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@davepl1968 Avatar @davepl1968 Dave W Plummer

Dave W Plummer posts on X about microsoft, $dave, tesla, exit the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 1860 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social category influence stocks technology brands automotive brands #3643 finance countries

Social topic influence microsoft #902, $dave #109, tesla #394, exit #310, all the, sony, age of, $6758t, rivian, shutdown

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @elonmusk @snazzylabs @marklucovsky @grok @charliekirk11 @geerlingguy @zacksjerryrig @theprimeagen @gunthereagleman @chatgpt @realdonaldtrump @fuckyouiquit @virtuallyfun @darrigomelanie @lertulo @throau @workemail270519 @rothmus @mrbeast @lexfridman

Top assets mentioned Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Dave Inc. Class A Common Stock (DAVE) Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) IBM (IBM)

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"If you can only learn two languages they should be: Python C++"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-27T02:23Z 93K followers, 541.8K engagements

"Offices at Microsoft in the 90s: For me it was the ideal environment. I had an interior (no window) office about 8x12 and a desk and a bookshelf and a halogen pole lamp for indirect lighting. I'd turn off the fluorescent lights. A MIPS box for dev and a couple of 386/486 class machines for testing and remoting. A NEC 4Fg if you were lucky enough to get one or a Sony Trinitron. When I didn't want to be disturbed I could put a "SEND EMAIL" sticker on my door and close it. But XX% of the time my door was open for anyone to wander in. And people did it was a very collaborative environment. I used"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-29T22:08Z 93K followers, 132.2K engagements

"The Rivian Halloween "Easter Egg" revealed"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-31T19:36Z 93K followers, 7824 engagements

"I experienced FSD XX for the first time today in our @Tesla Plaid. and was suitably amazed. Not at the driving really as v13 was good enough. But it drove my from inside my garage through a porte cocher and gate drove me to my destination and found a parking spot which it then parked in. On the way home it came to a T intersection in the parking lot that was backed up. Rather than wait it out it chose to BACK UP and drive parallel to the blockage and around it. Just like I would have. The only "tweak" I'd like to see is that it took a couple of passes to back out of my garage but it can be"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-30T00:28Z 93K followers, 35.4K engagements

"Some random speculation on the new "Task Manager Won't Exit" bug. but keep in mind I haven't seen the code in XX years. Below is the Task Manager code from circa XP (shared with permission): WM_CLOSE is handled conventionally it just calls DestroyWindows as you'd expect. However the Task Manager tray icon runs in its own thread so that it can never hang or block the UI but on shutdown the main thread waits for it to exit. I'd wager something is jammed with tray icons and Task Manager is dutifully waiting. That said it does seem I specified a wait timeout so if it were that it SHOULD exit"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-31T17:34Z 93K followers, 50.8K engagements

"@GavinNewsom I'm older than you so I remember when California was awesome"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-11-01T15:19Z 93K followers, 1846 engagements

"Quickly fixing other people's messes. That means when someone else's vital component has an issue and you've never seen it before you can parachute into the codebase figure it out brainstorm a fix on the whiteboard code it and get it working using whatever their dev stack is and commit the fix by 4PM. The corollary to this are people who "are waiting on an email back""
X Link @davepl1968 2025-11-01T19:00Z 93K followers, 27.4K engagements

"The PC that you actually want costs $3500 and always has"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-08-20T15:12Z 92.7K followers, 35.3K engagements

"Why the Web was Down Today - Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-20T21:43Z 92.8K followers, 54.2K engagements

"I still have my first car first calculator first computer and first wife I don't still have the sweater though"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-23T21:12Z 92.8K followers, 53.2K engagements

"When she says "no proof they were traffickers" it depends on what she means. Does she mean they don't HAVE the proof Or that they have not provided the proof to the public If they don't have the proof - ie: they're blowing up fisherman and hoping for the best then that's a crime. And I guess it'd be a war crime now. But do they have a duty to provide that proof to the public Seems less clear. It certainly wasn't true during the Cold War"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-26T16:52Z 92.8K followers, 21.3K engagements

"TIL that VAX stood for Virtual Address Extensions to the PDP-11. I'm slow but I get there eventually. (I was literally diagnosed with slow processing disorder which I think is hilarious for a programmer)"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-27T02:21Z 92.8K followers, 7364 engagements

"I'm so old I wrote that That's assuming it's the Windows version which is the one I worked on. The Win9x game art and original code were done by Maxis/Cinematronics. I ported it to Windows NT converted the x86 asm to C made it work on RISC and so on. Success has many fathers and all credit should really go to the original designers. I'm just the fun uncle that brought it to the masses"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-07-22T23:11Z 93K followers, 5M engagements

