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Comment Re:Wrong, no deity necessary for this debate (Score 1) 239

> This kind of ignores the benefits people get from religions. For example, tracking the sun/stars gave you knowledge of roughly when to plant crops, etc.

If you didn't make a claim that tracking the sun/stars was because of religion, what are you giving an example /of/, exactly?

Comment Re:Cobol : Can't touch this! (Score 1) 60

I'd like to see some citations here. I've been in FinTech for a long time and yeah, in the mid 90's we still had a /little/ cobol hanging around (big wall street firm), but it was a majority cfront flavored C++ even then.

And since then I've seen less and less of it.

I think this has moved into trope status.

Comment Re: Yes. (Score 1) 224

If it wasn't for upgrades I'd have 24 years of uptime!

When was your last upgrade? Asking for a hacker friend who likes knowing just how outdated people's security patches are.

On my ~5 linux boxen (some cloud, some in my office), about 3 days? At least that's my cadence on `apt get upgrade`. I reboot when it says "system reboot required", otherwise not.

Comment Re:Chicago too (Score 1) 240

> The Chicago location, Iâ(TM)ve been there twice in the past few months. Both times it looked like they didnâ(TM)t have a lot of inventory, lots of open places for items. The second visit you could tell theyâ(TM)d removed an entire shelf in the computer part area to make it look like they had more inventory.

What's wrong with single quotation marks?

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