Hee Haw was a television program in the late 1960s, that was supposed to be "family friendly", a bit cheesy, entertainment when the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was cancelled due the controversial nature of some of the more political humor of the show. I just stumbled upon it on Youtube, but it's good for some throwback humor.
Very few things impress me as much as this did. It has taken a clever idea to the next level of simplicity. I was expecting something similar to the one AvE took apart, but this one is completely different.
I'm not sure if the cells are custom made or if they are standard zinc air cells, but the way they've been used is extraordinary. Do standard zinc air cells liberate gas when discharged slowly without a ready source of oxygen?
I don’t get why people hate the COBOL programming language so much. It might be old but so is the C language and SQL queries but neither of them is called obsolete. COBOL has some advantages in the office environment – it’s very easy to read and understand and all of data storage routines are up front. Plus usually each part of a COBOL program is quite simple – far less complicated than the casts, pointers and direct memory access functions in C – and much less prone to programming mistakes.
Sources: Esri; TomTom North America, Inc.; Pitney Bowes Software Inc.; iconectiv. https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=ae1af68c36284b808e2c460cff503a44
In the modern era, it’s important that everybody know how to do a little computer programming. Not an expert on every langauge, but basic profinency on the concepts behind computing coding can make individuals much more productive. It’s hard to describe how many times before, I’ve used little bits of code to make my life better, to automate processes, to find solutions to problems that nobody else has addressed.