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>but everything you can do in VB6 you can do in powershell

Excel modules? OK not quite exactly the same but close.

I wrote a finite capacity planner system for a factory a fair few years ago in Excel to replace a huge number of Lotus 1-2-3 thingies with a vast amount of copy n paste from text screens and random sheets and what not.

I started with an automated forecast. We used an (memory may be fading) exponential fit which worked best using previous four weeks. eg last four Mondays would generate next Monday's demand.

The forecast could be tweaked by Planning at any time (aaaaiiiieee - Christmas!) The forecast was then fed into prep, make, bake, wrap and then dispatch. Between each process there is a stock holding. This is food so there are quite a few constraints on time, that's why we are making to forecast and not order. The customer will generally order your forecast if you are good enough and that is the whole point in the supply chain to the multiples: you know better than they do what will sell of your product.

The forecast cranks through the processes and stock points and generates a basic plan. It shows what efficiency is needed from each machine and the amount of manning etc. Oh dear you've got a Rademacher running at 170% which is a bit unlikely (110% is fine because 100% does not mean what you think it does in this industry - its a rate that is easy to achieve and not the absolute max). Oh and that machine is due 10 hours maintenance. Crap. OK, Mel off of Planning: do your thing ... a few parameters are tweaked, some production is offloaded to another member of the group and a packet of Hobnob biscuits is dispatched to a factory 200 miles away. The amended plan is run back through the model to ensure it satisfies the inputs and then when that is OK it is fixed for now.

I have not given too many details here as to specifics. I used a huge number of vlookups and I had a lot of code that ran through tables looking for the word "End" to indicate the last row (but one).

I basically found that VB gave me enough logic and whatever to get the job done in a reasonably safe way but without getting in the way of the business logic. I could concentrate on getting the job done.

Nowadays I'm a Linux (Windows and NetWare (lol)) sysadmin who masquerades as a PHB or MD but I still have a fondness for VBA. I recall getting someone's neural network spreadsheet VBA monster working after the most unlikely helpdesk call ever.

Good times.
You're working on proving your process.

Do you have enough patients to do that ?

If you do, why do you seek growth? Isn't it better, in the long term, to prove yourself, build a stable foundation and a good reputation among clinicians and than scale ?
Oh right, thanks!
yikes, so many passwords getting snooped on if you copy them to the clipboard
Drivers, travel agencies, stage lighting companies, industries that mostly depend on people transiting from one place to another. This has got to have a more widespread impact than anticipated since most of us are being actively recommended to stay indoors.
Technically, H(H(info) || msg) is enough, which is what we do in libra: https://github.com/libra/libra/blob/master/crypto/crypto/src...

the downside is that you are potentially doing more hashing, which is not true if you pre-compute the H(info) (and the absorption of H(info))
Yes, but one project of the Bible Museum is an explicitly religious one: to prove that the wording of the Bible has stayed constant, as evidence that its preservation has been inspired by God, and the text of the Bible should be therefore taken as inerrant.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/11/17/16658504/bible-mus...
Has there ever, in the history of learning, been a subject like that? A subject so damaging that it forever ruined anyone who learned it?

Or maybe Dijkstra was wrong.
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It was like they were touching Jesus. I was uncomfortable, and so was he.
This is the only reason I chose not to delete some old accounts from different sites, and check on them yearly-ish. I used to think the internet as ephemeral, but I don't have that luxury as long as anyone else doesn't. From relatives to banks the authentication crisis is real. My soul is forever bound to some shitty teenage usernames and some poorly secured hashes distributed around the world.
Those comments are gold:

>AT&T was willing to tap into their Strategic Packet Reserve yesterday and now Comcast has to follow suit. Let those extremely rare and finite in number packets flow!
Slightly more than half, since your worst performers tend to be disproportionately hit, and you reduce support staff and managers.
Excellent detective work, Lou! /s

Do you really think his ego is that Trumpian that he's throwing a tantrum over something he made 45 years ago?

If I were him I'd be grateful that that piece of software began my path to billions and billions of dollars, but I wouldn't be angry about something not really used anymore being classified obsolete.
to me, that was always a great example of the difference between IT and CS.

I totally understand how someone trained in VB was "mutilated" for CS. Because the priorities for CS coding are totally different than for commercial coding.

But from an IT perspective the point of programming is to be profitable, not perfect. VB allowed people to write profitable programs quickly. It was a fantastic environment if all you wanted to do was write desktop applications for businesses.
Brain-doping produced by your own body
Well, for starters we can at least draw the line so you're able, as a rule, to replace your own battery without having to find the closest Apple store (possibly hours away in some countries) and hand the device over and wait who knows how long for service...

