I'm so glad it's written in Rust! You know, for performance and safety and discussions at the coffee machine.
Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
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#22Ah 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.
I think I first encountered the boss key concept in Spectrum Holobyte's Tetris where hitting the ESC key would bring up an officious looking spreadsheet.
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#23My rule has always been very simple: If you are goofing off, don't hide it. The worst thing you can do if you work for me is think I am stupid and pretend you are working. I'd rather someone say "My head just isn't in it right now", which is honest and something that happens to all of us.
I understand the need to unplug every so often as much as anyone. There are days when my brain just isn't in sync with what I have to do. Pretending you are doing work is insulting.
BTW, I didn't come up with this idea. This rule was given to me by a former boss when he hired me. The idea stayed with me as I launched and ran my own businesses.
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#24> Implemented non-euclidean topology optimization for multi-dimensional data representation
Based on Google Scholar the best match is this article by researchers from Imperial College, London:
Tensor Networks for Multi-Modal Non-Euclidean Data:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14998
Looks like a very legit game changing and ground breaking work.
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#25The work is mysterious and important
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#26Isn’t it just smarter to clear your actual build folder and then rebuild it with a script? Bonus points if you limit resources to it so it takes ages? That way if they ever actually look closely, they’ll see it’s the REAL work you’re supposed to be doing that’s building, and you’ll never get in trouble
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#27Isn’t it just smarter to clear your actual build folder and then rebuild it with a script? Bonus points if you limit resources to it so it takes ages? That way if they ever actually look closely, they’ll see it’s the REAL work you’re supposed to be doing that’s building, and you’ll never get in trouble
If I was a boss and saw someone being busy building Rust all day I would offer a faster computer.
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#28I hope this was vibe-coded
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#29That 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…
Creative use case for a TSR :)
The classic "fun" TSR use-case was to make an app that installs an interrupt vector to decode mouse hardware "events" directly from the RS232 port before exiting via 0x21h, so that DOS screen would display a pointless "native" mouse cursor that doesn't do anything :)
When I say mouse cursor, I mean an ASCII block character with the blink bit on.
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#30That 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…
I recall playing an 80s-ish submarine (WW2?) game with a "spreadsheet mode".
Lots of old games have this, I played many MicroProse flight simulators and they all had it.