BennyInc
@BennyInc@feddit.org
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 weeks ago:
Storytime. I tried to use copilot to get some rather convoluted dataset analyzed in Excel. Not a huge task, but basically I wanted it to count me the occurrences of certain values, grouped by that value. Of course that’s easy with Pivot, and there’s probably also some formula for that, but it wasn’t very urgent, so I figured I’d see what Copilot could do. Now of course I didn’t want to use that =COPILOT() formula, but instead asked Copilot to create me a formula to correctly count how often each value occurs. So it created this multiple lines long formula, which from first glance seemed plausible (though way overcomplicated). I asked it to insert this into cell F13. „Of course“, it said — and then proceeded to do nothing. Confronted with this, it tried again, and failed. After some asking why it didn’t just go that, it told me that this is not possible in Excel in Mac. I’d have to use the web version of Excel. WTF? Why doesn’t the fully featured version do this? Well, of course: Microsoft doesn’t like Apple too much. So I tried copy pasting the formula and failed. Some syntax error cropped up. I asked Copilot about this, and it came back with a typical „oh sorry, my bad, here is the correct formula“ and the same formula again. Of course this failed. And since I didn’t want to debug this stupid thing (the error message of course also didn’t give any indication what exactly could be wrong), I just created a Pivot and got my result in seconds.
Now this is only one of many experiences I had when trying to really use that 365 Copilot for anything useful. Maybe I should write a book about it. And then ask Copilot to write a book about it and put this into the epilogue.
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 2 weeks ago:
I just read that book about Henry Markram. One of his points is that autism is genetic, but how much and by when it shows depends on the calmness of the upbringing of the child in the first years. Him having grown up in a peaceful African village let his brain grow different from what children nowadays experience with information overflow and just overstimulation in general. So yeah, the environment we create (in general) could lead to more autism in a way.
- Comment on F off I'm busy 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on He's a doctor. 1 month ago:
Looks a bit like EVA-01.
- Comment on I use way too many substitute tools. 1 month ago:
I read it as Alien key, and it kind of looks like a Xenomorph…
- Comment on allium gang rise up 🌰 3 months ago:
- Comment on smoooooth 3 months ago:
Sharknado 9: Fire and Ash
- Comment on Too young to understand what this is? 3 months ago:
If you want to learn more about this: youtu.be/8I4Jc-WLsrs
- Comment on Website 3 months ago:
Nah, his AI was just trained on the same dataset.
- Comment on So how would you handle this? 3 months ago:
Plot twist: OP installed the thing in their ground floor and didn’t measure correctly; now they at least want to cash in on the internet fame.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Relevant game of Risk 4 months ago:
Nah, it’s just the 51st state. Didn’t you get Trump’s memo?
- Comment on Anon does some trolling 4 months ago:
Well, apparently JD asked the EU to take Trumps comments seriously. Which is funny to me. The VP has to ask world leaders to stop assuming the president is just talking BS as they are used to…
- Comment on Anon does some trolling 4 months ago:
A German Satire newspaper suggested changing the name to Epstein Island, so Trump would lose interest very quickly, and deny ever wanting to annex it.
- Comment on Relevant game of Risk 4 months ago:
Orange figures would have been more fitting.
- Comment on Meetings 4 months ago:
- Comment on NSFW 5 months ago:
You mean jifs?
- Comment on It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died 5 months ago:
- Comment on I Thought I Knew You 6 months ago:
How many golden showers does Trump own?
- Comment on I Thought I Knew You 6 months ago:
All that evaporating water is gonna trickle down eventually. Just like the money.
- Comment on Protect yourselves! 7 months ago:
Wait, its tongue also has teeth? WTF?
- Comment on You mean there's a better way‽ 7 months ago:
- Comment on After you post here, this might be helpful. ;) 7 months ago:
Yeah, some joke scribbled on a random section in the middle would have been nice.
- Comment on Power Loss but Still Online with Fiber Connection 8 months ago:
Same experience here. The fiber usually is served from a point farther away from your house than with copper, and doesn’t need a powered repeater somewhere near your house. So if the neighborhood looses power, the last active fiber repeater before your connection might be far enough away to not be affected by the outage.
- Comment on No title and I can't stop laughing 8 months ago:
Alternative link that might be more clickable: feddit.org/c/bertstrips@moist.catsweat.com
- Comment on Laser 8 months ago:
Or Cube. Or was it Cube 2? Not sure.
- Comment on Jump on in. 9 months ago:
Would it be possible to genetically engineer nettles which inject helpful or recreational drugs in small doses instead of itchy stuff?
- Comment on Water Snek 9 months ago:
Is it the tides?
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 10 months ago:
Third part is very disorienting however — it took me almost till the end to understand what was going on.
