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> likely in order to have those paths easier to copy and paste, but it does so only if !isatty().

I thought the reason was to aid shell scripts that assumed no whitespaces in file names, wasn't it? Also, I believe I've seen single quotes when using `ls` on a terminal, so the behavior is not only for `!isatty()`.

> %n takes a pointer and writes (!!) the number of bytes printed so far.

> Okay, everyone probably knows this. Let's get a bit more advanced.

Ok, but I didn't know about that. What's the use?

> Does anyone else experience the same?

The first time I experienced such a feeling was when Visual Studio .NET came out. Compared to the previous version, Visual Studio 6, the dialogs and wizards in VS.NET gave me a "web-like" feeling. I guess it was one of the first attemps to use the web technologies to make a desktop app. Along with the Active Desktop feature, they were truly ahead of time.

However, that doesn't mean I loved them. VS.NET was slow as hell and I believe it was one of the reasons why VS6 lasted for so long.

It's strange nobody mentioned NX (NoMachine). When I tried it ~10 years ago, it was much faster than VNC, nearly identical to RDP. Why isn't it more popular?

I was also annoyed by it not remembering the scroll position. The site doesn't live up to its name.

This problem also seems to stem from the fact that Zoom has been used primarily in the corporate settings until now, which kinda validates their claim. Definitely not ideal, but understandable.

> Do not attempt to check AGPL-licensed code into google3

What is this "google3" thing? Is this the name of their monorepo?

How do you even remember a thread from last year? I'm always surprised by your vast knowledge required for moderation. Possibly with a help of some internal search tools?

I'm in a similar boat with you, so I have a few questions:

1. Why did you switch? Are you satisfied with the new experience?

2. Why was some of the history needed to be squashed? Were there any technical concerns?

But it doesn't have to be VBA. Any language with a decent OLE Automation library would suffice. I've been using Python to automate my Excel files, and am really happy about that. I tried to learn VBA, but could not adapt to its archaic syntax and the clunky VBA editor that comes with Excel.

C and C++ already have such a thing, IIUC. The literal 0 is considered the same as nullptr, if compared to another pointer.

It is a bit worrying that such an overloaded meaning is added again to the language.

I guess what has changed is me, not the computing environment. When I was young, I easily grew impatient when things were going slow. Nowadays I still kinda feel nervous, but not to the point to warrant such bookkeeping methods.

> I often would use the mouse cursor to 'mark' the position of the loading bar (we really are spoiled for speed these days).

This is just me, oh my gosh. I thought I was the only one who did that. But now I come to think about it, it can't be true.

It has been a really long time since I used that technique last time...

I'm currently using Galaxy S9 and it is the first phone I decided not to root. I've always rooted my phones since I was introduced to Android, but this time Samsung tied its crucial functionalities with Knox. And Samsung Pay was just too important to me. Too bad more manufacturers are doing this.

I remember him as a very Torvalds-like person, for better or worse.

I wanted him to stay a little more around the Rust 1.0 era because I thought as many warts as possible should have been fixed before the backward compatibility guarantee was made, but he left too early.

Didn't know about the CopperheadOS incident, too bad such a situation happened to him. Good to see it's kinda resolved now.