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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 20, 2022, 3:49:06 PM
Always loved this color scheme. https://t.co/rw21pe5A8k
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pomeranian99 @pomeranian99
Sep 20, 2022, 3:08:53 PM
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"Smashomancy" is "a divination system based on cracked screens" Some psychics read palms; these folks read busted phone-…
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waxpancake @waxpancake
Sep 20, 2022, 3:00:49 PM
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oh, to be young and online https://t.co/ngOIK6XxLY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 20, 2022, 2:38:41 PM
Portal with RTX! That'll be fun. Real time raytracing was always the long term dream. https://t.co/OvWwRUxg0A https://t.co/8XERknbhs5
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 20, 2022, 2:19:11 PM
Microsoft was console cross-platform.. before it was cool? https://t.co/9zgz7Q8fyu
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We've just posted our look inside the iPhone 14, and it turns out that Apple has totally redesigned it to make it more repairab…
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ironicsans @ironicsans
Sep 19, 2022, 3:22:15 PM
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Nailed it.

Be sure to like and subscribe to Tuube Rouibe. https://t.co/TO4jZLQCGm
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Seanbabydotcom @Seanbabydotcom
Sep 19, 2022, 3:21:32 PM
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The things I saw in 1987 continue to haunt me. https://t.co/FIcbUDCKKR
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 19, 2022, 3:11:22 PM
AirBnB is complicit in this behavior because you don't see the "cleaning fee" until the final checkout steps. Super dark UI pattern there... https://t.co/Ql2kMFMUeE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 19, 2022, 1:39:25 PM
I had forgotten about this app concept. https://t.co/4ZNfqcPs5x
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 17, 2022, 3:59:27 PM
It is legal to escape from prison in Germany https://t.co/h4GsfybXEY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 16, 2022, 6:47:34 PM
I was always confused about the relationship between Bowie and Mott the Hoople. So were they: https://t.co/dshcY7IXSl
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LeighGiangreco @LeighGiangreco
Sep 16, 2022, 4:28:01 PM
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I’ve long wondered whether you could do everything Ferris does in Chicago in one day. So I found out for ⁦@washingtonpo…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 16, 2022, 4:22:44 PM
I distinctly remember resenting having to learn cursive as I grew up with a home computer in the 80s. So pointless. Sometimes the writing really is on the wall. https://t.co/8GAtvwyNSp
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ggooooddddoogg @ggooooddddoogg
Sep 16, 2022, 4:01:51 PM
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thinking about the shock button again https://t.co/iA5X3MU5R8
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 16, 2022, 2:06:27 PM
"Many organizations believe they are too smart to fall for phishing attacks. They prefer the ease of authenticator apps vs FIDO2 MFA, which requires the possession of a phone or physical key. Breaches will remain a fact of life until this mindset changes." https://t.co/x6z49G8SX6
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This is one story I never guessed that I would read: AIs communicating to chess cheats via, um, vibrating beads! (h/t to Laure…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 16, 2022, 12:50:40 PM
oh no! Weird Al's "All About the Pentiums" will be obsolete! https://t.co/iLxWcersfh
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The Enduring Allure of Choose Your Own Adventure Books: charming New Yorker profile of the series' legacy, barely touching on its…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 13, 2022, 4:48:24 PM
The recent Sony remakes (and thanks, Sony, for bringing these modern classics to PC) also highlight the increasingly subtle visual differences in an all (mostly) 4k world. https://t.co/aHiz419yz8 https://t.co/PbzgtxxPZD
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 13, 2022, 4:34:14 PM
Great visual history of computing with art by @ignotofsky ! https://t.co/uYZmYzDHr7 https://t.co/l2EgnjMmoT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 13, 2022, 3:35:02 PM
Wow! Tamagotchi, but for wifi password cracking. So cool. https://t.co/etXHYUZAVR https://t.co/8shXQD8LgQ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 13, 2022, 3:22:15 PM
When you're the ultimate tiny hacker https://t.co/yrddLYycCi https://t.co/YftI8Ip4li
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 13, 2022, 1:54:47 PM
Apparently the 256th day of the year is the “day of the programmer” and that is today? 🧑‍💻
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Heather_v @Heather_v
Sep 11, 2022, 9:36:12 PM
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My new design policy https://t.co/duxgsrRNmg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 11, 2022, 9:32:27 PM
Hell yes 🇺🇦 https://t.co/opgBhfSXzo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 11, 2022, 9:23:48 PM
