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Walter DeFoor

@wdefoor.bsky.social

Product and Engineering at Casetext / CoCounsel / TR. Lover of esoterica and photography. Opinions my own and should be yours, too.

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The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

10.11.2024 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 10726    πŸ” 1508    πŸ’¬ 230    πŸ“Œ 171
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Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists

06.09.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2116    πŸ” 426    πŸ’¬ 96    πŸ“Œ 79

What Danielle said.

According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2%

Let me put that another way.

President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%

21.08.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3782    πŸ” 1533    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 54
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cuomo conceding overlayed with the drewjanda tweet: "The haters said I couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters"

cuomo conceding overlayed with the drewjanda tweet: "The haters said I couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters"

25.06.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 16961    πŸ” 3202    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 57

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

22.06.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 36844    πŸ” 7810    πŸ’¬ 395    πŸ“Œ 309

CAP definitely opened up historic case law, but only gets you to 2018-ish when Ravel was acquired. Modern legal research engines need an up-to-date feed from all major JX. Court Listener making strides there for published case law, especially after folding in CAP, but not there yet on unpublished.

04.06.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reasoning LLMs are a productionized version of the guy from Momento.

15.05.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

but they were, all of them, deceived, for another pope was made

08.05.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 202    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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β€œPiracy. It’s a Crime.” PSA From Wikipedia: β€œYou Wouldn’t Steal a Car” is the first sentence and commonly used name of a public service announcement that debuted on July 12, 2004 in cinemas, and July 27 on home media, which wa...

TIL: The 2000s piracy PSA used a font designed by the fantastic Just van Rossum, whose brother Guido created the Python programming language.

20.04.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 652    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 30

I think we’re in the β€œβ€¦and find out” phase of history.

01.02.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

this is funny as-is but imo way funnier when you see his lawyer

23.12.2024 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 24261    πŸ” 5387    πŸ’¬ 255    πŸ“Œ 177
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Egoless Engineering It turns out misery is a shitty proxy metric.

Hello, I wrote a new talk that is ultimately about how misery is a dumb strategy

egoless.engineering

21.11.2024 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 173    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 24
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This is still one of my favorite programming posts:

www.reddit.com/r/learnprogr...

03.12.2024 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Ah yes, who can forget the king fu scene from Les Miserables

30.11.2024 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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