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The largest test case was 4kloc.

There are hundreds of billions of lines of cobol in production.

The IRS alone has approx 160 cobol programs, averaging 230kloc each.

Can't help thinking of the classic series of userfriendly comics about Vigor, which at one point was implemented as a plugin for nvi

The EU's "E-Evidence framework" allows authorities in any member state to compel entities doing business in any part of the EU to produce and/or preserve communications data, completely by-passing cross-border barriers.

_e.g._ Victor Orban could have wiretapped any communication within the EU. Supporter by an EU directive

I'm getting a mixed reading, the most egregious flags aren't present, but there are a couple.

As you identified there is a lot of parallel sentence structure.

They also have a bunch of lists of 3-5 items which is a classic.

It doesn't have the anodyne rambling never getting to the point style common to LLMs

Reading this, it feels like an application on Conway's law.

Dithering as a mechanism to reduce/remove banding can be very impressive.

The color Next machines only had 12 bit displays, 4 bits per channel, but with careful use of dithering it was often indistinguishable from a 24-bit display (so called "true color")

There are so many ways to produce sierpinski gaskets.

It you specify n points and the pick a new point at random, then iteratively randomly select (uniformly) one of the original n points and move the next point to the mid point of the current point and the selected point. Coloring those points generates a sierpinski triangle or tetrahedron or whatever the n-1 dimensional triangle is called

FWIW, the Next color machines had 12bit (4096) color and in practice it didn't make much of a difference. I was using one fairly extensively in the late 90s (by which time 24bit was the norm -- albeit not yet ubiquitous) and for anything other that photo/video work it was perfectly reasonable. It's amazing how far a good dithering algorithm can get you.

The refresh rate is, of course, a different issue

Yes! that one!. I have a paper copy, so it didn't occur to me that there would be an online version

There's even a book "Adventure in Prolog" by Dennis Merritt (ISBN 1520918917)

It's a lot of fun to work through, other prolog resources can be a little dry

I've also worked with engineers who have raced LMP. It's largely pay-to-play and this is one of those professions where if you're the right person, in the right place, at the right time, you might be able to afford it.

For the title holder, in this case the Earl of Lovelace, they are often referred to ("styled") simply by the place name. So after William King-Noel was created Earl.of Lovelace he was styled "Lovelace". She would have been styled "Lady Lovelace" in society, and "Countess of Lovelace" in formal contexts