"The story of FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8. If you're not the type to pay for your software you probably know this key. What you might not know is that I worked on the first version of Windows Product Activation and this was our first major "hack". And yet it wasn't a 'hack' at all - it was a disastrous leak. The FCKGW key was a valid volume licensing key so all you needed was special volume media to go with it. Eventually they were bundled and put online by pirates. WPA worked by generating a hardware ID from your CPU RAM and other components then sending it to Microsoft alongside your"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-08T15:56Z 93K followers, 1.1M engagements

"I've always enjoyed watching machines at work and it's the reason I wrote Task Manager which was really born out of watching the output of ps -ax on UNIX. I've watched a full disk defrag more than once and a full wash cycle on our new machines to see how they work. But that's an autism thing As a result I've always built task-manager-style displays for any interesting systems I'm coding on. Sometimes I bust out ncurses and get fancy sometimes it's just tabular but I feel like I need the "connection" to the running system to really grok what's going on inside. XXX years ago I'd likely be fully"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-21T17:29Z 93K followers, 29.2K engagements

"Anyone in the greater Seattle region able to service a DEC H7140 Power Supply from a PDP-11/24 There must be one retired DEC field engineer in the area who still wants to taste the sweet ozone of the 300V rail. Not me I'm a software guy :-)"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-11-01T18:25Z 93K followers, 24.4K engagements

"Power's out so my 72000W @Generac standby generator has kicked in. on all three 200A transfer panels. Yes I am completely flexing the electrical needs of my vintage computers :-) I should likely powerwash this thing sorry about that"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-11-01T18:39Z 93K followers, 174.1K engagements

"@katanga_uranium @Generac"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-11-01T20:36Z 93K followers, 4183 engagements

"M1 MAX Macbook is still my daily driver since new"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-11-02T15:38Z 93K followers, 50.2K engagements

"What's stopping you from gaming like this"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-02-26T19:18Z 92.9K followers, 23.3K engagements

"Yes. yes I did. Commodore XX and a 13" Zenith TV. I wonder how many countries on that globe no longer exist"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-08-05T00:46Z 92.9K followers, 19.2K engagements

"Another day in paradise"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-22T21:22Z 92.9K followers, 245.3K engagements

"Yeah they're doomed"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-25T23:08Z 92.8K followers, 57.9K engagements

"In Python: print(" "*int((math.sin(i/2)+1)*4)+"really") for i in range(20)"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-27T20:32Z 92.9K followers, 40.9K engagements

"@WholeMarsBlog They did I saw a whole thing at the White House where Mary Barra invented the electric car right on stage"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-31T14:50Z 92.9K followers, XXX engagements

"I was XX before I owned a car that cost this much"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-09-05T19:53Z 93K followers, 5.5M engagements

"I tend to agree. I've offered every self-proclaimed financial advisor the same deal - a fair cut of the amount by which your returns exceed that of the S&P500. No one will take that deal"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-23T04:09Z 93K followers, 55.1K engagements

"BOTH sides need to recognize this truth: Like skill luck is necessary but not sufficient for success"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-29T18:29Z 93K followers, 18.1K engagements

"That's where I want to work. a big silent room with XX people all quietly whispering. I'd last about XX minutes"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-29T19:00Z 93K followers, 53.4K engagements

""I'm so old I wrote that" MS-DOS Edition: MS-DOS has now been open-sourced so I build it burn it boot it and demo it And a little Microsoft history along the way"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-29T21:45Z 93K followers, 55.9K engagements

"Three levels of life success: 1) Knows what this is 2) Ran the thing in school 3) Actually knows how the Fresnel lens works"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-29T22:24Z 93K followers, 21.6K engagements

"UNIX at Midnight"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-29T23:41Z 93K followers, 8418 engagements

"Behold 600MB of raw storage - the DEC RA82 I got it mounted on rails in the rack thanks to an Amazon hydraulic lift table. Now I've got to store the table but it was super-handy There are two cross-braces in this rack that I had to work around hence the gaps. I'm going to get black acrylic pieces cut to fill the gaps as my odds of finding DEC filler panels of that size are pretty low :-)"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-30T17:53Z 93K followers, 21.4K engagements

"A little video of the PDP-11/83 booted from the RA82"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-30T22:53Z 93K followers, 30.9K engagements

"I picked up a PDP-11/24 on eBay. hoping to upgrade it to a J11 CPU so that I can run 211BSD UNIX on it Then to find a Unibus network card storage. etc. If anyone has any Unibus stuff they want to part with let me know"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-31T17:48Z 93K followers, 16.5K engagements

