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This is like the unrealistic movie trope we all chuckle at in which a few badasses in their 70s have to come out of retirement to save the world because a long-forgotten horror has resurfaced and they're the only ones who know anything about it.
Turns out New Jersey's system for processing unemployment claims runs on COBOL and has fallen down under the load josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-respo…

Much of the world runs on COBOL and we never hear about it unless something breaks.
All joking aside, this is just a matter of supply and demand. It'll be much easier to find Cobalt programmers if you don't nickel-and-dime them.

(I'll show myself out.)
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