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Comment Bigo (Score 1) 13

This is something that Bigo live streaming has been doing since 2017 or before. They play a horizontal video on an a vertical phone and looks like too small to really watch. But it is linked from a PC to the stream.

These days though, lots of channels just seem to be streaming movies from their PC and not games.

Comment Re:Microsoft does not care about LibreOffice (Score 1) 165

Indeed, the only deep enhancement to Excel in 25 years was spilling formulas, and that was because Google Sheets could do it.

Excel added PowerQuery back in 2010 to do data analysis and has been enhancing it ever since. That puts it lightyears of any simple spreadsheet like LibreOffice or Google Sheets.

Comment Re:Overdosed on superheroes (Score 1) 129

That said, I haven't even watched Avengers Endgame yet. It's like the Big Crossover Event that Marvel or DC likes to pull every now and again. I'm just not that interested in half the characters.

Well, the good news about End Game is that thanks to Thanos, they only have half the characters!

Comment Re:You could buy a Mac Mini every month! (Score 1) 38

More often than not, you will not be developing this App on Xcode, but rather in something like Xamarin, Eclipse, VisualStudio, or some other CrossPlatform IDE. More often than not, that IDE will be running in an X86 machine on top of Win10 or Linux, not MacOS. Or better yet, on a VDI workstation running on some Cloud.

But, at the end of the day, in order to enter the Wallaed Garden of i*OS, or the SemiWalled garden of MacOS, you need to export your crossplatform code/project assets from your crossplatform IDE to XCode, perhaps do a final compile, a few automated unit tests of said final compile, and use the XCode tools to do the submission, notarization, whathaveyou.

I do Xamarin development and you MUST have a Mac with Xcode for every compile you do; not just the final one. Visual Studio on your PC pushes the code over SSH to the system and has XCode do something with it. I have to plug my iPhone into the Mac to test my app. The iPhone simulator also runs on the Mac and just gives me a remote view on my PC. I don't know how I'd plug my test phone into the Mac Mini if its sitting in Amazon's rack... I only have a 2 foot cable :^)

They are adding a feature called Xamarin Hot Restart to let us connect the phone to the PC instead and use iTunes to push the bits to it, but it's far too buggy to use still.

Comment Re:Obvious - but unasked - question (Score 2) 68

WILL IT WALK UNSUPPORTED OR NOT ?

Absolutely not. Walking is all about center of balance. In order for it to lift its right foot, it has to first shift the entire upper body probably 15 or more feet to the left to make sure it is balanced on the left foot first. Then it can lift the right. Then it has to shift that weight forward so it can fall onto the right foot. Next, it will have to shift all the weight 30 feet to the right so that it can lift the left leg. And so on. Poor pilot in the head is going to be bouncing 30 feet left and right as this thing walks.

If it attempted to lift the right leg without moving the center of balance, the foot would never leave the ground at all. The entire robot would just lean to the right and fall over. I suppose if the inside of the body was hollow and you could put in a massive counter-weight that shifted left and right, you could reduce the left and right movement somewhat. Just not practical though.

Comment Re:Excel isn't a database (Score 4, Informative) 217

repeat after me. Excel is not a database.

Except that it is these days. They added PowerQuery back in 2010 and it can literally do almost everything SQL server can do. You create queries that load your source data (from almost anywhere and any format), do a ton of conversions, filters, table joins (left, right, full outer, etc), and processing on your data to get it exactly as you need it, then it stores it in a data model (database) in the file. You can even go far past the million row limit in a sheet.

Then, you tell it column relationships between all these tables in the data model. And build new queries based on those tables, or pivot tables to analyze, etc. And then, output your final data to a sheet or charts for people to look at.

Comment Re:You know (Score 1) 217

Or, you could use Excel's Power Query to import all your files. It's been built into Excel since 2010. You can tell it exactly how to import your CSV or other files. Drop columns you don't want. Add new custom columns based on the data. Set data types for each column. And a hundred other things can be done and automated.

They practically built a SQL engine into Excel and no one is aware it's there! All your data can be loaded into data models, do table joins between them, build table relationships so you can create Pivot tables based on multiple sources of data instead a single sheet.

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