SirQuack

joined 2 years ago
[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 14 points 4 months ago (5 children)

EVERY STONE IS A ROCK YOU STONE BRAINED ROCK

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not really, but it does highlight it's written for views.

The article had no citations or links to sources. It only links to other articles in the site.

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago

Except COBOL has completely different number handling, so one-on-one migration will cause data corruptions.

Might not mean much on infrequently used systems with hundreds of interactions per year, but on fundamentals like SSNs, this will kill people.

Good programmers usually commit to ethics codes, cowboy AI "developers" usually don't.

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I've recently started working in a company that uses old tech, and there is a minor interest from me to actually follow the COBOL onboarding. It seems like a pretty cool language construct to know, alongside my years of OOP experiences with stuff like C# and Java.

And there are still courses being offered, as it's far from eradicated (although everyone wants it gone).

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

So far I've always installed a filter (at work, school, and privately) that removes the "high priority" flag from any mail.

If it can't wait, call me.

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

your government. We, as non-US majority users, are having struggles of our own. Your elected, fascist government isn't anywhere near top priority for us and you should stop thinking it is.

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 4 points 4 months ago

Dang, I removed my account before the bans started flying.

I did have to re-delete a lot of comments very often, and then the bulk deletion app was suddenly enshittified

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I've said this on reddit before, but once for a joke I tried to make a windows program to play doot.wav during October at random, and tried programming it on Linux.

Sinds playing audio and working with the system tray was tricky, I ended up with electron.

So yeah, an atrocious 120 mb application to play a 6kb wav file with a Math.random(). I don't remember the memory consumption, but it was probably just as gross.

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

Eh, if you're careful and know what you're doing (e.g. Google stuff), it's effectively screws and copper. Nothing too special about it.

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

That's enshittification for ya.

Meanwhile, all "lifetime pass" holders are encouraging this, while they have no skin in the game.

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago

I'm not sure if reddit devs are even aware of it

They likely are, but management is also likely rejecting any attempts to fix it.

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 5 points 4 months ago

They were far too springey to be made out of wood, which was what I initially thought.

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