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Cake day: October 15th, 2023

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  • There’s a little historical baggage, but look at Windows: multiple letters for drives, and all of the paths can be modified, so you have to ask Windows where any important directory is physically mapped (like SystemRoot or Documents or Temp or Roaming AppData or many others), because it doesn’t have this nice consistent structure like Linux. Linux presents a logical layer and manages the physical location automatically. Windows makes you do the logical lookup yourself, but doesn’t enforce it, so inexperienced programmers make assumptions and put stuff where the path usually is.

    That’s part of why logging in to Windows over a slow connection can take forever if you have a bunch of Electron apps installed: they’ve mismapped their temp/cache directory under the Roaming AppData, so it gets synched at every login, often GiB of data, and they refuse to fix it.







  • He took a series of very shallow breaths, and then said as quickly and as quietly as he could, ‘Door, if you can hear me, say so very, very quietly.’

    Very, very quietly, the door murmured, ‘I can hear you.’

    ‘Good. Now, in a moment, I’m going to ask you to open. When you open do not want you to say that you enjoyed it, OK?’

    ‘ΟΚ.’

    ‘And I don’t want you to say to me that I have made a simple door very happy, or that it is your pleasure to open for me and your satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done, OK?’

    ‘ΟΚ.’

    'And do not want you to ask me to have a nice day, understand?"

    ‘I understand.’

    ‘OK,’ said Zaphod, tensing himself, ‘open now.’

    The door slid open quietly. Zaphod slipped quietly through. The door closed quietly behind him.

    ‘Is that the way you like it, Mr Beeblebrox?’ said the door out loud.

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