rbanffy
✨ Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
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Important note: this is not about Talk Like a Pirate Day.
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It’s really a quite simple transformation. All the core ideas are the same, just the presentation is different.
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If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.
3270 is a very efficient form of distributed computing where terminals and their controllers control a lot of state and the mainframe is in charge of the more important things. It was a browser from the 60’s, mostly 70’s.
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On foreign soil, US law can’t protect them. They’ll never be able to leave the US to any country who would be willing to make them answer to the ICC.
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Now wouldn’t that be sweet?
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And it seems interesting a lot of people seem to be completely oblivious to it.
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Weapons are designed with an opponent in mind, and guarded against the expected threat models from that opponent. Everything breaks down when the opponent does not what you want them to.
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