I did get a shot at my other "dream" question and asked a surgeon if I would be able to play the piano after my hand surgery. (In case not obvious: I never did learn play the piano beyond a very rudimentary level so always wanted to ask! I was reassured, yes!)
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By the way, just like SARS, Y2K was a near-miss. We should learn from near-misses. Many programmers worked very hard to avoid a catastrophe and fixed legacy code. I saw two-digit year variables in the nineties! There was a lot to clean up, and people did. Hence no big crisis.
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It’s apparently to help upgrade their unemployment systems
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Backend of the unemployment system I think
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Heh. I'm imagining you hastily tugging on your COBOL bodysuit, then running out the door & heading toward NJ.
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I mean, if it's actually going to be useful. *looks for cape* DISPLAY "HELLO, WORLD".
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The unemployment systems are likely built on COBOL, considering they’re pretty legacy technology.
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Hah. That sounds like something useful to do! Dunno, if I were in NJ, I'd probably like nothing better than getting lost in that kind of headspace, debugging ancient code right about now. Pandemic, what pandemic?
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