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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • BeBox had dual processors (unusual for the time) and the GUI had a little tool that let you see the load on both, and a little check box to turn off a processor so that you could force all the processes to run on on the other. If you turned off both processors the computer halted.

    The Be employee I met at the time said they left it that way because that’s what you told it to do. And it was funny.

    I always had to appreciate that commitment to pedantry.


  • And it was positive emotion. It was joy for getting the job and the “suck my dick” comment I read as “let me have this”. And I’m an old dude.

    Was it professional or a wise idea? No, but it’d like an astronaut on their first space walk saying “Holy fuck this is amazing.”