COBOL is easy.

Easy to learn
Easy to program with
Easy to read.

It is very simple. Which is both a strength and its biggest weakness.

The problem is that programs written are NOT structured except the way the guy who wrote the code thought it should be ... if he even thought about it at all.

I was once upon a time hired to convert a COBOL programmed system into an SQL database. The example I use is there was this one proceedure done in COBOL ( take data, modify it this way, output accordingly), literally the same process, but it wasn't a procedure it was coded three different ways. The inputs and outputs should have been the same, they were .... most of the time. And that is why there was this other bit of code checking outputs over there ---->

Also written different ways.

Diarrhea code. They never did get it migrated. The guys who wrote it died and the system died with him. The real fix would have been to have a clean room implementation with three teams, the COBOL team, the API team and the SQL team. But it was a mom and pop shop, and didn't have the funds available which is why the system died when the last of the COBOL coders died.

Driving a cab over is not hard. We got a diesel pusher bus where you're way further out in front of the front axle than that, and the only adjustment really is turning a little later. You get reasonably used to it in short order. If you don't have to deal with an 8' vehicle in a 10' wide lane (yeah they're meant to be 12' but then there's bridge crossings and such) then I bet it's not even scary.

That's a feature of systemd, but it's also a feature of other systems which predate its adoption, so it's not actually a change for most users.

Thanks for the assist. I really loved how you included Mechahitler's supporting comment, even a literal bot knows better than that meat bot.

The great thing about licking boots is that they will always find a new boot to put in your mouth. Great if you love licking boots, that is.

bubububububu

Cry more, bootlicker.

It's also like the new twitter, in that there's a bunch of censorship. And ironically (one hopes) it's often aimed at people spreading anti-Trump messaging.

That's pretty good. I'd see if they have service in my area but unfortunately they are one of the corporations that paid a build-the-ballroom bribe so now they're dead to me.

I haven't used one in a bunch of years (10 or more) but last I looked, Homebrew was a system for installing software.

If you were to search for "Macintosh Homebrew" I bet the top search result would be what you want. I know Google isn't what it used to be, but you have to do your part. Did everyone move on to prompt engineering for LLMs and just plain forget how to do prompt engineering for search engines?

Have they? It looks mostly like they've been working to make their operating systems shittier. I fucking hate 11. When there's a transient network failure I can't even open an explorer window to C:\ to access my backup local copies. I guess a system I cannot use is potentially secure?

Are those 1T unique URLs?

How many of those are 404s where the site doesn't actually send a 404 error? I see a lot of those in the archive when I'm trying to find things.

FTFY :D

If I were going to trust someone not to leak my ID, it would be Google.

But no.

What you said was idiotic and no one owes you anything for being an idiot.

No. Robots will eventually be excellent for those who remain. Most of us won't be here by then, and this is by design.