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Other than now using 64-bit, isn't that all VS2022 preview has changed so far?
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So... what did you think of the icons?
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There is seriously people out there, to whom icons are a defining feature.
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I quite dislike the new icons I even wrote a nasty note re/ them in the survey I find them difficult to discern which interrupts and slows my efforts
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Yeah I agree they are not as discernible as the previous icons.
Oh well, the times they are a changin.
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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I've stopped using VS because of stupid stuff like this, gone the jetbrains route couldn't be happier.
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Can't afford it and won't do subscriptions.
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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Yes unfortunately, I do get the cant afford bit, it's not particularly cheap.
The subscription thing though, I think they actually have right compared to many others.
With JB you sign up, pay your first year, get your product digitally, then cancel your subscription renewal.
At that point, your given a lifetime fall back code, and access to the major version that was last active when you cancelled.
If you pay for the first year, then cancel your subs just before it becomes due, then you get to keep that current version for ever, complete with reg code, and without ever paying anymore.
If you keep your subs however, you get to keep getting updates, fixes and support.
While I don't like what subscription culture has become, JB in my mind are one of the better ones.
I have the everything package, so rider, datagrip, dotpeek, webstorm, goland, phpstorm and about a dozen other different apps.
If you register on an individual email, not a Corp one you'll all of that for round about £200 GBP which is reduced by I think it's about 10% per year for the first 3 years of you decide to go the subs route, the with a Corp email and it's over £500 GBP just to start.
BTW: I'm not trying to sell you on it in just pointing out how they do it, ask anyone who knows me I'm what you might call frugal with money, so For me to be impressed and she'll out for it, is something.
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I agree that's the way it ought to be and if I could justify it I would get it but being a lone hobbyist and on a fixed income I can't.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Lesley said the same thing four hours ago! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Don't call me Lesley!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Shirley you can't be serious!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Don't call me late for supper either.
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Extravagant spending disguised for cold pennant (10)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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PROFLIGACY - extravagant spending
mashup of
PRO - for
ICY - cold
FLAG - pennant
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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And you are up tomorrow! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Once I was hoping to get better at solving and maybe at setting up... Lately I can't find the words even 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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An interesting fact about '40' is it's prevalence in ancient times was due to astronomic observations. Hesiod, in Works And Days (about 700 BC), said:Quote: When the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas, are rising, begin your harvest, and your ploughing when they are going to set. Forty nights and days they are hidden and appear again as the year moves round, when first you sharpen your sickle.
Those '40' days of invisibility are why the number became the one for the god of the ocean/earth (and 'ocean' was associated with the imaginary 'ocean' upon which our ancestors thought the world floated):Enki ( /ˈɛŋki/) or Enkil (Sumerian: dEN.KI(G)𒂗𒆠) is a god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology. He was originally patron god of the city of Eridu, but later the influence of his cult spread throughout Mesopotamia and to the Canaanites, Hittites and Hurrians. He was the deity of crafts (gašam); mischief; water, seawater, lake water (a, aba, ab), intelligence (gestú, literally "ear") and creation (Nudimmud: nu, likeness, dim mud, make bear). He was associated with the southern band of constellations called stars of Ea, but also with the constellation AŠ-IKU, the Field (Square of Pegasus). Beginning around the second millennium BCE, he was sometimes referred to in writing by the numeric ideogram for "40," occasionally referred to as his "sacred number." Because of that, '40' was associated with death/rebirth cycles, and used throughout the Bible (and probably myths from other cultures as well) for such symbology.
Happy '40' everyone!
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40 points awarded for using Enki in an example. When you hit 50, be sure to reference his brother Enlil.
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Unfortunately, I have not yet found the astronomy behind that number. Maybe I will have by then. I do know the astronomy behind '60' for Anu, so the chances of it being an astronomic cycle are exceedingly high. Hesiod said Cerberus had '50' heads, and Cerberus seems to be associated with the constellation of Hercules, so maybe it is connected to that group of stars somehow.
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the ancient Sumerian text associate's Enlil's number as 50, astronomy or not.
Enlil - Wikipedia[^]
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I know. As Anu and Ea's numerical values were derived from astronomy, Enlil's probably also derives from astronomy.
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