Ron Luhtanen

[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 :)

Follow me for more random code musings!

[Herrasmieshakkerit @hakkerit]

Henkilötunnuksen käyttö tunnistusvälineenä pitäisi tehdä laittomaksi.

Tämä on tärkeä aihe ja haluamme tukea siihen liittyvää kansalaisaloitetta 👉https://t.co/56dlw1uSPQ

T. 🎩👨‍💻

[Jack Hessel @jmhessel]

> "AI works like the brain!"

Ahh, yes, I fondly remember my intro to linguistics class, wherein I read all of English wikipedia thousands of times until convergence, and then could finally construct better-than-random parse trees.

[KT @koczkatamas]

LOL it turned out that Google's CTF team won Facebook's CTF (by solving ALL the challenges btw)!!

And now they are trolling the #fbctf scoreboard by redirecting users to their Google CTF website...

(We finished 5th btw by solving 27/33 challenges.)

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Today's the day!!! Watch OpenAI Five Finals here, starting 11:30a PT: https://t.co/IDxWTCVd7D. This event will be the first time an AI has attempted to play the world champions in an esports game — and that won't be all we show today.

https://t.co/jLLPixhlnz

[Ron Luhtanen @RonLuhtanen]

Nice writeup about DeepMinds starcraft AI: https://t.co/OSylSMbYXD

[Simon Carless @simoncarless]

The entire history of video games by platform, visualized by @MobyGames, Jan. 2019 version: https://t.co/T16zXPJeat

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Using Internet Explorer in 2019

[Richard Cook @rr_cook]

@vboykis @josh_wills

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Space Shuttle thermal tiles were such poor heat conductors that you could grab them by their edges seconds after being in a 2200°C oven https://t.co/6xTDGO1xgp

[Ron Luhtanen @RonLuhtanen]

@kauhaniemi @RuotsalainenH Onkohan viikko- ja päivätaso mennyt sekaisin, jos mobiilia käytetään 3 h 26 min viikossa?

[Mustafa Al-Bassam @musalbas]

Quick phishing demo. Would you fall for something like this?

[🔎Julia Evans🔍 @b0rk]

a few bash tricks

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

"My AMD driver crashed" will have a whole new meaning. https://t.co/ZMYXH045HF

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Unreported by the major newspapers fretting over diplomats, Russia's gov just limited its citizens right to read: https://t.co/5MGcmw4Ung

[Ron Luhtanen @RonLuhtanen]

Whoops https://t.co/jrJ3kB0P9z

[Mike Rundle @flyosity]

44K ETH worth ~$9M stolen because a wallet init method had the wrong scope. Here's the commit that fixed the bug. Welcome to the future.

[AB @SamBehnam]

A perfect date!