#Mainframe

This quarantine is finally giving me time to watch every movie where someone hacks into the mainframe Onward was good but no one hacked the mainframe LOVED Ghosts of Girlfriends
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@MistyMVD I’ve been thinking about why FORTRAN has been continuous used by engineers for 60 years, while COBOL has become niche, and I have a theory.Engineering problems, as different as
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??? What I do? Ooohhh, wait, was in the Mainframe Strolling Players tweet thread?
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THREAD: Yesterday, NJ @GovMurphy asked for COBOL programmers, prompting quite a bit of surprise that a supposedly obsolete language was still used. Hold on. Not only is COBOL use widespread,
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1/ Q has mentioned Godfather III 24 times, 22 of those at the end of 2017. What is Godfather III mean? Q confirmed it is a reference to the Vatican.
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Daily reminder that Alexa Demie is LYING about her age. She’s actually 29. Graduated in 2008. Which means she kissed an 11 year old, A MINOR, at the age of
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I entered this DynamoDB feedback in an AWS survey, and figured I'd repeat it here:We are building with DynamoDB using single-table design as a best practice.Doing the design manually is
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With rent due next week, thousands of North Dakotans have now lost the security of eviction proceedings being on hold while they try to figure out how to pay another
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ooh, check it out! The operator console from an IBM Model 705 mainframe! who needs woodgrain when you can just have wood? no PCB inside, just a lot of individual
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Sorry to be all "I heard this one weird trick from a friend and it really works" BUT, after weeks of not being able to see our status on the
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In these weird times, I have actually considered learning COBOL. It feels like a legacy sort of language because there are certain things that we've come accustomed to that aren't
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Before following me, vet me.My replies a knee jerk reactions (and sometimes stupid maybe) but I try to be informational.When I tweet, I do express myself.Pro Trump should block me
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just an absolutely insane feed having a normal one on the parler app i appear to have been suspended from the parler application and web site https://twitter.com/kimpossiblefact/status/1276408300762828800?s=21 https://twitter.com/kimpossibl
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Thread on AI and self-sovereignty, occasioned by conversation at #CCE2020 1. The AI conversation today is like the mainframe conversation before personal computing came along 2. Most AI talk (that
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A common spread I see in anti-trust discussion of tech (particular from outside tech) is the presumption that competition to Google look like Google, &competition to Facebook will look like
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Turner Whitted's first ray-traced image from 1979 took 74 minutes to compute on a 1 MHz mainframe. Computer graphics includes problems of the digital and analog domains. Although graphics is
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