Bill Meyer

And worse, these apparently random changes lead to increased noise levels in source control.

I think that Excel may be the most overused application on PCs. My observation is that it has been used, and badly, in highly repetitive tasks which would be excellent candidates for replacement by dedicated applications. A spreadsheet is great for what if operations, and for quick and dirty manipulations of data. However, once people begin inserting formulas in many cells, things rapidly go off the rails, and repetitive labor is used in lieu of intelligent design. That said, I would make exceptions for tools such as the late, lamented Lotus Improv, and its successor, Quantrix, both far better suited to well designed analyses.

Not very old. Eight days. I don't see the reason for a freeze, apart from preventing exercises of ill temper. But those can be accomplished in new posts, too.

I was prepared to consider that it was my ageing memory, but not being able to edit my own replies is illogical.

Interesting. It appears from my research that SSH is the key to this, but I also have read that SSH on Windows is a nightmare. Not being a networking guru, I am not altogether willing to engage in lengthy experiments which may simply prove to waste time.

We are using TortoiseHg, but I am finding problems with large file transfers. Extensive web searches have shown that the complaint has been around for years, and *may* be a Python/SSL issue. Or not. One of the few seemingly useful articles suggested disabling SSL 2.0. Did that, and initially, it was encouraging. But no, that was a fluke. Have you encountered this?

You say you want a count down, but then you ask for an interval. Which is it that you need?

You misspelled "feature."

I got the whole story, which took minutes to relate. I don't recall now how many names they thought up, only to find on a name search that they were taken. One at a time, and each time a trip to the registration office.

Many years ago, I used a contractor whose company name was Solfan. (Sick Of Looking For A Name)

Kids!

Or as a friend advised me when I started learning to code, on my wood-burning CPU: First make it work, then worry about performance.

And other things, too....

There is another one out there, which hasn't turned up yet. Something to the effect that 90% of programmers are wrong 90% of the time about where to optimize.

And as for one-liners: "Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. " - C. A. R. Hoare - often misattributed to D. E. Knuth,who was himself quoting Hoare

And other details, such as when it "restarts" without first killing the IDE.

I'll pass, but keep it in mind for the next time I have to start fresh. Too high a price just to lose that error.

DeactivateFontsInfo is not present in any code on my system, whether in GExperts source or SynEdit source. And the shutdown error is present in 10.2.3, as well. Uninstall/reinstall after all else is in makes no difference. As to FixInsight, the last release was 1 June 2020, and the issue is still present.

The space in G:\Delphi Projects is a problem. You need your path in double quotes.

I hope someone can offer a solution, as I find some of the newly added shortcuts in Sydney conflict with some in my plug-ins.

As David, says, that is not enough. You need to parse all units, yes, but you need also to deal with many other issues. Think about like-named methods. Think about uses clauses. Consider the search path. If you want reliable results, there are many details which come into play. Sounds like a wish list item for LSP.

Indeed, I had looked at the page with his implementation, but failed to open the page with the article. 😞 Multitasking is best done by machine.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoroshiro128%2B As the commentary indicates, all PRNGs have some deficiencies, and those may or may not be of concern in a given application. This one is reputedly of high statistical quality, and very fast. I did not find an expression of the algorithm, so there remains the question of whether the implementation is accurate.

Yes. The alternatives were ugly. Although the component supposedly implemented a standard encryption scheme, others which implemented the same yielded different results, and we had to support previously encrypted data in customers' systems.

Had just one experience with it. A former employer used an encryption component for which they had no source. And the publisher of the component was out of business. We needed to move form D6 to D2006, so wrapped the component in a DLL and moved on. Never use a component without source. Never.