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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Parody they also redid the interface and I hate it. I just want a simple chronological feed of content, dammit, not with arbitrary grouping in it.
They're just following the Facebook model: We know better
Facebook’s model is: what you want isn’t what makes us money.
My feed is roughly 5% of content made by people, the rest is ads and “suggestions”. For some reason (targeted advertising fail ) it really thinks I’m interested in football news.No kidding. This shit is getting out of hand.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Parody That new one makes me feel like I need new glasses - it feels blurry.
That's intentional. Their new font has variants from "Good enough for actual use." to "Alien Investigation - Secrets Revealed!"
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin I think cilantro tastes weird, but good. Sometimes I wonder if I just like the taste of soap.
Try tasting soap and see? !
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla now what gene do you lack if you don’t realize cilantro tastes like soap?
Wrong way round. If you've got all your genes, you can taste soap and you can taste cilantro and they're nothing alike. It's the ones who are genetically deficient who think they're the same.
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Those of you who wanted everything to go back to the fifties, I think you're starting to get your wish:
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@Watson said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin I think cilantro tastes weird, but good. Sometimes I wonder if I just like the taste of soap.
Try tasting soap and see? !
Just stay away from 'Lifebuoy' I hear it is poisonous.
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@Watson said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin I think cilantro tastes weird, but good. Sometimes I wonder if I just like the taste of soap.
Try tasting soap and see? !
"Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. My personal preference was for Lux, but I found Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heady, but with just a touch of mellow smoothness. Lifebuoy, on the other hand..."
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Those of you who wanted everything to go back to the fifties, I think you're starting to get your wish:
As long as they're cross-dressing, then it's fine.
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@HardwareGeek I guess the speaker routinely had his mouth washed out with soap when he was a kid?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla now what gene do you lack if you don’t realize cilantro tastes like soap?
Believing ‘cilantro’ and ‘realize’ are real words actually results from an additional chromosome.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap.
I think some of our fine folks here would have become connoisseurs of soap if they had parents with that practice.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap.
I think some of our fine folks here would have become connoisseurs of soap if they had parents with that practice.
Pro-tip: Always use bar. Liquid is more likely to be swallowed.
Edit: I mean, I don't know what you mean, why would you say things like that?
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Science!
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In recent years, they uncovered the protein responsible for detecting sour taste. That protein, called OTOP1, sits within cell membranes and forms a channel for hydrogen ions moving into the cell.
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Mice showing more sense than Samiyuk afficionadoes:
Mice with a functional OTOP1 protein found the taste of ammonium chloride unappealing and did not drink the solution, while mice lacking the OTOP1 protein did not mind the alkaline salt, even at very high concentrations.
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Liman speculates that the ability to taste ammonium chloride might have evolved to help organisms avoid eating harmful biological substances that have high concentrations of ammonium.
"Ammonium is found in waste products—think of fertilizer—and is somewhat toxic," she explainedMore like salmishit amirite?
Is that why @apapadimoulis rated the strongest flavors of salmiak as "caustic"? Ammonium chloride just tastes like a different variety of salt to me. I had no idea it could taste sour. I actually enjoy salmiak. For reference, I also appreciate the taste of cilantro and judo-chopped mayo, so maybe I am a bit nonsensical.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Science!
a team of astronomers led by Wonki Lee of the Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea
That seems kinda wonky to me.
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@Placeholder said in In other news today...:
I actually enjoy salmiak. ...
maybeI am a bit nonsensical.
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What company will he be
wreckingrunning next?
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Parody said in In other news today...:
from IBM/Red Hat
That … might not be a good choice.
Who for? Sounds like it might be a good time to buy IBM stock.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I'll have to see what happens on that front. I have a non-hardware-locked windows 7 key which has been previously used to install windows 10 (both upgrade and new install). Never more than 1 PC at a time. As was communicated at the time, this converts it to a windows 10 key. But at the same time that's always been when the upgrade was still available (though officially retired).
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Excel excels again, this time in helping the recruitment process.
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@Arantor More failing to learn to learn tools you intend to use and failing to plan the process before executing it. Excel would have worked well enough if someone created a common template so the offices would fill in the results in a consistent manner. But they had each office spit them out in whatever junk format they came up with and then merged them together manually without paying enough attention.
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@Bulb so, every place ever using Excel in my experience…
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@Arantor Every place using anything, I'd say. Too many people who don't give a shit whether the outcome of their work is worth shit everywhere. The processes got, with great help of software, too complicated for typical office mule to understand.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Bulb so, every place ever using Excel in my experience…
… but yeah, Excel is particularly prone to failing to learn the tools issue. Everybody says they know Excel when they can peck numbers into cells and nobody bothers telling them what capabilities it actually has and how to take advantage of them in their job.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Excel would have worked well enough
But then again, I*m convinced that Excel is always the wrong answer, regardless of the question.
