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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Always loved this color scheme. https://t.co/rw21pe5A8k
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pomeranian99
@pomeranian99
"Smashomancy" is "a divination system based on cracked screens"
Some psychics read palms; these folks read busted phone-…
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waxpancake
@waxpancake
oh, to be young and online https://t.co/ngOIK6XxLY

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Portal with RTX! That'll be fun. Real time raytracing was always the long term dream. https://t.co/OvWwRUxg0A https://t.co/8XERknbhs5

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Microsoft was console cross-platform.. before it was cool? https://t.co/9zgz7Q8fyu
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kwiens
@kwiens
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
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Seanbabydotcom
@Seanbabydotcom
The things I saw in 1987 continue to haunt me. https://t.co/FIcbUDCKKR

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
good to know https://t.co/jiL33gwo1n https://t.co/6sInseX0Rs

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I had forgotten about this app concept. https://t.co/4ZNfqcPs5x

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
It is legal to escape from prison in Germany https://t.co/h4GsfybXEY

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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
I’ve long wondered whether you could do everything Ferris does in Chicago in one day. So I found out for @washingtonpo…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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
thinking about the shock button again https://t.co/iA5X3MU5R8

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"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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psaffo
@psaffo
This is one story I never guessed that I would read: AIs communicating to chess cheats via, um, vibrating beads! (h/t to Laure…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
oh no! Weird Al's "All About the Pentiums" will be obsolete! https://t.co/iLxWcersfh
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waxy
@waxy
The Enduring Allure of Choose Your Own Adventure Books: charming New Yorker profile of the series' legacy, barely touching on its…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Great visual history of computing with art by @ignotofsky ! https://t.co/uYZmYzDHr7 https://t.co/l2EgnjMmoT

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Wow! Tamagotchi, but for wifi password cracking. So cool. https://t.co/etXHYUZAVR https://t.co/8shXQD8LgQ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
When you're the ultimate tiny hacker https://t.co/yrddLYycCi https://t.co/YftI8Ip4li

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Apparently the 256th day of the year is the “day of the programmer” and that is today? 🧑💻

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Hell yes 🇺🇦 https://t.co/opgBhfSXzo

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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
It only took two years but finally the automatic monitor is PERFECT https://t.co/NTG5CiShqT

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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
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
Fixing famous paintings with AI (🧵)
First up, the Mona Lisa! Honestly, Da Vinci did a pretty sloppy job on this one by toda…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Far better than any Buzzfeed listicle. I knew *most* of them: https://t.co/DZa6opuP25

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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
"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
Meanwhile: Jeannette Charles, the British actress who looks so much like Queen Elizabeth that she played her in The Naked G…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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
Whenever you feel like you might have made a bad decision, remember that some people bought a $10,000 gold version 1 non-…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Donate $50 to Let's Encrypt and get a free security key: https://t.co/wJ6RSbczvO

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I've noticed this trend of flat, non-metallic colors becoming popular on cars for a few years now.. https://t.co/f1VJR6JghT

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Ominous. This, I turned a number of things off, then total power outage. https://t.co/IoQ9eDDlcm

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
More pig butchering text scams https://t.co/bK6dWVooqq
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chrissteinplays
@chrissteinplays
Russia... it still produced the single greatest dashcam video ever made https://t.co/KX0A8nRVy4

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
“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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
“The days of "hope it comes to Switch" may be over.” https://t.co/6zVTG3mGYn

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
“It's boring. It's good.” https://t.co/YSwwE7Ofid

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Facts don’t change minds https://t.co/wiueBiKIh0
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rklau
@rklau
going to go out on a limb and say this isn't great news
https://t.co/9tJAcvVgat https://t.co/4PgQBgZol9
https://t.co/9tJAcvVgat https://t.co/4PgQBgZol9
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lexfridman
@lexfridman
Truth. If you're struggling, stay strong and keep fighting! We're in this together. https://t.co/eCcQt8D5l1

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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
In honor of today’s news that “Leo’s Law” still stands, the creator of this excellent dataviz updated their chart. https://…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I've been waiting 30 years for someone to explain Gremlins 2 to me https://t.co/nzWnT2ANnA

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
How an ancient, irrational terror of bad air, the “miasma theory” that had prevailed for centuries, was validated by COVID https://t.co/oT01COwWtW

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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
Nothing to see here. Just OutRun running perfectly on a Tomy Turnin' Turbo
Creator: CIRCUITBEARD https://t.co/hkC4mZ1u…
Creator: CIRCUITBEARD https://t.co/hkC4mZ1u…
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washingtonpost
@washingtonpost
Joseph Henney’s emotional support animal WallyGator goes with him almost everywhere, from the grocery store to walks in…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"There is no moral to this story. I wish you all the best." https://t.co/C1FabNHzNb

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"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
So fun when a pre-order you'd forgotten about arrives like an unexpected gift from your past self. This is the 2nd edition…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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
Official trailer: Discover the untold true story of the icon who changed music… literally. #WEIRDTheAlYankovicStory is…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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
"The Obsessive Pleasures of Mechanical-Keyboard Tinkerers," by David Owen https://t.co/iDjwFucjer
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mzjacobson
@mzjacobson
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
"Never Gonna Give You Up" (1987)
but with a Velociraptor https://t.co/y3EDoJpqG0
but with a Velociraptor https://t.co/y3EDoJpqG0
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palmerj3
@palmerj3
The search for the perfect t-shirt is over https://t.co/ExnixrmXrb
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JohnnyCallicutt
@JohnnyCallicutt
Nancy Panel by Ernie Bushmiller https://t.co/CsqeEgZzO3
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MilesKlee
@MilesKlee
"quiet quitting" isn't good enough. i want to be an Italian bureaucrat who collects a full salary despite not coming in to w…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Meanwhile, in England https://t.co/tRNgjU2XL3

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
No big deal, driving your nearly 100 year old Ford truck around https://t.co/Hyb185tUjV

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
“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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
“In 2021, 95 of the country’s 100 most-watched telecasts were sporting events” https://t.co/AUd2R1xlR7

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
So, it's like a folding phone that is.. permanently folded? 😕 https://t.co/gdJKxjWvJp
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jljcolorado
@jljcolorado
1/ What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic?…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Youtube has always been a music delivery service first, I suppose? https://t.co/caYT9nG2Ak
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2tonbug
@2tonbug

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@TonyTalksTech How does the turbo button help? Which weapons?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@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

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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
The Sheep human Contest in France. This is the festival I need right now.
https://t.co/lSUCt9vGXn
https://t.co/lSUCt9vGXn