@AlSweigart @gbargoud That's what I do. It's also good for finding links to papers nobody seems to have handy.

@thomholwerda What is the news outlet's name, so I can add it to Edison?

@dazo @tony @bloor I wish I'd thought of it.

@mr_daemon I used to make them say INSERT QUARTER.

@afeinman @arafel @bjn @cstross @lauren Yes.

@bjn @cstross @lauren Give them time.

@cstross Social Darwinism might have been discredited, but that doesn't mean anything to people trying to apply it here.

@sayonaraminasan @jwildeboer Laws only matter if they're enforced. And they're not.

@darthvader42 @jwildeboer The USians who have all those firearms are climbing all over each other to join ICE.

Everybody took them at their word, and didn't listen to what they said to each other.

@bryn @RYStorm Mostly because we'll all be on call during that time.

@richpuchalsky Can I quote you on that?

@tuban_muzuru @johnzajac @koakuma That is pretty much what I do. After years of trying to disprove it and failing, I had to accept it.

@tasket @johnzajac I did the same thing - hex editing VMS executables to patch date checking routines.

@tasket @johnzajac No, it wasn't simple.

@mikeash @johnzajac Thank Hollywood for that.

@human3500 @johnzajac Because we worked sixteen hour days for months on end fixing it.

@hamishb @johnzajac Wow, did it.

@johnzajac @koakuma That's pretty much the motto back home. I knew a lot of folks inside the Beltway who operated like that. Though it was usually for the purpose of expanding their influence over other stuff in the org.

@koakuma @johnzajac For a lot of folks, unless a hero saves the day at the last minute it wasn't a thing at all.

@burnitdown @glent @johnzajac Industrial control systems, too, because COBOL is weirdly good for developing programmable state machines. Power companies used them (probably still do) for managing when substations go offline and others take up the load for maintenance.