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by palisade 2y ago
I hope you're right and it just solves itself.
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by palisade 2y ago
I'm not sure! The problem might need to be addressed from lots of different directions; university coursework, companies and organizations depending on these systems paying more and hiring more people, more devs getting into these jobs
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by palisade 2y ago
Forgot to mention the post office. And, there are probably many more.
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by palisade 2y ago
Oh, btw, COBOL has the 2038 problem and it is right around the corner. We're going to need A LOT of new COBOL engineers to fix it. It runs so much of our world. We managed to save the world from Y2K in the nick of time. But, I'm n
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by palisade 2y ago
The compiler would have rejected that, if I remember correctly. I'm not in the field of cobol myself, I learned it briefly in college ages ago.
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by palisade 2y ago
Good catch! My cobol is rust-y. :D I guess my post is getting misread as "just use cobol" when it was more of a XKCD-like reflection; e.g. why did we all do that / keep doing that. We done did Cobol, and Rust. And, one is &qu
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by palisade 2y ago
Well, I said it was ironic that we went out of our way to make a newer more complicated to read language that was memory safe when we already had a language that was simpler and readable that was safe. I didn't say I wanted to code in
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by palisade 2y ago
Well, there is a good reason no one likes it. It isn't cool, I completely agree. Readable, simple, safe, performant and still relevant though? Ya.
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by palisade 2y ago
A lot to unpack in this question. Do they solve all the same problems? No, for example COBOL lacks a modern concept of concurrency within a single program. COBOL's concurrency features are based on task-level parallelism, which involve
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by palisade 2y ago
Oof, I've got good news and bad news for you.... they still are creating new code in it. Yeah, there are fewer engineers in COBOL which is why it pays BIG bucks now. They desperately need someone to maintain that massive infrastructure
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by palisade 2y ago
When you bank, COBOL (40% of online banks). When you use the ATM, COBOL (95% of ATM transactions). When you travel, COBOL (96% of airline ticket bookings). Healthcare, COBOL. Social Security, COBOL. Point of Sale, COBOL. IRS, COBOL. Pension
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by palisade 2y ago
Note: I'm getting some hate from others who think I would pick or prefer COBOL over a modern language. I wouldn't. I was making an outside-the-box "devil's advocate" objective observation. I just wanted to preface t
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by palisade 2y ago
Not yet. But, Nvidia's CEO announced a few months ago that we're about 5 years away. And, OpenAI just this week announced Super Intelligence is up to 2000 days (e.g. around 5 years) away.
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by palisade 2y ago
Worth noting too, that other linux systems using 8.9, e.g. ubuntu are 8.9p1 and have the patch applied but to an older version so they're also safe. Just in case anyone was worried about that.
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by palisade 2y ago
There was nothing to be gained in this except ill will. Hanlon's Razor suggests they were in a hurry to fix a security issue and didn't dot their i's on checking for dual boot systems.
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by palisade 2y ago
I guess in their defense the same attack can be used against any other OS so they're unintentionally protecting Linux as well, since they stated this was supposed to be a Windows-only system change. You can disable secure boot if you d
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by palisade 2y ago
Or, the challenge will be convincing anyone to take it now that distrust of vaccines is at an all time high, due to the reckless speed at which we implemented the covid vaccines; and admittedly the very real myocarditis and autoimmune disor
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by palisade 2y ago
I think it is a bit convenient to toss out all the clear evidence that they were developing survivable networks.
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by palisade 2y ago
Listen, mr throwaway account, if we're starting at the top of the document: "The ARPA Command & Control Research office has just been assigned a new task that must be activated immediately, and I must devote the whole of the c
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by palisade 2y ago
Found it!!! The proof that ARPAnet was based on the idea of command and control! Command & Control means a network capable of surviving a nuclear attack. Licklider who established the Intergalactic Computer Network memo that started it
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by palisade 2y ago
Licklider who established the Intergalactic Computer Network memo that started it all. And, who was heavily involved in ARPAnet and bringing in all the people involved including Baran and Davies. Specifically mentions ARPAnet Command and Co
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by palisade 2y ago
https://daily.jstor.org/this-is-how-they-wiped-themselves-in... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_stick
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by palisade 2y ago
Nope, it was use in the butt itself.
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by palisade 2y ago
Hate to break it to you, the sponge was for their butt. And, in Asia they didn't have a sponge they just used a stick.
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by palisade 2y ago
4o mini is more efficient so it costs them less than 3.5 turbo to host it.
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by palisade 3y ago
This would be true if it were a full takeover. But, actually it is just a small injection of cash. Which will greatly help the flagging Epic, which recently had to endure a relatively large layoff to stay the course. Disney is just making a
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by palisade 3y ago
I actually don't have a problem with Google myself. I love gmail and I use Google FI for my cellphone service. I agree their security has been fantastic. The only criticism I have for them is that they give up too easily on their new i
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by palisade 3y ago
I think maybe the concept of () vs [] for radio buttons and checkboxes respectively is in part due to the mathematical concept of a bounded number range where the numbers at the end of the range are included inclusively or exclusively. I&#x
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by palisade 3y ago
I mean I was basing it off numbers provided by the American Eagle Foundation. Which isn't a multi-trillion dollar industry, it's a small charity whose goal is conservation. The American Eagle Foundation (AEF) is a 501(c)(3) non-pr
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by palisade 3y ago
That's odd because the official eagle foundation that protects eagles discusses thousands of recorded deaths. From the website, "At the infamous Altamont Wind Resource Area alone, more than 2,000 Golden Eagles have been killed by

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