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You are correct. But, that's about the only difference between VBA and VB. I was a VB developer for 10 years before I wrote my first VBA application (in Excel), and I was surprised when everything I tried to do in VBA just worked(TM).

Yes, but that was the standard behavior in DOS & Windows world (not including C/C++). We thought that case sensitivity was the broken behavior ;)

I was referring to the parent's statement "If a method or function call is similar enough to an existing one or a common one from other languages, to just have it silently use that." A compiler that substitutes a different function for the one I specified because it "knows what I really want" is horrifying.

Say whaaat? VB (v.3 through v.6, at least) wouldn't compile if you misspelled the name of a function or subroutine.

When I studied in Russia (early 90s, it was still the USSR), we learned to answer the phone with слушаю (I'm listening)

This looks like what you need: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-mount-dis...

"Shoot first, ask questions later"[0] when cutting staff seems like a delusional idea to me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33496808

Moving a window: Alt-Space, M, arrow keys

OneNote can do simple calculations for you: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-and-calcul...

Click on the '+ help' label in the upper-right corner for a detailed description.

Please don't do this, Mozilla.

I have a lot of open tabs on my 1920 x 1080 monitor, and switching from compact density to default (I just tested this) reduced the amount of visible text on each tab such that I couldn't identify what most of the tabs contained.

In other words, if you have a lot of tabs open at once, the reduction in usability is significant.

Edit and continue, Visual Basic 3, 1994

After adding a major piece of new functionality to my app, I would step through the new code, fixing each bug as it appeared, and then continue stepping. Being able to produce bug-free code after only one run-through just blew my mind.

There's the correct answer.

You're seeing the fruits of 70+ years of conservatives telling their audience "Everything sucks now, and everything will suck more in the future, and those people over there are to blame for all of it".

This is the reason you're seeing so many educated, affluent people among those who stormed the Capitol - they're just really, REALLY pissed off.

I think the Functions Translator[1][2] add-in might be worth a look to you. Note: I haven't used it myself, and it's a Microsoft Garage project, so there's no guarantee of support or maintenance.

From the description:

Functions Translator helps people use a localized version of Excel by helping translate from the US Excel function names, or research how to create a solution on the web with predominately English content.

Easily find the equivalent localized functions and formulas in any of the supported 15 languages. Functions Translator will automatically configure the language settings to US and the Localized version, and people can provide feedback on the translation of functions if it is not what they expected.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/blog/2018/03/new-gara... [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/functions-tr...

>You could do that, but the way to write it in the bash way would be `dir | select -first 3`

Fyi, `dir | select -first 3` also works in PowerShell.

You're charging it wrong.

Firefox bookmarks became much more useful to me when I started using its tagging feature. Combined with the ability to sort search results by last visited date, it gives me a complete picture of my past work on a topic at a glance.

For everything else, I'm still relying on OneNote 2016 (not the modern version), but only because I haven't yet found a suitable replacement.

Correct (a HAM radio operator)

Comparison of I2C and SPI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9303405

...and those unemployed people will find better jobs with other companies, since all California companies are required to comply with the new law, and the collective amount of work performed by California companies (and thus the collective number of workers required to do this work) is not affected by the new law.

How much time have we all wasted reading threads that consisted mostly of folks arguing past one another, because each participant misunderstood what the other was trying to say?

I used Usenet during the 1990s, and communication was much easier, because grammar usage was much more uniform(1)(2)

(1)Changes in the rules of grammar aren't the primary problem, IMHO. The problem is folks who don't follow any rules at all; rather, they simply string together word sequences that sound familiar.

(2)I sympathize with young folks today who don't have a good grasp of grammar. Most of my education came from reading newspapers and magazines, which still employed expert editors when I was growing up.

archive.org has the following pre-dotnet edition of MSDN Library - you'll find a lot of COM info in it:

https://archive.org/details/MSDN_Library_October_2001_Disc_1

https://archive.org/details/MSDN_Library_October_2001_Disc_2

https://archive.org/details/MSDN_Library_October_2001_Disc_3

I created my little memory-wipe routine with POKE, and boy was I proud when it worked! Cool username, btw

The Army Corp of Engineers can be viewed as the federal government's civil engineering service. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Corps_of_En... for a good description.

Meanwhile, in a smoky apartment on the bad side of town[1]:

Warning: this hard locked my MBP. [snip] It was a pain in the ass to recover: my only option seemed to be to power down and power back up again, at which point OSX helpfully remembered the state my machine was in and dropped me back into the blacked-out display and maxed fan. Some combination of NVRAM reset, SPC reset and safe mode was required to get back in.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19265107

> This will be especially true when Firefox inevitably shutters it's in-house efforts in a couple of years due to the amount of sites that won't work with it, and starts using Chromium too.

Watching Mozilla align Firefox's extension API with Chromium's, I'm a little surprised that they haven't already made the move. If browser evolution continues along the current path, I predict Firefox will switch to Chromium within 3 years.

> Staring into my crystal ball tells me Firefox will become "janky" in the eyes of users on account of how many sites don't load on it like they do Chromium (because developers will only test on the most popular browser, because THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS LITERALLY EVERY TIME).

It's already happening. Until a year or two ago, the only time I ever opened Chrome was when a page using some sort of experimental API ran slowly or not at all on Firefox. Now, the number of mainstream websites I see with serious glitches in Firefox is increasing by the month.

They've always recommended the 32-bit version to users who require compatibility with those 3rd party extensions:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681792.aspx

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/choose-between-the-...

Win-Shift-S to select a rectangular area to capture

Exactly - the first time I looked at https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness my immediate thought was that we're recreating Yahoo, or maybe publishing a webpage with all of your bookmarks is making a comeback.

In 1994, I was looking at languages for a Windows GUI project, and I narrowed my options down to Borland ObjectVision (a sort-of "predecessor" to Delphi) and Visual Basic 3.0. I went with VB3 because the userbase was larger, but I've always wondered how my career would have played out if I'd chosen the other path.

One thing I hope the engineers are addressing: Google Maps recently directed me down a cobblestone street that required me to slow to a crawl. If an autonomous system attempted to maintain the speed limit on that road, I'm not sure the car would make it without anything being broken.