Suppafly

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by Suppafly 2y ago
>The amount of issues I have seen in the last ~20 years caused by "off by one" type of errors in Excel is insane. Generally those aren't a fault of excel, but a fault of someone doing something dumb in excel. People do dum
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>[1] Except the one you want the answer to at a given moment, amirite fellas? Everytime I relearn how to do a vlookup, none of the examples online do what I want. It's like they are trying to do something completely opposite of what
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>So actually top level planning/reporting is done by everything flowing into one big spreadsheet - as crappy as that is, thats pretty common. Yeah, everywhere I've worked that's common, even when the underlying data is man
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>It looks beautiful. But I honestly don't understand what the market is. People who are willing to buy several individual UPS devices for appliances but aren't willing to pay an electrician to install a grid cut off switch so t
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by Suppafly 2y ago
Really? Is it like daytime only or something?
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by Suppafly 2y ago
Yeah I'm colorblind myself and usually it's not a big deal until I try to play a boardgame or tell good values from bad on random powerpoints at work. Every once in a while I'll pass a little regional airport with a "fre
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by Suppafly 2y ago
I have a friend that can read, so likely not as severe as the woman in the OP, but wasn't diagnosed with dyslexia until college.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>RPN is an HP thing Not anymore, that's why older engineers pay inflated prices for old ones on ebay.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>Should there be new RPN calculators to replace the TI-84? I'm not sure I really understand your question, TI-84 (and all other TI models) don't use RPN. You can run a program to allow RPN input you want, since most of the high
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by Suppafly 2y ago
> so she spends less time outdoors Instead of just wearing shades? That's silly.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>I won't even wear contact lenses, I long ago fully committed to glasses. That type of procedure doesn't fit my risk tolerance. I feel similarly, but as the thickness of my glasses increases as I age, I'm starting to cons
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>instead of having cleanly segregated red vs. green responses. I suppose that's why r/g colorblindness is so common.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
I don't know which type of glass my glasses have, but I know I had to pay a ton for it, because the cheaper sort can't handle my prescription without being really thick and/or heavy. But as someone that actually wears my glas
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>The solution for me to eliminate headaches when working at computer screens was getting an extra set of intermediate distance glasses specifically for computer work. My wife is getting bifocals for basically this same reason.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>best recreational mathematicians in the world What does that involve? does that mean he's good at math or is he coming up with new research and theorems and such?
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>I know that between around '93 and '97 if you dialed AOL from D/FW there was a good chance your call would be terminated somewhere within a mile or two of your house and the bits flowing between your Compaq Presario and A
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>and now we bring back mammoths for shit and giggles You realize this research has other applications right?
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>Back in the early 70s the lab I worked in had a colony of mice called "wobblers" that in some sense modelled Parkinson's Disease - but not usefully, as far as I could see. If it wasn't useful, why did they have them?
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by Suppafly 2y ago
I think most of this work going towards mammoths is also applicable to other species and a lot of the people specifically against reviving the mammoth seem to forget that.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>OTOH, any number of edits will be insufficient for others. It won't be the extinct species, just an artificial hybrid. I think there is a sweet spot where most people would consider it to be an un-extincted mammoth vs just an eleph
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by Suppafly 2y ago
> at peak times, they can't keep track of it They usually have FIFO system anyway, so even if everyone was ordering the same thing, it wouldn't matter. I suppose a situation where you have multiple baristas and some work faster
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by Suppafly 2y ago
> the walking direction matching the driving direction is. Not really though since that's also dictation and not something that naturally occurs. In fact you usually have to teach children to walk with vehicle traffic, because the n
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by Suppafly 2y ago
I think every non-default browser asks that the first time you open them. It's not a huge deal, but it is a huge deal when you start getting prompted from the OS to change it.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
Doing it that way is a pain if don't want to create a microsoft account, which when tries to convert your computer account to a microsoft account. Pretending that it's easy to switch by requiring you to use the microsoft store to
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>I believe the claim was that it's coming default on prebuilt PCs. That's the claim, but I've never seen a pre-built with chrome installed (other than a chromebook obviously), let alone configured as the default. Which OEM
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>I read that mites can't survive temperatures above 60C, and wondered then about just a big plastic bag around the item then fill it from a hot air source (hair dryer, fan heater)? People do something similar to kill bedbugs, I thin
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by Suppafly 2y ago
A similar, actually useful, experiment is the one where a guy cracked the knuckles of only one hand for several years and found no ill effects from doing so compared to the other hand with non-cracked knuckles.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>I think you are ignoring the fact that citizen science was alive and very well up into the 1980s. Some version of that still exists among people with a naturalist bent recording observations of reptiles, birds, plants, etc. But yeah, we
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by Suppafly 2y ago
> I think the startups selling dev tools are not selling to developers at all, but to the IT folks of these big tech firms. They are often selling to IT managers against the advice of the developers and IT folks, and then they mostly don
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by Suppafly 2y ago
This, if you hire engineers, you want them doing tasks only engineers can do, not busy work.

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