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Under 16s can’t buy energy drinks in the UK Edit: currently a voluntary but widespread scheme by retailers, proposed to be law. TIL

Love to see fixed format mode in use :) For those who are unaware — you can use COBOL in two modes: free mode and fixed format mode. Fixed format mode is (afaik) the original, base…

First, understand that you are trying to control them. This might sound odd, but it's true. You're trying to change their behaviour because you'd prefer it another way. Maybe that'…

Self-motivation is much harder than people give credit. I believe that we’re mostly not cut out to work alone. Our motivation comes from other people — either leading, following, o…

Software engineering education is a good job market right now and (I believe) has better pay and working conditions than public sector teaching. If she’s up for that path, she coul…

I was developing some architecture training recently and had this very same question. It’s not easy to find realistic architectures. The best I found was the German contact tracing…

I didn’t — I made it from scratch and tried to get as close as I could to the original behaviour. But I bet I also lost a fair few more weekends than OP…!

Did a similar thing but made my flat. And it’s gen 1 :) https://herostrat.us/gary

I’m Thinking Of Ending Things by Iain Reid. Without wanting to spoiler you — it’s about a few introverts, and it’s narrated in a way that focuses heavily on the inner world, on the…

You mention you have borderline. If you’re interested in exploring that more it might be helpful. The feelings you’re describing are familiar to a lot of people, but particularly t…

One use: I was teaching some developers COBOL, and I wanted to illustrate for them how the Y2K bug came about. So I gave them a project to do parsing a file with contemporary dates…