And at that point, why shouldn't you be able to swap in a new screen if it breaks? Maybe you're not clever enough to do it yourself, but I'm sure some local small business owner can hire and train people to be experts in screen and battery replacement. Then a repair for your device is 5 minutes away instead of an hour+ and demand is spread across providers (who can compete on price and quality).
1. Look into their xFi Advantage plan. It's a something like $15/month add-on to the internet plans that adds various monitoring (and security?) features that you probably do not care about, and adds unlimited data.

The catch? Only available if you rent an xFi router/modem from them, which is something like $10-12/month. (It might also only be available if you have 300 Mbps or faster service).

Still, $15+$12 < $50, so it is a cheaper way to get unlimited than going for the $50/month unlimited add on with your own modem.

I believe you can put the xFi Advantage router/modem into bridge mode if you want to use your own router.

2. When doing anything with your Comcast service, go to an Xfinity store or a Comcast service center in person to deal with it rather than talking to customer service on the phone.

I've done this several times, and always got someone who could effectively deal with whatever my issue was.
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Definitely. I replaced the camera on my last phone, because the lens cracked. Unfortunately, about a week after that repair, my phone fell out of my pocket while getting out of the car, and that repair was beyond my capability... I try and buy phones with a removable/swappable battery, bit those are becoming increasingly rare. I wont buy a phone without a microsd slot, though.
It must've been tough to give up on WSL1 (to call it something), but it really sucked. It was full of bugs.
Wouldn't that also have precedence in the history of the automobile? Pretty much a free-for-all while development was advancing fast, large & powerful corporations dominating the industry and good chunks of the economy - and then a Ralph Nader[0] comes along and at the right place and the right time with the right tenacity, things change.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader
bento lab is an interesting idea for a field test in remote regions, especialy for surveillance work.

it would have to be acceptable to be expendable, and it is better in the long term to have these instruments in separate form.

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

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

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

the big issue would be continuity of reagents, and perhaps forming some just in time method for preparing wet solutions from dry stock.
Maybe see if you can partner with a national pharmacy to put flyers in opioid prescription bags. Not sure of the pros and cons but it would really get the message out.
Chicago buses have an estimated arrival at most stops along the major routes. Every single but stop also has a unique number on the sign that you can text to a service and get estimates back by text. It makes using buses so much easier and less of a hassle because there's less guessing involved. I had my usual stop numbers memorized so I could text ahead of time and see when to leave, or maybe decide to just walk the route instead of waiting if it was going to be a while. They have that info on a website but texting was faster.
Try Gambas. It is the spiritual successor of VB6.
As the first comment there points out, a 96% accuracy doesn't mean much without knowing the false positive and false negative rates.

I have no doubt that this is good work in the right direction - but the headline alone doesn't make it a home run.
Wait until these people are running your healthcare. It's gonna be epic.
In about 1998 I got introduced to programming beyond CMD prompt through VB. My first form was just an input box, a button, when clicked, alerted the box contents onto a dialogue box. My mind was blown when I found that using & in label makes the Alt+ keyboard shortcut.
Wow @ptsneves, that sounds really cool. Could you give me a consultation on video streaming? I want to implement this into my product. If so, please write to my username at gmail. Thank you!
The only sales you can control are the ones that happen in your own country. I'm sure you can buy seat belts from Ali Baba at a fraction of the price, they'll probably be hilariously non-compliant to your country's safety standards, whether or not they work can be modeled by a fair dice roll, and I'm sure your insurer will deny any claims you make after installing them. But you can certainly buy them.
> The worst result - which I've seen far too many times - is that new-tech only 50-80% replaces old-tech - and now you have to maintain both.

i’ve seen this too, (in apps) where there are 3 different “reactive” libraries in use that all do the same thing smh..

my feeling is, if you are going to change out the technology, then to avoid said problem of maintaining both, is the change needs to happen very very quickly to avoid having to maintain the old one while getting side-tracked to implementing new features and the transition gets sidelined... its very difficult to pull off
The relics business is way more organized than I thought. There are technically three classes of relics, first (actual remnant of a saint), second (remnant of object belonging to saint) or third (touched a first class relic or a saint’s tomb) [1]. So technically it’s always possible to manufacture more relics.

[1] https://m.ncregister.com/blog/smcafee/i-made-a-third-class-r...
That is so sad.

"There’s something deeply right about how list indexing and function application are the same operation". That is a quote from a recent submission about K (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22504106), and that is a perfect example of how I usually get VB nostalgia attacks: somebody talks about a thing in other language they consider amazing implying that that thing is unique for that language despite it was implemented in VB and earlier. Sometimes that somebody can ever be Microsoft as they brag about adding more features into C#'s switch statement with increasingly ugly syntax in every new version completely ignoring that they did them better in VB.
It's amazing how the whole world can be in turmoil about a presence we barely bothered to actually look at because there's simply no point in doing so.
Python didn't have the developer will to embrace interop between Python 2 and 3 transparently in bytecode, so you had a hard switch over.

