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Apparently, an "x language job" was a well-known concept from the "before times." ;-)

I'll always vividly remember this article from the days when I began to become entranced with IT Tech stuff... http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/9712.htm

I was getting into Linux around then too so I devoured Litt's site. Shortly after I read this my cobol-programming neighbor (worked for CapOne) was laid off. As far as I know he never returned to Cobol programming (unless he managed to snag something during covid).

Funny this. 20+ years ago I had a similar (K6 II) machine w/Win98. I used one of those sketchy "IE Extractor" apps downloaded from who-knows-where to remove IE and replaced it with Mozilla. Performance increased noticeably; apps opened near-instantaneously upon clicking.

Since then, I've never had a PC/OS combo as fast as that. Need to work on that now...

I was thinking the song would be "Comfortably Numb..."

In Jackrabbit, the very cool retro-dystopian flick, scavenged (but potentially valuable) hardware is referred to as "tetris." Nice touch I thought...

Anecdote Alert! A very knowledgeable Chinese doctor (acupuncturist, trained on the mainland)warned me of this decades ago.

She said that for my body type, coffee was extremely bad. She explained (in her broken English)that the coffee contained "fire" due to the way the beans were processed and that this could make me more susceptible to cancer. Grilled food was also a no-no (for me). Baked & fried foods? For most people, fuggedaboudit!

I can't help but notice the latest research is beginning to show exactly what she told me all those years ago.

Didn't you see "The Social Network?" Winklevi! ;-)