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- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know, I’m not that deep in Excel lore. But sometimes things change.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
That is true for a lot of things, particularly every AI feature ever.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 😉 😉 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget the boomers who haven’t had sex yet.
- Comment on tech never works for long 5 weeks ago:
I have some smart home stuff, but if it needs the Internet to function, it’s not going into my house. And if any of it fails, the house reverts to its old, dumb self.
- Comment on Enshittiflation 1 month ago:
I don’t think we’re contradicting each other. Sometimes the manufacturer themselves (or other Chinese entities) will be the ones creating the spec.
It also makes sense that the trash products, which compete exclusively on price, will mostly be coming from the area able to manufacture products for the lowest price. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t also able to manufacture higher quality things when requested to.
- Comment on Enshittiflation 1 month ago:
It doesn’t matter where it’s produced, what matters is who designed it and for what market. Things tailored for the mass US market are usually designed to minimize the cost of manufacturing above all else. Things tailored for Europe are a little earlier in the enshittification process.
There are tons of high quality products manufactured in China, the only difference is that the specs for those asked for high quality, while the things you associate with Chinese manufacturing are when they were asked to make trash.
- Comment on I guarantee this is a waste of time 2 months ago:
Yeah, at least explain the physics of some advanced fucking.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yes, these are social norms, and those are taught.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I don’t think we’re using the same definition of stigma.
Stigma is a profound, unfair negative belief or stereotype attached to a person or group, causing shame, social rejection, and discrimination.
I’m having a hard time making any of the stuff you’re saying make sense with that definition, and the whole word is inherently social.
The fact is that a lot of people think it’s nasty to fuck your brother, and that you should stop fucking him when you realize you’re related to him. I see the nuance in this situation, but a lot of people don’t, and if they maintain the relationship they will have to deal with those people. It’s already hard enough to deal with homophobia without this on top.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I’m not sure what biological stigma is supposed to mean. Sexual relations between siblings gives most people the ick regardless of technicalities, and that is a social stigma, the only kind of stigma I’m aware of.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
While the medical concerns with incest don’t apply here, the stigma of having sexual relations with a relative usually doesn’t take such technicalities into account.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 months ago:
If you’re a birthright citizen, why would you be proud over something you did nothing to achieve? It’s also not your fault, so there’s nothing to be ashamed of either.
It shakes out a little differently if you’re naturalized, but only marginally. That naturalization test isn’t much of a barrier.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Maybe I didn’t scroll far enough, but it looks a lot like all the top lemmy posts are about Lemmy or about how Reddit sucks.
- Comment on Capitalism indoctrination in progress. 2 months ago:
Just don’t promise a pizza party and fail to deliver! That happened at my job once, and people did not like it.
- Comment on Capitalism indoctrination in progress. 2 months ago:
Either of those within earshot from my desk and I’m not taking the job.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
All PR is good PR I guess. He did successfully promote Subnautica 2, judging by the reactions in this thread. Without this scandal I would have never known a sequel was on the way.
- Comment on Convicted Paedophile Was Chosen as a Parliamentary Candidate by Reform UK 2 months ago:
The thumbnail reminded me of Grand Moff Tarkin, the full image not so much.
- Comment on It was always my favorite spot to play golf and then I see this new sign that they put up 2 months ago:
I’m guessing this is next to a golf course, and people try to keep playing the ball after it lands in the cemetery.
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 2 months ago:
This article says the director was a friend of a friend, and "the first animated film made in Scotland played on his national pride.
It also says I got the order wrong, and that he declined all those roles after The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
- Comment on 2022 was a bleak year 😢 2 months ago:
I agree. If it looks like that on the inside, why show the cross section?
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 2 months ago:
Holy shit, I never even heard of that, and the poster gives me an idea why. Was this by request from his grandkids or something?
- Comment on No you don't sit on it. In the olden days people used this to make orange juice 2 months ago:
Most functional War of the Worlds merch.