Yeah there truly is no comparison to Excel (derogatory).

(I’m just bitter because of VBA okay?)

I was once on a video call with my sister, walking around the house and getting more and more frustrated as I did so. Eventually she asked me what I was looking for.

“I CAN’T FIND MY GODDAMN PHONE!”

She burst out laughing.

As someone who owns several RISC-V devices the primary thing preventing usable (low end) RISC-V laptops is the GPUs. Most RISC-V silicon has Imagination GPUs, and the current state of the drivers there is “proprietary drivers stuck on an old LTS kernel.”

If someone makes an RVA23 compliant chip with open mainstreamable drivers and a BXS-4-64 GPU (or, better yet, somehow manages to license a GPU from Intel or AMD for it), that’ll be a cash cow.

This is essentially Google moving to do what I always thought was Apple’s malicious compliance on the DMA, but which European courts seem to have accepted as just fine. I’m pretty miffed at Google for sinking to Apple’s level on this.

Yes.

Soldier, plug, stain, stamp, person, seal? I don’t get it.

I mean… It is reason.com. Nobody who knows about them was expecting anything reasonable.

Yeah failing to get an indictment from a grand jury is an impressive form of failure.

Destroyers of Government Efficiency.

I very intentionally have all my code in Personal Projects 🥰 and Work Projects 🏦 directories so I can find bugs in the handling of file paths.

Google were literally one of the three organisations who worked on the standard, and the top contributor to the reference implementation works there.

You just make a non-fungible physical taken that represents those bitcoins!

It’s also far easier to do if you live in a walkable, bikeable city. I used to live somewhere where even the nearest grocery store was a 10 minute drive away, and I barely ever saw anyone. Now I’m a 5-10 minute bike ride from pretty much everything I need and I spend so much more time with friends.

Honestly? Get a large monitor and a sound bar.

If I were in the market for a new monitor and I could get an 8k monitor for under $1000 I’d consider it, but right now if one of my monitors broke I’d just be getting another 4k to replace it. The price isn’t worth it for me to have high DPI.

For TV my only justification for my 4k TV is that it was free.

But it felt like 6 months.

I initially read that as “stop using VPNs to watch child porn, ministers told” and was expecting a very different article.

Integer storage in spreadsheets… There are a ridiculous number of ways to store any integer, and I don’t just mean because you could theoretically store 1 and 00000001 and they’d be interpreted as the same thing.

Given that part of my job is evaluating applicants’ ability to do the job, and given that LLMs are very good at answering the sort of questions many people ask in interviews, AI is making my job significantly harder.

If someone could make a prompt that actually made an LLM write good code, I wouldn’t have nearly as much of an issue.

I would agree, except that every piece of it is significantly more complex than it needs to be. ODF is considerably simpler in part because it makes use of other pre-existing standards for things like dates and times. OOXML redefines so many of those things, and in many cases Microsoft Office’s implementation isn’t actually compatible with their own standard.