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    Re: Post Race!

    Now THAT's interesting. You may be finding yourself embarking upon waters you may never have truly believed in. Since women have generally longer lifespans than men, finding eligible (not physically...
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    Re: Next US government shutdown in a few weeks

    Taken from Wikipedia:


    I like the fact that it is called a "critical mistake". Yes, yes it is!!
  3. VS 2022 Re: Problem with MemoryStream working on second attempt

    I second that, but want to emphasize the key point to how DDay re-worte ByteToImage.

    The using directive will properly clean up the object, even if an exception were to be thrown. That removes the...
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    Re: Next US government shutdown in a few weeks

    Websites use ricochet biscuits.
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    Re: Please Reset With ElRuffsta

    That's your choice, and silence is also fine. After all, nobody (well, nobody other than JMC) answers EVERY question....and John doesn't really, either. Most people only contribute to a small...
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    Re: Post Race!

    Wow, just wow.

    I was all for it at first, not so much now. I wouldn't end it, either, but I'd certainly be making sure the bunker was properly stocked, too.
  7. Re: Tooltip does not appear sometimes: Windows Forms

    I don't think you'll find a solution to this, though the questions JMC asked are very pertinent.

    I've encountered something similar to what you described. In my case, the form was showing a series...
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    Please Reset With ElRuffsta

    Sometimes, relationships start off poorly, and that has been the case with ElRuffsta. After a lengthy discussion with him, he has asked, and I am asking, that everybody agree to start over. It isn't...
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    Re: Post Race!

    Yeah, "best of luck" is only truly estimated in hindsight, and even then we're often wrong.
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    Re: Old school learning new techniques.

    VB6 and VB.NET both interact with databases, but the model is sufficiently different that it can really trip you up if you try to bring forwards (most of) your understanding of VB6. The closest...
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    Re: Truth Social

    I will be interested in the performance of the stock. Initial valuations are usually wrong. Ideally, the value rises, but in this case, the value seems likely to plummet. Guess not, in this case, as...
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    Re: Post Race!

    Yeah. You'd been silent for so long, I was beginning to worry that you'd been buried in a flowerbed somewhere.

    Interesting ride.
  13. Re: how to show data in a table in txt file

    If the data comes from a database, then you are probably putting it into a datatable already. In that case, saving it to XML would work, but it would only be ideal in certain circumstances. You talk...
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    VS 2019 Re: Process faster in nested for loops

    What would it be an array OF? From that example, it would have to be Object, because you have a mix of strings and what certainly looks like integers. That's not going to be ideal in any case. With...
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    Re: Post Race!

    Yeah, nobody is less disadvantaged in all of history.
  16. Re: how to show data in a table in txt file

    Does it HAVE to be in that format? After all, the easiest way to move data to/from a table into a text file would be XML, since then you could use a Datatable to hold and work with the data in the...
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    VS 2019 Re: Process faster in nested for loops

    From what you've shown us, there isn't much to optimize. As written, those loops will take a bit of time, though it largely depends on what happens inside that If statement. If it has to be done,...
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    Re: Post Race!

    Yeah, totally this. I'm already there, as you pretty much can't get hired where I'm at (which pays below average, by the way) without either a graduate degree or about ten years working with us at a...
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    Re: Truth Social

    I agree. If he can only sell 1% per month, then it will take him a long time to totally divest, since he's starting with a 56% share, reportedly. Still, the appearance of him selling should be enough...
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    Re: Next US government shutdown in a few weeks

    Yeah, that puts me off a perfectly fine snack. Of course, we have biscuits and gravy, which ought to baffle the English.
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    Re: Post Race!

    I'm not sure whether people are starting to realize this or not. I think kids discover it anew every year, but older people never seem surprised. Looking back, I feel rather mixed about it. At this...
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    Re: Post Race!

    One internal job I got, which came with a hefty raise, I didn't even know it was offered. I thought I was talking to the head of research about what I wanted to do with my career. It was only a...
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    Re: Next US government shutdown in a few weeks

    You have to look at outflow vs inflow. We're still running a deficit, to be sure, but the economy has also grown considerably, and as that grows, revenue also grows.
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    Re: Truth Social

    My understanding is that the majority owner of such a company has to hold for six months. I hadn't heard anything about this being a board decision. I thought it was a rule for SPACs, though I'm not...
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    Re: Post Race!

    For every job I've been in, nobody cared all that much what I studied, as that I had the degree. After all, the same degree from different schools will result from different classes. Also, if you go...
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    Re: Truth Social

    Meme stocks tend to be flashy. In this case, the long term viability of the stock is certainly terrible. The stock is solely Trump, otherwise it is below junk status. Therefore, how would one invest?...
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    Re: [RESOLVED] List of Anonymous objects

    Not Framework. This is .NET 8.
  28. Thread: Israel?

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    Re: Israel?

    I wouldn't say "Israel". There's certainly a group within Israel.

    I don't understand how that country hangs together. The group that has a birth rate greater than the replacement rate is the...
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    Re: Truth Social

    SPACs have fallen out of favor, recently. You posted the numbers for the best years of the SPAC.

    This one might do well. Trump could easily be a meme stock.
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    Re: Using a module

    To add a different point of view: Filling one datatable per form is possible. Is it the right thing to do? Maybe. There are lots of factors that go into it. If form A is using parts of the datatable...
  31. Calling .NET 8 Windows Class Library from .NET Framework Project

    I've been playing around with a way to dynamically load .NET Core dlls from a .NET Framework project. It has been interesting.

    The .NET 8 project currently has this in it:



    Public Shared...
  32. Re: Adding System.Windows.Forms to .Net 8 dll

    Yeah, that gets it. Adding the missing parts to .vbproj also works. Strange that I couldn't find it, though.
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    Re: Hamilton 5x World Champion ?

    Unless you count the cars themselves.
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    Re: [RESOLVED] decimal to binary

    Yeah, but this is VB6. Either everything is out of date, or nothing is. There are threads that have been dormant for years, then come back to life for a time, then go dormant again. For a language...
  35. [RESOLVED] Adding System.Windows.Forms to .Net 8 dll

    From everything I have seen, this should be possible, but for some reason, I haven't been able to add System.Windows.Forms to a .Net 8 class library project. I need to add a custom cursor, which is...
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    Re: [RESOLVED] decimal to binary

    In general, it isn't considered polite to resurrect a thread from so long ago. It can cause a few side effects which can be seen as welcome or unwelcome, depending on how one views it. After all,...
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    Re: Post Race!

    I think it depends on the field. It wasn't possible where I went to school, and I've never heard of it in Biology. That may be because a masters tends to be a mini-doctorate, whereas in some other...
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    Re: new project - DB help needed please

    People have various opinions on this forum. If they are only going to cause trouble, it would be best if you keep them to yourselves.
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    Re: Post Race!

    Not going for any further degrees or titles, though, aside from emeritus.
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    Re: Post Race!

    I stopped with a masters because, in this field, an MS opens doors, but a PhD closes them. There are lots of jobs that aren't open to anybody with less than an MS, but lots of those jobs aren't open...
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