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Per https://smartasset.com/taxes/all-about-irs-form-1040ez , Form 1040EZ is discontinued; there is only a single redesigned Form 1040 for all filers to use.

TIOBE tracks the trends (or at least hopes to) of people looking to learn/re-learn/familiarize/re-familiarize themselves about whatever programming languages for whatever reasons. …

I'm personally convinced that a strong case is made that connects leaded gasoline with high crime rates. Certainly larger police forces and legalized abortion and various public po…

Per https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-exactly-how-much-i... , retirees have a lifestyle of roughly $60k or so per year. At a more modest $50k, and assuming a portfolio of w…

>But only variants can be null or empty... That's true, only Variants can be Null (Null is a state of Variant); however, Empty is translated to whatever default value makes sense f…

Fun factoid, VBA/VB6 dichotomizes between the "NULL" of value (keyword Null) versus the "null" of reference (keyword Nothing). Dim x x = Null Debug.Print "x", x Debug.Print "x = x"…

Fruit juices should be seen as a form of processed sugar - even if the processing is not as substantial as making table sugar. Whole fruit - such as a whole orange or grape or appl…

Speculation robed as explanation, but maybe still good for sake of conversation. 1. It is nearly two decades since the mind-share decimation event of .NET occurred, circa 2002: Vis…

https://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Consumer+... "The class of persons able to buy goods and services other than those that satisfy their basic needs. ..."

>apart perhaps from VB but it is going away Even presuming it's gone zombie, it'll be 30+ years before it might scatter to the winds... (And that's presuming that VBA is finally no…

At about 25 minutes into this, the claim was made that the world was financially stable, currencies were backed by gold, the "real economy" was in balance with amount of money avai…

Maybe this is my limitation, but it still looks like "love" means about the same at its core, thru the times - I don't see a "lost meaning" to it. But I do see "flavors" for love, …

>The self-sacrificing love, agape, is what the GP is talking about. Perhaps, but the GP began with "the word love has lost its meaning throughout the ages". I don't think it has. P…

Could you give a citation for that "love for the ancient and medievals was akin to the word passion"? My understanding of that love-to-passion link is by way of Christianity, i.e. …

Examples of corporations expressing religious beliefs: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/03/24/he... Per above: "Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties' argum…

And now, in VBA: Sub Main() Dim i As Integer For i = 1 To 100 Dim f As Integer f = IIf(i Mod 3, 0, 1) Or IIf(i Mod 5, 0, 2) Dim buf As String If f = 0 Then buf = Format(i) Else buf…

I wonder if the world-wide trend on high blood pressure is aligned with that of vitamin D?: - https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/17956/PDF - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic…

See https://ifixit.org/blog/8448/apple-audio-adapter-teardown/

Yeah, that was an odd start, given that Dr. Downey is a Professor of Computer Science. Even a charitable suggestion that he was looking to keep things as understandable as possible…

DOS isn't based on Xenix at all. It's a clone of CP/M, and CP/M was its own thing for 8-bit CPUs (and later 16-bit).

>the company started out supplying a Fortran compiler for the Altair 8800 I would suppose maybe at some point they did (not sure on this) but it's long been my understanding that B…

>According to them the issue is that there are lots of people who are "neither employed nor actively looking for work". I wonder if we're talking past each other. Perhaps robots ar…

>Technological unemployment may happen some day. But it hasn't happened yet. That's the crux of the matter: Whether "some day" happens sooner rather than later. Also, what to do wh…

Could it be that humanity at large is doomed to repeat its usual method of a "reset"? Planet Earth isn't getting any bigger, and if we're lucky worldwide population may plateau aro…