Frummy

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by Frummy 4y ago
It basically is extremely reliable and deterministic. Mainframes just work and stay up indefinitely. If you want to do a tax report or send out scheduled mails on 5 000 000 accounts, cobol is the right tool for that sort of job. Just shuffl
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by Frummy 4y ago
As someone living in Sweden, for me getting as much sunlight as possible and taking 5000 IU vitamin D per day is pretty good at staving off the bad aspects of winter. Some short meditation sessions here and there gives me the clarity to avo
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by Frummy 4y ago
Where can I buy infected cat feces? Maybe when aliens visit us they will say, no, step aside humans, we are here to talk to the true leaders of the planet. Bring out your microscopes.
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by Frummy 4y ago
Use your bank
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by Frummy 4y ago
Identity is not the self
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by Frummy 4y ago
Well, that’s assumptive. People will naturally work in whatever manner suits them best. Some kids study alone some kids study in groups.
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by Frummy 4y ago
For a genius, yes. For most people it is important to get help and cooperate a lot. Also notable is that this reads differently after controversy surrounding James Watson
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by Frummy 4y ago
When I worked with loans for a middleman type of digital service, it was impossible to provide help to people with protected data. Nothing is visible when you take a credit report, so we couldn't do more after that. The consumers in qu
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by Frummy 4y ago
Well, if you stand on really strong foundations, you can picture everything that happens in your minds eye. It’s algebra with a geometric twist. Simplest example I can think of now is intersections of planes as solution spaces, thats the pi
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by Frummy 4y ago
Maybe you would love linear algebra?
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by Frummy 4y ago
Cool, thanks! They did mention that they have a branch in New York, so L-1 will be my path.
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by Frummy 4y ago
As a young cobol developer for a bank in sweden, how could I live and work in the US?
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by Frummy 4y ago
If this was an interesting read, the book The First Electronic Computer: The Atanasoff Story goes into tremendous detail and depth.
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Atanasoff–Berry Computer(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Frummy 4y ago
I agree. They pursue maximum preservation of power, local optimization at the detriment of their people.
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by Frummy 4y ago
As is rational, I hate to say it, but western countries being the enemy in their eyes would make any gift seem like a potential trojan horse, I can see why they would avoid any such risk.
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by Frummy 4y ago
He's moving it from working memory to long term memory :D
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by Frummy 4y ago
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse, it shows this life lived for pure intellectual values and compares it to living for the world via two individuals and an academic institution partly isolated from the rest of society. The short stories a
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by Frummy 4y ago
It was extremely spread out timewise but otherwise very tolerant and pleasant. More potential based than experience based. I applied in like april, got a writing question and a coding question split in two parts in may (cobol snippet, loop
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by Frummy 4y ago
Yes, I've learned SQL to an introductory level. I have trouble with different joins and so on, but I haven't spent much time on it. Only studied it in the beginning of the year because I thought I could get a T-SQL job. It's
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by Frummy 4y ago
I'm 23 and finished my second day at a COBOL traineeship at a bank. 2 months of paid education then work. Really fun
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by Frummy 4y ago
So how do you learn with that goal in mind? And how do you know in advance what the cultural demands are?
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by Frummy 4y ago
Can't read, background image covers 95% of the text.
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by Frummy 4y ago
Meditating for 4 hours a day is one thing, but failing in the real world shows all the folly with thinking oneself superior for not needing to partake in the game. If you can't play it you're not above it
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by Frummy 4y ago
I remember some military study concluding that there is no replacement for time spent asleep. If there's a time debt, the only cure is to repay the time debt, no shortcuts.
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by Frummy 4y ago
And I can't wait to see the creations where the artists incorporate AI, using it as proficiently as the brush. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk5EJd7S2uA Look at this example, it's just beginning.
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by Frummy 4y ago
I agree. When the tools become more advanced, effort can be liberated toward more creativity.
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by Frummy 4y ago
I posted a bunch of minute long math solution videos to tiktok while improving an old admission test score. Some of them caught on and the most popular has 16k views. Slightly tempted to continue, but I find myself pouring my energy elsewhe
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by Frummy 5y ago
So I think it's wrong of the author to flame other people publicly. I really denounce that. I shouldn't have gone for the jugular, using a word for a real illness. I apologise for that. That was wrong. The reason I wrote that was
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by Frummy 5y ago
Good angle. I'm just projecting my own experiences. I feel that I have a lot in common with him.

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