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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Kids weren't required, and very few did, it was a routine launch by then. Everyone saw it on replay and internalized it as a "I was there" moment for some reason.
Gen X was badass. In 1986, school children across the nation were required to watch the launch of the space shuttle Challenger. 90 seconds later, it exploded. A teacher was one of the dead. Children didn't get counseling. School didn't close. Kids just went to their
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You know the drill... I'm so old I worked on the Windows Run dialog! We adapted the Win95 version's UI and then tweaked the way it ran. There were a number of interesting problems with the original once we had it running on NT. Some of that stemmed from the shell having been
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Soccer is for floppers, football is played by men.
Football is an English Sport. Made in England. It’s called Football. Every single nation in the world calls it football. Except America. Why the fuck would you call it Soccer for you absolute fucking half bread Neanderthal.
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Cool tool, but bad process. You have no idea how much I paid specifically to never have lap joints in this car! Butt-welded for the win.
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You can skim 7000 email previews a day, but at the end of the day, all you did was skim a bunch of email. Maybe have a trusted lieutenant figure out which 70 you should actually invest attention in. That said, he's doing better than me, so WTF do I know?
$NVDA ceo claims he reads several thousand emails a day. If he spends just 10 seconds on each email. That’s 8 hours.
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Cars used to have the notion of a City horn and a Country horn. The city horn went "meep!" and the country horn went "BLAARRRRRRG!" In town, at the red light, you go "meep!". When cut off in traffic, you go "BLAARRRRGGG!"
Cars should have two horns, one for “excuse me, kind friend,” and another for “curse you and your family for generations.”
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Shoutout to the kids who did all their school reports from the free sample "A" volume from the grocery store.
When I was 12 years old, this is what the internet looked like.
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The catch is he has 100X the staff of my channel, so he has to do 100X the revenue; that's a big ask even with 100 people.
The Linus Tech Tips channel has earned around $26 million from YouTube ads over its lifetime Creator Linus Sebastian also added that the ad revenue only makes up about 10% of the company's earnings
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"I heard you the first time"
What's the worst reply to "I love you"?
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I was basking in my X creator earnigs report today when I realized that it's approximately the same amount I used to make at 7-Eleven. X is about the same number of drunks, but fewer armed robberies.
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192-core CPUs, modern phones that fit in your pocket and outclass a 00s supercomputer, solid-state drives that don’t die every time you sneeze on a hard disk, commercial jet engines that are quieter, safer, and burn less fuel per passenger-mile than ever, MRIs and CT scanners
It's an empirical fact that basically everything in our day to day lives has gotten worse over the years. The quality of everything -- food, clothing, entertainment, air travel, roads, traffic, infrastructure, housing, etc -- has declined in observable ways. Even newer inventions
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I keep getting ads for "Turn your dog into art" for several hundred dollars. So I did. One prompt! Nano Banana 3. And I think my dog's better looking :-)
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Sounds like you're just getting started! https://t.co/sDhcHgSO25
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A successful and optimistic Autistic Multimillionaire chronicles his journey with Autism and reflects on how the disorder has helped and hindered him as he went from high school dropout to successful...
I’m 36 years old: - No boyfriend - No kids - No house - No savings - Left law school for crypto - Lost all my money in crypto - 5'7, 58kg - Antisocial - Live with my parents Be honest.. Is it over for me??
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The glee with which small-minded people can now exclaim "retard" amuses me. They are celebrating an anti-woke victory, and I get that. But they are also saying, "I know the term 'retard' is an epithet for mental retardation, but we've been forced to speak so carefully for so
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CAFE standards did not apply to light-duty trucks, which is why trucks and SUVs could get larger while cars got smaller. Absent CAFE standards, consumers will be free to select the vehicles they actually want, and that will shape available products. Maybe we'll all drive
This is misreporting. The CAFE standards being cut are what (unintentionally) made vehicles massive. As written, emissions standards are pegged to footprint (base x track). Under these regs, manufacturers made vehicles huge to hit easier standards.
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The hotel-portable bidet...
@davepl1968 I really, really wish the hotel chains would at least install a cold water after market bidet attachment. After having those on all of the toilets in the house anything less is a real let down.
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I've got a dollar says you likely couldn't even figure out how to key the radio on a useful channel...
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I know you're just trolling, but seriously... whoever told you that you were entitled to inherit some bounty just for coming along in chronological order? It's like a middle child whining that the firstborn soaked up all the love.
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