Dave W Plummer
@davepl1968
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Hi! I'm Dave Plummer. You might remember me from such Windows components as Task Manager, Windows Pinball, Calc, ZIPFolders, Product Activation, etc. Cheers!
Joined June 2010
I'm so old I wrote that!. That's assuming it's the Windows version, which is the one I worked on. The Win9x game, art, and original code, were done by Maxis/Cinematronics. I ported it to Windows NT, converted the x86 asm to C, made it work on RISC, and so on. Success has.
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I think a lot of people apply the same fallacy to using their phone that alcoholics do to driving drunk: that if you're really careful and pay really close attention, you can get away with it. For a while.
People will often lie about why a car crash happened when it’s their fault . They’ll blame the car, or anyone other than themselves when they’re distracted
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I'm so old I wrote that! Or Windows Product Activation, at least. A couple of close friends and I added the first version of Windows Product Activation to XP at the last second. They came to me pretty late in the product cycle after it had failed to materialize on some other
If you know what this is without looking it up you might be OG.
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Adventures in ESP32 programming! Both are driven by the same code, and in fact, the little box is a "visualizer" for the effect currently running on the bigger matrix. Code at
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College-level advice from the University of Regina.
This has to be the most Canadian set of directions I've ever seen, and it's how to use a toilet:. "Please orient yourself to the facilities as required"
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I *think* I've solved my networking issue, where half of my home LAN would sometimes drop off and disappear, becoming a disconnected segment. Since all of our TV and Phones rely on the network, the "Wife Satisfaction Level" was at an all-time low. First, I found that my UDM Pro
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Scary Hypothetical: What if China, for example, suddenly publishes all possible 2.7 million early Bitcoin, ie: flooding the market instantly?. That's about 14% of the 19.9M outstanding BTC. Since it would be a $300B sell order, the sales pressure would be enormous, crushing BTC
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They should set one up in a Tijuana parking lot, and if you can climb it and need a job, that's a conversation I'm willing to have!. It's called selective immigration. Worked for me! And I couldn't climb the rope in grade school, let alone pull it up after me, so. .
An Instagram influencer is going viral for showing how easy it is to climb the border wall and enter the United States illegally. Do we need to add electricity?
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These were genius, and I haven't seen one in 40 years. Was there some flaw? Did kids choke on the ball bearings? Or take out their eyes with the rubber bands?
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Bitcoin’s on fire at $112K! Time to flip the charts on BTCC!.Exploring Cryptocurrency with Jaren Jackson Jr.🏀.
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Completely true for me. The only "incentive" I needed to work harder was seeing the people around and trying to live up to their example. Could you do it forever? Heck no, but it's a great way to grind out your 20s and 30s. But me and Copilot could do in 2 hours what I did in.
Back in the 1990s Microsoft was known to be a place where "if you were awake, you were working." And people did this because they *wanted* to / were so into the work itself! Manager's job was to not mess it up. Source: my discussion with Steve McConnell, author of Code Complete.
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The difference is that the air traffic controllers didn't strike because Reagan told them to "use their instincts" to "feel" how to land a plan despite the physics involved.
There was a mass walkout of CDC employees today. What should happen to anyone paid by taxpayers who abandons their post?. Related: What would Reagan do?.
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That's not true. I thought the green lady on Star Trek was smokin' hot and I was 4 years old and had never seen porn. If everywhere you look, porn is the problem, maybe you guys have too much porn. Which is what I guess you were saying ;-)
If you see a certain kind of woman and find her sexually attractive, that is because your tastes were formed by pornography. If, however, you *do not* find that kind of woman attractive, that is *also* due to porn, which has desensitized you.
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Sadly, I am only autistic and not Two-Spirited. Too bad they don't have a DEI program for me.
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In college 30 years ago, IPV4 was full and doomed. I think hackers solved it with NAT while the scientists were navel-gazing about a bigger bit space.
Same here. As a passive observer, ~25 years ago I saw an invited speaker talk about standardizing IPV6. Since then, I keep assuming that "any day now" everything will be on IPV6, but it never seems to happen. Has the networking world just settled into a weird hybrid V4/V6 model?.
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I've NEVER gone into debt for hardware: Because my parents bought me a Commodore 64 when I was 13. I used it to write code and buy an Amiga, which I used to write code and buy a 286, which I used to get a job at Microsoft, and then I bought my first Cyrix 386DX40!. So, thanks
Do not go into debt for this shit.
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This has to be the most Canadian set of directions I've ever seen, and it's how to use a toilet:. "Please orient yourself to the facilities as required"
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Always curious and full of energy, Beagles turn every walk into an adventure 🐾🎉.
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"I took a few classes at the Y"
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A lawyer, a doctor, and an autistic computer programmer are discussing whether it’s better to have a wife or a mistress. The doctor says, “It’s better to have a wife. Stability in your personal life keeps you healthy.” . The lawyer says, “No, it’s better to have a mistress.
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What's stopping YOU from drawing tiny cubes on a tiny OLED?. Code.
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I thought I'd share a random prompt from this morning to show the type of thing I'm using VSCode+Copilot for (with GPT-5 and Claude 4). I wanted to abstract an intermediary class between two other classes and reuses the common parts, so:. "CurrentEffectSummaryPage and
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