CIL doesn't have that problem, you can keep writing in VB.Net without being forced off a supported compiler.

I was in a fork in the road and had the choice between Python or .Net to move forward with my career a few years back, there were a few factors on why I went .Net. Being one of very few pleasing to use and (extremely) widespread languages with static typing, along with MS's early embrace of WebAssembly were both major influences. Yet the biggest was the Python core devs refusal to address Python2/3 in a better way. There's no good reason why you couldn't use the same Python 3 interpreter for Python 2 code. I get the maintenance argument, but this raises questions about the future, and it makes their platform look rinky dink today. I came to the conclusion I'd never build anything important on it, which is essentially everything you write, as projects tend to grow.
I apologize for the rhetoric. It was 7 handshakes.
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I'd rather be continuously tracked by a thousand websites and volunteer my birthday and location history to them than ever click a cookie or GDPR popup again.
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My high school in ~2010 had the progression C -> C++ -> Java. I remember the C++ that we were taught being easy enough to learn after a semester of C, and graduated before I could take Java.
yes and also there's not much actual content in the library either due to the games limitation.
This seems like a publicity stunt more than anything.
Do we have to blame anyone?
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As long as they give me something to use in the place of VBA, I can't wait for all forms of Basic to die. It hurts to use it, but I have to because there isn't anything else in Excel.
This obviously depends a lot on usage. Rotational drives are sensitive to physical shocks (common for portable devices; people drop them), while SSDs have a limited number of writes. This basically makes them wear items which a well-designed device should make easy to replace -- much like the battery.
I live in one of the cities in the article about a mile away from the city center and this is 100% the problem. It's 3-4 times as slow as driving and comparable to a brisk walk. And that's assuming that a bus isn't behind or I just miss one and the next one isn't for 30 minutes. For example, there's a popular restaurant/bar area 2.5 miles away from my house. Driving is 10 minutes, bus is 50 with a transfer, and walking is 50.
> You don't think other OS's have had the opportunity?

For most non-technical people that didn't separate the concept of OS and hardware, there was no opportunity. Even if you were one of those technical people who bought a PC, wiped the hard drive and installed Linux, you still paid the Microsoft tax, which the OEM had to pass on to you in order to sell Windows at all.

It's not a tired argument because the ramifications of that action are still relevant today.

> Windows is still king today because of backwards-compatibility and nothing else.

IE11 is a perfect example of why this is a bad thing.

The fact that people were able to use Office at home and at work, and Office became a strong defacto standard for documents due to the substrate of Windows being ubiquitous, also had a lot to do with it.

> the point still stands and no other OS has risen up to take Windows crown.

The Windows crown is irrelevant in a mostly-mobile-and-server world. Why did Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 try so desperately to force mobile UI on a desktop experience? Why does Windows 10X look more like a Google Chrome UI than anything else?
I was literally out of toilet paper, paper towels, and hand soap but couldn’t bother buying them since I was exhausted from working 50-60hour weeks. The Coronavirus caused our management to be concerned for our health and this gave us a break to go shopping. So naturally I buy whatever I need or have run out of.

This makes me wonder how many other people in the world are also tired and exhausted.

Thank god for time off.
Imagine what the world world be like if all hotspots were open all the time.
Is it a coincidence that this happens the same day Gates leaves the board???
I heard it before, but it is not very commonly used. It is a bit more like a literaric aphorism than something people would use in any everyday conversation.
If the company doing the training pays their trained employees a competitive wage and promotes a positive company culture than they really shouldn't be too worried about losing employees once the apprenticeship is finished. IMO people job hop mostly because of poor leadership (ie poor direct management or poor company culture) or because their current company wages fail to keep pace with industry standards.
It always seems to me like the people who talk the loudest about 'dead weight' have a lot of employees who can't or won't detail how things work and are meant to work.

Seeing my code and processes through the lens of a beginner helps me improve my code and documentation. Seeing their code through the lens of a beginner helps some other people fluff their egos.

You don't really notice the difference until you get a chance to grow your company fairly rapidly, and even then some bosses misinterpret the people who hoard knowledge as their most trusted lieutenants instead of the boat anchor dragging them down.

