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Atomic Accidents By James Maheffey. Witty author who worked in the field. Extremely entertaining highly recommended.

“When the going gets weird,the weird turn pro.” Surprised I didn’t find this quote from Hunter S Thompson in the comments yet.

TLDR

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — Carl Jung

Was at an event he was at CSUN ~1978. We were in the parking lot coming in and he was just coming out. He stopped and talked to us for a while. Super nice guy. My impression is he is exactly the same as he is on the air all the time.

V7 Unix Kernel. By far the cleanest most concise code I’ve had had the privilege to work with. Really laid the groundwork for what came after particularly BSD4.3 and beyond.

Dirty Keto!

Summary of the diet used in the study via ChatGPT4:

IF-P Diet Instructions:

Protein Pacing Days:

• Women: 4 meals/day; Men: 5 meals/day.

• Meals: 2 shakes (breakfast + one), 1 whole food dinner, 1 afternoon snack (men only), 1 evening protein snack.

• Calories: Women: 1350–1500/day; Men: 1700–1850/day.

• Macros: 35% carbs, 30% fat, 35% protein.

• Fiber: 20–30 g/day.

Intermittent Fasting Days:

• Calories: 350–550/day.

• Fasting Duration: 36–60 hours with supplements and snacks.

Protein Intake:

• Each Shake: 30–36 g protein, 9 g fiber.

• Evening Snack: 200–250 kcals.

“It’s time to feed the alien”

No, not at all. His job was just to fix crashes. He would go through the logs and they just all happened mostly be porn sites. We used to joke that his job was to visit porn sites, but it was among a small group of developers. I wasn’t even sure of his direct manager was aware. But he was in fact being paid by Microsoft to visit porn sites :-)

Not that I’m aware of. It was a nice code base, but all very custom. Even the network stack was custom. I would think companies could get a lot more adopting all the open stuff available now.

It did have a life for several years after I left in MSNTV. Maybe someone else here knows its fate.

I worked at WebTV after it was acquired by Microsoft. My officemate was a dev that fixed browser crashes on the box. 90% of them were for porn sites. Which meant that he was paid by Microsoft to visit porn sites all day

My favorite was Taco Bell putting a 10’ x 10’ box off the coast of Australia and running an ad saying if Skylab hits it, everyone in the US gets a free taco.