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Ask the COBOL guys

The market being what it is, I took a job in ColdFusion last year.

There are people here who have worked in the same CF codebase for over twenty years. They might start and finish their careers in a language everyone else forgot about decades ago.

I think Ruby has enough momentum that career Rubyists will have a home for as long as they want one.


Smart. Bravo.

Buddy of mine pivoted to doing just SQL and road into retirement as a DBA.

With hindsight, we both wished we had gone all-in on SQL way back when.


That is actually a smart move. You only have to learn SQL once to use it for 50 years.

The foundations yes, the rest only if you never change between RDMS products.

On my 50s, learnt SQL around 1996, have used SQL across Access, Informix, DB2, Sybase SQL Server, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, PrestoDB, Neo4j.


They’ll be getting nervous too at some point the agentic port will come for cobol. The past hesitation and risk aversion will subside once the less risky stuff is addressed. Once someone big enough sets a precedent, it will gain momentum

Emphasis on "feel"


The us could probably half it’s calories intake and be fine, if not better, from a public health perspective.

The average ribeye steak you serve in your barbecue joint can feed a family of 4 in war time.


Barbecue joints don't usually serve steaks. Tri tip, maybe, but if you're talking barbecue and beef then it's brisket.


> It would be just easier to not wage war by the way

Yeah, those pesky Ukrainians waging war for the pleasure of it.


Yes, Russia, NATO countries and its allies (Israel), are the major causes for conflicts in the last decades.

But stop framing it as "defense", we've been almost exclusively the ones attacking, not defending. It's us being the bad guys.


Deepseek flash is open weight, this means we can download and run that model without any connection to deepseek, no data/tokens/usage data ever reaches them. They cannot make us their product.


All those random api providers are absolutely scooping up your data though. And the hardware to run it locally is absurdly expensive.


Running Ds flash at acceptable speeds is challenging unless you have several thousands of dollars to invest


Apparently the eu official website really needs to track you then. For what’s essentially just static content. I’ll consider dropping cookies banner when their website can work without. Stop the “do as I say not as I do”

EU official website in it’s cookie banner glory: https://european-union.europa.eu/index_fr


They apparently hired incapable people to build that. Very silly to build it in a way that kind runs contrary to what the intentions of the very laws they are making are.

I get similarly upset, when I see Google tracking on official websites of government or public institutions.


> Apparently the eu official website really needs to track you then.

No, they don't really need to track you, that's why it requires consent to do it.

They are doing exactly what they say.

In other words, they're not saying don't track your visitors. They're saying get consent first.


You could try to understand why that’s the case, instead of assuming maliciousness or incompetence.

https://commission.europa.eu/resources/europa-web-guide/desi...

> Use of the cookie consent kit is mandatory on each page of the DGs and executive agencies-owned websites, regardless of the cookies used.


they use third party cookies, just read their linked info on it and it's fairly clear why they have a banner

if they didn't use third party cookies they wouldn't need it


Which government ? And based on the past few month, if your are thinking of the US governemnt; I can assure you that it is actively being harmful to me.

I have no love for SpaceX but at least I can take a subscription or invest and the stock and pretend that those satellites are beneficial to me.

There isn’t a single US government owned satellite that is not actively harmful to me at the moment.


Its working for me. Have you ever thought of moving to a territory where your properly represented? If your in the u.s. i think you can still walk across the Canadian border.


You use GPS?


Privacy and EU regulation are two very different things.


People smiling while using Siri and holding their phones 2 meters away from their faces looks genuinely disturbing and fake. We are at that point where I hope their next stream will be AI generated so it looks more natural.


People smiling while using Siri look genuinely disturbing.


And talking for exactly 10 seconds while the ai generates to maintain the semblance of a live demo.


Go watch the dev videos, they feel 100% AI. The people are real, but everything else about it is uncanny valley.


Anyone able to restart the stream if you missed the first few minutes or are we living in a world where AI will cure cancer but Apple can't build a "Watch live / Watch from start" button ?



can confirm, not able to scrub backwards. Maybe it requires iRewind™ premium?


https://www.youtube.com/live/hF8swzNR1-o

there’s also a YouTube live stream that lets you go back


YouTube has a "disable DVR" toggle that disables the seek bar. There is a workaround, but I'm not sure if there's one that work in-browser.


This UserJS worked for me with Violentmonkey - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/485020-dvr-chan-force-enab...

What is the non-browser workaround? E.g., can streamlink do it?


Does it ? I can pause but I can't seem to go back. Clicking on the timeline does nothing. Clicking on the "live" indicator does nothing.


This isn't letting me drag back either.


Yeah, explicitly disabled. Corporate control freak behavior - that tracks.


You can't scrub back and forth on the timeline until the live stream is finished.


"It's a feature, not a bug" – Apple


No kidding. I missed the first 16 minutes because something needed my attention. I'd like to be able to restart the stream.


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