Jeff L
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/why-the-left-cant-stand-the-new-york-times.php
I then walk back to my apartment, look at the front page of the New York Times for approximately five to eight seconds, and throw the whole thing in the garbage with contempt.
Jeff L
Me playing Untitled Goose Game
Jeff L
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190924-00/?p=102915
Mark Zbikowski led the MS-DOS 2.0 project, and he sat down with a stopwatch while Aaron Reynolds and Chris Peters tried to swap floppy disks on an IBM PC as fast as they could.
They couldn’t do it under two seconds.
So the MS-DOS cache validity was set to two seconds. If two disk accesses occurred within two seconds of each other, the second one would assume that the cached values were still good.
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