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rogerianon COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it

I think many would dispute that its dead. Apparently more than 95% of ATM swipes and 43% of banking systems are written in COBOL. No idea how true that is.

rogerianon Is Hacker News Under DDoS?

It certainly is VERY sluggish atm

rogerianon Revealed: Israeli spy chief 'threatened' ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry

btw - its spelt Israel

rogerianon Ask HN: Missing Google Calendar events due to unnoticed notifications?

yes. happened yesterday

rogerianon Are Bluetooth beacons still a thing?

https://react-access.com/

rogerianon Are Bluetooth beacons still a thing?

We use them in Bus Stop Displays for visually impaired people to get information about the bus stop and the expected arrivals. They have to have a special app installed on their phone to interact with it.

rogerianon Baltic Sea sabotage: A defender's dilemma

What else happened on Oct 7th ?

rogerianon In Plane Sight: Drug agents searching passengers for cash at airport gates

Aren't people allowed to carry cash?

rogerianon U.S. scientist Robert Sapolsky says humans have no free will

Who told him to say that?

rogerianon I started a newsletter for recommending the best movies to weekend watchers

I hate giving out my email address. Is there a web version of the newsletter?

rogerianon Ask HN: What is the least obnoxious way to ask for cookie permissions?

Cookie banners have ruined the internet!

I you have to have one I'd suggest it have a Reject All button which makes the banner go away without any further clicks.

Nothing is more soul destroying than having to click several times to make the nonsense go away.

rogerianon The Invasive Giant African Land Snail Has Been Spotted in Florida

I believe they are edible. So, just eat them all

rogerianon Ask HN: Are you worried about the future and how do you cope?

If this really is a simulation then how much does it matter?

If it is not a simulation, then we are so small compared to the known universe that we are insignificant.

Enjoy the good times while they last!

rogerianon Musk Tells Twitter Employees He Doesn’t Plan to Cut 75% of Jobs

It is probably going to be 70%

rogerianon Project Hercules Submersible

luxury underwater travel with the six-passenger Project Hercules submersible

rogerianon Slowly waking up to the truth: Brexit has left us poorer, adrift and alone

At least now we're free and no longer prostituting the country to Brussels.

rogerianon Polar bears that can survive without sea ice

Let's put some polar bears on Antarctica

rogerianon A Suggestion for Hacker News – Feed Filtering

I'd like to be able to filter out any domains of my choosing for instance, sites that are generally behind paywalls

rogerianon Ask HN: If you were God, which problem would you remove from the world?

white people?

rogerianon Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules

Really saddened that the UK not able to stand up to the US on this

rogerianon Ask HN: Why do you feel uncomfortable with BigTech?

They are biased in favour of the Left. They don't believe in free speech. They are extremely intrusive in the way they track people's activity online. I don't trust them.

rogerianon Show HN: I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course

I'll check it out later

rogerianon Ask HN: What Apps/Games Do You Use to Teach Your Kids Skills?

CodeCombat. It got challenging quite quickly for my 9 yo, but the more he does it, the more it is starting to come together for him.