Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "David Bombal" channel.

  1. It's an ancient joke, the code never works right the first time. And wait for service pack 3 at a minimum. I'll not go into how many times I had to debug, just to find a primptf. Thankfully, modern editors highlight when I need to put my fingers on a diet.
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  2. I ran NT on an Alpha, don't recall the pinball bug, so probably the MIPS platform. Working on AXP platforms taught me a hell of a lot about the NT bootloader, which helped me fix odd boot problems other techs never could figure out. I do remember the _NSAkey nonsense, had to use that entry for certain crypto providers that were blessed by the DoD, hence the NSA and DISA. Another wonderful learning experience! I still give the occasional class on encryption implementation. Used task mangler tons of times, still usually relied upon pstools in the NT era, now, gotta go with powerhell. But then, starting with DOS, of course I'm a CLI guy, easier to script for. AI replacing programmers, not within any of our lifetimes. Too flaky still for complex tasks. I remember the same BS going on in the late '70's about assembly robots replacing all of the workers on assembly lines. Oddly, 50+ years later, the assembly plant parking lost are still full and I'm pretty sure industrial assembly, welding and paint robots aren't driving cars to and from work.
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