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Excel has FlashExtract and FlashFill[1]

Excel has COM automation going back to the old days; from many programming languages on Windows you can instantiate "Excel.Application" and then script it as if you were using the GUI - and have the GUI visible and showing you what is happening. Add workbooks, worksheets, select ranges, copy/paste, enter formulae and get their results, apply formatting, etc. Because it plugs into Windows' COM system, you don't need to download an Office SDK or Excel-specific library for your language to use it, any language which can talk to COM can do it, including VBScript, PowerShell, Python with PyWin32, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, etc.

If you save an Excel document on a SharePoint (Office365) site, then multiple people can open it. When they do that, it's a multiplayer spreadsheet - you see who else has the document open, which cell(s) they are looking at, changes betewen all people are propagated in approximately realtime.

If you save an Excel document on an (Office365) site then Office365 has visibility into it, which means if someone else opens it, @tags you in a comment on a cell, Office365 will pick that up and email it to you for your attention.

Excel documents saved on O365 can be opened in a web browser, in a JavaScript version of Excel which has fewer features but can still join in with the above.

Excel documents saved on O365 are visible in the MSGraph API, for scripting with REST endpoints[2]

People who have been working in Silicon Valley, for FAANG companies, as software developers, pushing us all to the cloud for ten to twenty years, still thinking that Excel vs LibreOffice is a matter of a desktop program showing a grid you can put some numbers in and do sum or average, and whether you can bold or align the text, are experiencing some kind of cognitive dissonance.

Your CRUD app can now be a spreadsheet someone in HR opens, enters an employee code, and a script against the MSGraph API which offboards them, and if it hasn't worked the HR person can @ you in a comment. There goes all your custom CRUD UI, database backend, network connectivity, compiling, deployment, authorization, there's your "no code" or "low code" Excel as frontend for a small business.

Want to script a report for HR to look at? Thinking of downloading a JDK and PDF library for Java and asking for SMTP relay settings? Script MSGraph to make an Excel spreadsheet directly in a folder HR can see. A poor solution for a big business, a quick and relatively easy solution for a small business with an admin and a PowerShell script.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32116088#32129830

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/excel?v...
Why Vitess sharding is better than NoSQL sharding
Look into MLOps.
Russia leaving the International Space Station in 2024
I created Video Hub App and sell about 100 copies at $5 each (originally for $3.50 four years ago at launch). Had no audience, just shared it on Reddit a bit, on some forums, AlternativeTo, and a few random places (never paid).

Sold over 4,000 copies in the last 4 years - probably with help of luck (some people wrote reviews of the app) and also probably because people search for "porn hub" as "video hub".

https://videohubapp.com/ - and it's open source - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
My recommendation every time this topic comes up:
* Restore your phone to factory fresh, install only the minimum apps you need. Way easier than culling from the herd, app-wise.
Thanks Fatnino for confirming it showed up.

While I appreciate the complexity, effort and pains of what Dang and PG are doing there is some evidence that they are sensitive souls, and cannot stand even polite personal criticism. I cannot be sure of this however.
It’s worth distinguishing between security against software attacks and security against physical “attacks”.

I absolutely don’t want my internet connected pet cam to be accessed remotely (outside the set of companies i’ve decided to trust, namely the manufacturer.)

Protection against hardware tempering is less good and probably mostly anti-consumer. The most legitimate cases I’ve heard:

- Protection from (some) supply chain attacks

- Leasing models. Where you acquire the item for less than it’s hardware cost and pay over time.

But honestly I’m not convinced of either.

Disclosure: I worked on Azure Sphere, the first place Pluton was developed outside Xbox.

Edit: I’ve read the whole article now. These scenarios are really bad and really realistic. Pluton is bad.
It's a taxable benefit and they do let you opt out if you don't want to pay the taxes.
You're correct, of course. I think the point that was being made was more about people actively choosing to use open source.

If you were to approach a non-tech person and ask them how many open source apps they use on a daily basis, they would probably say "none", even if it's not the case.
Right click appears to do nothing... leaving an impossible to solve puzzle, as you've just locked a piece and no amount of left clicking will move it. Very frustrating.

Why would you lock a cell?
eh you don't need to prove much anymore that's what parallel construction and plea deals are for.
Oh, thanks. I missed that TR was measured by seJ/kg, mostly because its defined earlier as seJ/J.

10^-4 is way more realistic than 10^-11. Anyway the "se" is supposed to mean "solar energy", but yeah, they add quite a lot of nonsense. On a second reading, I'm not sure they added solar energy at all into it so the number may be completely meaningless for that usage. (But no crop gets anything near the photosynthesis efficiency, because most of the plant's energy goes into surviving, not growth.)
I wonder who Shishkin is writing this for, and why he bothers.

