OzCrimson

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by OzCrimson 4y ago
Isn't it more complicated than that? "Ouch" can be a lot of things, and that's where a lot of problems crop up in the AI world. If one of my friends insults another friend, I might say,"OUCH!" I'm not in p
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by OzCrimson 4y ago
One story that still haunts me about the culture onboard the submarine. We were dropping the trash and one requirement is that an officer be present. I was told to go get an officer. I found the Chief Engineer sitting in his room reading hi
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by OzCrimson 4y ago
There's one part of the article that I think deserves more attention. I see Netflix in a big disjointed mess of entertainment. I've got Netflix and then someone will tell me about something very interesting on Hulu, Amazon Prime,
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by OzCrimson 4y ago
Excel is constantly being improved. Are you aware of Power Query? And how about the 14 news functions that were released to Insiders a few weeks ago? Excel Online is far behind the desktop version of Excel but it's making fast progress
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by OzCrimson 4y ago
YUP! And too often a company claiming to have something better than Excel isn't a direct equivalent. It's a way to market their whizzbang solution. Domo was claiming it could get companies off of spreadsheets. But it turns out tha
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by OzCrimson 5y ago
The question is more about the trade-off. 1. I see an ad for some really nice pens. COOL! 2. I go to a website that allows me to opt out of tracking but I'd have to opt out of their 300 affiliates one at a time. 3. The privacy polic
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by OzCrimson 5y ago
Which never should have been the default. I don't want to be included in something that I never asked to be part of, and then have to put in the effort to get out. This is one of the things that is so upsetting: most of the industry pu
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by OzCrimson 5y ago
One thing that's good to see is how Excel can be applied. I was a host when the challenges were: 1. Roulette 2. Biathlon And, no. It's not heavy on tips. The rounds are timed and each of the contestants have their own methods. I
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by OzCrimson 5y ago
This depends on the evidence you want to highlight. There are a lot of truly amazing things people use Excel for. And they work. There's no denying that.
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by OzCrimson 5y ago
WOW! Excellent perspective. And I've never heard the term "citizen programmer" before. You're right. "I did it myself" and "I understand how it works" are definitely undervalued. And that plays into a
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by OzCrimson 5y ago
A lot of comments are criticizing Excel users as if we are resistant to learning more about other programming languages. Resistant as in hard-headed or lazy. One thing to remember is that the vast majority of Excel users aren't fully i
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by OzCrimson 5y ago
Ok. Thank you. This does help. I can appreciate that.
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by OzCrimson 5y ago
I think of this stuff separately. 1. The government can always use the excuse of "public safety." However, 2. A company that's selling brooms shouldn't have all kinds of access to tracking people. The public doesn&#x27
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by OzCrimson 5y ago
Matt, I'm curious to know why? If a person has jumped through hoops to say they don't want to be tracked, why look for ways to still do it? It's like putting up curtains to keep people from looking in my window, but then you
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by OzCrimson 5y ago
I was with you until you made it political. I'm a member of a minority group and I'm fed up with wokeness. People like John McWhorter have described wokeness as a religion. That's a characterization that I agree with, and a r
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by OzCrimson 6y ago
This has me seriously thinking about paying the Apple premium and ditching Android.
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by OzCrimson 6y ago
I think there should be an opt-IN model. Opting out can be made confusing and difficult and time-consuming. I've gone to websites that list over 300 3rd parties that they share data with. Opting out means going to every one of those 3r
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by OzCrimson 6y ago
Fine. But when I opt out I want to be truly 100% opted out. Actually, I'd prefer the option to opt IN if I want to be tracked. I think that's the real issue here. I know people who love targeted advertising. Great. Let them have i
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by OzCrimson 6y ago
RIGHT! Facebook has made it OUR problem that THEIR business model is based on selling ads. But it shouldn't be our problem.
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by OzCrimson 6y ago
This is very different from the slimy tactics around our privacy and data.
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by OzCrimson 6y ago
I agree with you about the 2 scenarios. My concern, though, isn't about potentially pages and pages of explanations. It's more about the fact that I spend time opting out of that kind of stuff and some how still get the ad just be
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by OzCrimson 6y ago
BRAVO
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by OzCrimson 6y ago
You've got all the answers about a company in Chicago in 2005-2008 and how it should have been run. Why didn't you jump in and help us?
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by OzCrimson 6y ago
BRAVO for you. And I mean that. You've got the tool YOU need and you haven't pushed YOUR tool on other people. Thank you.
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by OzCrimson 6y ago
How do you have so many answers to situations you haven't been in? Do I need to say it again? My Excel skills were necessary because of garbage in databases. I could sit at my desk; extract a data-dump of 50k rows of data; locate the f
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by OzCrimson 6y ago
100%
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by OzCrimson 6y ago
It's just unbelievable ... how people KNOW about situations that they weren't in and don't ask any questions. But since you brought it up I can tell you about my accuracy in Excel: - The process involved 2 people checking my
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by OzCrimson 6y ago
We're closer in agreement. And I'd never suggest that Excel was the best solution or even a good solution at times. (I hated the tedious error-prone things that I used to do in Excel.) I'm just offering the context from which
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by OzCrimson 6y ago
You go tell the Director of Customer Service that his people who are handling critical tasks need to learn Python. Good luck.
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by OzCrimson 6y ago
One thing I'm thankful for is my Excel skill. Why do I even have Excel skill? Because of the garbage reports and data that I was pulling out of databases. I spent YEARS exporting data-dumps and cleansing them in Excel to help customers

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