FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
If any spreadsheet software already does this, please do let me know. I've many times wanted to plot events from for example a csv file on a calendar/schedule view.
Seems like it wouldn't be that hard to implement as a new kind of chart, that takes columns for start + end time, or start + duration, and a column for labels and renders that as a schedule or calendar.
I can't understand why no spreadsheet software out there have a way of displaying a table of events as a schedule/calendar.
"Now I have a 40 minute walk to the United Nations which I'm going to spend just... luxuriating in my anxiety" -- John Green
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On this day in 1983 Stanislav Petrov saved the world by refusing to start a nuclear war.
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(sees multiple reports showing that Gen Z, on average, is less tech savvy compared to Millennials and Gen X)
Me, a late Millennial: Hahaha oh man. We're never gonna stop being unofficial tech support for people huh.
(Seriously teach kids tech literacy in school, yes they are surrounded by tech from birth basically but it's like all phones and tablets for the majority of them, not desktop OSes)
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every morning I wake up and read a series of articles about all the massive data breaches from the previous 24 hours.
once I'm done reading those I move on to the articles about the latest government efforts to legislate mandatory backdoors in encryption.
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Developers are drawn to complexity like moths to a flame often with the same result. (Neal Ford)
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I cant believe shrinkflation is a real term from the news and not something a bunch of people i follow are into
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"So, You Searched Reddit To Figure Out Why Your Internet Archive Emulated Item Didn't Work."
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Every so often Music has a sync failure and dupes a bunch of my playlists by adding a 1 on the end. Turns out it's not appending, but incrementing...
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damn. sounds pretty serious. i'll be sure to get in touch with IT right away
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@rygorous @hannah to elaborate, Physically Based Rendering follows the theory that if we study physics, we then know that all things are made out of guns and plastic; and from there we take some very well calibrated photos of reference materials in controlled conditions, do some elaborate curve fitting, and bam Bob's your second author. Also you need to invoke "the rendering equation" somewhere in your paper, even though we don't use it for anything. Nobody knows why.
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When people tell me generative AI will solve real-world problems
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and I should add: USB is not actually the ports on the outside of your machine. it's a labyrinth of nightmares which can be entered from the port outside your machine.
the real USB is the Bus, the Universal Serial Bus, that those ports plug into. the headers ports on your machine are also entrances into that labyrinth except they're much more confusing and less standardised.
did you know that USB forms a tree structure, where the concept of a "USB hub" is not actually just a set of wires but an entire, separate USB device in itself? and that those hubs connect to each other and point to individual plugs on your motherboard? or maybe the whole motherboard is treated as one hub?
the confusing bit about this is that it's designed to be opaque to the user, except hardware manufacturers are lazy and don't implement the hub spec. meaning that if you plug in a USB keyboard through a USB hub, it might not work until your operating system boots and actually loads the USB hub driver. except maybe the fucking case to your machine is a USB hub? or maybe the plug into your machine is a USB hub? who knows
the USB spec is a monstrosity hundreds of pages long and exactly the same people who want to convince you that the days of "if the plug fits, it works" are still here are the same people who will say "too long, didn't read" to the spec that must be implemented in full to do exactly that
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
