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by dardeaup 1y ago
I hope not! There are far too many idiots driving who don't pay attention. Certainly don't need to put them in the sky.
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by dardeaup 1y ago
Nice! I recently built an invoice generator (not open sourced) for my own needs. I built mine because I needed something when I discontinued a SaaS that had provided it. Mine is written in C# and uses a JSON file to define the contents of t
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by dardeaup 1y ago
They might be singing this song now. (To the tune of 'Yesterday' from the Beatles). Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly,
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by dardeaup 1y ago
They don't refuse to pick COBOL, they refuse to consider COBOL.
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by dardeaup 1y ago
Interesting! Can you elaborate?
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by dardeaup 1y ago
Hope you don't have expectations (over the long run) for high availability. At some point that server will come down (planned or unplanned).
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by dardeaup 1y ago
If you could wave a magic wand and suddenly all Unix systems (and variants such as Linux) could be instantly changed to suit your wishes, what would you wish for? For me, it would be: - removal of 'root' user and replaced wi
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by dardeaup 1y ago
I agree. I always cringe when I see a job posting where they're wanting to hire a "passionate" xxx engineer. I always think to myself, "no, you really don't. you want to hire a dispassionate engineer who is objectiv
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by dardeaup 1y ago
At what cost politically? I would expect political battles to be far more intense than any of the technical ones.
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by dardeaup 1y ago
Yes! The combination of fpc, LCL, and Lazarus running on Windows/macOS/Linux is a powerful combination.
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by dardeaup 1y ago
If you're thinking of hurricanes (and you may not be), the location is far enough away from the coast that they wouldn't be a significant problem.
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by dardeaup 1y ago
Maybe it was a personal goal?
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by dardeaup 1y ago
Correction - POWER architecture runs exclusively on 'i' and 'p' series. 'z' series is mainframe.
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by dardeaup 1y ago
No such thing as a POWER mainframe. IBM's POWER lines (i and p) are different from their mainframe line (z).
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by dardeaup 1y ago
This part is worth repeating: Be aware this equipment is not pleasant to be around (loud, hot)
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by dardeaup 1y ago
I had the same thought. A table indeed!
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by dardeaup 1y ago
Ouch!! Pascal's lack of popularity certainly isn't due to the fact that it supports such nice enumerated types (or sets for that matter). I think he was just pointing out that such nice things have existed (and been known to exist
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by dardeaup 1y ago
Sure there are but running older browsers is a security risk. The older it is the more vulnerable it is.
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by dardeaup 1y ago
Yeah, I think that JetBrains might be able to do some really cool stuff with Object Pascal. I don't know if they have the chops to take on cross-platform UI like what Lazarus did with LCL, but it would be awesome.
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by dardeaup 1y ago
It seems the CPS folks need to dial down their knee-jerk reactions a bit. Some people will still complain to them with both legitimate and non-legitimate claims. CPS folks need some training on knowing the difference.
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by dardeaup 1y ago
True! Unfortunately, an enterprise machine is more likely to have considerable power draw and quite possibly be much louder. I have a 2013 Apple Mac Pro (trashcan) that uses ECC. They're also cheap, small, and quiet.
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by dardeaup 1y ago
The published technical specs indicate that the maximum RAM is 16gb (2x 8gb). https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/pl-pl/products/thin-c... Have you tried it with 32gb? If so, was this 2x 16gb or 1x 32gb?
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by dardeaup 1y ago
Cool! Please add link to that page from your github project's main page.
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by dardeaup 1y ago
I hate when someone's software advertises itself as 'blazingly fast' and then provides NO DATA to back up the claim. It's possible that it really is blazingly fast, but to make the claim and provide no data is sad. In Go
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by dardeaup 1y ago
There were also MFM and RLL hard drives. I don't recall if they were pre-IDE or something different altogether. It's been a long time.
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by dardeaup 1y ago
What a cool idea! I'll join if my schedule allows. Thanks for doing this.
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by dardeaup 1y ago
It's not an either/or situation. I'm sure they would have BOTH pistols and rifles.
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by dardeaup 1y ago
I know that the pipeline pigs existed at least as far back as the early 90s (maybe even long before then).
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by dardeaup 1y ago
You read more into my comments than you should have. I'll expand on my points: 1) OSHA - I'm delighted and proud that we have OSHA! OSHA regulations have saved lives and prevented serious accidents/sicknesses and contin
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by dardeaup 1y ago
In my opinion, the following are additional factors that are often overlooked when discussing the competitiveness of USA manufacturing: 1) OSHA - if you have more than 10 employees, you're subject to OSHA regulations. Do other co

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