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Possibly. It was basically the native language of Unisys A-series mainframes and I guess those are still around in some form or other.

Ocean currents + cost-effectiveness, according to Ian Morris. By his telling, Chinese bureaucrats buried the knowledge of large fleets because it was a more expensive way to projec…

Huh, self-aware HN. Don't see that very often.

7-day-old comment, but the company I work for (not a startup) flat-out bans creating a dependency on AGPL code.

The existence of Gnu COBOL:

4. I'm an old. I will almost certainly try scaling my display by 125% or 150%.

Threw me down this rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog Looks like Flix is in a galaxy of languages implementing Datalog, a variant of (or somehow related to) Prolog.…

https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/heartrate-var... I used the swagger interface a few months ago to download my resting heart rate over a three-year period, and it was…

Waddya mean, your kids? I learned that as a teenager myself in the 1930s, after an article in Scientific American.

Maang? Mmang? Define, please?

Might want to guess again on "master bedroom". https://www.homelight.com/blog/buyer-master-bedroom/

Honestly, "left Google for 40-person startup for work-life balance reasons" brought me up short.

My technique so far has been to join interesting-looking instances and read the local stream. People who say smart things I follow. At some point I'll coalesce my follows into one …

And VSAM?

$100 > $80. Meta: (1) Oh, that's cool, using Wolfram to look up inflation data! I'll try to remember that. (2) "Trying to gently... I'd suggest..." strikes me the same as "With the…

Why?

I have long thought writing law is a LOT like writing code. When you actually look at modern laws, they're basically legal patch files.

Disqus not good enough? Or Kismet (WordPress)?

And finally: https://startcaving.com/info/caves-are-cold-find-out-how-col...

"Looked the temp gradients up, after 50ft, temp of the earth is 50F, and raises one degree F every 60ft." (So, at 300 feet, 54 degrees; at 500, 57.5 degrees.) ( http://www.welshcoa…

I'm guessing not. Earth's heat is way lower down. Think of a cave: always cold. I think what's going on is they're taking the heat out and storing it more efficiently than just dum…

Communicators. (Writers, marketers, teachers, ...)

A corollary-ish observation of my own: * If coders could write useful documentation (starting w/inline comments) they probably wouldn't be coders.

Reminds me of the "No Labels" crew in the US. Sounded good for a while, but....

AZ DevOps just threw this up in my face: https://status.dev.azure.com/_event/265268533 Related? Geography is US.