Dan Rabinowitz

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

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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/?)

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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

Her brand these days is as a cruel and toxic termagant, but this is grosteque even using that measure. What is WRONG with her?

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.

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

Priceless Jewels Stolen From Louvre In Daytime Raid
https://theonion.com/priceless-jewels-stolen-from-louvre-in-daytime-raid/

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.

Weird flex for the peace prize.

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.

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

"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.

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.

Dear AI coding helper, Sometimes a tab is just a tab and not a request to rewrite the line of code.

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

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

The best resume is your reputation.

"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."

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?

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

> look around

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.

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”

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...

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.

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

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

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!!!

Introducing Tidewave: tidewave.ai

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