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Yep, many of those look familiar.
The MS-DOS Programmer's Reference makes me think one thing: Int 21h
And I don't even know what it means. I remember looking at those books and being like, hmm...I wonder what a Int 21h is. 
The Winn Rosch Hardware Bible is interesting. I guess Winn Rosch was actually a robot since he had his own hardware bible. 
I owned a copy of that Inside Visual C++ (by Kruglinski if memory serves right) and I never got much out of it. Lots of books I'd get 2 or 3 chapters in and then get stuck. 
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Ah yes.. Good old Int 0x21 - The DOS interrupt, or in clearer english - the entry point to much of the functionality offered by the OS itself. Set AH to the value of the desired function, then fill other registers as required and finally interrupt.
I seem to remember it as sport - trying to identify other Ints that would perform the same basic functionality, albeit with greater convenience. Ralf Brown's interrupt list was like a divine gift from the gods. Advanced Assembly Language by Allen Wyatt is still one of my favourite chunks of dead trees devoted to computing.
Remember writing my first memory editor and then first hex (file) editor. It was always fun to watch 0x46C and 0x46D in memory, since that was where the timer-tick count was stored - you could watch it update 18 times a second or so. Altering it was even more fun! (y2k bug - you were boring)
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WOO HOO... what you have there sir is a very rare early prototype version of Stack Overflow
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Some new seeds arrived for the summer garden. Mostly I've used 'old' seeds as I'm pretty good at sprouting seeds (even nearly invisible succulents).
The noteworthy entries for the 'new varieties' category are:
- Japanese Wasabi Radish (not real wasabi but very likely what you've been eating)
- Trinidad Yellow Scorpion Peppers - a "mild" variety of 800K-1000K Scoville
Diamond Eggplant and Baby Bok-choi round out the order and they threw in a free package of Kohlrabi seed "Vienna Purple".
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Trinidad Yellow Scorpion Peppers - a "mild" variety of 800K-1000K Scoville
Assuming we're using the same units, 1000K is 1M...
That's mild on your Scoville scale?
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Gotcha. For this type of pepper, that's mild.
I don't mind spicy, but I have a healthy dose of respect for those at the higher end. I've quit long before that. I (and my colon) have nothing to prove.
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dandy72 wrote: I've quit long before that. I (and my colon) have nothing to prove.
And that's why it all gets turned into sauce. You learn it's properties of heat (starting will less, not excess) and work your way into cooking it in with just the right heat.
The super-hots (habanaero and beyond) of the Capsicum Chinense family have a better hot taste (at least to Mrs. Wife and myself) - all else being equal. The heat comes in a bit later and they are fruity. I just use (physcially) a lot less - also, less vinigar (my preservative) when you use so little and thus food isn't affected by the sour and smell.
But - paralleling the part of your post I quoted, any idiot can make food too hot - putting in the right amount to make it taste better is the key - and that does imply that the food has a taste.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Kohlrabi
Strangely not popular over here, but I believe it has much to recommend it.
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I've never (knowingly) eaten one before. I've seen them in supermarkets and more so, in fruit markets - and was tempted by their interesting look - but never got around to indulging. Assuming the insects don't get there first, I'll have my chance.
Online descriptions seem to put it like it's family - a form of cabbage - apparently sweeter than others. The seeds were the surprise "free" inclusion so not much can go wrong
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RIP Andrew Weatherall.
Part of the influential The Sabre Of Paradise and The Two Lone Swordsmen (among many solo releases and other collaborations)
You can listen to his Essential Mix on youtube.
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I'd rather be phishing!
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I decided that, instead of manually categorising a bunch of values in a spreadsheet I'd write a simple VBA method that would do the hard work for me. After all, doing it manually would take about an hour. Writing a bit of VBA couldn't take more than... well, I think I'm on hour 5 at this point.
It's been a long time since I've done VBScript, but even VBScript was generally fairly sensible.
VBA? I can't believe it's 2020 and VBA is pretty much the only scripting option available in Excel. Sure, you can write add-ins using Javascript and in-cell formula using Javscript, but no Javascript scripting.
No constructor, serious hassles passing user defined types between methods, a limit to the number of times you can use line continuation in a row, the awful experience overall.
I can't believe how much of the world lives and breathes this stuff.
(but of course I'm going to bash my way through it instead of just getting the job done the old fashioned way)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I feel your pain - Welcome to my life!
I semi-retired a few years ago but took up a job "in the business" looking after their EUC "solutions" - most of which consisted of recorded macros. Three years later and trying to introduce any form of governance is still like herding cats 
Just today I was yearning for the days when I would just knock up a quick program to automate something - I sometimes even find myself wishing for VB6!  
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This is the point at which I dump a spreadsheet, and create an SQL database and C# app to process it ... "it'll only take me an hour or so, won't it?"
I end up with the same time problem as you, but in a much more comfortable language! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Obligatory XKCD: Automation[^]
And yes, VBA, the red-haired illegitimate step-child of VB4, still sucks big fat hairy ones. At this point, I think it's too late for MS to fix it. Maybe it's time for the Ripley option[^]?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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But did you factor in the time you spend finding the chart to look up what you save?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Ah, but once it's automated, how much time do you save explaining (and re-explaining) how to use it to non-techies?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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After the first hour, the time it would have taken to do it the old fashioned way, it becomes a matter of pride!
Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!
JaxCoder.com
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I guess we need something like Webassembly Excelassembly.
Then again, having fiddled with the file format I have to admit I'm quite for the Ripley option.
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cheers
Chris Maunder
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And to make things even "better"; the IDE hasn't been updated in more than 20 years (as far as I know).
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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Good Tips '489 !
Writing add-ins seems to be the only way to automate Office 365. It is becoming the corporate office platform in a lot of places so indeed MS has done a Ripley on us corporate software developers.
If you do have to work in VBA -there are many toolsets to help write and maintain good code - MZ tools is my preference but Rubberduck · GitHub[^] looks good too.
Its an old but stable IDE -little Intellisense, no autocompletion - but that only helps the coding - not the thinking!
Export all your code modules, forms, spreadsheet content, formulae, formats to text files. Then you can do version control in mercurial, and inspection in Npp
Merging is an issue but you can see what changed and revert or branch.
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Member 12364390 wrote: little Intellisense, no autocompletion
Wish I'd found this sooner:
Ctrl+j
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Have you seen Rubberduck, an addin which uses ANTLR to parse VBA and add more features?
Also, there's a proposal on Rubberduck's repo to create a Language Server Protocol implementation for VBA; this would allow any LSP-supporting editor, such as VS Code, to work with VBA.
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