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xor
@xor
webmd says hating mondays is one of the most common symptoms of lead poisoning

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Metal wind sculptures are fun.. very zen https://t.co/6HixoGLL1h

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
It is very strange to see something you co-created featured in the background of major TV shows and/or movies, in culture generally. Surreal. https://t.co/ifuxhpuII3

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
“being online did not make most people more aggressive or hostile; rather, it allowed a small number of aggressive people to attack a much larger set of victims” https://t.co/Ed9sLmqSO4

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
It’s got what butterflies crave! https://t.co/TS8DUFDZba

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Not taking four seconds to put my glass in the dishwasher is more important to me than you are." https://t.co/pMRKpd9fjF

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
From a 1990-1992 book by George Gilder titled “Life After Television”. I can find *nothing* on a company named “Frox” https://t.co/VwAnPxcT4Z

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I do enjoy the charger cables with built in watt meters. It’s interesting to learn how the devices decide what level to charge and how fast (and to see which chargers deliver the rated amounts) https://t.co/ocfNcHy2tb
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michael_nielsen
@michael_nielsen
Ethical behaviour is NP-hard (via @notmedic): https://t.co/UIhAcSPLK2

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
This was / is WeWork’s competition. I never noticed them before. https://t.co/ErLxeB3x57

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Documentaries work to raise awareness of larger societal problems, e.g. "The Blackfish Effect" https://t.co/ldmKikRpL8

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I hope we can turn this around. 63 is far too large a number. https://t.co/sVTjYfng6Y

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I was surprised to recently discover an RTX 2060 on sale via Woot for $389! Is all this ethereum mining nonsense over now?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I hadn't followed this 2017-2019 Foxconn/Wisconson story: https://t.co/GD9LgcFTU9

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Not exactly news to anyone, but still.. fascinating stuff. https://t.co/qQAEIrIFOf https://t.co/R9yUkai5TF

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@mondain no, it does not require rep to make the edit. Remember that is an incognito browser screenshot. The edit has to be approved by other users with enough rep to approve edits.
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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
When the ad is supposed to be a joke, but.. isn't https://t.co/dhj7cOemrv
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waxpancake
@waxpancake
You innies better get moving if we're going to meet our quarterly quota. This macrodata isn't going to refine itself. https…
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castrojo
@castrojo
TIL from @mattdm that Discourse has a feature that will put an automagic time zone converter in a post, what an awesome idea.…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Schrödinger’s cat pants https://t.co/YCjdrjlrf1

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Migrated to a new motherboard/PSU (PSU asplode), decrypting my main 980 Pro M.2 SSD in Windows 11 / bitlocker and it's taking 5+ hours. This is with only 139gb of data on it. Disk still shows 100% usage in taskman though. Guess I'll let it go overnight.. 😨
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sailorhg
@sailorhg
✿ home sweet homepage ✿, a comic about growing up online!
https://t.co/ONhsxzAqbp https://t.co/0xDzrRxLjc
https://t.co/ONhsxzAqbp https://t.co/0xDzrRxLjc
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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I got two of these to thank @pinboard for everything he did in the 2016 and 2020 election efforts. So, thank you, and thi…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@mondain Not at all. Try it now. Go into incognito mode and press "improve this". It will be queued and reviewed by users with more rep. I've just done this in my own browser, see screenshot with highlights https://t.co/5Z28ikpPxj

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Congrats -- that is the goal, small "fun size" units of work where we teach each other, in wiki-editable form (and since it apparently surprises people every time I say this, remember every Q&A in SE is editable by any anonymous user, just like wikipedia!) https://t.co/bBWQISlqB2
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JohnDiesattheEn
@JohnDiesattheEn
Some of us have been watching the exact same cycle play out since 90s-era IRC chat room days https://t.co/xdGsBIdhaT
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supererogatory
@supererogatory
Time to finally share one of the weirdest things I ever came across: a pitch for an officially sanctioned Zardoz (yes,…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Whoo boy do the political email titles ever get A/B tested to infinity… and beyond! Clicks are life. https://t.co/X2MDSyMkXK

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The truth hurts https://t.co/Znlnwy0LKW
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gknauss
@gknauss
Cleaning out the storage unit, digging through boxes not opened for 20 years.
Thank you, Marina. You have no idea the impact…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
We'll be expecting a lot of SORRY for this utter tragedy, my Canadian friends https://t.co/vbk2coZwtw https://t.co/31QzFCCsEk

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I guess those 193 Republicans must not have any diabetic friends or family .. 😠 https://t.co/kR4C5lwg2Z

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
📽️ Is this a new thing, projector screens that actively reject light not projected at the correct (e.g. from the actual media projector) angle? https://t.co/77UKnqwa0j

