David Uivid

// Diversity is essential to happiness

// Gather ye rosebuds while ye may

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was.

We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI.

I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on.

Then I busted out VC++2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.

That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in "temporary" solutions!

I also had to decide how much "cluster slack" would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect.

So remember... there are no "temporary" checkins :)

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[David Uivid @DavidUivid]

Probably the original science fiction material

https://t.co/KZeoiMxGlb

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On the contrary, humans have a “negativity bias,” an evolved tendency to focus more on adverse events than on positive ones. So to practice and reinforce gratitude means working against our natural impulses—much like getting off the couch and lifting weights.

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Interesting view, defining gratitude as a combination of recognizing goodness outside ourselves—in people, in nature, in the divine—and affirming it to ourselves and others.

https://t.co/CKtoX8stNC

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The more we learn about the human mind, the more we realize that we're not optimized for truth, we're optimized for self-preservation.

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Many papers make the mistake of "autocorrelation" by suggesting that there is a correlation between two phenomena, but it is autocorrelation, that is, a variable is related to itself.

https://t.co/HkFiiEjaNJ

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Flow state

https://t.co/J4ZScpz4Xq

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Opinion | Companies That Can’t Make Money
https://t.co/HlIE0A6fwx

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State of AI Report 2023 is released

I came across this report site last year and felt it was worth reading.

https://t.co/gLhVPvEW7s

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Long-term commitment can greatly increase the mate value of men, and it has also been good for men throughout evolutionary history, and men have also obtained exclusive sexual encounters. The strategy of casting a wide net has evolved a strategy of single-mindedness.

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"When we are in love, we are hypnotized by the feeling of love; when we are not in love, we are occupied by the fantasy of love."
Modern society either prejudices men and women as separate species, or leans toward Beauvoir's idea that women are made.

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It's interesting to understand "drought to death, flood to death" from a signaling perspective. Men surrounded by beautiful women are more attractive to other women. It's like a place with a lot of queues attracts more people to line up haha.

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I don't know what happiness is, except for scientific research.
I don't seem to know what to do, but scientific research is not something I like.
I seem to be set up with a program.
I am not interested in anything, and I can't say what it feels like.

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enjoy the inspiration and find the beauty from wretchedness

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Kindness is refusing to harm others and others, it is both love and non-attack, it is not to speculate on others with malice, it is cherishing, it is empathy and understanding, and it is also the unity of knowledge and action.

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When I lost, I realized how precious kindness is.

Kindness between people is so hard-won that only by tasting the pain of losing a close friend can you understand that it is good to follow.
Kindness may be the most genuine hope and belief.