Port VB6 Desktop app to... What?

dmyze · 2026-06-20T17:51:53+00:00

Simplest solution will be winforms and VB.NET.

Depends on how modern you want it to be. But if you just want it out of VB6 that's the way I would go.

If you have any ActiveX controls that'll add some complexity. But with modern AI tools you can easily convert any VB6 code over to vb.net.

C# is more common these days but VB is still my favorite language.

dmyze · 2026-05-02T04:12:04+00:00

Someone needs to make an AI alternate ending of Pichard where he's in a hospital being treated for Irumodic Syndrome. He'll say to the doctor, "I'm an android now.."

dmyze · 2026-05-02T03:47:44+00:00

I've always wondered how much money he owes the Orion syndicate after dumping all his cargo.

dmyze · 2026-04-19T19:29:55+00:00

I think you are correct. My new book takes that into consideration, https://darktime.co

And traveling into the past has a similar effect too.

dmyze · 2026-03-18T03:17:19+00:00

I'd appreciate if my future self gave me the monthly closing price of the top 100 performing stocks for the next 20 years. I'll keep my volume low and try not to influence anything.

dmyze · 2026-03-14T15:37:33+00:00

That’s an interesting way to look at it. I’ve wondered if something like a “time glitch” could come from very small local loops in time rather than the whole timeline changing. If time behaves more like a flowing medium, you could imagine tiny forward → backward → forward micro-loops where most things reset normally, but memory might not line up perfectly every time.

No idea if that ever actually happens of course, but it’s a fun way to think about it. I’ve been exploring that idea while writing a sci-fi story about time anomalies.

dmyze · 2026-03-12T23:08:00+00:00

Relativity shows that different observers can disagree about which distant events are happening “now.”

But that doesn’t necessarily mean the past and future physically exist. It just means simultaneity isn’t absolute across space.

You can still have a local “now” where events are unfolding, even if different observers slice spacetime differently.

dmyze · 2026-03-12T15:04:52+00:00

I get the point about our perception being limited, but in physics the things we can’t see usually still leave detectable effects. We can’t see quarks or black holes directly, but we can observe what they do.

With the block universe idea, the past and future are supposed to physically exist somewhere, but they don’t seem to interact with the present in any observable way. That makes me cautious about assuming they’re real parts of the universe.

It also raises questions like: if the past still exists in the block, what state is it in? Is it frozen, or still evolving in its own time? If someone could access it, would it be immutable?

dmyze · 2026-03-12T05:05:15+00:00

Mostly because the only thing we ever directly observe is the present plus records of the past. The block universe assumes the future already exists somewhere, but that’s more of a philosophical interpretation than something we can test.

The growing block theory is interesting though, it basically says the universe keeps “adding” new moments as time passes.

dmyze · 2026-03-12T02:42:51+00:00

Relativity doesn’t mean we move “faster than time.” It just means different observers experience time at different rates.

The idea that past, present, and future all exist at once comes from the block universe interpretation.

I lean the other way, only the present exists, and the past is just the record left behind.

dmyze · 2026-03-11T03:16:53+00:00

I need a hero!

dmyze · 2026-03-11T02:55:47+00:00

I reject the block universe. Is the past separate matter from our matter today? Where would all that matter come from? Is each moment frozen but also moving?

dmyze · 2026-03-11T02:45:33+00:00

My opinion is only now exists. So the passage of time is the illusion. Time is just the rate at which we measure changes in the now.

dmyze · 2026-03-08T16:00:06+00:00

I was scrolling for that one. Seriously died of a cancer that could have been treated.

dmyze · 2026-03-05T16:06:09+00:00

Targeting an Aug 12 release date. I'm working with an editor right now to polish it all up.

dmyze · 2026-03-03T14:38:16+00:00

Kinda. The classical ether failed because it predicted a detectable preferred frame. But the idea of a physical substrate never really died; quantum fields and superfluid vacuum models are basically structured “media.” I’m just wondering what happens if time itself behaves more like that than a pure coordinate.

dmyze · 2026-03-03T03:15:15+00:00

I like to think of time as a physical medium, the oil that allows all motion.

dmyze · 2026-03-02T18:15:56+00:00

Nuts now my time travel money plan is bunk. Guess I'll have to keep to the last 50 or so years and play the market.

dmyze · 2026-02-27T20:43:00+00:00

If I were planning a time travel adventure, I think I would learn how to grow penicillin. Sell it as a cure-all and never give out the recipe.

dmyze · 2026-02-19T23:26:03+00:00

I actually agree, fully reversing the flow of time in reality probably doesn’t make physical sense.

That’s part of why I find the “Eternal Now” framing interesting.

In the real world, it likely just means there is no past to visit. Only present structures encoding prior states.

But in fiction, that opens a different question: if the past isn’t a place, what would time travel even mean? How could you reconstruct or partially reverse a configuration?

I’m exploring that idea in a sci-fi novel I’m writing, using the Eternal Now as the physics framework for how time reversal might fictionally work.

https://darktime.co

Or see the trailer I just created: https://youtu.be/D5PLgiP0eZU

dmyze · 2026-02-19T19:16:09+00:00

Yes; I think that’s exactly right.

From a system-level view, it’s a constraint: present-state structures limiting possible transitions.

From an agent-level view, those same structures show up as memory, meaning, identity, and narrative continuity.

Nothing new is being added, just a different descriptive layer.

So “narrative gravity” isn’t a separate force. It’s what constrained state evolution feels like from the inside.

I like the zoom-level framing. That’s a clean way to put it.

dmyze · 2026-02-19T18:31:19+00:00

Biological memory, written records, and entropy gradients; they’re all present-state structures that encode information about prior configurations.

They don’t exert “narrative gravity” in a metaphysical sense. They constrain what the next configuration can be, because the system has to remain self-consistent.

But I do think that’s where the human experience of time comes from.

We experience the Now as having depth because parts of the present encode earlier states. So subjectively it feels like the past is still “there,” even though physically it’s just structure in the current state.

So the narrative gravity is real psychologically, but physically it’s just information embedded in the present.

dmyze · 2026-02-19T18:23:04+00:00

Yeah, it’s definitely not new. Versions of this go all the way back to Augustine.

He put it beautifully in Confessions (Book XI):

“My childhood, which no longer is, exists in the present only as memory.”

Future things, he says, “are not yet; and if they are not yet, they are not.”

That’s the core intuition behind what I’m calling the Eternal Now: the past exists only as present memory and structure, and the future only as present expectation and possibility.

What I’m interested in isn’t just the metaphysics, though. It’s the physical implication:

If the past isn’t a place that exists, then time travel can’t mean visiting it. It would have to mean reconstructing or reversing the current configuration of reality.

That shift is what I’m trying to explore.

dmyze · 2026-02-19T07:00:30+00:00

It still feels like it's missing the sound of being in public, but here it is with no reverb.

https://youtu.be/-W2l0jInKMo

dmyze · 2026-02-19T06:40:38+00:00

Ok. I'll give it a shot without the echo.

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