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by lokedhs 7y ago
Thanks for the information. I assume actual mainframe developers do these things. But can you do that from the environment provided to me you by master the mainframe? On the MVS 3.8j side, I can submit a job directly via the virtual card re
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by lokedhs 7y ago
You can actually ssh into it and use vi. That's probably the easiest way to do it. However, the edit-compile-test cycle is somewhat complicated. You need to first edit the file, fine, you can use vi. Then you need to go into ISPF (or T
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Just because you can stay airborne indefinitely doesn't mean that you're not going to ever land.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I agree. I have attempts to learn COBOL on a few occasions, but it's always stopped by the fact that there are, as far as I can tell, only three ways to do it without investing sometimes insurmountable amounts of money: The first is GN
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by lokedhs 7y ago
That makes it somewhat more bearable, but the style ends up being terrible anyway with no paragraphs longer than what can fit in a single message.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I'm in Singapore, and I can assure you that although we're not locked down, no one wants this to last longer than it has to.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
During the pandemic, yes. Not so much after. I live in S.E. Asia and have been to a large number of countries in Asia, and I can't say I've seen extensive mask usage anywhere except for Japan. Of course, it's much more common
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by lokedhs 7y ago
How is Switzerland part of the core of the EU when they're not a member of the EU?
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by lokedhs 7y ago
You raise an interesting point, and one that I have thought about quite often. In archaeology, there seems to be an assumption that people in the past only ever did things for two reasons: Utility and religion. If an object doesn't see
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Yes, and 2000 years before that you have the Egyptians, who also had metal swords. Wikipedia tells me that the earliest artifacts of metal comes from 7000 years ago.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Isn't this test developed in Singapore that? It's apparently detecting the virus genetic materials in 5 minutes? https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/singapore-scie...
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I'm taking this opportunity to post a video I made some time ago of my current work-in-progress, a new user interface to Maxima. It's more like a regular commandline compared to wxMaxima, which may or may not be what users want.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
With fewer trains, wouldn't that lead to more overcrowding?
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Singapore is doing the same. At first I thought their response was a bit excessive with the temperature checks in every office building, etc However, even though the borders are now heavily restricted, inside the country most things goes on
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by lokedhs 7y ago
But would you have tried it if your friends weren't trying to get you to try it?
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Yes, that it true. However, functional evaluation isn't lazy. It's the computation that is lazy. Consider the case where you have a very large arrays a, b and c (let's say is contains a few hundred million elements each). You
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I'm currently working on my own APL dialect. Like the author of K, I decided to not be bound to the restrictions of APL, and want it to be more functional. As I am also doing a lot of Lisp, a lot of ideas come from there as well. The b
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I think there is a rather large difference between not having a username type vs. not having an integer type. As it turns out, the only way you can reliably store an integer in JSON is to use a string field. This is incidentally also the co
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by lokedhs 7y ago
But an alarm is not supposed to use timestamps. An alarm is set for a certain time in a certain location. In otherwords, a wallclock time. Not a timestamp.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
It's an abstract concept. It's nothing more than a given point in time. How you represent it doesn't change the definition. It could be stored as the number of seconds since some arbitrary point in time, such as Unix timestam
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by lokedhs 7y ago
It's not wrong. What you're describing is not a timestamp. A timestamp is a point in time, and is the same everywhere (excluding relativistic effects). What you describe is definitely a valid use case (and having developed softwar
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by lokedhs 7y ago
JSON is also missing an integer type. Read the spec. Basically all it says is that the numeric type is a float, but doesn't say anything about its precision. I'm amazed that there haven't been any security vulnerabilities fou
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by lokedhs 7y ago
There may be something to this. If you look at the actual cases in Singapore, they seem to be clustered around two specific locations, one company and a single event which I would presume was held inside a single big hall. I'm in Singa
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by lokedhs 7y ago
There are vast expanses of desert in Sahara that no one lives in. That land is much easier to settle than another planet, yet we don't do that.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
In a client server application I designed as part of a previous job we did exactly this. An RPC call was a list of functions and arguments, and there was a special tag that could refer back to a previous return value in the same set of call
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I live in Singapore, and so far they have indeed handled it quite well. What is really needed in a situation like this is transparency, and they are providing this: https://www.moh.gov.sg/ They are also doing very good work
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Back in the day when I was working at Sun, a script was set up that people were running on their workstations all over the world. It set up the Seti at Home client and link it to a single account. It was very popular, and some people were r
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Is there any more information on this than a single message on Twitter? Just like m0zg, the Venera missions are among my favourite ones, and I really want to read more about this as well as seeing high res images.
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Block compilation in SBCL (whole-program optimisation for a dynamic language)(mstmetent.blogspot.com)
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by lokedhs 7y ago
The exec in charge of Stadia wouldn't be the one who makes the decision to drop it though. Her job is literally to keep the thing going until it's dropped.

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