crackez

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by crackez 2mo ago
Not like CP/CMS predates the Internet or anything... /s
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by crackez 3mo ago
Oh really? Have you tried to rewrite anything to put your theory to the test? I don't think it's as straight forward as you think it is...
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by crackez 5mo ago
I'm just happy to be on the food chain at all...
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by crackez 9mo ago
I think there would be more money saved by making sure deer don't get hit by cars...
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by crackez 9mo ago
That's about how much it cost my company to move the flagship off of z/OS. That kept the language (Cobol) and DB2 intact (moved to DB2LUW); just a new build target basically. It took like 5 or 6 years and that $10M represents the
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by crackez 10mo ago
What about CICS? What about JES?
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by crackez 1y ago
"you're either with me or you're against me" is an indicator for a bad decision being forced upon you, often by a bad person. Best to just disregard and move on.
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by crackez 1y ago
Fork on Linux should use copy-on-write vmpages now, so if you fork inside python it should be cheap. If you launch a new Python process from let's say the shell, and it's already in the buffer cache, then you should only have to p
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by crackez 2y ago
So, what's your replacement machine consist of? I used to use the hardware raid to stripe 2x ssd's to get over 1GB/s from my sata drives. New machine has a pcie5 gen5 m.2 nvme. Stupid fast at 12GB/s. I gotta figure out w
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by crackez 2y ago
I just replaced my HP z800 from 2008 because it was holding it's own with the addition of a few ssd's and an RX580 GPU over the years. Went from 6c12t Xeon to 16c32t (R9950x) and 7900xt. Performance just hasn't out paced peop
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by crackez 2y ago
It sounds like the view of some person with zero experience in the real world of professional software engineering. My experience is the opposite. The USA has a very diverse software workforce.
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by crackez 2y ago
Hard disagree. It's not at all a mental illness. That's ignorant. Some of the most technically adept people I know are on the spectrum and they are incredibly valuable. We're talking Chief architects, lead/senior enginee
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by crackez 2y ago
Sure, for JCL and COBOL...
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by crackez 2y ago
Since when is the surface of the universe that of a hypersphere?
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by crackez 2y ago
Vulkan shaders have entered the chat...
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by crackez 2y ago
Yet the same number of register bytes (when only counting 6502's zero page)... 32x8 = 256 bytes...
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by crackez 2y ago
There's always - cat /proc/net/tcp* And remember: echo * can be your "ls" in a pinch.
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by crackez 2y ago
Look up Micro Focus Enterprise Server and Enterprise Developer. They are now owned by Rocket.
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by crackez 2y ago
I've used o365 copilot to analyze a COBOL app I had source code to, and it was great at explaining how the code worked. Made writing an interface to it a breeze with some sample code and I swear I am not a COBOL person, I'm just t
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by crackez 2y ago
Negativo friendo. The mainframe is turning into a middleware layer running on Enterprise Linux. We've containerized the mainframe at this point, and I mean that directly - eg. Running jcl, multiple CICS regions, all in COBOL that origi
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by crackez 3y ago
With Istio (envoy) you run a "sidecar" container in your pods which handles the "mesh" traffic, so it scales with the number of instances of your pods.
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by crackez 3y ago
We used to have a piece of Java software called Scout - it did a lot of small memory allocations... Led to runtime of multiple days for some datasets. I was reading the book Solaris Internals. The edition I had was updated for the ultraspar