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- Comment on You must have an internet connected smartphone to eat 5 days ago:
Probably bundled a whole chromium like every other app.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
I understand them (and even if I didn’t I could work it out from context), but it absolutely wrecks my reading speed, since I basically have to sound it out in my head instead of just reading the word. I hate SMS-style phonetic abbreviations for the same reason.
- Comment on Men are generous 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a member of either populace, but as far as I can tell from online discourse the male tinder experience would depend heavily on how hot they look.
- Comment on modern classic 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much all untreated wood turns grey when exposed to prolonged sunlight?
That being said, I don’t like that look in flooring. On a weathered fence or log cabin it’s fine.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
Which they will. It’s a very obvious thing to do. If any of them wanted, they could lower their prices independently of any such law, but they don’t, because they want their margins high.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
If a bill requiring 10% discounts at self checkout comes into law, they will all think the same thing: Increase the prices so the price at self checkout is the same, and people have to pay extra for a cashier.
The only way to realistically encourage corporations to reduce their margins within the current system is by establishing an alternative which is cheaper, and thus acts as competition which pushes the price down. So basically what Mamdani is doing with city-owned grocery stores.
The same goes for housing. Provide decent but simple housing at low rates, and the slumlords will either need to lower their margins or compete on quality instead.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 3 weeks ago:
Our car is white because that’s what they had in stock when we needed a car. I don’t give a shit what color my car is as long as it can fit and move my family and my stuff.
- Comment on IRJ 5 weeks ago:
I’m not discussing the post. I’m making a general observation while responding to a statement in the comments.
- Comment on IRJ 5 weeks ago:
Ridiculing it is fine. Going “How can you confuse Iran and Japan” or treating it as the definitive proof that his mind is cooked is weird.
- Comment on IRJ 5 weeks ago:
Someone talked to him about Japan right before, wires got crossed. Biden did the same thing with some head of state, and people overreacted to that, too. Of all the dumb shit he says, this is a weird thing to make a big deal of.
- Comment on Same day shipping 1 month ago:
Yeah, and most of the time when you trip on a curb, you don’t die. Doesn’t mean we can’t talk about the fringe cases.
- Comment on Same day shipping 1 month ago:
Meanwhile, other people jump out of a plane with a broken parachute, land in a haystack and escape with a broken leg and some bruises. It’s wild how the human body can be so resilient and fragile at the same time.
- Comment on You can't argue with his logic 1 month ago:
You’re right, I was thinking of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
- Comment on You can't argue with his logic 1 month ago:
In my experience, each flavor of Christianity handles this a little differently. IIRC the reason the Mormons are extra aggressive about hounding your door is because they consider it an obligation to spread the good word, while there are other groups who just stay out of your business entirely.
WRT the quote, there’s very little talk of heaven and hell at all in Lutheran churches in my experience, just as an example. Although I have only been exposed to the Norwegian state church, which is pretty laid back about most things, so your mileage may vary with other Lutheran churches.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Complaints about the AI art aside., I really don’t understand the joke here. Do I just not know enough about stamp collecting and all the stuff this comic equates to it, or is the joke written by AI, too?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s an ad for prostitution. Brand new user, only ever posted this.
- Comment on Just wash your hands or something after, Junior. 2 months ago:
Literally every chore I give my kids would have been faster and easier to do myself. Saving time or effort is not the point of the exercise.
- Comment on East Asia 2 months ago:
You can visit North Korea. They assign a guy to you to make sure you only see the approved stuff.
- Comment on East Asia 2 months ago:
I’ve never been to Mongolia and have no connection to it whatsoever, but Yuve Yuve Yu somehow fills me with national pride on their behalf anyway.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 months ago:
I don’t know, I’m not that deep in Excel lore. But sometimes things change.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 months ago:
You can certainly use AI to generate the function and paste it in, but that is not what
=COPILOT()is for. You could just have any other LLM do that. - Comment on Very normal and safe 2 months ago:
I genuinely cannot think of a single use-case where you would want Excel to look at your entire spreadsheet without it being a horrible mistake. You definitely do not want AI to do math for you, and that is thankfully not what this thing is designed for.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 months ago:
Excel sees the cells you tell it to operate on. When you’re working with code, all the code is relevant. Usually in Excel, you have specific cells you want to do an operation on, and those are provided to the function, just like any other thing you do in Excel. If you want to operate on the entire spreadsheet, just provide a range including the entire spreadsheet, but this is not done unless you ask for it.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 months ago:
That is true for a lot of things, particularly every AI feature ever.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 months ago:
It’s a lot simpler than that.
=COPILOT()can only see cells provided in the second parameter, and the user didn’t provide one. It’s just giving you what a typical answer to “compute the sum of the numbers above” is. - Comment on Very normal and safe 2 months ago:
No, it’s a lot more basic than that. You provide
=COPILOT()the cells to operate on in the second parameter, and the user didn’t provide it. Copilot cannot see any of the spreadsheet and just reported what a typical answer for a request like that is. - Comment on Very normal and safe 2 months ago:
People do all sorts of weird non-math stuff in Excel. The stated use-case for this feature is stuff that operates on text. Say for example you fill column A with quotes from your customers about your product. Then you can tell Copilot to provide a summary of each row in column B, and whether the sentiment is positive or negative in column C. You could aggregate the results as well.
There are better tools for that sort of thing, but a lot of people really love their Excel hammer, and they see nails everywhere.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 months ago:
It didn’t consider any of the numbers, because the user didn’t provide the context argument to the function.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 months ago:
It pains me to defend an AI feature, but this whole tweet is disingenuous and stupid. The documentation for
=COPILOT()says a few things which are relevant to understand what we’re seeing here:- You’re not supposed to use it for math
- It only has access to the parts of the spreadsheet you pass it as the second argument
In this case the user has not provided copilot any cells to look at, do it’s jus asking what the typical answer on the Internet is for the question “sum the numbers above”. And the sum of numbers above things are apparently often 12.
- Comment on 😉 😉 3 months ago:
Don’t forget the boomers who haven’t had sex yet.