FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
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Capitalism be like "it's not okay to pay a sex worker with your credit card but it is okay for a car manufacturer to sell sex tapes of you having sex in your car made without your consent to unidentified third parties"
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
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
