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Comment Re:Diesel locomotives are all generators (Score 1) 275

by pmyre on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:22AM (#61095272) Attached to: How Canadians Derailed a Train in 1998 and Drove It to City Hall for Power After a Brutal Ice Storm

I listened to the YT clip: - One locomotive was connected to the local secondary school. This is a big school for this city, and I assume was used as an emergency shelter at the time. - The other locomotive, the one that ran on the streets, was connected to 3 buildings: city hall, police station and CLSC (kind of urgent care facility for you Americans...)

Submission + - COBOL Programmers Sought (cnn.com)

Submitted by puddingebola on Thursday April 09, 2020 @12:52PM

puddingebola writes: State governors are calling for the help of the COBOL programmers with their aged databases. Jobless claims in many states are processed on computer systems using the programming language.

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