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[MDoerner/AdventOfCode2021] 2 commits

now we're talking!!

bed time

waves @MathieuGuindon

Nice to see ya!

waves

creepily watching two randos waving at each other

lol

Here's hoping that things have slowed down enough at the new job, the home is getting itself reorganized enough, and that the general craziness of the last two years has settled down enough that we get you back, at least on the weekends!

doesn't expect full-on 24/7, battery killing presence on chat/CR/etc.

At least, not yet. ;)

currently just having issues with the work laptop, but yeah things are falling into place

in other news, the Azure environment now has the GitHub API key, so all the endpoints work now

(from remote desktop session on mobile lol)

sets aside some Christmas cash to buy Mug a big portable battery for his phone

side note, that application I use to send http requests is so, so aptly called "Insomnia"

ahhhhh Mug, you're supposed to sleep at night

:)

but 2AM is reasonable!

I mean ... depends on when you stand up

6 hours is usually too little

scrum at 9 every morning

(went to bed at 3AM and slept until 10AM)

gdi why is static code analysis so slow?

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2 CI pipelines running, one is at 24 minutes, the other at 15....

that tool runs an analysis across the whole project before allowing filtering the results, which is flipping stupid

sounds like some ducky I know :D

except that the ducky is not intended for reporting purposes

man it's awesome to have that 2nd 3rd 4th monitor with this chat on, been forever!

it's a very crappy 1027x768 display, but I'm here!

Only have 3 monitors for the work laptop setup, but I've got 4 for home use! Just got a new desktop machine and was wondering if I could use the 3 video ports on the motherboard in addition to the 4 on the GPU. Sadly, no. I do have 2 1024x768 monitors gathering dust that I could have used for the purpose...

that resolution isn't what you remember, trust me

(Need to get 4 matching monitors...)

oooh begs Santa for another curved 34" on the wall

eh, yeah, one of the 4 in my current setup is 1024x768. It does nicely for some monitoring things (heh, get it? "monitoring things"...) like VPN and CPU utilization.

... terrible Dad joke ...

hehe

are you my daughter? She tries so hard to not even roll her eyes at me that I'm concerned she's going to pull an ocular muscle!

After finally getting a 32in 4k screen, I no longer desire tons of monitors. It fills up my vision fairly well at my distance.

@FreeMan not the last time I checked.

They are not expensive anymore: samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/uhd-and-wqhd/…

curious, how do you manage to to arrange windows on something so big? Does Win10/11 (or whatever Linux windows manager) allow for nice snapping of multiple windows within the screen size?

@BigBen lol

@FreeMan for Linux that answer depends completely on the actual window manager you'd be using...

for Windows I'd presume it offers the usual quadrant shenanigans

@FreeMan I do left\right snapping. It's similar to two physical pieces of paper side by side. Or a large book.

I never got in to quadrant snapping, although Windows does do that

Of course it does... Not only does *nix offer 37 ways to skin each and every breed of cat, each method has its own religious following, complete with clergy structure.

Wait, this is much larger than pieces of paper....

It's almost like 2 books...

hrm... have to go look at quadrant snapping. Not gonna be useful on my 1920x1080 display, but curious...

Just drag a window in to a corner

@HackSlash wow that works!! Never tried a corner, just top & edges...

cheers

Actually, not bad for Win Explorer windows, though I prefer Zabkat's xplorer 2 lite (free version) for dual window browsing.

I use WinKey+ArrowKey for that (left then up docks to upper-left quadrant)

Anybody else noticing DDG not being so ducky?

you mean being a bit slow?

not that I noticed, but I haven't been doing much searching today

it keeps timing out.

Well, Access has me totally stumped. I have used DoCmd.CopyObject CurrentDb.Name, "localTable", acTable, "linkedTable" to copy a table from my backend in to the frontend. It makes an entry that appears to be a linked table with the localTable name. This seems odd. So I hover over it and it shows the path to the backend. Okay. So I close and open the backend and the table is not there. Reopen the front end and I see the linked table. I can open it. It has data. Where is it?

How could it be a linked table and also not exist in the backend? Wouldn't the link fail to open and show data?

are you sure you aren't looking at a nav pane shortcut to a local table?

yeah, I just exported my DB to source. When I open the tbldef it shows that it's a link to "linkedTable"... So it's just a shortcut. Another link with a different name.

That's not what I expected CopyObject to do

wait a minute. DoCmd.CopyObject doesn't let you specify 1) the source database; only the source object and 2) whether to convert the pasted object as a local table or something.

When you do it interactively, you get a dialog asking whether to copy structure only, both structure and data or to append into an existing table.

because it does not give you such options, I would assume that it'd just copy a linked table

btw, if I interactively copy'n'paste a linked table, the dialog has 4th option which is also the default, to paste it as a linked table

so that'd explain why you end up with a localtable that's in fact a linked table. Not sure why your backend lost it, though.

I've asserted often that DoCmd really should be avoided - it's a poor way to programming because it depends so much on the context as if you were doing it interactively.

Yep, it's a one off thing and I'm likely doing something hacky

I'll just do it manually I suppose

It would be nice to have options as seen in that dialog

There should be a CopyObject on the Database object instead of DoCmd. That way you have the source defined.

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