Readers interested in Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, or Chekhov are presumably intellectuals. Presumably, they will be familiar with the countless examples from history when, driven by patriotic fervor, countries cleansed themselves from the culture of an adversarial state, including language, literature, music, linguistic borrowings, scientific contributions, common history, etc. etc. Presumably, these potential readers should be sophisticated enough to separate the crude politics of the day from the valuable contributions to the history of art or science.

Is he _really_ interested in the audience whose interest in the 19-th century Russian literature is predicated on the Russian politics of the 21st century? Why does he want to reach this audience? And, more generally, in the environment that is arrogantly dismissive to "old white men" in general, why worry about the readership of Dostoyevsky at all?
I am not so sure, any more. I see our family businesses at end of line not because we can not compete but because the children have so many other options. However, many of the options are superficially attractive and the reality is not so great. I got into computers/programming almost 35 years back in a decent university, but I see kids now getting into programming in tier 3 and 4 schools thinking they made their career. I see Canada offering almost free visas and permanent residency but there are no jobs for the ones at bottom. Eventually the youngsters at bottom of the food chain will figure something out, but they may be better off sticking to a business that works. And there are millions of them buying the glamour. We only know the story of the ones who make it to bay area (or its ilk).

Maybe I am presenting a one sided story, but that is just due to shortage of time. Maybe some other day if a topic comes up.
The main issue with subtitles for me is for comedies. I'll read ahead and the timing will be off. It's still funny [1], but different.

[1] The funniest show I've ever watched is Gintama in Japanese with subs, after all.
> It's an absolute shitshow, a media exposé waiting to happen.

It's already happened. In the UK on Channel 4 at least: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/inside-the-metaverse-are.... It shows many of the incidents you've described. Including things that you probably haven't experienced (the player was a black woman, so you can imagine what she experienced).
Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian attack Instagram video pivot; company shrugs
Gotcha.

Any predictions on when AI can generate an entire movie like Avengers? :)

That'd put Netflix out of business.
This is good.

In countries that filter the internet, people do buy and sell physical VPN gift cards, to enable usage of somewhat shady VPNs.

Here's a totally legit option.
I'm not well versed in queuing theory, but I would assume that's rather the point. The existence of an unboundedly growing queue implies an inability to keep up with demand, so someone has to lose. The most shameless queue jumpers get served earlier because they have the highest priority. Anyone stuck in the queue didn't have a high enough priority in the first place.

From a utilitarian standpoint it makes sense :shrug:
"Take an electronics testing lab with you next time you go shopping to be sure you're not getting some cheap crap"

I miss the days of a restive wire shoved into the AC circuit.
If I may ask, for point #5, do you mean cold emailing here? If so, how do you differentiate your email with that of other generic cold emails? Or do you just email people you already know?
Yeah I came to the comments hoping someone could explain that. He was so busy trying to sound cute that he ended up unintelligible.
Still doesn't resonate and unfortunately I will point that your experience does not represent the broader market. Just because you (assumptions made on your comment about personal experience) made a fast round doesn't mean that the market is easier or better for raising - it probably means you found product-fit/sold it better or some other kind of micro strategy benefit.

My comment is and still stands: if you are making something truly amazing then you will almost always find investors (which isn't a good metric). If you were making something amazing 6 months ago you would have gotten more money on more favorable terms. This market isn't easier or friendly at all - investor appetites have changed.
I've found that setting my iphone to black and white completely broke my desire to use my phone. I would really recommend it as the first step for anyone who wants to limit the amount of time they spend on their device.
>I'm in the UK and it is always the case that processed, mass manufactured food is looked down upon.

This from the country that brought us beans on toast? Maybe this is more of a middle class phenomenon, but the UK isn't exactly known for its food.

Hotdogs and pasta salad sounds like something a desperate college student would cobble together. Not something the average american would consider eating. Given how well we assimilate different cultures in the US, the food is one of my favorite things.

I can drive less than a few miles and literally have the best food of any number of cultures from any corner of the globe, and if I wish to cook it myself, any number of ethnic grocers to choose from. Not even to mention the food that is purely US in origin.

There are many criticisms of the US but food isn't one of them.
It really doesn’t. I took an exam in a meeting room at work with huge TVs on the wall… they made me show them the TVs were “unplugged”, so I just unplugged some random thing from the wall and they were happy.

The TVs are hardwired, it’d be trivial to have an accomplice show answers or whatever on them.
What happens if the computer is destroyed in an accident? Nothing, because insurance companies aren't insuring driving habits, they're insuring property. People modify cars every day all day and can still obtain insurance.
>Some of these mods were literally about making the game accessible to people who wouldn't be able to use it otherwise.

How?
Back in the 90s, I would occasionally get a phone call on my land line from the phone company, trying to upsell me on things like call waiting that they could charge me more for.

