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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 project power than simply going over land.

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%.

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

Maang? Mmang? Define, please?

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 account, I guess. I think continuing to do that, along with following boosted toot authors if they look smart/interesting, will eventually generate a good list of follows.

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 greatest respect..." Maybe just post the link next time.