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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 months ago by umbraroze@piefed.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That'd be my parents who are dead and consequently not present, but thanks for bringing that up whilst completely stumping me with your eloquent, constructive and incisive counterargument that in no way proves my point.

[–] Phoeniqz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"back when people still were " is kinda the most boomer-ish thing you can say tho

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 0 points 2 months ago

Great. Then it's a good thing we were talking about critical thinking, not behavior - or reading comprehension.