Notices by Matthew Martin (mistersql@mastodon.social)

Mind blown. You can run IBM #zos on a PC with a personal edition license.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zdt/14.2.x?topic=personal-edition

And it has IBM #COBOL inside it. I don't understand why this was so hard for me to find. Looks like I need a new machine (linux host, 1tb drive space and then enough oomph to run a VM)

@Gargron That would be an unnoticed protest. No one deleted their MySpace account, they just stopped using it. Had twitter been sold to a sane investor before so much damage had been done, I'd have resumed using them. I want platforms to behave well, I'm in no position to mete out justice.

@patrickcmiller Wow, this is huge. As a code racoon that has spent time digging through US Federal Agencies' public Github code & innersource code while doing contracting work, this has a lot of promise, like the shared web design but possibly for everything

e.g. https://designsystem.digital.gov/

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe"

That's why when I'm coding, I spend an hour sharpening my axe and now my computer is in 30 pieces and I'm at peace and free.

@dabeaz Mu calculus is next and the suspense is killing me

I am on the job market. I've 20+ years as an IC, 8 years as a tech lead in #govtech

I'm best at python, AWS, backend work, but I've done it all & supervised people who do it better than me. Open to both lead and IC roles. Can still do Microsoft-stack work (dotnet, etc). Heck, I'll learn z/OS if will help the mission.

Remote in US or Hybrid in #HerdonVA or #RestonVA

#getFediHired #fedihire #lookingforwork #pythonjobs #opentowork #hireme

https://matthewdeanmartin.github.io/Matthew_Martin_Sept_2024_One_Page.pdf

@TheBreadmonkey Coding is the 80s was so high pressure. One SYNTAX ERROR and the crowd is not smiling any more

The story of King Midas is a cautionary tale about adding the `async` keyword to a code base.

Millions of linux users around the world had their productivity crippled by #cloudstrike as they all rushed to read the news, post hot takes & dad jokes to their Mastodon feed.

@w7voa This is a gift to the Dems who can now accuse Trump of being soft on this criminal who hired a hitman, without saying anything harsh about drugs nor drug addicts.

@drewdevault Can a fork really pick a different license? If you can, why not relicense as public domain and free all the code?

@drewdevault I'll believe what the lawyers say. If the project fails, no one cares, not even the lawyers. If the project is picked up by a SAAS and is used in a money making venture, it will be litigated.

@jonny Y'all think it took LLMs to get people to ask the machines to just make stuff up.

@nsarwark All of them. Slacktivism is rampant around here. Algorithmic feeds have nothing to do with the urge to engage in slacktivism.

Therapist: And what do we do when we feel overwhelmed?
Me: Create a new empty repo in git?
Therapist: No

@adamconover I got a theory that celebrities feel more stuck on Twitter that non-celebrities. All the other social networks on twitter have been wrecked and left for elsewhere.

As for regulation, the new owner is experimenting with following no rules, not even contracts, & it turns out our legal & contract system doesn't have the sort of teeth to get that org to do anything in the law or a contract & so far there have been no consequences.

@carnage4life @xavez Who is the authority on that? Is it another culture wars opinion piece? We want to blame those who die of cancer because if they made a mistake, then if we get cancer, we won't make the same mistake. Cancer kills most people in five years.

"The five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is only nine percent."
https://pancan.org/news/steve-jobs-still-innovating-six-years-later/

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- YAML format for posts
- Keys are tags, maybe
Irony >
Sixty three different ways to do multiline text. What is not to love?
- Also compatible with json, which is what everyone thinks about first when evaluating a social media message box.