OlderDogWithNewerTricks
@purplesteeda.bsky.social
PhD Scientist & Industry Engineer (legacy systems, autonomic architecture, healthcare), curious about everything, constantly learning. Love taters and felines and hurricanes. Enjoy discussing most science & political topics. Online since 300 baud BBS days.
A reminder that all of us must remember that we don't always know what we don't know. 😃
February 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
A reminder that all of us must remember that we don't always know what we don't know. 😃
Same here in South Florida and I have a crop of peppers and tomatoes and lettuces ready and bananas setting. We used to freeze every couple of years but now we don't
February 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Same here in South Florida and I have a crop of peppers and tomatoes and lettuces ready and bananas setting. We used to freeze every couple of years but now we don't
Maybe some of us should be waiting in the wings for lucrative cleanup opportunities when things go to hell.
February 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Maybe some of us should be waiting in the wings for lucrative cleanup opportunities when things go to hell.
COBOL is not as straightforward as some may assume, just because you can read the code. There's a lot of esoteric memory management trickery used in Legacy systems that a newbie would have no idea about for example. There's a reason these systems still exist and haven't been re-engineered
February 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
COBOL is not as straightforward as some may assume, just because you can read the code. There's a lot of esoteric memory management trickery used in Legacy systems that a newbie would have no idea about for example. There's a reason these systems still exist and haven't been re-engineered
He is hiring the wrong people haha.
February 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
He is hiring the wrong people haha.
Did Musk employ qualified people that were familiar with Legacy systems and older languages and architecture? Or someone like me that's been coding for 45 years, in industry for 40, and went back to do a PhD on it 10 years ago. Evolving Legacy systems with AI is my specialty.
February 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Did Musk employ qualified people that were familiar with Legacy systems and older languages and architecture? Or someone like me that's been coding for 45 years, in industry for 40, and went back to do a PhD on it 10 years ago. Evolving Legacy systems with AI is my specialty.
I am an old schooler that got a PhD at age 50, my degree is evolving Legacy systems with autonomic components, integrating AI into COBOL systems. Elon should have hired someone like myself and not who he hired. Not that I would work for him in that role.
February 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I am an old schooler that got a PhD at age 50, my degree is evolving Legacy systems with autonomic components, integrating AI into COBOL systems. Elon should have hired someone like myself and not who he hired. Not that I would work for him in that role.
Rereading a book I first read in high school in the early 1980s in one of our English classes. Do any of you remember it?
January 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Rereading a book I first read in high school in the early 1980s in one of our English classes. Do any of you remember it?
Meanwhile in Fort Lauderdale:
January 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Meanwhile in Fort Lauderdale:
I also been discussing technology and politics and online forums since 1982 when we would dial up to computers over analog copper lines. This was before America online and Prodigy and the others came out. But I still have my AOL stuff too.
January 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I also been discussing technology and politics and online forums since 1982 when we would dial up to computers over analog copper lines. This was before America online and Prodigy and the others came out. But I still have my AOL stuff too.
I have not written Fortran since the 1980s but I still have my printouts on green bar and a bookcase full of the books.
January 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I have not written Fortran since the 1980s but I still have my printouts on green bar and a bookcase full of the books.
300 baud, TRS 80 Model I, cassette storage, etc. MajorBBS was my addiction and coding. I've been coding since 81. Taught it at FAU for a bit. A total geek!
January 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
300 baud, TRS 80 Model I, cassette storage, etc. MajorBBS was my addiction and coding. I've been coding since 81. Taught it at FAU for a bit. A total geek!
From 1988 until well into the '90s I used an internal editor created by IBM Boca Raton in the old dos days.
January 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
From 1988 until well into the '90s I used an internal editor created by IBM Boca Raton in the old dos days.
I am from IBM Boca Raton country and I just found my 1993 copy of the 1988 dos editor used internally at IBM
January 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I am from IBM Boca Raton country and I just found my 1993 copy of the 1988 dos editor used internally at IBM
It is what we call cold here in florida, about 55 and rainy and cloudy. But this Mammoth Russian sunflower is looking for a sun off to the east that isn't there today
January 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It is what we call cold here in florida, about 55 and rainy and cloudy. But this Mammoth Russian sunflower is looking for a sun off to the east that isn't there today
Snowing in North Florida like it was 1989!
January 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Snowing in North Florida like it was 1989!
"Winter" in South Florida.
January 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Winter" in South Florida.
First time (on BlueSky, typing to you), long time (watching your work). Don't be sad!
January 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
First time (on BlueSky, typing to you), long time (watching your work). Don't be sad!
Of course my first post will be about the weather, pointing out that North Florida may have several inches of snow on the ground this week. Here in the south, it will be more like Spring.
January 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Of course my first post will be about the weather, pointing out that North Florida may have several inches of snow on the ground this week. Here in the south, it will be more like Spring.