Melkath

Wait... a cell phone can clone, erase, and reprint an rfid chip?

I really just got bored.

I can't put my finger on it.

I can play Payday 2 maps ad nauseum. Hundreds of times each heist.

The Payday 3 heists just got boring after a week.

Please at least tell me that the Macros are just a front end for ODBC connections to actual SQL servers for ETL functions, and it ALL isn't stored only in excel...?

I feel like we are "mirror images", but not in a predictable way.

Like, you get off on flying through languages having done things in said languages but never fully understanding any language and I get off on not needing a new language until I fully understand the one Im on, but LOVE informing you on the same tripwire you hit in each new language whilst I trip over that same thing in my language. Every. Time.

I dont fancy you wrong, just not correct.

I'd hope you'd fancy me not correct, but also not wrong.

I challenge your read.

I love programming. I'd love to expand my knowledge.

I am 5 years deep on "you hired an analyst and then demanded a developer/architect/salesman, and the payrate didn't follow. I am still making creative ramen dishes from my rental when I should have a house, and I should get a yearly vacation."

My CEO gets 30% gains yearly... and he is the only person at my company that enjoys that.

Basically I am striking. Like the rest of the world.

Cool you are making a fair wage and aren't scabbing on your peers. Because a love for leaving behind what works to make something in a different language that also works fills your soul with joy?

Well, if VBA disappears, Python is what I'll need to learn.

If I don't need to learn a new language tho, I'd prefer that.

Honestly, 95% of my vba is just nested do until loops.

The remaining 5% is ODBC connections and BCP shell commands.

Yes. Python is a LOT more powerful. Requires a LOT technical knowledge to operate.

Are you making north of 150k to make your strife worth it?

Or are you raising the technical bar while also lowering the compensation bar?

Myself, I make 60k and my VBA gets the job done. Zero incentive to get into the minutia you just explained. My shit works. And I'm not set on fucking up the bell curve for everyone.

This is true for software in general.

The same description can be given to workshops (and you know they already exist) that do the same stuff with ChatGPT.

It's a scripting language.

A solid, verbose, diverse scripting language that gives you impressive control over Windows environments.

If some people are delivering malware or phishing, that sucks, but it doesn't negate the languages merit.

It would be the same as ceasing production of spray paint because of taggers.

The ends don't justify the means.

Or how about this... we use what works and stop throwing the world into chaos every 4 years so Microsoft can sell their next 50k/year enterprise application.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.