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Posts by Dan Rabinowitz

Sometimes I wonder if working from home for so long has turned me into a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird. Then I remember that I have always been a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird.

3 weeks ago 897 138 35 20

after he dropped it, it bounced down the hallway, out of the front door, and then down the mild incline towards embarcadero

that's right, gradient descent

2 months ago 14 1 1 0

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3 months ago 1267 176 38 6

There are places where Trump, as president, has broad freedom of action. And there are places where Trump, as president, has been able to act unilaterally because the main point of opposition, Congress (and SCOTUS), support his program. (1/?)

3 months ago 2995 520 31 100

🧵👇

3 months ago 312 46 2 0
Mr. Bean waiting meme with text overhead reading, “Waiting for snow in Denver like…”

Mr. Bean waiting meme with text overhead reading, “Waiting for snow in Denver like…”

Denver, still waiting on that first snow… but we’re not giving up hope! Colorado winters may be late, but when it comes, we’ll be ready. When do you think Denver will get its first snow?

A) Before Thanksgiving,
B) After Thanksgiving,
C) December
D) Not Until Saturday, January 20, 2029

5 months ago 23 3 4 0
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Her brand these days is as a cruel and toxic termagant, but this is grosteque even using that measure. What is WRONG with her?

5 months ago 1117 183 176 18
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a child is screaming with the word nooo on the bottom ALT: a child is screaming with the word nooo on the bottom

The “America First” crowd when you ask them to feed hungry Americans.

5 months ago 135 15 0 2
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“The British Museum better have an air-tight alibi.”

Aaron Goldstein, Helium Expert

“The British Museum better have an air-tight alibi.” Aaron Goldstein, Helium Expert

Priceless Jewels Stolen From Louvre In Daytime Raid
theonion.com/priceless-jewels-stolen-...

6 months ago 1126 190 12 9

It's wrong to call this "the Justice Department." He wants $230 million from the US taxpayer. Federal dollars. DOJ isn't some private company or NGO.

6 months ago 575 175 33 2
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Weird flex for the peace prize.

6 months ago 1390 286 89 43

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

6 months ago 2072 460 57 61
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There's a simpler way to manage your teams. ☁️👥

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6 months ago 2 1 0 1

When do we get to start replying to agentic PRs with “RTFM”?

7 months ago 1 1 1 0

"I want the world to be simple," I said to the genie.

"How do you mean?"

"Good guys and bad guys, clear answers to all questions, everything is just one thing or another."

"I don't think a world like that would work... No, wait, I know how to do that."

And then he turned me back into a child.

9 months ago 500 131 1 1

If you look up the word in the Oxford dictionary, Edison used the term "bug" in the late 1800s to refer to engineering flaws, so Hopper may have used it first for computers (and gets full credit for the joke mentioned here) but the term in general did not originate with her.

8 months ago 10 4 0 0
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Dear AI coding helper, Sometimes a tab is just a tab and not a request to rewrite the line of code.

10 months ago 25 5 2 2

i love how apple names their operating systems after pickup trucks and suvs

10 months ago 7 2 0 0

Teach a robot to fish and soon you won't remember how to.

10 months ago 583 123 15 8

The best resume is your reputation.

10 months ago 235 22 7 1

"There are protests, your majesty."

"Good," said the Emperor. "What are they protesting?"

"Grain prices. But why are protests good?"

"What would you call a society with no protests?"

"Happy, your majesty."

"I would call it oppressed. Prepare a report on their grievances."

10 months ago 471 142 2 0

We oil our butcher block countertop every few months. Over ~8 years, it's soaked up ~12 liters of mineral oil. That's a lot of volume! Where does it go?

10 months ago 12 1 1 0

Opened Claude Code today. It presents me with a prompt. There is only one thing I can type

> look around

10 months ago 36 5 4 1

Republicans in Congress want to sacrifice nearly 14 million Americans’ access to health care and 17 million kids’ access to food so that they can give more tax breaks to billionaires.

I don't think so.

11 months ago 2581 541 88 17
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you can always do the “5 whys” in your incident review but be careful about going past that because after like 8 whys it’s just “capitalism”

11 months ago 315 62 6 4
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How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color?

Have you ever wished the browser would look at a background color and pick black or white for the text — whichever one provides more contrast?

Now, the `constrast-color()` function in CSS does just that.

webkit.org/blog/16929/c...

11 months ago 504 98 16 17

They let me organize the slack, which means they empowered me to choose the naming convention, which means they submitted to my terrible iron rule of channel prefixes. You wanted to create a "law" channel? I am the "law" channel. And it should have a chat- prefix.

11 months ago 251 7 21 7

nobody ever talks about how the rebellion doesn't have an HR department

11 months ago 16 3 2 0

gonna start a video series called SECRETS THE GOVERNMENT IS COVERING UP and its just taped economics 101 lectures

11 months ago 1273 126 18 7
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Honored to speak at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute workshop on #LongCOVID. I am energized by our 2 days of brainstorming about the road ahead. The challenges are real, but I’m leaving hopeful. Millions living with Long Covid are counting on our progress—we must keep keep pushing forward!!!

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