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Comment Re:Analogy (without cars) (Score 1) 104

The best analogy, I've seen for tariffs is:
"I buy a lot from the local pizza place, they don't buy anything from me. Now I'll start paying 10% more until they learn".

The intent was, "A pizza place just opened close to me that locally sources its ingredients, my kid works there now, and I can buy their pizza for less than it costs me to buy pizza from the place across town." Putting this into practice takes time, is risky, and the actual results are still unknown.

Comment So learn COBOL (Score 2) 99

"...even though there are very few Cobol-literate coders available to maintain them."

I had a programming opportunity that involved programming in RPG on an IBM platform. I had zero experience with the language or platform, but wanted the job, so I did a very deep dive into all things RPG and IBM, nailed the interview, got hired, and have been modifying and developing new programs for short of two years. It was a wonderful change from 35+ years as an IT generalist, and I haven't looked back.

Comment Problem: relying on one resource (Score 1) 28

I program IBM RPG professionally, and while I do use several AI tools for reference, relying on one is simply absurd. I always keep multiple tools available.

As to using AI to write code, for my use case, AI is a great tool to explain code and to suggest rewrites to code, but for actually writing new code, it's not reliable. It's great for pointing me in the right direction, but in the end, my programming experience is what helps the most.

Comment What I see in my left eye differs from my right (Score 1) 43

We may all process colors the same, but colors that I see looking through my left eye appear to be what I would consider "normal" to me, while colors seen looking through my right eye have a very subtle sepia tone. Nothing striking, but when I look at mostly flat surfaces, alternating between my left and right eyes, I see a very slight, but distinct difference in color.

Comment A developer and WordCamp attendee speaks out (Score 3, Interesting) 33

Jonathan Jernigan is a WordPress developer, YouTuber, and an all-things WordPress proponent who attended the WordCamp where Matt Mullenweg went off on WPEngine.Here's his Blog post about his experience as an attendee at the Keynote: https://jonathanjernigan.com/y...

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