There are hundreds of billions of lines of cobol in production.

The IRS alone has approx 160 cobol programs, averaging 230kloc each.

Given that I can use a web based tool for my wooting keyboard, I figured the same must be true for the ch57x, I couldn't find one, so I wrote one.

Capabilities:

  Reading and writing configurations to a ch57x keyboard
  Storing multiple profiles for switching layouts
  Key sequences, media keys, and mouse events

Current limitations:

  Chrome/Chromium, Edge, and Opera only.
    I haven't tested Chromium or Opera so ymmv
    No mobile browser that I'm aware of supports WebHID
  Firefox and Safari will likely never support programming HID devices

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_e.g._ Victor Orban could have wiretapped any communication within the EU. Supporter by an EU directive

As you identified there is a lot of parallel sentence structure.

They also have a bunch of lists of 3-5 items which is a classic.

It doesn't have the anodyne rambling never getting to the point style common to LLMs

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The color Next machines only had 12 bit displays, 4 bits per channel, but with careful use of dithering it was often indistinguishable from a 24-bit display (so called "true color")

It you specify n points and the pick a new point at random, then iteratively randomly select (uniformly) one of the original n points and move the next point to the mid point of the current point and the selected point. Coloring those points generates a sierpinski triangle or tetrahedron or whatever the n-1 dimensional triangle is called

The refresh rate is, of course, a different issue

It's a lot of fun to work through, other prolog resources can be a little dry

I can think of a couple of things at play

The system was likely designed a long time before 1998, because of how this type of contract works

Even in 1998 USB was very new, so thumb drives weren't an option

CDs were ubiquitous, but cd writers were not

Proprietary tech was available, Zip and Jazz drives come to mind, or maybe even minidisc in that timeframe, but any would have been a poor choice in hindsight

Tape would presumably have been considered, but was already notorious for long term compatibility (in 99 I had to restore from a tape backup that was only a couple of years old and we couldn't easily find compatible hardware)

There were other proprietary optical storage media in the market, but they were expensive and aimed at the long term storage market (heaven help you if that's how your archives are stored)

If they needed a cheap, easily written, and distributable media, they didn't have a lot of good choices.

We still don't have a good choice for this if you want your system air gapped. I sure as hell wouldn't let anyone plug a USB device into a safety critical system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Treatise_on_Electricity_and_...

Written in 1873 by James Clerk Maxwell

They also reference Genesis 1:3 "Let there be light"