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Joined November 2010
Dean Radcliffe retweeted
this is, hands down, the best song I've heard all year
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async await async await async await async await async await async await 🎶 In the browser, the mighty browser, the main thread sleeps tonight! 🎵 🎵 In the browser, the mighty browser, the main thread sleeps toniiiiiight! 🎶
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We knew very little about how LLMs actually work...until now. @AnthropicAI just dropped the most insane research paper, detailing some of the ways AI "thinks." And it's completely different than we thought. Here are their wild findings: 🧵
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Dean Radcliffe retweeted
Everyone needs to hear this:
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I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org
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Dean Radcliffe retweeted
I don’t ask for permission to refactor. I don’t ask for permission to optimize performance. I don’t ask for permission to make it secure. I don’t ask for permission to make it accessible. I don’t ask for permission to write tests. I don’t ask for permission to do my job well.
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Dean Radcliffe retweeted
PM: "How many story points to add drag n drop?" Dev Team: "at least a 8 or 13" Dev using Cursor:
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Dean Radcliffe retweeted
Thread of hilarious maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵 1. World map according to fish
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Dean Radcliffe retweeted
I want to ban assault weapons and require universal background checks. Trump promised the NRA that he’d do nothing about guns. And he means it.
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Dean Radcliffe retweeted
You find this in your kid's bedroom. What do you do?
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Dean Radcliffe retweeted
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Dean Radcliffe retweeted
OMG @MrBeast is making money while making a difference? That's not just good economics, it's a virtuous cycle of philanthropy. Every dollar earned from doing good fuels more positive impact, driving an expanding wave of positive outcomes. Profit from progress, reinvest in goodness, repeat. More impact, more income, more change… more views, more clicks… fewer blind, thirsty, hungry, and homeless…
How did we get to this weird place? Telling people who are actually out in the world making a positive difference, "You're the problem."
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Dean Radcliffe retweeted
In case you didn't know: There's work currently being done to add Observables to the web platform! There are even flags to play with it now in Chrome Canary. You can follow along here: github.com/WICG/observable
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Dean Radcliffe retweeted
The 0.1% of ideas this week. The rabbit holes I've gone down -- without the distractions. 7 best examples:
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If you get this, we can be friends:
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Dean Radcliffe retweeted
Probably the best thing you'll see today. In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world. The results 🧵 1/22
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You need high math knowledge to understand this 😜
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Dean Radcliffe retweeted
2/ And this won't be the last nearly identical observable we see cooked up in Userland. It's a necessary low-level primitive. You can actually build a promise from an observable, but not vice versa. And yet promises as a standard, and observables aren't even on the TC39's radar
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Hypothesis: the moment a team adds the requirement that each PR/commit should be related to a Jira issue, it will start accumulating even more tech debt than before. This requirement adds a penalty for making small, unrelated improvements that get the project in a better shape.
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