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20 hours ago, FreeDelphiPascal said:

People from Tiobe must really really hate Delphi.

Considering hate stems mostly from envy, I can live with that.

On 5/15/2022 at 10:03 AM, Rinzwind said:

i first had the impression Tiobe stood for the number of queries in a month about a certain language, but apparently that's not the case. Pointless.

I guess it used to be, but for quite some time it's more convoluted. As the number of queries only reflects on poor documentation, steep learning curve and hype. So...no wonder that is not used anymore, but how else could one measure a languages popularity compared to others? Number of books published on the subject? Sales? I'm glad I don't have to come up with some language rating scheme...

That portal is prone to hiccups. Sometimes it wants me to solve dozens of captchas before finally letting me through other times it forgets me, but most of the times it works just fine. Just be patient with it.

Last time the site was up was roughly in July of 23 according to the Wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230712231651/http://addictive-software.com/index.htm

Sadly the site provided zero information about the manufacturer (like an imprint or some "About us" blaba) and neither does the current registration information https://www.whois.com/whois/addictive-software.com

Just released: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/ so at least on one level they (MS) seem to be keen on supporting this architecture.

Hi, check out our "Code of Conduct" on the bottom of the page. Or in this link: https://en.delphipraxis.net/guidelines/

Good work. Generally high blood pressure is considered a silent killer. It almost did me in three years ago. So check it regularly!

I feel like the size of the structures or movements are almost irrelevant as long as you don't change magnitudes. As @Leif Uneus said, integers could be enough. Any calculations could be done on the fly, as movements are almost always slower than calculating speed.

I know, I know. Hence the Face. But I just love that I can quickly rule out transportation errors by looking at the payload. On the other hand, my payload is rarely bigger than a few kilobytes.

And registrations are open again...and spammers are back. Please be vigilant guys, and we'll try to react and delete as fast as possible.

Yet another structured data serializing standard. I'll keep using slow but (human) readable YAML. 😁

Yeah, I'll suggest that, internally.

Yepp, that's the status quo. Spammers are getting really creative and until we (well, mostly @Daniel) can't find a practical solution, registration will stay closed. Sorry about that.

On 8/7/2023 at 5:01 PM, Mohammed Nasman said:

Hi Ian, 

  It seems an easy one, PM me and I will help you.

Regards,

Yeah, I'm sorry, but that is not how this forum works. If every question would be resolved via PM, anyone looking for an answer to the same questions would get to find nothing here... and have no motivation to share his knowledge in this forum.

Considering the simple fact that a VPN access point would be exposed to the entire Internet with its sh*tload of malevolent entities out there just waiting to pounce on just another self made "secure" server I would not touch this project with a ten foot pole and oven mits...and a hazmat suit. Just introduce your pal to WireGuard and be done with it.

8 hours ago, alogrep said:

Funny thing: I put IDE in the serach of this newsgroup and get zero results.

The forum search requires single words to be at least 4 letters. Sorry, there is not much to do about it. You can try searching less broad by using more than one keyword i.e. "IDE freeze"

This is a highly specialized subject and neither my job nor my personal interests got me all to involved in this area of computer science. So as a layman, if I understand this correctly, he'll have to go back to the drawing board, as soon as he discovers characters are now UTF8, UTF16 or even UTF32, because his finely tuned algorithm is designed for single byte characters. Or is it as easy as switching data types?

Oh, darn. I'm just lucky nobody depends on my numbers then...

And for this reason floating point numbers should not be checked for equality without an 𝛆. So in (our) Delphi world: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Alexandria/en/Floating-Point_Comparison_Routines

14 hours ago, David Schwartz said:

One red-flag to me is the CMMI Level 3. This means you're not changing any line of code that isn't tied back to a change request somewhere in Jira. 

That is actually not as horrible as you might think. In fact the exact opposite, once you work with more than two folks on a project AND need to save time on discussions about who changed what and why. On a side note: ISO 9001 is a joke, try ISO 13485 and IEC 62304 for a less fun time.

Perhaps @Daniel has a solution?

Quoting is indeed rather tedious.

But a workaround for this might be the possibility to write an answer and select blocks from the original post and then click quote selection. Works pretty good, and will give you the result you wanted, without all the Copypasta.

Well, this thread is from 2020, but it still might give you some pointers:

1 hour ago, Fr0sT.Brutal said:

Autoupdate is evil and autoinstalling fresh MS updates until they're tested for at least a month is like jumping from the roof in hope there will be a haystack below.

And that is what the WSUS is for.

Is there no "DesignConnection" property? I recall using DOA components from AllroundAutomation 20 years ago that had this nifty feature.

At least you don't have to throw out a 6k$ scanner/printer because it can only scan to folders via SMB1. And it is not just someone that deems SMB1 insecure, it is the majority of users.