2023-08-17 05:09:24

"A recent study out of the University of Kansas found that it takes about 50 hours of socializing to go from acquaintance to casual friend, an additional 40 hours to become a “real” friend, and a total of 200 hours to become a close friend." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/how-to-make-friends/565742/

2023-08-12 20:11:02

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@npub1s2r…7gng donated! 🙇

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.

2023-07-31 19:17:22

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@npub1utv…87lr noooooooooooooooo

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

2023-03-21 21:08:53

I love Apple's hardware, but what the heck is going on with the Apple TV? I've had to reboot multiple Apple TVs (latest model) multiple times just to get basic video playback going across several apps like Hulu and Netflix and HBO Max. You'll press play and it crashes back out to the main menu. Repeat. Repeat. Until you reboot..