See also teams who "can't find good people". Either your bosses aren't offering enough money, or you have shut the door behind you and you're trying to find people who made it through that door somewhere else. You should be mostly looking for people who can learn, instead of people who already have.
Got it

Is it not possible to just use redis or some windows equivalent for this kind of requirement?
https://cuelang.org/docs/integrations/openapi/
So is the wild animal trade that introduced the virus?
I mean if something is just shorthand for "things people do", it gets credit and blame for a lot of things...
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There is an argument to be made for immersion in thinkers who lived before one's time. Such immersion can call into question the presuppositions one has grown into.

This is a good article; I learned about one of my favorites. I thought Simone Weil had been forgotten; I am pleased to see not.

> "The logic of the rebel is to want to serve justice so as not to add to the injustice of the human condition, to insist on plain language so as not to increase universal falsehood, and to wager, in spite of human misery, for happiness."
Probably just hyperbolic. Bad habits are a common complaint in music and sports education too. Not insurmountable, but not helpful, and it must be frustrating as a teacher to have to unteach bad habits.
And/or maybe he just wants to help people. He donated to other countries too.

And/or the economy of China depends on the US being healthy (physically and financially) so Americans can keep buying the manufactured goods which China exports. As a customer, the US is too big to fail.
From my knothole it seems like people generally leave when they have learned all they can. They'll leave anyway, but I believe I've had better luck holding onto teammates longer when they got to continue padding their resume.

The safer you feel about your employability, the less anxious you are to test it.
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That's bad :/

hopefully they stop this anti-consumer practice. I'm hopping AirBnB can lead the way there.
I don’t disagree but the overflowing of permission prompts is how we get people just clicking Yes to everything. There is a balance. Location services are worth of a permission, but the clipboard seems a bit on the trivial side of things. Then again, people paste passwords, so...
We’re talking about caps. As in, gb/month that residential users are often subjected to.
A few years ago, Pasteboard was a popular way of how advertising SDKs communicated between their own instances in different apps on iOS. It allowed those SDKs to determine which apps were installed on the phone and combine/mine user profile data across apps. Meaning: if you entered a social login in one app, others immediately got your demographic data.

I assumed Apple plugged this hole by now :/
Would love to see your sources. I’m shocked there are still people like you claiming this is all an overreaction while the smart folk are all bracing for impact.

You gotta get it together man, this is bigger than anything you’ve ever seen in your life. If we’re very lucky it’ll be bad in the coming weeks and months, if we’re not it’ll be much much worse.
At the private bank my sister is working in, they will have to come on site.
Apparently they will be rotated regularly.
The market might often lack it, but isn't that simply an untapped resource? After the crisis is done the company can go on claiming how much they did to help far and wide. It's hard to find a better advertisement, especially since it's the company itself that's helping and not just some endorsement from elsewhere.
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I suppose in a case where like half the population had the virus those might factor less. And if the errors skew towards false positives, it could be a quick prescreen to get an enriched pool of candidates for manual checking. Definitely not a panacea yet though
I just took a look - it's really cool. We'll check out Google's DLP in more detail! Thanks!
Previous submission at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22559045

I thought HN was supposed to collapse duplicate submissions to a single topic? URL appears to be identical. Is there some kind of cache issue in HN's backend?
So if your email is hacked you lose access to everything?

How does a user revoke the keys if this happens?
Have you looked at how much stuff is packed in those AirPods? There’s certainly not enough room for a screwable cap and a consumer-safe lithium battery, while retaining rigidity and weatherproofing.

Bedsides, how many AirPods are likely to be dying from poor battery life compared to being lost, damaged or upgraded?

If this did happen, I suspect there would be more instances of people losing the battery cap, or throwing it away because of undiagnosed battery terminal faults, or of children dying because they swallowed the impossibly small pill shaped battery...
Hey, I made this simple site because I want to see this 'curve' everyone is talking about.

The press just give today's numbers and all graphs show cumulative total not cases per day. It's easier to see a trend and get an idea if exponential growth is happening by looking at how cases per day are growing or slowing.
Is xfinitywifi open yet? I'm still getting a payment prompt.
This is a special case of course and I work for a company where we are told to work from home right now regardless of symptoms or not.

However when it comes to the common cold that is something that will be going of for weeks and return several times for some people, just the light symptoms. No fever but some coughing and sneezing.

For some job roles and in some companies with good culture it works great to work home but for a lot you cannot really be home for like 6 weeks every winter because you are missing out too much or are not effective enough.
The permissions can be unidrectional, e.g. password manager grants permission to a specific app for the next N seconds. Similar to "add photo" permission.
> P.S. stephen harrod buhner is a herbal “medicine” quack so stop posting his nonsense.

Do you have any criticisms of the actual PDF I posted?
When the bodies start stacking up, we’ll all have a chance to decide which decisions were injustices and which were pragmatic.