COBOL used to drive some government and business web sites. You could tell because the HTML was output in 100 column fixed width format.
Readit NewsGartzenDeHaes commented on Webbol: A minimal static web server written in COBOL github.com/jmsdnns/webbol... · Posted by u/simonpure
GartzenDeHaes commented on Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel dfarq.homeip.net/athlon-6... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
> they wouldn’t have to worry about competing CPU designs, at least not for a very long time.
US Government sales require two vendors, which I think is why AMD had x86 licenses in the first place.
This is junk science. The illustration is absolutely bonkers: https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/02/28230224/cavedoodles.jp...
It's literally a bunch of graphic design output showing clean font glyphs! Needless to say, there is no, I mean zero evidence of any kind of symbology of the fidelity being shown. You'll get a petroglyph here or there, and that's it. Stretching those across whole continents and inferring "language" is just ridiculous.
This is, like mid-tier video game art.
The uniform scale of the symbols is deceptive since the source drawings have substantially different sizes. The hand outline is hand sized, for instance.
> H-1Ba are supposed to be for difficult-to-find specialists
In my understanding H-1B is supposed to be for generic workers, rather than O1 which is for people with extraordinary ability in their field. That's why there is limit, lottery and high application fees.
H-1B is for difficult-to-find specialists and O-1 is for people with extraordinary ability in their field.
H-2B is for ordinary workers.
GartzenDeHaes commented on Chat Control Must Be Stopped privacyguides.org/article... · Posted by u/_p2zi
How long until hardware vendors prevent you from installing a certified OS that is specifically not anything like linux? Before you call it a conspiracy, know that we are already there with our phones, which represent an overwhelming share of consumer compute use today.
Hardware attestation. They say vendors are pushing this like crazy at security and government conferences.
GartzenDeHaes commented on Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves laist.com/news/transporta... · Posted by u/jaredwiener
Just like during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
GartzenDeHaes commented on Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks theverge.com/cs/features/... · Posted by u/leotravis10
Honestly Wikipedia+Archive.org remaining online have national security implications (not just USA, but any democracy). Though I'd wager the current administration would take a different view.
Getting ready for doomsday? You need a solar powered, wifi-enabled, offline wikipedia server.
GartzenDeHaes commented on Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything theregister.com/2025/07/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus
"COBOL uses a fixed width character format for all data (yes even for COMP). If you want a four digit number, then you have to use 4 character positions."
That is incorrect. USAGE COMP will use binary, with the number number of bytes depending on the number of digits in the PIC. COMP-1 specifically takes 4 bytes. COMP-3 uses packed decimal (4 bits per digits).
That's what the specs say, but I found out it actually didn't work that way when I was working on a transpiler, at least for that installation.
GartzenDeHaes commented on Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything theregister.com/2025/07/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus
> Readers of a certain vintage will remember well the "Y2K problem," caused by retrospectively shortsighted attempts to save a couple of bytes by using two-digit years – meaning that "2000" is represented as "00" and assumed to be "1900."
This seems overly harsh/demeaning.
1. those 2 bytes were VERY expensive on some systems or usages, even into the mid-to-late 90's
2. software was moving so fast in the 70s/80's/90's that you just didn't expect it to still be in use in 5 years, much less all the way to the mythical "year 2000"
People aren't getting that it was two characters that need to be added, not two bytes to make a short into an int. COBOL uses a fixed width character format for all data (yes even for COMP). If you want a four digit number, then you have to use 4 character positions. Ten digits? Then ten characters.
These field sizes have to hard coded into all parts of the COBOL program including data access, UI screens, batch jobs, intermediate files, and data transfer files.
GartzenDeHaes commented on OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract cnbc.com/2025/06/16/opena... · Posted by u/erikrit
My favourite movie of all time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove
The writing and acting is superb and the same goes for the sets and camera work. Come to think of it, the only thing I dislike (and greatly so) is the trailer as it to me profoundly fails to communicate the atmosphere of the movie.
Gen. Ripper is getting some validation now that fluoride is being banned in some places.