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Corey Quinn
@QuinnyPig
Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill. Author, Artificial Confidence. Professional skeptic with receipts.
San Francisco, CA
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Born July 28
Joined December 2009
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    Corey Quinn
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    Dec 4, 2023
    My eldest asked if Santa was real, so I taught her about Occam’s razor. “Which is likelier: that Santa is real, or that millions of adults are in a global conspiracy to fool children into thinking he is? I remind you that you and your sister can’t keep secrets.”
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    Corey Quinn
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    Apr 1, 2024
    Remember: if you really want to screw over a previous employer, leave overwhelmingly *positive* reviews on Glassdoor, mentioning wildly inflated salary and benefits. Insidious, ain’t it?
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    Corey Quinn
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    May 15, 2024
    Yeah, good luck with that Adobe. “That’s an improper use of our trademark; have you considered sounding like a massive tool instead?”
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    Corey Quinn
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    Sep 2, 2024
    Genius license plate for a Miata: HTTP 507 (“Insufficient Storage”).
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    Corey Quinn
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    Mar 8, 2019
    I’m continuously amazed by how many people have to ask permission to buy a $50 book, yet are empowered to call a meeting that costs tens of thousands of dollars.
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    Corey Quinn
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    Mar 21, 2022
    Google is so aggressive about mining e-mail receipts for data to sell ads that Amazon no longer tells you what you bought in their emails, and now I honestly can’t tell which company is being the bigger asshole to customers.
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    Corey Quinn
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    Nov 17, 2023
    Oof. Sam Altman is out at OpenAI, and the language of the announcement blog post is just "knives out" level of hostility . This has the feel of the company desperately trying to get in front of something. Otherwise he'd be taking time to "refocus" or "spend time with family."
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    Corey Quinn
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    Jul 12, 2023
    I am the greatest Prompt Engineer in the world.
    Me cyberbullying ChatGPT into ranking the US presidents by absorbency.
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    Corey Quinn
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    Mar 25, 2020
    I apparently fall into the gap that won't receive a stimulus check because I make more than $99,000 but less than United Airlines.
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    Corey Quinn
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    May 16, 2024
    I'm sorry Slack, you're doing fucking WHAT with user DMs, messages, files, etc? I'm positive I'm not reading this correctly.
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    Corey Quinn
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    Jun 27, 2018
    The secret to getting off of calls you don't want to be on is to hang up in the middle of your own sentence. Only a maniac would hang up on themselves, so you must have gotten disconnected.
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    Corey Quinn
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    May 30, 2024
    Picked up a new dad trick: Every time I tell my child I'll explain something to her when she's older, I write it down. On her 18th birthday I will painstakingly explain every item on this list to her. "In 2028 I made a joke about 'golden showers.' That means--" "I KNOW!"
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    Corey Quinn
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    Apr 25, 2022
    Congratulations to Twitter’s new cofounder.
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    Corey Quinn
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    Jun 29, 2022
    BREAKING: AI ethicist warns that Google may produce a self-aware engineer within the next five years.