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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…

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 st…

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…

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 conti…

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 th…

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 …

>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 compl…

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…

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…

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…

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 descr…

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 …

> 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 Chro…