interesting to see how CPU and GPUs scale with TDP (when TDP is adjustable) from 15 to 35 watts. CPU loses only 12% perf, whereas GPU loses 30%. https://t.co/j03neRKWiA https://t.co/BXmMLsodl8
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raphkoster @raphkoster
Sep 10, 2022, 10:01:06 PM
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It only took two years but finally the automatic monitor is PERFECT https://t.co/NTG5CiShqT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 10, 2022, 1:33:42 AM
Super happy that Sony is releasing their critically acclaimed games on PC, but Spider-Man may be the most CPU-limited game I've ever seen. It's nuts! Even at very high details and with ray tracing! https://t.co/k30bOhRES3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 9, 2022, 5:25:28 PM
One advantage of Apple being so far ahead in performance, you can buy a cheap old (in phone years) phone and it's *still* faster than the latest Qualcomm/Android hardware. All the way back to 2018 era iPhone 10 aka X/XS. https://t.co/i0u57b0sF5
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 9, 2022, 5:00:52 PM
Meanwhile, in dog ownership https://t.co/pWrOmeuc4Y (I just saw a poster that said “stolen” and I was incredulous)
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BoneJail @BoneJail
Sep 9, 2022, 4:37:57 PM
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after my enemies are slain I will flay their corpses and wear their rotting skin as my own for my amusement https://t.co/uwni…
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images_ai @images_ai
Sep 9, 2022, 3:09:24 PM
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Fixing famous paintings with AI (🧵) First up, the Mona Lisa! Honestly, Da Vinci did a pretty sloppy job on this one by toda…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 9, 2022, 3:04:49 PM
Far better than any Buzzfeed listicle. I knew *most* of them: https://t.co/DZa6opuP25
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 9, 2022, 2:21:37 PM
There are two very different eras in life: before smartphone, and after. The internet *enabled* the smartphone but the dramatic change was being in everyone's pocket 24/7 https://t.co/iEPKAnAgSa
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robinthede @robinthede
Sep 9, 2022, 2:15:39 PM
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THIS IS MY SUPERBOWL https://t.co/Ymif0sf0fd
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 9, 2022, 2:05:47 PM
Roger Ebert on Battlefield Earth (2000) "...like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way." https://t.co/i0MHbnv08E
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 9, 2022, 1:59:32 PM
You had me at "built in sync for PalmPilot" https://t.co/5W43AScjSe .. also I didn't know about https://t.co/e6VfgUfsnd
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pomeranian99 @pomeranian99
Sep 9, 2022, 1:42:44 PM
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"When you roll into a town that’s utterly without bike lanes? It’s as if I were cruising down the street in a UFO or a 18…
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ironicsans @ironicsans
Sep 9, 2022, 1:12:42 PM
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Meanwhile: Jeannette Charles, the British actress who looks so much like Queen Elizabeth that she played her in The Naked G…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 9, 2022, 1:09:40 PM
"make something people want" is a meaningless mantra. People have no idea what they want. Knowing what you want is the single most difficult thing in life. It should be "*predict* what people will want". p.s. good luck, you're gonna need it
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 9, 2022, 12:32:59 PM
The kids found one of these at a recycling place. I had forgotten the iPod shuffle existed! Also feels weird to have a headphone jack (which was also used for data and power!) these days. https://t.co/rE7SVtyJUk
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 8, 2022, 5:57:26 PM
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Whenever you feel like you might have made a bad decision, remember that some people bought a $10,000 gold version 1 non-…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 8, 2022, 2:42:30 PM
"This is the most stressful game I've ever played in my life. Yet also one of the best." Hard agree. Alien: Isolation is spectacular, even after all this time, its working title should be "pants crapping simulator 4000". https://t.co/InVfDW1gnM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 7, 2022, 6:23:39 PM
"You could leave a fan running for a full 24 hours and still use less energy than 15 minutes of air conditioning." https://t.co/aMGrWeau9Y
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 7, 2022, 6:13:23 PM
I have been dismissive of the "m0ar cores" movement, but there are a handful of places where it really matters; one of them is compiling enormous software projects, like Chromium. Saving over two *hours* of time is possible! https://t.co/EljDLKJzyb
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 7, 2022, 2:50:46 PM
Donate $50 to Let's Encrypt and get a free security key: https://t.co/wJ6RSbczvO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 7, 2022, 2:08:53 PM
This was obvious to me from the outside, except for the "military is only training drone pilots, not aircraft pilots" part. I hadn't considered that! https://t.co/3aGL4Q2Q9g
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 7, 2022, 2:05:04 PM