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Oh no! Don’t want to be left out of the VR, er I mean 3D, revolution! https://t.co/2AbdIUr7jj

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Real time ray traced DOOM is .. really cool https://t.co/WqtegwRntp

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Looks like the Ayn Odin (think Nintendo Switch, but Android / Snapdragon 845) is the device to beat! It even handles PS2 games well. https://t.co/FpF2hGHvKm
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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@johnnygf hah cool https://t.co/REYFQbJ1FS
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lexaloffle
@lexaloffle
Dithering patterns should have weird names the way that colours do.
#pico8 https://t.co/e2Kpj2XaPt
#pico8 https://t.co/e2Kpj2XaPt
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MrT
@MrT
Even though it’s April Fools’ Day, I am very serious; what if medical science and the CDC could create the first “Anti-Fool vaccin…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Zuck sauce https://t.co/7zjf3lg7Ua

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I do not have an update, but I once built a tool to generate a universal, works-forever search link for any given internet page based on the 5 least common (aka most unique) words on that page and it worked .. perfectly. 👌 https://t.co/I9Vnccm5Hf

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I wonder what could possibly be in this box? It's a mystery! https://t.co/Au5IF2BALt

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Still the most savage takedown of Apple vs. Microsoft in history https://t.co/tQE1qaJiLf
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teri1337
@teri1337
A little over 20 years ago I spearheaded a video pinball project for Midway/WMS. I recently wrote an article about it, which…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
How deep does the keyboard rabbit hole go? 🕳🐰 yep that is an 8x9 = 72 key tester 😱⌨️ https://t.co/Y6WV1dDL26

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
welp, it finally happened. Chrome reached version 100. https://t.co/al5WNJJNlU

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I always wondered why Windows didn't support country flag emoji. Maybe they were right not to? https://t.co/uiiN672qh8

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I've had the domain https://t.co/W1KJZ4RLYs for 10 years now and was hoping to hand it off to someone at Stack Overflow.. but they can't use it. Anyone else want it to make something cool? Email me. (My email is listed on my blog.)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@TimAppleCodes that's kinda the goal of great comedy IMO

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
No video has ever summarized America better than this one, in my not so humble opinion https://t.co/hTddOJInqu
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eleanorkpenny
@eleanorkpenny
Down with toxic masculinity, avanti whatever’s going on here https://t.co/djrjjqwyqT
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JimMFelton
@JimMFelton
… do you have any other urologists I could talk to https://t.co/d5D237KgGJ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Always wanted to see this movie, now is a good time as any https://t.co/th2yfpdntK
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NVIDIAAIDev
@NVIDIAAIDev
Trained in minutes, rendered in seconds. ⏱️
Our Instant NeRF from NVIDIA Research turns 2D photos into 3D scenes in the…
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duanrui1205
@duanrui1205
Modified iPhone 13 Pro Max Ultra, added USB-C + 3.5mm interface, built-in dual cooling fans, doubled the battery life, and…
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Jomboy_
@Jomboy_
Will Smith smacks Chris Rock, a breakdown https://t.co/Fh75AxM8TT

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I honestly wish a lot more of the gun-nut-dont-tread-on-me-flag crowd would get out there and defend freedom, if they believe so much in it. Or is it just freedom for *you personally*? https://t.co/o7bhjXJF5I

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
This is fantastic -- a cottage industry company offering to refurbish "battery dead" airpods. The pessimist in me says this company won't survive because convenience dominates everything.. but we'll find out.. https://t.co/Inj2ACO0cp
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waxy
@waxy
The Academy banned physical screeners this year, but the pandemic may have killed demand for Oscar screeners for good. It's time…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
One of the biggest video game cheats of all time https://t.co/zFjlBWbJAv

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Its 2022 report, which found that distrust is now “society’s default emotion,” recorded a trend of collapsing faith in institutions such as government or media. https://t.co/WddZKnmboX

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Not eating for 30 days .. doesn't sound like a good idea? https://t.co/IXbJOtjtLk
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pomeranian99
@pomeranian99
"The Miserable Lives of Cyborg Truck Drivers": https://t.co/UxEQcJTcIK
My latest essay in a series on how AI and automat…
My latest essay in a series on how AI and automat…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I love these simple, inexpensive “usb or sd card” digital Nix photo frames. Load ‘em up with all our family photos on a 256gb or 512gb usb stick / sd card and let them randomly cycle through family memories! https://t.co/wvvvtCTZIq

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"[In almost every job], someone with extraordinary soft skills (honesty, commitment, empathy, resilience, commitment to the journey, willingness to be coached… the real skills that we actually care about) is going to outperform." https://t.co/GuB1xCqU6i

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I've always loved this twins photo. It neatly summarizes the twin parenting conversational experience! https://t.co/OtmibdFTGW

