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2021-04-08 Nerd Roundup

Flight simulators, tax guidance for drug dealers, the Language Server Protocol, and COBOL. Also ranting.

James Grenning is online today with nerds.

Topics this week:

MSFS looks wow!
Researchers demo hi-speed computer-brain interface
Time zone weirdness signs of an immature programmer
IRS guidance for drug dealers, thieves, etc
Upper-est-case and lower-est-case letters
Bash Language Server
Category Theory Orders
Programming is Hard
Is Programming Hard? how Long is a piece of string
An Apology to COBOL
Twitch will ban users for things they do other places on the net
Bunch o' ranting

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