I've noticed this trend of flat, non-metallic colors becoming popular on cars for a few years now.. https://t.co/f1VJR6JghT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 6, 2022, 9:53:19 PM
I knew climate change was coming, but I didn't think we'd see major effects of climate change in my lifetime. Sorry, kids. Sorry... everyone. https://t.co/LFxpzB1s5m
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 6, 2022, 8:07:09 PM
Ominous. This, I turned a number of things off, then total power outage. https://t.co/IoQ9eDDlcm
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DevilArtemisX @DevilArtemisX
Sep 6, 2022, 6:57:51 PM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 5, 2022, 1:59:15 PM
More pig butchering text scams https://t.co/bK6dWVooqq
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chrissteinplays @chrissteinplays
Sep 4, 2022, 5:49:05 PM
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Russia... it still produced the single greatest dashcam video ever made https://t.co/KX0A8nRVy4
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 4, 2022, 5:42:30 PM
Always interesting to discover the price penalty or reward for various colors of random items. Good ol’ invisible hand is suddenly visible https://t.co/csKhJZdH5p
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 4, 2022, 12:11:24 PM
“They need to know about it,” Vickers said. “You couldn’t just sit and think it was going to happen. You had to make it change.” https://t.co/JzC1HIqR1w
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 4, 2022, 11:54:52 AM
“The days of "hope it comes to Switch" may be over.” https://t.co/6zVTG3mGYn
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 4, 2022, 11:52:47 AM
“It's boring. It's good.” https://t.co/YSwwE7Ofid
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 3, 2022, 11:27:10 AM
Facts don’t change minds https://t.co/wiueBiKIh0
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going to go out on a limb and say this isn't great news

https://t.co/9tJAcvVgat https://t.co/4PgQBgZol9
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lexfridman @lexfridman
Aug 31, 2022, 2:19:08 PM
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Truth. If you're struggling, stay strong and keep fighting! We're in this together. https://t.co/eCcQt8D5l1
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 31, 2022, 2:04:03 PM
I can recommend these silicone cat paw keycaps. Fun to use and they feel like real toe beans! https://t.co/QurZuIkHdq https://t.co/Pr60TubjC3
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waxpancake @waxpancake
Aug 31, 2022, 12:38:44 PM
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In honor of today’s news that “Leo’s Law” still stands, the creator of this excellent dataviz updated their chart. https://…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 29, 2022, 7:46:01 PM
I've been waiting 30 years for someone to explain Gremlins 2 to me https://t.co/nzWnT2ANnA
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 29, 2022, 7:02:59 PM
How an ancient, irrational terror of bad air, the “miasma theory” that had prevailed for centuries, was validated by COVID https://t.co/oT01COwWtW
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 29, 2022, 6:44:03 PM
ECC is a must "at scale" (farms/clouds), but to put things in perspective, RAM failure is only slightly more common than CPU failure 🤯 https://t.co/Ny7mbeRz8p https://t.co/0fjNc5RzsB
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 29, 2022, 4:34:57 PM
It is 2022 and the best “answer” to my question was a video. The automatic transcription *almost* gets me the info I need, but no, I have to watch 60 seconds of video when I could have read it in 2 seconds. 🤦 https://t.co/SD7yKfKH4m
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 29, 2022, 3:49:23 PM
translations and analysis of viral Douyin (original Chinese version of TikTok) videos; what makes a video universally interesting or funny? https://t.co/Bj7ECESKyd
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16bitnostalgia @16bitnostalgia
Aug 29, 2022, 3:21:46 PM
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Nothing to see here. Just OutRun running perfectly on a Tomy Turnin' Turbo

Creator: CIRCUITBEARD https://t.co/hkC4mZ1u…
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washingtonpost @washingtonpost
Aug 29, 2022, 3:20:23 PM
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Joseph Henney’s emotional support animal WallyGator goes with him almost everywhere, from the grocery store to walks in…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 29, 2022, 3:18:27 PM
In today’s mail… “The real winner of the raffle might be the man who runs it.” https://t.co/qHTwnd6sTP https://t.co/t5m88Kw0sV
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 29, 2022, 2:36:20 PM
"There is no moral to this story. I wish you all the best." https://t.co/C1FabNHzNb
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 29, 2022, 2:21:42 PM
"In a short-form video feed, everything just becomes the length of an average ad, which means nothing feels like an ad because everything feels like an ad." 🤔 from @broderick https://t.co/mbbo4bXe0c
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lizardbill @lizardbill
Aug 29, 2022, 2:10:02 PM
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So fun when a pre-order you'd forgotten about arrives like an unexpected gift from your past self. This is the 2nd edition…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 29, 2022, 2:08:09 PM
