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That’s what the State’s Governor, Phil Murphy, apparently meant today, when he said at a press conference that the State needed volunteers who with “Cobalt” computer skills to help fix 40-year-old-plus unemployment insurance systems that are currently overwhelmed as a result of COVID-19-related job losses. For those who have been preparing since 1959
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You just wait, and you'll see that I was right to keep that pile of 1981 calendars, too.
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I keep record of my whole work life both digital and in paper form.
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Perfect!
So when you're reborn, you won't have to learn the hard way, again!
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In my student days, around 1980, we saw job ads asking for Cobolt competence and system stimulation programming.
Lack of Cobol competence is a serious problem; I have seen several job ads the last few years asking for competence in more or less abandoned languages. An old rule says "If it works, don't fix it". The problem with Cobol systems is that they have been working for 30 or 40 years without needing any fix, so noone has kept up the competence. Wikipedia: "In 2006 and 2012, Computerworld surveys found that over 60% of organizations used COBOL (more than C++ and Visual Basic .NET) and that for half of those, COBOL was used for the majority of their internal software."
Today, graduates believe that all programming languages are more or less "C-like". In my student days, we were studying Cobol, Fortran IV, APL, Prolog, Pascal and Simula, with hand-ins in all of these - even microcode for a 2903 bit slice processor! We had introductions to Lisp and CHILL, although no hand-ins, and in our spare time we played with SNOBOL and Forth. I think students would gain from learning other problem solving methodologies than the C-style algorithmic way.
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Google says it will publish users' location data around the world from Friday to allow governments to gauge the effectiveness of social distancing measures, brought in to stem the COVID-19 pandemic. "While he wore the One Ring he could perceive all the things that were done by means of the lesser rings, and he could see and govern the very thoughts of those that wore them."
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And they do this without so much as a "By your leave" or "Kiss my @rse" to the users whose data they publish?
How on Earth can that be permissible?
Taking my name off my work or property doesn't mean that you can publish or sell it. Quite the opposite, actually.
BTW: You must be working from home, with the same inability to maintain attention to a certain detail that I've been suffering from, because it seems that you need a reminder that today is Sunday, not Monday...
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modified 5-Apr-20 16:01pm.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: need a reminder that today is Sunday, not Monday...
My life is shifted off a day. Newsletters are Sunday to Thursday, so they’re ready to go out the mornings of. 
TTFN - Kent
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Well, that's good!
Sundays are bloody boring!
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I wonder, how many of the users represented in that data had the GPS deactivated.
In other words... they can say what they want, this is another proof on what they think about us.
No, no, we don't collect your data without your permission.... bollocks.
Yes, yes, we think your privacy is important... bollocks.
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Unless something has changed, your mobile can be tracked even if its GPS is off. It triangulates on cell towers with an accuracy of something like 50m. The capability was standardized to provide location information with emergency calls. Whether this location information is available to Google applications is another question, but I wouldn't short-sell evil.
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Greg Utas wrote: The capability was standardized to provide location information with emergency calls.
What at the end is the less used reason for it. 
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Scientists have developed a new mechanism capable of harvesting this wasted magnetic field energy and converting it into enough electricity to power next-generation sensor networks for smart buildings and factories. It's always magnets...
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Skyscraper estimates.
Savings achieved: USD 1200/year
Cost of installing hundreds of thousands of devices: USD 23,465,782.98
Annual maintenance: USD 729,086
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The new spectrum will make extremely low-latency, high-throughput Wi-Fi possible. FWIWi-Fi
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So, change nothing except the frequency, and force everyone to buy new phones and laptops.
Whose idea was this, apple's?
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It contains a set of smaller features and performance improvements. We’re continuing to work on the bigger features that will define the 5.0 release, some of which are starting to show up as initial designs at dotnet/designs. .NEtric Boogaloo Edition
"We’re running 50% of the .NET Website traffic on .NET 5.0 as a test case, using Azure load balancing." (In case you sometimes see oddness on the site?)
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I wonder if the list of shit they delete without telling anyone is smaller, too...
I'm not being cynical - I'm being realistic, and am basing that on the many decades I've lived under the yoke of my oppressors.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Before removing something we should first seek to understand the reasoning and rationale for why it was there in the first place Is that they one that says, "The code is always greener in someone else's IDE"?
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You mean like a comment in the code? How gauche!
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But no one does those anymore, right? 
TTFN - Kent
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I do... but my friends always told me that I was more strange than a green dog.
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Preach to the converted much?
I'm not sure I know many devs who thoughtlessly hack out chunks of code. It's kinda not part of the general developer mindset.
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US air safety bods call it 'potentially catastrophic' if reboot directive not implemented Plane crashing? Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Good grief, Boeing...
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Quote: The power cycling is needed to prevent stale data from populating the aircraft's systems, a problem that has occurred on different 787 systems in the past.
:shakes head:
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