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"We want to be able to deliver our vision of what VR is", and that vision was .. apparently, a giant pile of money 🤑 https://t.co/OLtY54IO2k

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
lemmings! https://t.co/reGtcDOE6S
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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@loydcase we actually have some of these!
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wonderofscience
@wonderofscience
Amazing octopus stretching its tentacles to form a huge balloon filmed by EVNautilus at a depth of around 1,600 meters…
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francescagino
@francescagino
When generational differences make you think… https://t.co/u2CkqsQ1Pk

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Here's the floppy drive that the @stackoverflow exec team sent me in April 2011 to torment me over my insistence that "username/password logins are the floppy drives of the internet" https://t.co/cvEnpSoLkR

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
inspired by https://t.co/tH5AL5fA65 let's try a different variation of this. What's the most USEFUL item you've purchased from Amazon in recent memory? Bonus points for obscurity.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Between watching Super Pumped, and The Dropout, you'd certainly get the idea that silicon valley startups are madness. But the reality in my experience is that the company strongly reflects the personality of the founder, and some people are.. egomaniacs or charlatans. Or both.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
One of the least known but most innovative computer peripherals ever was Jef Raskin's SwyftCard. Study the failures, because they're far more interesting than the success stories everyone already knows.. https://t.co/IFDZobh6LA

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Electric Pencil, the first word processing program for the Apple II, was the archetype for all word processing packages that followed .. In 1978, Electric Pencil had 250,000 users. By 1981, it was forgotten." https://t.co/fH8bsNw5OL

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
JK Rowling has convinced me that maybe all this Extremely British Wizarding was never a very good idea in the first place

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I am a middle aged white man who just changed the wiper blades on the car and am therefore now capable of every possible task, AMA

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Putting some Bluetooth logging thermometers in.. Curious how well the fridge and freezer etc are at regulating temps over time https://t.co/8ZvFAKiHI9
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JimMFelton
@JimMFelton
When JK Rowling sat in that cafe all those years ago, there’s no way she could have known she’d one day be endorsed by Vlad…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Companies in the Web 2.0 era produced only goods and services, value denominated in dollars or other national currencies. But companies in the web3 era offer a third product — tokens — and the value of those tokens is far less tethered to reality." https://t.co/Y1LJZycdvi
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MisterABK
@MisterABK
Cartoons today vs cartoons when I was a kid: https://t.co/0AUESWVaoq

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Well, the Surface Duo is certainly inexpensive now, picked one up for $350 to test with. You can do split screen (one app per panel) or drag to the middle for full screen… https://t.co/oNfLCNNZ1f
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aschmelyun
@aschmelyun
So here's why I bought a receipt printer:
Every time one of my GitHub repos gets a new issue, I now get a physical ticket…
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jongalloway
@jongalloway
Every year or so, @codinghorror and I reply to our random 15 year old e-mail threads requesting status or giving additiona…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
So @zogstrip went to one of these recently and .. it was quite the, uh, "experience"? https://t.co/Kinamegeqr
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marcelocordova
@marcelocordova
#Morbius 3D poster (Milan) https://t.co/JiwtaxBbo6

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
One thing I love about @discourse is how easy it is to create a linked topic, and the bidirectional links that automatically appear when you do. But I am a *little* biased.. https://t.co/BYcFZ9V0n7

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Not sure what to do about climate change? Let's start by planting some trees, together! 🌲🌳 https://t.co/OWEfOzYTiH
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irin
@irin
Despite the tendentious and misleading questions from Cruz, Jackson couldn't possibly rage and cry the way now-Justice Kavanaugh…
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pomeranian99
@pomeranian99
Real estate agents in California report that more homebuyers are going off the grid, spurred by blackouts, brownouts, and…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Hey, the Galaxy Tab S8 is the first Android device I've ever owned that cracked 100 on Speedometer! 👏 Welcome to approximately .. 2018! Now we need the rest of the Android ecosystem to drag itself across this baseline. https://t.co/emo3rCMCWZ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
new phishing reels just dropped 🎣 https://t.co/blq6rPC6oQ
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LarsJohanL
@LarsJohanL
National Geographic Picture of The Year. Black images are shadows of zebras. Zoom in and you will see zebras. https://t.co/…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"styropyro is literally the only person who, when he says 'Please don't try anything you see in this video at home', I don't even question it." https://t.co/WjKIWW74L8

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"what if I fully embraced the horror?" https://t.co/NwGtZV9z6c
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joffreyjaffeux
@joffreyjaffeux
So many people lecturing you about maintainable code actually almost never stayed more than 5 years in a company…
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spirantel
@spirantel
still the hardest image of all time https://t.co/MMQ9ottNsu