Interesting Links for 23-03-2023
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andrewducker- 1. Here's the full analysis of newly uncovered genetic data on COVID's origins
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- 2. How fast does spring travel? About 2mph
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- 3. GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question
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- 4. Fungus! Attacks! America!
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- 5. One of history's most famous psychological experiments was probably fake (Sending well people into psychiatric hospitals)
- (tags:psychology research history fraud OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic
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- 7. Ethical AI art generation? Adobe Firefly may be the answer
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- 8. Comparing the cost of living in the UK and Germany
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- 9. Life hacks from the 90s
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- 10. Scientists can now separate sperm based on whether they carry X or Y chromosomes with 80% accuracy
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- 11. Female Afghan judge living in fear of Taliban denied sanctuary in Britain
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That which lives not, cannot die...
Date: 2023-03-25 07:48 am (UTC)VBA is still being written: in all probability, more lines of VBA are written in a day, every day, than all other languages put together.
Everybody who has Microsoft Office has a VBA IDE (the integrated Development Environment) which brings an object model of the Office applications they're using into a simplified VB editor with a 'forms' builder.
It's been the language for Excel macros since 1998, and somewhere between ten and twenty-five percent of spreadsheet users write macros.
Full-time spreadsheet developers write substantial VBA extensions to Excel, every day, using event-driven object-oriented code, with calls to the Windows (or Mac) API.
Ask me how I know.
And I don't think that the first-generation VB coders abandoned the orphaned language for Java and JS: most of the ones I knew moved over to C# on the DotNET framework, rather than VB.Net.
Re: That which lives not, cannot die...
Date: 2023-03-25 08:20 am (UTC)