My reply was that I only want two things: the ability to make calls, and the ability to receive calls. And that on most days I wasn't so sure about the second thing, come to think of it.
Battery buses are a solution ahead of their time. Any old bus is better than car-based transportation, so shifting modes from car to bus is more important than changing the energy source of the bus. If shifting from car to bus is impossible because of built environment, that's the first priority. Buses powered by batteries should be way down at the end of the TODO list.

If you absolutely insist on having buses that aren't direct sources of CO2, fuel cells are a more mature technology that makes more sense than batteries.
The first xbox was hacked using an attack via the power supply I believe. It caused some instructions in the boot sequence to be skipped i think. It’s a really cool story, wish i had a link.
There will always be crime. Trying to prevent crime leads to reducing freedom, and not crime.
Building a Mobile Subscription Button
PCB solder will reflow at about 240°C or 470°F so provided you have a thermal resistant container around the pcb it will probably outlive the fire long enough to fail-safe, these kind of hardware mitigations will probably latch with a latency in the microseconds scale.
Kernel rootkits are going to be redundant pretty soon.

There are cheats out there that use video captured by capture cards as input for an AI on a separate computer to actually play the game like a human would. Once that becomes widespread there is no way to stop it, save from banning capture cards entirely.
That's also interesting. I know that not everybody have an eye for style like I have. TBH I wreck my nerves if an interface looks like some ugly pile of sh* (no I do not mean the CDE thing).
I do not agree with " Looking pretty is for art and games." because if you take a look at some commercial audio plugins for Cubase/ProTools/whatever you'll see that they always look good, fancy and please the eye. They wouldn't invest any money if looking pretty is only for "art and games" and a "simple" formular based interface is everything the customer needs.

The remaining points you listed are good point's I'll think over. Thx
Cheney's copying collector? You're gonna have huge garbage-to-live ratio with immutable objects, and this algorithm is pretty amazing for such scenarios.
nice! when is dashibase launching?
*supported by every medical imaging device manufacturer going back something like 3+ decades.

This is much less of a problem of shiny-object-syndrome not providing a "better" way of solving the problem(s) and much more one of market inertia, IMO. Many people overlook this.
I would love to have a flip phone again.. the simpler and dumber the better.
> The code must be scratched free first, so I assume Amazon doesn't know the code

This is the part I’m not following. Unless Amazon takes specific steps to intentionally not track the code (and this doesn’t sound very Amazon-like) , why would we assume Amazon doesn’t know the code?

The scratch off protection is to prevent shoppers from seeing the code in stores, and to provide assurance that the card hasn’t been used yet (“used” as in the number is now in someone’s possession).

Edit: I misinterpreted the nature of these cards and commented prematurely.
It's a bit confusing to me why people use amazon in europe...

Amazon where I live delivers in 1-2+ weeks and has prices which are similar or more then local shops.

Local shops deliver next day, have excellent warranty and customer service and prices are the same or lower... Also no force pushing of prime or getting nickle and dimed for delivery.

There's also the issue of not finding anything good on amazon (lots of knock offs), whereas other shops have curated lists with nice filtering and advice...
Who/what do you consider to be a "Canadian" in 2022?

In Toronto and the surrounding cities, for example, about half of the population are foreign-born.

A significant proportion of the population of many other Canadian urban areas are foreign-born.

About 20% of the overall Canadian population are foreign-born.

Many of these people are from cultures that are quite different to anything resembling "traditional" Canadian culture.

Acquiring Canadian citizenship later in life doesn't necessarily change a person's values, attitudes, and so on.

A lot of Canadian-born individuals have one or both parents who are foreign-born, which also can have an impact on one's values, attitudes, and behaviour.

Even among those with multi-generational ties to Canada, there were already significant cultural/values/attitude/behavioural differences among the various groupings.

Ultimately, in any given interaction with somebody in Canada today, there's a good chance you're dealing with somebody whose ties to "traditional" Canadian culture are limited, or even non-existent.

Maybe some kind of a relatively cohesive "Canadian" culture or identity existed at one point, several decades ago, but I don't think that's the case any longer, especially in the urban areas.
Because you don’t make money by selling access to NFTs. You make money by accumulating over hyped projects and then dumping them on bullish retail, knowing full well that in another 12-18 months that same jpeg will be worth nothing in the resale market.

