COBOL itself isn't really that bad. It's the lack of modern toolling you'd expect that will make you tear your hair apart. And also JCL. Fuck JCL.
lorty
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The problem is that the current definition makes no sense and is, frankly, bad.
400 people, for a huge scientific community like astronomy, is bad. Heck even if they were literally all the astronomers in the world, the fact that it was proposed and voted on basically the same day should be noteworthy at the very least.
And no one here is angry. I was just pointing out that name calling for no reason doesn't really add to the discussion, even a low stakes one like this.
That's not what I said? You can have both. You are the one closing yourself to art with subtext.
People say a lot more than what their words mean all the time. Having that in art is just part of being made by people.
It's because the definition includes things that aren't really about the object itself and more about where it is. And also how inconsistent it is, as Mercury isn't in hydrostatic equilibrium and yet is explicitly included as a planet by the IAU. Nevermind the fact that the new definition was speed voted and approved by less than 400 astronomers in a convention where 2500+ people attended, let alone not even being discussed with the larger scientific community.
But hey, if you'd rather dismiss my points because of an url, you do you. Not like this changes our everyday live anyway.
It's about keeping the solar system small and simple. There would be tens of planets, in the old definition.
Mostly programming (when my day job hasn't drained me of all the energy) and the usual stuff you'd only really do on a desktop and not on a phone, like documents, light image editing and spreadsheets, nothing fancy.
Thanks for the reply! I always nuke the main drive whenever reinstalling anyway so the home folder is not a problem. I guess since you did the same switch as I'm thinking of (and yes, PopOS gave me some headaches I never imagined I'd have in this day and age) I'll probably follow your recommendation.
Maybe it is, but almost every time someone does anything other than game they usually are steered away from it.
I was under the impression that their aggressive pruning of things usually used for workstation tasks would hamper a sane use of it. From what I've gathered they even removed the usual python bins that come with most linux distros these days, as an example.
Got Tachyon: The Fringe from GOG recently. I loved this game when I was a kid, and you know what? The game is still lots of fun! The graphics are still alright and it ran out of the box on Linux. My X52 even works with it!
I miss this era of short but sweet games.
There was a recent update allowing for more options for viewing votes, which I believe has broken the app in this regard. When logging in from other instances tgat don't have these changes yet, it works as expected.
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It's incredibly interesting how, according to western media, all the ukrainian attacks on russian infrastructure never cause any deaths but russian attacks always cause deaths every time.