What I never understood was why eventually the B letter stopped being used even on machines that had two floppy disk drives. I remember very clearly using the second floppy on E:, F: and sometimes even D:, but I’ve never seen it being used as B:.

Was it reserved to some kind of swapping system that later became irrelevant with hard disks?

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It’s been decades for me too, the way I remember it is that the password just didn’t work unless you knew you were typing the right one.

It was also the first time I heard of the NSA (I’m not American) - and then later I saw it mentioned on the Simpsons too in an episode where they were hiding in bushes listening to people. I was really surprised by people’s reaction to Snowden because I thought it was just common knowledge.

I think that Dan Brown book about computers also had something like a password that was immune to brute force, that ended up being a single digit password. (it was immune to brute force because the password had plot armor).

I’m a man myself btw.

Nearly four decades on this world and I’ve met maybe a handful of men who do that.

Word around the office is you got a fat cock. I got a fat cock too. Maybe we should rub our fat cocks together sometime. Maybe a little oil?

Something that you really want and is worth $1 but you can’t buy for less than $20 is something you’ll never buy for yourself. That’s often a pretty good gift.

Even if the readme has nothing but the repository name?

Imagine a big stamp. Anything stamped with it, the internet in general trusts. Because we all trust that nobody knows how to stamp things like that big stamp. Except instead of a literal stamp, it’s a secret combination of numbers and letters that works like a password. It now turns out that this secret combination of numbers and letters was just the number 4.

I have a few projects like that and I used to create itch.io pages for them (at least for those related to gamedev). I’ve discontinued all of them years ago but recently I started getting notifications about people paying a dollar or two for them for no reason.

Do tell me your opinions on Cisco. My work is somewhat adjacent and sometimes there’s an overlap but I know very little about it.

Maybe Windows 12 is just around the corner, with dark mode as default and completely focused on AI. So basically just a black box with text input and output. Have we seen that before?

Over a decade ago I was hired as a third party to a third party to a company that was hired by some confidential customer we would never get the identity of. There was some biometric stuff involved on the project, to which we had to import some devices - but they got stuck on customs for a while simply because it had bio in the name. We tried to make do with what we could and were pretty confident when we tested with the real device on the last day before a supposed presentation we also knew nothing about.

Next day we get the news: it went terrible. And we got a feedback: “it failed to identify most kids on the school”. That’s fair, we never even considered testing it with kids.

One guy I used to work with (long before LLMs) built a website for his company and listed a bunch of software there for sale. Except he hadn’t built any software product yet. Once someone contacted him about buying one of the products, then he would build it.

We are and I’m hating every minute of it.

More likely an amalgamation of several open source projects glued together with a bunch of proprietary stuff for Cisco hardware, desk phones, some weird PBX system and so on…

Yep, it’s like that saying about the infinite number of monkeys. AI is extremely ineffective in general, but if you don’t care about the time and resources it consumes, it can be used for a lot of stuff very well. You just need to be a little bit more creative than simply asking it to do your job for you.

Nestlé has completely taken over pretty much every traditional dessert here in Brazil, by flooding the country with alternative recipes adapted to make better use of their products. Most people don’t even know how to make those things in their original form anymore.

On my first job the boss was telling a story about one of his previous jobs, where at one point they had to redo a whole week’s worth of work in one night. They tried hard and managed to do it. So I just added: “it’s in those times one see how slow they usually work”