Reagan did things like wanting to negotiate massive arms limitation treaties (see the Reykjavik summit) . And gave speeches like this, his last as President - https://youtube.com/shorts/J5upAEZOchM?s… (View Post)

$m=unpack(H.$w,$m."\0"x$w),$_=`echo "16do$w 2+4Oi0$d*-^1[d2%Sa 2/d0<X+d*La1=z\U$n%0]SX$k"[$m*]\EszlXx++p|dc`,s/^.|\W//g,print pack('H*',$_)while read(STDIN,$m,($w=2*$… (View Post)

Good code is reusable, modular and maintainable. 99% of code doesn't need bleeding edge optimisation in performance, memory usage or the rest. (View Post)

Having just killed some COBOL systems… You can get tools to translate COBOL. Right now. No AI required. The real work is in replacing systems that are 50 years old. At that point you are building and… (View Post)

There are, essentially, no COBOL devs left. IBM are not selling COBOL programmed solutions. (View Post)