it has come in clutch a few times

Massive disrespect for not learning a thing.

Was there supposed to be a “not” under that yellow blotch in the speech bubble?

Look at the last table in my original post. It contains 26 columns (A–Z), some of which are not shown, and 27 rows (blank–Z). There are 27 rows and 26 columns, regardless of the contents of the table. If the top-left cell (A, blank) were a 1 and (B, blank) were a 2, then (Z, blank) would contain a 26, and ZZ would contain a 702. Nothing about the layout of that table changes.

To summarize: The table will always be lopsided, if you start counting at 0 or at 1.

You’re absolutely right! Those dumb English people are wrong for not adhering to the German spelling reform. How dare they?

Also the spelling reform only changed the previous ß to a ss. The spelling reform has nothing to do with the c/k debate. What was your point again other than brainless insults?

Like every name in IT in the last 10 years.

“Windows App”

“Rust”

<every goddamn hot beverage>

Krass is German.

c not as fun as k.

That’s the worst attempt at Motte-and-bailey I’ve ever seen.

no one cares.

This conversation proves otherwise.

Krass is German.

That doesn’t change that the English spelling is crass.

Also, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crass says crass made its way from Latin via French to English, not German. Always with a C, btw.

Why is the 23rd shorter than the 21st and the 22nd? Why does the data and at midnight (?) between the 23rd and 24th? Why are the lines so curvy? Were there multiple polls per day?

This graph is not in my top-100 of data visualizations.

The argument stays the same. Only every index gets incremented.

Interesting. They chose not to use any background music, not even sound effects. They really sell that the protagonist is deaf.

Oh, nevermind. It was muted.

How I show up to work during my mandatory vacation:

(there’s nothing there)

And don’t forget that 1900 still is a leap year in Excel.

Thank you! Saying this finally made me realize why I always need to add/subtract one day when I’m trying to convert dates to and from the Excel representation. 🤦

I have been able to outsource low level parsing to third party libraries

Hahaha!!!

Today I watched a Java server crash because a library decided it needed more than 3GB of heap space to read a 10MB file. That was after manually removed background colors from around 100,000 cells, which apparently caused the parser to create even more objects in its internal representation of the sheet.

1: what the frick are you doing in Excel that needs even 10^2 columns?

Nothing. Here’s this meme’s origin story:

At work we have a tool that imports Excel spreadsheets into user-defined data records. We let the user decide which column goes into which record field.

Today I noticed that when you upload a spreadsheet with more than 26 columns (that is, you enter the double-digit range), the columns aren’t sorted anymore. (When I programmed that, stupid me thought that it was absolutely unreasonable to import 26 columns, given the way the data is processed later.) Instead of A…Z, AA, AB, …, it was A, AA, AB, B, C, ….

So I thought: I should fix that. It’s easy. Just convert the hexavigesimal system to decimal and sort based on that. I even was happy that I could apply some school knowledge for once. (It wasn’t all useless, yay!) Then my math wasn’t mathing. It took me a few minutes to find the system by which Excel columns are numbered. In the end I was annoyed that a task of 5 minutes took… longer… and made this meme.

By the way, to come back to the 10² columns: I’ll take any bet that such a spreadsheet will be shoved into the importer before I retire from my current company.

I thought about that, but decided to leave it as an exercise for the reader.

Don’t forget that Integer8 (the middle dragon) counts increments of 100 nanoseconds, because… reasons.

And don’t forget that 1900 still is a leap year in Excel.

strict ≠ abusive

I found Watchdogs 2 weird in this regard. You steal money from random people, who often struggle themselves, steal cars like nothing, murder a suburb’s worth of people, and still you’re “the good guys”?

From the makers of: Why is this game running so shittily all of the sudden? [30 minutes later:] Charge your battery or your laptop will die.

Disabling CPUs by writing a zero to some file under /sys

I use Mint and I just double-click *.deb files to install them. Ubuntu does not do this?