No, COBOL Is Not a Dead Language

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No, COBOL Is Not a Dead Language

COBOL, an acronym for Common Business-Oriented Language, is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. First released in 1959, it's designed to be easy to?read by a human, which Seay says makes the language easy for students to grasp.

"COBOL?is not a very difficult language to learn," he said. "It's very linear; it's very self-describing. The verbosity that people criticize it for, I think, is one of its strengths. It tells you what it does."

My sneaking suspicion that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is advertising to QAnon supporters

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My sneaking suspicion that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is advertising to QAnon supporters …

I’ve been noticing that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is increasingly advertising on Facebook feeds and prepper and homesteading websites. I couldn’t help but think they are going for the QAnon crowd, trying to raise donations from conspiratorial minded individuals, who think the government prostituting children. Maybe it’s a good thing — redirecting funds that might otherwise be used for buying merchandise supporting the bizarre conspiracy theory, but it sure seems exploitative of individuals that are suffering from delusional, conspiratorial thinking about their government.

Why is electric heat so expensive?

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Why is electric heat so expensive?

On average in 2019, it took an average of …
10,551 BTU or 3.1 kW of coal or 7,732 BTU or 2.3 kW of natural gas
To produce 1 kilowatt of electricity, which is equal to 3,412 BTU.
 
How much does your 120 volt plug-in electric heater in your house use when it’s on? It doesn’t really matter whether it’s a $12 Walmart heater fan, or a $300 radiant heater in a fancy wood cabinet. All are same energy efficiency – when you apply resistance to electricity, 100% becomes heat, including the heat produced by the fan coils or indicator lights.
 
All 120-volt heaters are 1.5 kW or 5,118 BTU, because 120-volt wall outlets can only supply 12.5 amp constantly. In theory, you could make a space heater smaller then 1,500 watts but nobody does because electric coils are cheap to manufacture, and when you are warm, the thermostat just shuts off.
 
So every hour a heater heater is operating, it’s 1.5 kWh.

Frozen Wetlands

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The previous day's freezing rain, left the entire area coated with a thick layer of ice on the snow. The trees were not cold enough to freeze up, but where it hit the deep snow, ice was everywhere.

Taken on Sunday February 6, 2011 at Partridge Run Game Management Area.