"Why is this man smiling Because his initials 'MZ' are the first two bytes of every PE header since MS-DOS X. Mark Zbikowski"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-11-01T20:47Z 93K followers, 81.1K engagements

"I noted the AC level seemed to be surging a bit so I investigated. In addition to the normal load I found my wife cooking dinner in the oven while drying clothes in two dryers. and charging her Tesla at XX amps It actually has an interrupter to cut the Tesla charger if the generator load ever becomes too much but it must have been right on the ragged edge I set the car down to 30A and all seems well"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-11-02T00:11Z 93K followers, 42.7K engagements

"That's why I kept my old BMW. It all ended circa 2003"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-11-02T17:41Z 93K followers, 27.9K engagements

"@RonFilipkowski If he'd said Sudan instead of Nigeria you'd support it. If you still read the news that is"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-11-02T17:42Z 93K followers, 1943 engagements

"I've been married XX years. When we got married we agreed that as the husband I would make all the big decisions and my wife would make all the small decisions. It's worked out great I'm just surprised there have never been any big decisions"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-07-23T18:39Z 93K followers, 8.5M engagements

"Bonus points if you can name the top one"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-09-21T22:41Z 93K followers, 60.3K engagements

"The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-13T01:11Z 93K followers, 11.5K engagements

"I'll go you one better. There's video of Picasso painting"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-27T21:41Z 93K followers, 27.4K engagements

"Yahoo has been my home page ever since 1994. Still is. Now granted no one uses a home page anyway but when I do. it's Yahoo :-)"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-28T15:04Z 93K followers, 19.4K engagements

"I worked out the logic but I'm pretty sure there's a short"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-29T18:56Z 93K followers, 7862 engagements

"@00Core00 You bet In my 11/34 I've got an Emulex UC17 SCSI controller connected to a ZULUSCSI emulator. My 11/73 has a similar controller a 3GB SCSI drive and a SCSI JAZ drive"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-31T19:40Z 93K followers, XXX engagements

"@runews Who buys their girlfriend a car Even my wife buys her own cars"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-31T17:46Z 93K followers, 14.3K engagements

"I don't know who needs to hear this but you don't need a Microsoft account to run Windows. You do need a Microsoft burner account to set up the FIRST account during setup same as MacOS. After that set up all the local accounts you like. It's what I do. Total time delta: X minutes"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-07T14:53Z 93K followers, 816.2K engagements

"Things that still worked during the AWS outage: - My Unifi networking and DNS - Starlink and Fiber - My email - My Linux servers - My Windows desktops - My puffy mattress - My PDP-11 and VAX"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-22T15:57Z 93K followers, 67.1K engagements

"I managed to get a DEC RA82 the giant 14-inch 3600 howler of a hard drive connected to my PDP-11/73 formatted and partitioned under 211BSD UNIX. Every time I think "I should write this down but nah." and have to figure it out from scratch"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-29T18:24Z 93K followers, 5441 engagements

"Tiny hands good for cleaning tires"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-29T22:12Z 93K followers, 32.4K engagements

"A word is NOT two bytes: A word is any processor design's natural unit of data. A word was two bytes on YOUR system long ago"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-30T14:42Z 93K followers, 73.4K engagements

"Code so good it refuses to die Unlike the T-800 though the task manager can self-terminate worst case"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-30T17:03Z 93K followers, 31.6K engagements

"I'm so old I watched Richard write Scandisk I was an intern at Microsoft in '93 in MS-DOS and while I was working away on Smartdrv and so on @lertulo was an intern writing scandisk in the office next door. And yes it surprised me too that as interns we were working on actual important shipping features but I think most of the senior devs were embroiled in rewriting DoubleSpace to avoid the Stacker patent at the time. In any event as I recall it Richard wrote the whole Scandisk app in pure x86 assembly including his own screen UI widgets progress bars and all of that. Oddly there were no"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-10-31T16:56Z 93K followers, 123.3K engagements

"What programming languages have you learned along the way that are now obsolete For me it's Ada Prolog VBScript. and maybe REXX if you count that"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-11-01T18:47Z 93K followers, 142.4K engagements

"@ZacksJerryRig Your rage has blinded you to the fact that those are brushed nickel taps. But thanks for playing"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-11-01T18:52Z 93K followers, XXX engagements

"Meanwhile on the 6502 the SED instruction enables decimal mode and instructs the ALU to do BCD (packed-decimal) mode math natively"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-11-01T18:55Z 93K followers, 24.2K engagements

"Behold my 200-pound hard drive The sights and sounds of booting UNIX from a monster 14" 3600RPM disk"
X Link @davepl1968 2025-11-02T21:56Z 93K followers, 11.3K engagements