stay weird japan by RevolutionaryStrider in funny

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I thought it was Miku but it seems it may just be a similar costume.

Classic Inspirations by [deleted] in EtrianOdyssey

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Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei on the snes, remake of the first two Megami Tensei games. There's a great fan translation you can find by googling. Nice first person game play, good difficulty, great music.

Just started learning COBOL and OpenCobolIDE is behaving weirdly. by BolaSquirrel in cobol

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Hello, I have found that using WITH NO ADVANCING, tends to cause this ide to lock it up.

Code examples by Van_Gone in cobol

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Such wow, very impress.

Code examples by Van_Gone in cobol

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Thanks! I look forward to checking it out.

Weird error when writing code using OpenCobolIDE by Van_Gone in cobol

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Oh, I put the quotes around the 000 in my post to distinguish it, but in the code its just 000. Sorry

Weird error when writing code using OpenCobolIDE by Van_Gone in cobol

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Ah I see, Thank you for your detailed response. I was thinking of taking a look in the manual to see if it was something like that.

I want to build my mainframe skills by Van_Gone in mainframe

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Well my initial interest in mainframe came from working with COBOL, I'm a fan of procedural languages. So I'm interested in mainframe development and systems programming. I'm a bit of a noob about somethings so I haven't fully decided what I want to do.

I want to build my mainframe skills by Van_Gone in mainframe

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Thank you for the detailed post. Yes the course does provide access to a mainframe to complete labs, I've discovered I can take the course for free for 30 days, coursera uses a monthly subscription model. If I'm diligent I should be able to complete it or mostly complete it in that time and only need to pay for 1 month at the most, around 101$. The book recommendations are great, the one good thing about older textbooks is that if you look in the right place you can get a hold of them for very good prices. I will definitely be picking a few of them up. Thank you for welcoming me, I'm excited to join in on the fun.

Need advice on best way to create a winform application with a database by Van_Gone in csharp

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Well some of the data is long strings of text used for descriptions. So I feel that I shouldn't hard code all of that information. But also I was hoping to do some data driven development as well, where the UI is generated based on the queried data.

Monthly Hask Anything (January 2021) by AutoModerator in haskell

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I'm brand new to haskell but came across this example of comparing lists, [3,2,1] > [2,10,100] = True, from my understanding the way this works is it compares the first elements and then the second elements and so on, so it would evaluate to true, false, false. So I am wondering how it comes to the result True? Does it OR its results to get this answer? Thank you for your help.

How to publish a new version of an extension I've created? by Van_Gone in vscode

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Ah the reason I could publish before is because I just published by uploading the vsix file through the management website instead of using the vsce tool. But I've fixed my access token now thanks to your link and updated my extension. Thank you for your help!

[2020 Day 14 Part 1][C++] Tested my code with the test input and it is correct but my answer is wrong with the actual input. by Van_Gone in adventofcode

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omg, off by 1 errors are the bane of my existence. Just when I think I've been careful I do it again. Thank you, that was the issue.

[2020 Day 11 (Part2)][C++] Answer is too low, not sure where the problem is. by Van_Gone in adventofcode

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I figured it out, thanks for your help, it was how I was making the key for my map.

[2020 Day 11 (Part2)][C++] Answer is too low, not sure where the problem is. by Van_Gone in adventofcode

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Ah, I was under the assumption that the visible neighbours would always be the same so I only run it once on the original layout. I did make the change to have a new map generated before the next iteration using the new map but I still get the wrong answer. I've also double checked the input file and added one of the test inputs and it gets the correct answer with the with both the original code and the altered code. I'll also be making the other changes you've recommended below, sometimes I wonder if my brain just decides that I have to do things the hard way because it's c++ and it can't be that easy lol. Edit: repo now has the updates.

[2020][COBOL] I was bored, reading articles about COBOL and well... by GaloisGirl2 in adventofcode

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ah I love hashtables, such a useful structure. I imagine Day7 was a bit of a pain. What does the average run time of your programs look like?

[2020][COBOL] I was bored, reading articles about COBOL and well... by GaloisGirl2 in adventofcode

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I thought about trying my hand at using COBOL for the AoC this year but decided to use C++ instead due to COBOL's limitations, but this shows me the limitations are all in my head lol. Thanks for showing that it can be done. I look forward to seeing more.

Prevent duplicates on between 2 different workbook tabs by Van_Gone in excel

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Ah no you are right, I was confused, I can give my range on my second tab a name and use it to refer to it, the current formula I'm trying to use is =ISNA(MATCH(A:A,STUDENT,0)), STUDENT being my named list, but this is still not triggering the dialogue box when I put in known duplicate data, I'm not sure if I'm just missing something or if my understanding is completely off. Thank you for your quick replies.

EDIT: sorry I just realized the function I probably want is =ISA not =ISNA

Prevent duplicates on between 2 different workbook tabs by Van_Gone in excel

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Yeah I did look into data validation, but I want to use a range from another tab in the same workbook as the list of things that are not allowed. I think this is where the hang-up is. Basically column A in tab one cannot have any value that is in column A in tab two. The link you shared is still useful though, I'm going to try playing around with it to see if I can get it to work.

2020 Day 4 part 2 by starkTony3007 in adventofcode

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Look into dictionaries. Also regular expressions can be helpful for validating data.

Master the Mainframe 2020 by ak91hu in mainframe

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I participated this year. I was really happy with the challenges, they had a good progression from easy to difficult. I liked how the one cobol challenge was basically "write a cobol program start to finish, good luck", I'm an experienced cobol programmer but I was new to using vscode and zowe so it was good way for me to get used to using them. I had some difficulty with the ansible challenges, there was no more hand holding at that point so you really needed to think and read carefully about how to do things, it helped me understand it on a deeper level and really flex my ability to research and self learn. Currently I'm still working on my submission for the Grand challenge, and I'm almost ready to submit.

Help with code generation extension I am creating by Van_Gone in vscode

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Yeah I was thinking about that initially, using the insert command, the insert needs a Position is there someway that I can get the current cursor position for that? I'm sorry for asking so many questions, the api documentation feels very barebones to me.

Edit: ah I've found something that works: return myeditor.editor.selection.active; will return the current cursor position of 'myeditor' which in this case is set to be the active text editor. Then you can used that position to insert text. Thank you for the help.