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@cvi There is a lot of cases where Excel is a good enough answer, but the people using it need to understand it and be aware of its pitfalls as it surely does have some¹.
¹ The most common problem I have with it is that it distinguishes between text and numbers, but has no way to convert value (more importantly all values in a selection) to text or number as needed, so when you run across a case where it matters in expressions, the hunt for which values are stored as numbers and should have been text or vice versa is slow an painful; compounded by the fact you can format the cells as text, which does not make them text, but less skilled users won't understand the difference.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/science/bird-flu-chickens-crispr.html
Scientists Use CRISPR to Make Chickens More Resistant to Bird Flu
A new study highlights both the promise and the limitations of gene editing, as a highly lethal form of avian influenza continues to spread around the world.
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@boomzilla But it will take years to replace current chicken with new genetically engineered chicken. Cometh the next virus...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Scientists Use CRISPR to Make Fried Chickens More
Resistant to Bird FluCRISPY
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/science/bird-flu-chickens-crispr.html
Scientists Use CRISPR to Make Chickens More Resistant to Bird Flu
A new study highlights both the promise and the limitations of gene editing, as a highly lethal form of avian influenza continues to spread around the world.
I'm gonna pitch a hissy if it damages their love for extremely spicy foods. I've got access to a flock of chickens who will fight to the death for any such snacks I need to dispose of.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@cvi There is a lot of cases where Excel is a good enough answer, but the people using it need to understand it and be aware of its pitfalls as it surely does have some¹.
¹ The most common problem I have with it is that it distinguishes between text and numbers, but has no way to convert value (more importantly all values in a selection) to text or number as needed, so when you run across a case where it matters in expressions, the hunt for which values are stored as numbers and should have been text or vice versa is slow an painful; compounded by the fact you can format the cells as text, which does not make them text, but less skilled users won't understand the difference.
I've learned you can easily coerce a selection of cells into numerical by copying a blank cell and telling it to special-paste in Add mode on top of the target selection, but so far nothing to coerce to text.
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@Tsaukpaetra It's been a long while since I last did this stuff, but can't you just configure the cells' display style to be Text instead of General? ISTR that the contents as inputted are really still there, and the problem is in how they are shown in the GUI. The General display makes lots of guesses and gets things really wrong sometimes...
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra It's been a long while since I last did this stuff, but can't you just configure the cells' display style to be Text instead of General? ISTR that the contents as inputted are really still there, and the problem is in how they are shown in the GUI. The General display makes lots of guesses and gets things really wrong sometimes...
No, dog poops on how it's displayed. The problem is that 12345 entered as text is not equal to 12345 entered as a number in expressions, and that if you import it from a CSV, it's always text—which is correct in that case, because it's an identifier and 01234 is different from 1234, so it has to be text—but if you add something manually, because there is a mistake in the records, it will get understood as a number and it won't be matched by the logic anyway.
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@Bulb so even though it’s Text, it still truncates the leading zero? Only way I ever got that to work correctly with Excel was to bastardise the value to be
="01234"
in the CSV itself.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Bulb so even though it’s Text, it still truncates the leading zero? Only way I ever got that to work correctly with Excel was to bastardise the value to be
="01234"
in the CSV itself.It might be written that way, actually; the CSV files (they actually use
@
or@@
as separator) are produced by the accounting system, and its authors did take some care to make sure they get imported into Excel the way they intended, which includes not truncating leading 0s from things that are identifiers.
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@Bulb Excel's favourite pastime is ruining CSVs with guesswork.
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@Arantor It is. but it also got a few bits better lately, as in you can now at least specify the separator and encoding as see a preview whether it parses correct(ish)ly.
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@Bulb gasp! I might not have to fudge files with a UTF-8 BOM to get the right encoding??
(I do this mostly because the users can’t be trusted.)
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
(I do this mostly because the users can’t be trusted.)
That is a universal truth.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Bulb Excel's favourite pastime is ruining CSVs with guesswork.
Just export files to xlsx instead of csv. Problem solved
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@loopback0 What usually happened is that they wanted a CSV from my system to then go on somewhere that actually wanted real CSV, but they'd open it in Excel to "check" it and Excel would mangle it.
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@Arantor The easiest way to deal with that is to give the filename a custom extension so that it isn't so easy to load into Excel with just a double click. Our good old favourite
.dat
would do great for this.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Arantor The easiest way to deal with that is to give the filename a custom extension so that it isn't so easy to load into Excel with just a double click. Our good old favourite
.dat
would do great for this.I'm partial to .BIN myself.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Arantor The easiest way to deal with that is to give the filename a custom extension so that it isn't so easy to load into Excel with just a double click. Our good old favourite
.dat
would do great for this.“But then it’s not a CSV file?”
Yes, I know people that genuinely believe changing the extension mysteriously changes the content.
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@Arantor
I can’t fault anyone for thinking that, given the way Windows yells about corruption any time you try.