Found this. I'm not one to normally share stuff. But thought this is stunning in it's message, lyrics, guitar and performance. Ren - Hi Ren - YouTube[^]

Welcome. I'm not a frequent contributor to this forum, but do so here more than anywhere else. I've found this to be a (generally)great community of (generally)developers who share a level of intellectualism, wit, respect and humor. The signal to noise is extremely high. Feel free to engage and explore and even try to answer a cryptic crossword clue!

Isn't it set theory: newItems - origItems? Think of the two sets as a Venn Diagram, intersection, union, etc.

Well, you've posted in the wrong place and you will not receive an answer here. Try Q&A

Doesn't seem great... It's possible that code has been injected from your PC, I'd run a scan locally as well as copying the code to a new PC and building/testing from there.

It was indeed a CRM company.

the article says this would be illegal in the UK. I know it would also be illegal in NZ, Aus, France, and I suspect most of the rest of the developed world. American employment contracts are 'at will' contracts. They are at the will of the employer, and should the employer change their mind, you can be shown the door, with just your 2 weeks notice. I lived and worked in the States for 3 years. The impact on employee behaviour is profound. It creates a cover your ass, finger pointing culture where no employee is willing to accept accountability, an will go to great lengths to apportion blame elsewhere. Now, I only worked for one company (but it was a biggish publicly listed one), and I'm sure not all are like this. I did very well, with two things I did differently than my American colleagues (not that I did them deliberately to be different, but it took me a while to realise I was an outlier). I was prepared to say "I don't know" and I was prepare to say "I made a mistake and here's how we recover...". American employees would go out of their way to avoid these, for fear of being shown the front door. It also contributes to the always available, never take leave attitude. One of our competitors had a policy of ranking all developers and firing the lowest 5% each quarter - they were continually hiring as a result, I guess the aim being to end up with a greater developer pool. It saddens me that so many American's are so proud of America and believe they are in the greatest country on earth. So many of them simply have no idea.

Agree, there are far too many, but a few more worthwhile: Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere, American Gods, Stardust, Coraline KJ Parker - Engineer's Trilogy Garth Nix - The Old Kingdom (Sabiral, Lorial, Clariel, etc) Jasper Fforde - The Thursday Next series Ben Elton - Two Brothers and Time and Time Again are both brilliant, but so are most of his books Umberto Eco - Name of the Rose, The Island of the Day Before, Foucault's Pendulum Luke Rhienhart - The Dice Man

Agree, many parts of the world don't have vaccine supply. South Africa actually has too much, and has had to delay shipments as their vaccination deployment is slow. EXCLUSIVE South Africa delays COVID vaccine deliveries as inoculations slow | Reuters[^]

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Syntax highlighting is implemented by the editor, not the language. Syntax highlighting as been available in SSMS since at least 2007.

Yep, syntax highlighting is fine. It's intellisense where it gets messed up. Select can't list relevant columns because the referenced tables haven't been entered yet. It's why LINQ is the other way around. FROM .... SELECT ...

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like why can't we use c# as a scripting language instead of javascript in ASP.NET web pages?

You can - it's just called Blazor rather than ASP. Just starting exploring it myself.

It's a shame you're targeting MS SQL, it is weak in many areas compared to other SQL offerings. Postgres supports regex natively, as well as having a bunch more capability with string manipulation functions. Is there an option for you to use .Net assemblies in MS SQL, or perhaps the R or Python environments? It seems MS is ignoring extending the base SQL capability, but offering these extensions. Regardless, kudos for the tenacity required to do what your doing. How are you finding the performance of the regex proc's in SQL? Also, remember SQL is designed way back, before syntax highlighting/intellisense and many other modern expectations that would influence its design were around. It's time to create SQLNext, and I've seen the odd concept put forward, but it would be really hard to shift the masses now. Perhaps it'd best be done with a translation from SQLNext to the various SQL variants. But ideally would have to exist closer to the database than the client application and eventually become a native database feature. Unfortunately, would be easiest to place in the client application - I'd hate to get into any DB Driver level stuff. Remember ODBC - yuck.

I was positive I would pass, but it didn't happen.

That's it. Too easy...

Aim to sabotage mini boat (8)

Ambivert - anagram of verbatim.

I think you'll find it's everyone enjoying the start of summer and the warmer sunny weather in what was the first weekend that felt summery in a long while.

pattern?

ah hemmm, sew it seams.

Thanks for the tip. I'll bear it in mind should I ever get to set another. Which is possibly more likely, since the same tip (according to many) narrows the search space for other clues.

That's just the D. (No rudeness allowed)