Go on universe simulator and find out.

yeah…its just surreal. I grew up when there was no Internet at all. Now we have bots mining data from a website to get more human-like responses (and more $$). Its a strange world.

Most of the COBOL material never made it into the internet. Like the actual instruction manuals for the languages. Also a vast majority that do have it on the internet have it under paywall. I notice that anything that is under paywall, the LLMs suddenly dont do as well. I think its because they only train them on the “open” internet.

Yeah the only reason someone should learn COBOL is job security and potentially making a living moving things over. No reason to start a project in the lang. You can make flat files into ODBCs nowadays.

I suppose the ability to be left alone because everyone is afraid the COBOL person leaves and the company goes under is a good reason :)

If you want to laugh: http://www.coboloncogs.org/HOME.HTM

COBOL is actually not that bad. It can work with SQL, it can have unit testing/integration testing. It can even go on the web (LOL).

But in all seriousness, the bad part about COBOL is lack of context. Most code that is in COBOL has not been touched in decades. And no one is willing to modify because of serous consequences (AKA job ruining errors) that can occur.

I worked with it in insurance and transportation. In both cases, the COBOL was actually pretty solid…but we didnt know WHY we were doing the operations.

Once you find some, feel free to put some reviews on bookwyrm.

You can’t cancel T-Mobile on their site, they require you to call. Even then I got no email verification nor letter about the cancellation. Cool…

All we can do is make something better, reddit will do their thing and we will do ours.

Nope, I have projects that used to pull top x on Google searches based on some seo work I did back in 2016-2017. It’s significantly more. Granted the dataset is super old by now and you would have to trust a random on the internet (aka me) in order to believe, but it hasn’t been always been reddit.

NP! I didnt know about it until recently too. It was eye opening on why im seeing so many “safe” posts make it to the top and why so many google search results now include reddit posts recently.

Looks like they got 60m from google for that:

https://fortune.com/2024/02/23/reddit-60m-deal-google-search-giant-train-ai-models-on-posts/

“Earlier this week, Reddit disclosed in a corporate filing that CEO Steve Hoffman sold 500,000 shares, and Reddit COO Jennifer Wong also disclosed that she sold 514,000 shares.”

If they believed in the platform, they would hold. Yeah looks like they are looking for bag holders.

So how exactly does this work?

I wouldn’t put anything on GH at this point, not with lawsuits going around.

You can see the number of up votes and down votes.

The API is much more open to third party apps.

The people are generally nicer.

Features are not paywalled.

Code is open source, so anyone and everyone can contribute.

Yep all my public repos have it on a ci job. When you have a library that is used on many different projects, I want to be able to read the prs.

Linters make these kind of things easier. Then you get mad at the tool rather than your coworker.

Any recommendations? I think a collection of tools like this would make for a hilarious local meetup.

My local farmers market is really nice.