current widely available solar cells are around 20-22% efficient, apparently we *can* make ~50% efficient solar cells but currently at prices so high that only spacecraft use them? https://t.co/PLpqOHE5As
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TheRokuChannel @TheRokuChannel
Aug 29, 2022, 1:42:24 PM
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Official trailer: Discover the untold true story of the icon who changed music… literally. #WEIRDTheAlYankovicStory is…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 29, 2022, 1:39:06 PM
I was curious how efficient modern refrigerators are compared to ones from, say, 20 years ago: https://t.co/0qfznxIZZ4
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jackshafer @jackshafer
Aug 27, 2022, 10:56:45 PM
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"The Obsessive Pleasures of Mechanical-Keyboard Tinkerers," by David Owen https://t.co/iDjwFucjer
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mzjacobson @mzjacobson
Aug 27, 2022, 10:27:15 PM
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Breakthrough! Renewables provided more than a quarter (25.23%) of U.S. electricity generation during first half of 2022 -…
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ButWithRaptors @ButWithRaptors
Aug 27, 2022, 10:04:56 PM
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"Never Gonna Give You Up" (1987)
but with a Velociraptor https://t.co/y3EDoJpqG0
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palmerj3 @palmerj3
Aug 26, 2022, 7:22:24 PM
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The search for the perfect t-shirt is over https://t.co/ExnixrmXrb
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JohnnyCallicutt @JohnnyCallicutt
Aug 26, 2022, 7:06:23 PM
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Nancy Panel by Ernie Bushmiller https://t.co/CsqeEgZzO3
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MilesKlee @MilesKlee
Aug 26, 2022, 7:04:55 PM
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"quiet quitting" isn't good enough. i want to be an Italian bureaucrat who collects a full salary despite not coming in to w…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 26, 2022, 11:53:14 AM
Meanwhile, in England https://t.co/tRNgjU2XL3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 25, 2022, 8:22:07 PM
I don't get why Elden Ring is "fun". Both my son and I tried for about an hour; the combination of super janky combat mechanics plus extremely high difficulty level is just.. urgh https://t.co/kh8hv5O7bn
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 25, 2022, 1:56:13 PM
No big deal, driving your nearly 100 year old Ford truck around https://t.co/Hyb185tUjV
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 25, 2022, 1:35:05 PM
“in the early 1700s a French doctor named Pierre Fauchard told people not to brush. And he’s considered the father of modern dentistry!” https://t.co/UKN4iLMNeA
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 25, 2022, 12:15:56 PM
“In 2021, 95 of the country’s 100 most-watched telecasts were sporting events” https://t.co/AUd2R1xlR7
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 24, 2022, 7:31:09 PM
Valve definitely hit a home run with the Steam Deck, *but* there's sooo much room they left on the table for a simpler, cheaper, smaller "Steam Deck lite" without the trackpads, rear grip buttons, gyro sensors, and hardwired 64gb eMMC (just use fast SD cards for expansion)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 24, 2022, 4:44:12 PM
This is a fun, strange one: ultra low power x86 (8gb RAM, Intel N5105) single board system with an external GPU expansion. I didn't know M.2 slots could support a GPU! https://t.co/7hVDyFZA4O
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 23, 2022, 6:33:33 PM
So, it's like a folding phone that is.. permanently folded? 😕 https://t.co/gdJKxjWvJp
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jljcolorado @jljcolorado
Aug 23, 2022, 4:28:46 PM
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1/ What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic?…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 23, 2022, 3:28:15 PM
Youtube has always been a music delivery service first, I suppose? https://t.co/caYT9nG2Ak
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“Is white wine all you have?”

No, I can do any https://t.co/rpAm4b6lWL
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 22, 2022, 5:26:09 PM
@TonyTalksTech How does the turbo button help? Which weapons?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 22, 2022, 5:25:19 PM
@TonyTalksTech I tend to strongly dislike roguelikes.. and 2d platforming.. so that's a bad combo for me. Hades is at least not a 2D platformer, and does have amazing writing / dialogue / attention to detail
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 22, 2022, 4:08:55 PM
so funny story. You know that mars simulation they ran in hawaii or whatever where 4-8 people would be cooped up in a tiny space for like a year? One of the primary results: guess what personality trait everyone HAAAATED in their teammates more than any other? G'wan, guess.
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emikusano @emikusano
Aug 22, 2022, 2:47:18 PM
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The Sheep human Contest in France. This is the festival I need right now.
https://t.co/lSUCt9vGXn
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