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by Zenst 3y ago
"Compliance-wise, it passed 97% of COBOL 85 conformance tests, a success rate not yet achieved by proprietary vendors, Sobisch boasted." Thinking about that if you step back is amazing, to think a standard written in 1985 (I was d
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by Zenst 3y ago
The punched card reference is most apt for COBOL, reason being the formatting and those limits dictated the column restrictions - hence COBOL historically had 80 columns max, and code sure does legacy when it's that mature.
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by Zenst 3y ago
My thoughts as well, though I suspect it will be a standard as no bring your own option or mention of that mooted.
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by Zenst 3y ago
It is somewhat crazy that the shift to a touch screen, which for some, is hard to use and for all, lacks tactile feedback. You can't beat a button or a dial-in in that respect or even replicate that fully on the limitations of a touch
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by Zenst 3y ago
Impressive and reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Desktop_System
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by Zenst 3y ago
A good read is a good read - whoever writes it. Whole issue of fake media and that, well, look at social media over the years, I doubt it will make much difference than what we have already. People over time, learn what to trust and who to
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by Zenst 3y ago
Wow, I pay £1.50 currently, which is paid nicely via google rewards every month for a year, ticks along nicely. A £18.99/month bolt-on, nope, if couple quid, sure, but just priced out and what I would call top-end whale marketing pric
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by Zenst 3y ago
Oh I had that, just stitched up with salary advance instead of expense advance.
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by Zenst 3y ago
I can vouch for that advice and equally double check. My story - I worked for a Canadian company Blackberry in the UK and they wanted me to go to the Seattle office for few weeks. I said I couldn't afford to be covering expenses and m
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by Zenst 3y ago
I've followed the instructions and understand that they may seem overwhelming for some users. Instead of using command line methods, I opted for Windows Disk Management to shrink the drive's partitions and create the necessary spa
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by Zenst 3y ago
Read it, I'm living one of his greatest unwritten novels that Black Mirror episodes seem more like documentaries than they should.
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by Zenst 3y ago
Think I did poke them a couple of years ago, never heard back. Oh well, way more evidence now and have it somewhat in-hand. Just so slow going thru the process and even then, getting evidence together and data requests and the level of fa
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by Zenst 3y ago
I can believe this as going thru something along the same lines with my housing association and met police, and it is shocking how many people who focus upon being seen to do a job and lie to cover up their mistakes have grown over the past
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by Zenst 3y ago
The sounds produced remind me so very much of early Human League, with the track - The Dignity Of Labour pts 1-4(1979), with parts 2 and 4 sticking out more in the deja vue. https://youtu.be/Yfh8zsF5308?si=PlYXLZb3Jqks7U_Y
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by Zenst 3y ago
Probably, even cite this post on HN as well and go for the double - reference it and guarantee be some YT vids as well that go into this era of history.
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by Zenst 3y ago
Like the times of early dialup modems you could tell what was going on by the sound of modem, then came cable as things got faster. You would know your computer so well from that extra feedback from disc lights, noise of the disc head movi
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by Zenst 3y ago
We are also happy to use open source, yet what open source alternatives are there for news that don't get shot down by the media or besmirched?
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by Zenst 3y ago
Like ASIC Botcoin miners did. There are parallels here in how it might just pan out.
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by Zenst 3y ago
Only one certainty, HBM memory makers will be doing nicely in the current climate as all these AI processing options are using it in larger and larger volumes. Those will be the unnoticed winners in this rush.
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by Zenst 3y ago
Had a stint myself and cleaned those Taylor shake machines, takes time as have to disassembler the entire chamber - lots of sharp blades and not many trusted to do it right. Let alone checking all the O-rings, which you often need spares a
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by Zenst 3y ago
The whole "think of the children" excuse wears after a while when you ponder - what about the adults, weaker encryption leaves them vulnerable to hackers/scammers..etc. But the whole aspect of weaker encryption is a risk to
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by Zenst 3y ago
The whole automation and overzealous less leeway/common sense interpretations have as we have seen, many an automated traffic/parking ticket come into question. Applying that to many walks of life, say farming, could well see chao
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by Zenst 3y ago
A tougher question as so many factors that I hope Asianometry on YouTube cover one day. Whilst the RISC-V instruction set is free from licence/patent fees, the design of those chips will be made by a company that will need to recov
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by Zenst 3y ago
It always fascinates me the inner core of our planet, after all it is from what we know a swilling mass of hot melting metal and other elements. Which is ever so slowly cooling at a size and scale we find hard to imagine. Are their events
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by Zenst 3y ago
That's shocking and also lucky. Had that neighbour not overheard or intervened, you would have had a known paedophile using a computer that could be tracked to you via sales used for a crime that the police would have acted upon and c
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by Zenst 3y ago
I wonder if it did predict a crime, would it change how they act? Would they trust it, or would hubris prevail? I personally have predicted crimes to the police and been futile, and they happened. Even had a police complaint upheld ov
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by Zenst 3y ago
Democracy is not a binary question. Is limited choice democracy? But democracy today is reduced to a limited choice with limited input of just a simple X in a box of those limited choices once every so many years/decades/lifetime.
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by Zenst 3y ago
The UK always wanted to carry on as partnership in many things including the Horizon, alas red-tape of the `brexit` deal saw the whole Ireland border customs handling becoming a sticking point that saw lots of things put on ice. So not a ca
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by Zenst 3y ago
https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en That one, had link for me.
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by Zenst 3y ago
So they postulate how the moon will in 1000 years become stationary in orbit due to the tidal energy extraction as to why tidal energy is not renewable. Sorry but I'd need a few more than one institution to be backing this. Otherwis

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