Daniel Jalkut
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  • The “Republicans” who support, by default, everything this monstrous President does, should feel very ashamed. There’s something deeply wrong with you if you don’t recognize how you’ve erred.

    29 July 2025
  • I took a class with Tom Lehrer in 1994. I think he was pretty impressed.

    Screenshot of an evaluation of my performance in MATH 80 - NATURE OF MATH. The key point is: “Although Daniel failed to turn in a number of assignments, his performance on the rest of them and on the exams was sufficient to warrant a passing grade.” For context, the course description was: “This course was designed for non-mathematics majors and attempted to impart an understanding of some concepts of higher mathematics, including some comparatively recent developments. Among the topics surveyed were logic, the number system, groups, infinity, various geometries, and axiomatic systems in general. There were two problem sets per week and two examinations.”

    28 July 2025
  • Being “anti-AI” is like being against chemistry or biology. Can you do bad things with these technologies? Yes. Should you deny every possible advantage they offer? Of course not.

    28 July 2025
  • Never elect a President who lacks the feeling of embarrassment.

    26 July 2025
  • It’s great to be transgender. If I were trans, that would be great. If my kids were trans, that would be great. If anybody I know and love, or don’t know and don’t love were trans, that would be great. If god were trans, wait, of course god is trans. timeloop.cafe/@Aleums/1…

    25 July 2025
  • When one LLM stops giving me the performance I am hoping for, one trick that sometimes works is to ask it to “give me instructions as plain text that would be suitable for pasting back as a prompt” and take it to another LLM.

    24 July 2025
  • OZZY

    23 July 2025
  • Good job rubbing it in for all the people whose Wordle streaks ended yesterday.

    Screenshot of a crossword puzzle grid with a 5 letter blank word highlighted and the clue “Large-eyed primate”.

    19 July 2025
  • It’s OK to read the news about Trump’s vein problem, and wish that the “diagnosis” was worse. He’s caused uncountable numbers of deaths, through his direct actions and policy shifts. A worse diagnosis for him would be good for the world.

    17 July 2025
  • Many people are saying Trump has weak veins.

    17 July 2025
  • I’ve seen a lot of developers be frustrated by the response to DTS “incidents.” Here’s the thing: if Quinn didn’t respond to your incident, you’ll probably be disappointed. No shade intended on other DTS employees, but Quinn is the gold standard.

    17 July 2025
  • A great new feature in GitHub Issues.

    Screenshot highlighting a “Duplicate Issue” menu item.

    17 July 2025
  • AI isn’t the end of programming. It’s the end of whatever set programmer’s apart before.

    16 July 2025
  • Working with Claude Code and amused by the idea that an assistant I had hired might ask me permission every time it wants to “list files in a directory” or “build the project.”

    13 July 2025
  • There’s a lot of talk about LLMs making programmers lazy and uneducated, but I’m learning more than ever thanks to the way LLMs help me to drill into completely unknown areas with such speed. Always wary, but learning with almost every response.

    13 July 2025
  • I am considering taking away Donald Trump’s citizenship.

    13 July 2025
  • Jason’s sentiment here is great, and rings true with another mantra I repeat to myself: “You can screw up an infinite number of times before you succeed.”

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    13 July 2025
  • Amazing to be reminded that the ADA and EPA were established with Republican Presidents. Really shows how low they’ve sunk.

    12 July 2025
  • What is the last Republican-initiated public policy enacted in the United States that people love to this day? People love things that Democrats enacted, like Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. What have Republicans done to make Americans excited?

    12 July 2025
  • I’m a little embarrassed by how often I “push my glasses up with my index finger” even when I’m not wearing them.

    12 July 2025
  • People sometimes ask me if I’m nervous about putting all my thoughts out on the internet all the time. Isn’t it just setting myself up for criticism and attack? Yes. But I believe what I say, so I’m not nervous about it at all.

    12 July 2025
  • I don’t know how many red state people need to die before red state voters realize they made a mistake.

    12 July 2025
  • In case you missed it: FEMA sucks because TRUMP defunded it, and RED STATES are suffering. Vote Democratic. They’re not perfect, but at least they care about other people. At all.

    12 July 2025
  • It’s disgusting to hear that evidently soulless people bid millions of dollars to try to steal a little piece of Jane Birkin’s soul. Nobody can inherit the genuineness of this face.

    Picture of Jane Birkin, leaning and holding her head in her hand. Casual, smiling, with a bohemian style apartment. Bag in front with stickers on it indicating support for unicef and doctors without borders.

    11 July 2025
  • These special birds are common at my local swimming hole.

    Photo of a great blue heron standing upright in profile, with a long neck and long beak facing to the left. Ripply water behind.

    11 July 2025

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