I was part of a team that was trained in COBOL to help update code in time for Y2K. We’ve been headhunted by the same company several times in the last ten years to further update and maintain the same code, originally written in the mid-1970s. I’m now 56, and I suspect that code base will live at least as long as I do.

Do people still use Chrome ?

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth

Memory isn’t infinite, CPUs can’t process all integers, and Santa isn’t real

Wait, what? Need a spoiler tag.

https://10minutemail.com/ or similar. New address for every query. Clogging up their system with bad data is their choice, not yours.

Ada

Book the time as an appointment or consultation and just go. If your direct line manager makes a fuss, tell them it’s a doctor’s appointment. If you’ve got far enough that you recognise that you need help, just go ahead and do it.

Since version 3, TeX has used an idiosyncratic version numbering system, where updates have been indicated by adding an extra digit at the end of the decimal, so that the version number asymptotically approaches π. This is a reflection of the fact that TeX is now very stable, and only minor updates are anticipated. The current version of TeX is 3.141592653

This has been my experience of agile in multiple workplaces.

If anything goes wrong with the deploy script, such as failing tests, no harm will be done because the script exits upon the first error encountered.

How do you clean up? Once the deploy script is fixed, how do you know what’s been done and what needs redoing?

Have you considered ansible/puppet/chef/salt — environments dedicated to deployment and cleanup, with idempotency to allow for fixing and repeating the deployment, across multiple operating systems and versions?

I saw that too and thought “here we go again”, but in this case it seems SCO stands for Source Code Origin.

https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules/blob/master/README.md

Edit: this is what it looks like with adblocker on. iPad mini 5 with LockDown app, and raspberry pi running pihole.

If ads annoy you as much as they annoy me, get an adblocker. But if there are sites that you use regularly, and block ads on, you might consider contributing to their patreon or whatever.

Remington also have different plugs for different models.

Less people should be using “less” instead of “fewer”. 😜

can anyone suggest some versions or mods of Windows, or an alternate method, that would let me run Py2EXE and InnoSetup?

https://reactos.org/

might work for you, and it might not. But do let us know if it does!

does anyone have a guide on installing macOS under KVM or QEMU?

https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

sort of works some of the time. I personally didn’t find it satisfactory for my use case. It might be suitable for you.

I maintain millions of dollars worth of equipment and company data, yet you don’t trust me when I say I’m sick!?

I had a violent gastro thing, vomiting and diarrhoea for two days, I could barely walk. When I called in on the third day, the boss demanded a doctor’s certificate. On being told that I couldn’t safely drive to the doctor, he asked “How will I know that you’re really sick?”. I sent him a photo of the contents of the toilet. He didn’t ask again, and never mentioned it again.

“On the corner of Fallingbrook and Fallingbrook. Not that corner, the other one.”

Well, technically Dvorak is a US-ANSI layout, so … no.

Ada and COBOL are still where the big money is, and still will be for years to come.