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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jul-2022 16:55:44 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Back in the 1990s, my youngest uncle kept telling me to learn #COBOL instead of #Java (though at the time, I was taking courses with Microsoft #BASIC ... and later took both COBOL and Java, along with #Pascal, #Visual_Basic, #JavaScript, #Perl, #PHP, and more).
At the time, he was making $100,000+ and taking time off whenever he wanted. I think he made a lot more during the fixes that prevented #Y2K from becoming the expected meltdown, but he then ran into headwinds because foreign programmers were being imported to do the work for a lot less than what he was accustomed to earning, so he retired.
I thought about this back when the lockdowns geared up and state governors were crying about lacking the COBOL programmers to fix their unemployment insurance systems. -
Complications 📲 (complications@a.weirder.earth)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2018 20:32:12 UTC 
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Apollo phone concept, designed by Ichiro HIgashiizumi for the au Design project in 2002.
That is quite a way to get QWERTY onto a phone. Details on this are rather thin and I can't really read Japanese yet, but I think the ring surrounding the D-Pad could be a mechanical scroll wheel.
(source - https://time-space.kddi.com/adp15th/index.html)
https://a.weirder.earth/media/5FD7kc89kFKOVyJwngE https://a.weirder.earth/media/GK1PTFSPdqEO48oKPk4 https://a.weirder.earth/media/NjfPHNnxtwdT2-FDLk4 https://a.weirder.earth/media/MJowBBfbEcK9bdxUcxo
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Screwed out of seeing #eclipse #totality by official panic. Could've left 3h ago & made it 3h early. Logistics = too late now, though. #Y2K
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