Learning by doing

 I don't have complete notes for Insight Terminus, but here are a few tips. 1) A warlock with bleak watcher (stasis turret grenade), and a titan with Banner Shield and Ursa Furiosa are very helpful.  2) Zoom past all of the ads (low level adversaries) until you go underground.  3) In the first room, there are 3 barrier champions, two near the entry, and a 3rd in the left-hand "near" corner. 4) In the second room (Cabal), take out the snipers first. 5) On the Psion plate, try not to kill all of the dogs.  Freeze turret can help here.  If you kill all enemy, that triggers the champions to charge in. 6) When entering the "orb dunk" room (3rd room), stay to the far left to avoid the vex milk that can kill you with arc damage. 7) In the "orb dunk" room, the two strategic spots are behind a rectangular block right at the entrance, and on the far left front corner.  In GMs, a final unstoppable shows up when you pick up the 2nd orb to dunk it, along with the 2

 [I accidentally named this "Insight Terminus" when I built it!] Overview Environmental concerns ... a few Solar shields, mostly Arc and Void. Loadout By Class / Titan, Hunter, Warlock ( do this for next rotation ) This one is fairly easy, so Witherhoard, Scout and Anarchy are workable.  Blinding Grenade Launcher are effective in the the first cavern, the Drill Platform Control Center and any other crowded areas.  Titans with Cuirass of the Falling Stars, Chaos Reach + Geomag Stabilizers and other hard-hitting exotic + super combinations are good. A scout with one of each element type (solar, arc and void) is best.  I used my void Royal Entry rocket launcher on a few void shielded red bars and vex.  In "clutch" situations, I would stun then Rocket a champion. The best loadouts had Anarchy, Witherhoard, Blinding Grenades and scout rifles (because of mods).  Don't use Auto Rifle because they don't have enough range, and you will waste ammo.  Of course, try fo

For Season of the Splicer (Summer 2021), seasonal mods are: Barrier Auto or Scout Rifle, Unstoppable Pistol or Grenade Launcher (not needed) , Overload Submachine Gun or Hand Cannon.  Champions are Barrier and Overload, and solar damage is increased. Elemental enemies shields are mostly arc and void (maybe no solar shields). Team Loadout: * Titan with Ursa Furiosa (Void middle tree Banner Shield)  Scout Rifle with Explosive Payload (Nightwatch, Hung Jury)  Submachine Gun - Riskrunner (Exotic Arc Submachine Gun)  Rocket Launcher (void) - Tomorrow's Answer, Royal Entry, Hezen Vengance  (When Titan uses banner shield, be aware of where the power orbs will fall, for faster supers).  * Warlock with Radiant Well / Phoenix Protocol  Night Watch Scout  Truth Teller Grenade Launcher (void) w/ Blinding Grenades  Anarchy * Warlock with Shade Binder (Turret Grenade, Winter's wrath) / [Verity's Brow] or Eye Of Another World (something for faster stasis grenades)  Scout or Auto?  Le Mona

Flexible Custom Reports for SQL Server This article is written by developer for other developers, sharing my experience with a technique that I found in Kimberly Tripp's SQL Server blog article titled " Building High Performance Stored Procedures ". In her article, she demonstrated a dynamic SQL technique that allows for "Query By Example" screens that allow most fields to be optional. I would strongly encourage you to read her article along with the associated cautionary notes. I would further add that this technique should not be used for any automated reporting tasks. If you have a known report requirement, make a dedicated stored procedure for it! I am writing this article to share a few refinements as well as a nice way to catch refactoring dependencies when this stored procedure is part of a database project in Visual Studio.  As a point of reference, I used MS SQL 2014 and Visual Studio 2017, but the technique should work with older versions of SQ

Imagine the following scenario - you are looking for an application (app) on the Google Store, but the application that you found does 3 or 4 other things that you are not really interested in.   Perhaps it is a photo editor that also syncs with Dropbox, has an online gallery, etc.  All you want is local photo editing.  Today, there is nothing you can do unless the app uses Android 6.0 run-time permissions, but if you had more fine-grained permission control, you could deny or just limit access to those extraneous permissions like web access. I previously wrote about a solution to many of the problems associated with the Android operating system.  For the rest of this article, I will pretend that the Android community has adopted these design ideas. A trustworthy OS would give the user full control over each app's ability to run in the background, upload and download data over various connections (mobile, public network, private "home" network), etc.  Before installa

I'll give you two design options that would improve OS privacy.  I am thinking of the Android Operating System, but these are design principles, so they would be just as applicable for a Windows 10 Universal Application (App) or an iOS App.  I am aware that this would be a huge undertaking, but it would be awesome! 1.  Handle-based access This is not a new concept, but when you combine a system with pick-list controls and standard display controls, it is possible to allow an application to choose one or more contacts, display them and send a message without knowing the names or phone numbers.  The system would only expose a single handle to represent each contact.  Only isolated components would have the special privileges allowing access to the private details.  This would change the way applications create custom-drawn components, but would prevent even a HACKED system from leaking information as long as the process isolation subsystem was not compromised.  They could instal