I thought that the VBscript engine, accessible from cscript.exe, also has a builtin JavaScript frontend. The idea being that both of these are a scripting language that can interact with COM objects. No idea if the various embeddings of VBScript such as excel or ASP can use js out of the box though.
Active Scripting is the technology you are thinking of, JScript and VBScript are just the frontends for it that are shipped with Windows. It's honestly a pretty cool idea on the surface (coming from someone that's never actually used it anyway), you could develop/obtain an implementation for your favourite language, access the same functionality exposed by ASP/Office/IE, and as script hosts they would be none the wiser as to what language was being used (of course, it gets less useful the more users you have to ask to install your plugin).
The closest modern thing that's like this I can think of is Godot and its GDExtension.
As the sibling comment notes, VBScript isn't JScript, though both are executed by the Windows Script Host (wscript/cscript). JScript had already been deprecated in 2009 with IE 8.
You also cannot run VBScript (nor JScript) from VB or VBA, other than invoking it as a separate process. VBA is not an "embedding of VBScript". VB/VBA are compiled to an intermediate representation called P-code, they aren't scripts in the sense of being executed from a textual representation like VBScript/JScript.
> Once Meta identifies you as male, you will get almost exclusively thirst trap posts no matter what you do.
I don't know what I did, but this has not been true of my account. A few years ago I did notice a sharp increase of AI slop filled with comments thinking it was real, which I found hilarious, but it wasn't thirst traps. It was more like "this person has a hidden talent and they are sad because they aren't recognized. Show them some love." And the person is obviously fake. I saw the same fake AI people in multiple languages.
Anyway, after a while that stuff lessened a lot, and the feed is a bit more reasonable. Mainly I get stuff that was posted on TikTok a few months ago. Lately there are a lot of quotations from the Epstein files.
Many people point to the bad spelling and grammar of these powerful, abusive people and they say wow, that's a flex.
My own reaction is more like these people are stupid. It's not power that makes them write poorly. They're not capable of getting it right.
Look at what Noam Chomsky wrote to Epstein as a contrast. Multiple paragraphs and usually coherent. He makes Epstein look dumb. (Which he was.) I don't support what and to whom Chomsky was writing, but he is better at writing.
Exactly. Remember this is a guy who was "best friends" with Donald Trump. It's just a group of idiots who became rich and powerful through a combination of luck and criminality.
People see them on the screen so often they think they know them. I guess the term "parasocial relationship" has been common in the last few years to describe this.
I guess for actors and other types of artist specifically, people relate strongly to the work. It can form the basis for life memories. You remember where you were when you heard a song or saw a movie.
I don't object to most of what you're saying, but I take issue with this part.
This happens to be an area where lapse or neglect can be taken as a moral failure. And here you are mocking people who are concerned about it.
If someone uses AI to architect a bridge and the bridge collapses, you couldn't say that the structural integrity of the bridge wasn't the important part.
Nitpick, "Windows Native Development" also refers to the NT native subsystem, which would be basically coding against private APIs instead of Win32. From the title I thought that's what this was. Then I realized it was about avoiding full use of Visual Studio when building C projects (something that a lot of people already do by the way)
This depends a lot on what manpage you're looking at.
When I learned C more than 20 years ago, I found libc manpages a pretty good way to learn. For many functions in section 3, you can read the manpage and make an intelligent guess on how it's implemented, and write your own implementation. I did this as an exercise back in the day.
The email he wrote in October 2019 is especially odd. He reached out to FBI wanting information on interviews of victims. FBI blew him off. (EFTA00037405) Between the lines, this really reads to me like he wants to know if anybody accused him. Someone on an internal email said not to tell Oz anything about the meeting. (EFTA00037407)
He met with Epstein on 1/1/16. (EFTA02476629) I believe the meeting was initiated by Oz.
You’re comparing apples and oranges. These administrative warrants are very limited in scope. They are closer to the subpoenas that even ordinary civilian lawyers can send third parties in the course of litigation. They don’t give the government the power to bust into Google’s data center. The target has to respond or else challenge the warrant in court, but ordinary civilian subpoenas function the same way.
That's not at all what I've been hearing from reports of people getting these. They find that they're not at all targeted. They frequently don't even know who the target is. The officers get asked for a warrant and they might produce a bullshit piece of paper which is really just a memo.
Anyway, it's not "me" comparing these alleged apples and oranges, I am replying deep in a thread of other people making these comparisons.
That’s the same as the subpoena I could send you if you had information relevant to a litigation. And you have to give it to me or else go to court to quash the subpoena. But the key difference with judicial warrants is that judicial warrants can be enforced immediately while subpoenas and administrative warrants require the cooperation of the target or else going to court to enforce the subpoena.
Sorry, it's pretty clear that you like what ICE does and you're working backwards with what you think is a legal argument that justifies it. What ICE is reportedly doing has absolutely nothing in common with a lawful subpoena.
I do like ICE, but this point about administrative warrants is a rant I’ve been doing since the Obama administration. The only thing new is that these tactics are now being used for immigration enforcement.
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