Ah yes.. The good old "boss key".
I first discovered this in a sierra quest game and as a kid didn't know what it meant. I found out only years later.
Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
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#12One could also do a "make world" on an entire FreeBSD system, if you want a lot of stuff scrolling past the screen.
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#13That reminded me: Back in the early '90s, I wrote an MS-DOS TSR ( Terminate and Stay Resident ) "boss key" program. It would bring up a fake TurboC compilation screen whenever I pressed a key - just in case my boss walked in while I was playing a game. (The tricky part was restoring the graphics state back to normal, but that's another story.) My boss wasn’t stupid. After a few close calls, he started asking why my c…
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Because of lack of a sense of humor?
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#15Amazing! Finally, the design of Rust is being used not only for interviews but also for bureaucratic reports, which is what it was designed for. Now, the bureaucracy within the team has improved and the bosses will be very pleased. A very useful tool.
I had an experience where a team of Rust juniors did whatever they wanted in a separate chat and the CTO, PM and I (Lead) had no idea what was going on. This tool would have helped. Now, I’ll focus on the code review to see how Rust's safety helped solve this issue. I think this will be a topic for a great new article about the power of Rust.
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When +10-15% of work force is laid off it’s not due to boss key, but idiot bosses who don’t think ahead.
But on the other side Boss key do happen due to demoralized workers realize they are working for idiot bosses making bad decisions or being shitty leaders.
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#17Would be fun to plug this up to an LLM and see how absolutely unhinged it lets itself go over long runs.
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#18"Fork the repo (whatever that means)" I lol'd
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#19That reminded me: Back in the early '90s, I wrote an MS-DOS TSR ( Terminate and Stay Resident ) "boss key" program. It would bring up a fake TurboC compilation screen whenever I pressed a key - just in case my boss walked in while I was playing a game. (The tricky part was restoring the graphics state back to normal, but that's another story.) My boss wasn’t stupid. After a few close calls, he started asking why my c…
So, yeah, yes he was.
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#20Just installed this. Very amusing.
I think on a glance it looks more realistic than those so-called "hacker terminal/screen/whatever"
:D