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Comment Re:oh dear (Score 1) 108

by laejoh on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @12:55PM (#63791206) Attached to: IBM Says Its Generative AI Tool Can Convert Old COBOL Code To Java

God help us the world will end.

Unless they do Cobol to Rust, in which case it will end sooner.

The world will CALL "ABEND" you mean.

Comment Re:Again ? (Score 1) 142

by laejoh on Thursday October 27, 2022 @12:10PM (#63003169) Attached to: UN Warns Key Warming Threshold Slipping From Sight

No worries, I have a snorkel, and I have Yanet Garcia on youtube. As Ozzy Man said: "She'd make me approach the apocalypse with a can-do attitude."

Comment Re:Future headline: (Score 1) 223

by laejoh on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:04PM (#62007855) Attached to: A German State is Switching Its 25,000 Computers From Windows to Linux

There's an emacs command to do that!

Comment Re:That was typical (Score 1) 98

by laejoh on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:49AM (#61771669) Attached to: Developer Returns To Game After Four Decades, Discovers and Fixes Typo So It Works

I remembered because my Atari ST at the time came with LOGO too. The list processing was a blast. Writing adventures in LOGO was a blast!

Comment Re:That was typical (Score 1) 98

by laejoh on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:36AM (#61771299) Attached to: Developer Returns To Game After Four Decades, Discovers and Fixes Typo So It Works

Not LISP, but LOGO! But yeah, LOGO's list processing commands work like LISP.

Comment Re:Oh my! (Score 1) 106

by laejoh on Saturday July 03, 2021 @12:22AM (#61546418) Attached to: The Internet Is Rotting

I wanted to point to goatse actually, but couldn't find the link anymore.

Comment Oh my! (Score 5, Informative) 106

by laejoh on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:52AM (#61543958) Attached to: The Internet Is Rotting

http://www.jargon.net/jargonfi...

Comment Re:On the first try, you were expecting... (Score 1) 49

by laejoh on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:41AM (#61293120) Attached to: NASA Successfully Flies Small Helicopter On Mars

Oops, wrong link: https://youtu.be/FACy3IFqT3Y

Comment Re:On the first try, you were expecting... (Score 1) 49

by laejoh on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:23AM (#61293096) Attached to: NASA Successfully Flies Small Helicopter On Mars

Indeed... https://youtu.be/a6mlJt93hx4

Comment Re:Not Aliens (Score 1) 143

by laejoh on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:34PM (#61281366) Attached to: Pentagon Confirms Video of Pyramid Shaped UFO Is Real, Taken By US Navy Pilot

Giorgio A. Tsoukalos would like a word with you.

Comment Re:Why, why, why? (Score 2) 242

by laejoh on Saturday January 30, 2021 @08:14AM (#61008614) Attached to: 'We Spoke To a Guy Who Got His Dick Locked In a Cage By a Hacker'

... internet-connected chastity cage ...
Why would anyone think this is a good idea?

Remote BDSM games with a remote partner. Esp. during a pandemic

See, they read BDSM, confused it with BSD, and thought it was secure...

Comment Re:Extraordinary Popular Delusions and ... (Score 1) 259

by laejoh on Saturday April 08, 2017 @01:35AM (#54197019) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: What Books Are You Reading This Month?

Some parts are indeed difficult to get through, but I enjoy it. It's interesting and dry, it's not like an everyday read. The title promises more action than the contents delivers.

Comment Extraordinary Popular Delusions and ... (Score 2) 259

by laejoh on Friday April 07, 2017 @10:50AM (#54191767) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: What Books Are You Reading This Month?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:KeePass FTW! (Score 1) 126

by laejoh on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:26AM (#54094021) Attached to: LastPass Bugs Allow Malicious Websites To Steal Passwords

African or European?

Comment Re:Disturbance in the force (Score 1) 456

by laejoh on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:44PM (#53562213) Attached to: Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60

Found the hot grits in the trousers!

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