Transactions on a few thousand NFTs per day is meaningless (yes volumes that low). So there’s no other option than Shopify actually believing NFTs were a real viable, long term business.
See VMware during the dot-com bust.
Run Your Own DALL·E Mini (Craiyon) Server on EC2 with Meadowrun
Ah yes, let’s make peoples jobs even less secure. Why stop with two years? Why not just have everyone employed weekly and if an algorithm figures out they’re not worthy, off they go?
>Yet some VCs are still plowing into web3

Some VCs, some even with legendary reputations, are going to ruin said reputations from the scams they're pushing. In 10 years much of the sheen of Silicon Valley will have worn off. Tech will be as beloved as banking.
it's definitely a gamble. I'm of the mindset that once you choose to leave then you should never look back and not even open the counteroffer email. However, i know a couple coworkers that have accepted the counter offer and are now in a better place than they were both in terms of comp and work life.
From the viewpoint of privacy and not crashing the web browser and not slowing it down I'd rather get a service like this from a web site than a browser extension. (e.g. a generic browser extension is bad for the above three, it makes no sense to install a browser extension unless it does something for privacy, crashing and slowness like an ad blocker.)
>>I personally would appreciate this because every 1-2 years

While you would, most of the labor sector would not. For me I explicitly reject fixed term contract employment, while on the surface it may seem more ideal, for me At-will employment through out my career has been pretty stable, and normally on the inside I can tell when layoffs are coming, and what segment so will be impacted so I can plan accordingly
I have a stapler that will go through about 120 sheets. I'm not printing anything longer than that usually.

It's not quite as pretty as duct tape, but it's fine for me.
For me, iOS 16 focus modes and a cellular Apple Watch is working for this. I've been able to pretty much just stop carrying my phone when I need to be connected but don't want the distractions. I have tried the Palm Phone in the past to reduce my use of smartphones and really liked it but did not like the lack of integration to iCloud and that you couldn't de-Googleify it.
True story: when I was fifteen, I went on a school field trip to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and picked up a copy of BMW in the museum bookstore. I was determined that I was going to make it out of my podunk little town and become an aerospace engineer, so I decided to work through the book on my own.

The problem was that I had never had calculus, much less differential equations. I fact I didn't know what calculus was; I only knew it as a word that meant "really hard math". So I made it about five pages in and realized that I had no chance. BMW stayed on my bookshelf.

Ten years later, I was in a graduate program for aerospace engineering and had finally made it through all the pre-recs for 600-level astrodynamics. BMW was one of the textbooks for the course. The moment, a month into that class, when I opened the book and it actually made sense was one of the highlights of my life, and that copy of the book I bought as a teenager is one of my most prized possessions.
My phone is pretty much my primary connection to all of manmade material culture, and I'd prefer to keep it that way.

Physical objects take up space, and time, in the form of the effort needed to keep track of them. They also cost money. A phone is one of the most powerful devices ever made to replace physical items.

Plus, it's amazing to be able to go anywhere and never worry about getting lost(Or was, back when I lived somewhere with busses and actually could go to more than a small number of places).

It also has a huge equalizing effect. I can remember stuff just as well as anyone! I can leave a pot of water on the stove, do something in another room for a few minutes, and come back! I can count 100 objects and not lose track!

The addiction is a very real problem, but a fairly lower middle class life with modern tech is still more of a luxury than a millionaire would have had 50 years ago.

I'm not exactly sure what to do about it, but getting rid of Android isn't really on my list of ideas, although if someone's life is so awesome that they're willing to give up phones to not miss a minute, and they've got enough capability that they don't just spend all their time getting lost and forgetting things, I can respect that.
It was definitely a problem for me before, because I would have anxiety about missing the important notifications within all the noise.

Even now though there are alerts that I want. Like texts from my partner, certain email chains, etc.

I have those important alerts going to my watch and everything else is stuck to my phone.

With the added benefit that because those alerts are stuck there, I was also able to better realize that there are a lot of alerts that I don't want and either deleted the apps or changed their notification settings.

Kinda more where I am going with this, the watch let me re-evaluate a lot of things about my phone. Yes those things can be done without the watch. But it was the push to help me have a healthy (in my opinion) relationship with my phone.

Importantly, this came with the added benefit of I still have this phone in my pocket for the (admittedly rare) times that having a smart phone is truly beneficial.
My Google Payments account has been suspended for like 6 years for unknown reasons and tried to resolve it again a few months ago over email and it was just “it’s been fixed!” and me seeing the same error message over and over again.

It’s still not fixed and doubt it will ever be. I needed to create a new account just so I can pay for YouTube or whatever but it’s pretty incredible how difficult it is to resolve simple issues.
Another related example is "spaz" which in UK English is basically synonymous with "retard" as used in US English.

As wiktionary notes, the offensiveness even within countries is variable:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spaz

But if you're writing for the wider english-speaking/reading internet, you probably want to be aware of these things to avoid unintentional offence, just as I assume Australians modulate their usage of 'cunt' for different audiences online.
There are still a ton of systems which have firmware that does not support large or resizable BAR. Support only became common in the last year or two (after AMD marketed as SAM and pushed to get it supported).

So requiring the “easy default” to be available means prohibiting any one with a system from ~2020 or earlier from upgrading to these GPUs.