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kaberettWith gratitude to vass, courtesy of mentioning that during teaching this week I'd had to explain some of Excel's... less helpful... proclivities: Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates.
With gratitude tome_and: perpetualBrownian motion machine.
vass, courtesy of mentioning that during teaching this week I'd had to explain some of Excel's... less helpful... proclivities: Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates.With gratitude to
me_and:
me to every modern application, sobbing: STOP TRYING TO HELP ME
Date: 2020-11-20 03:18 am (UTC)I can understand that most people, somehow, must like their word/data processors to process their words/data before being briefed on how/how not to do so, even if to me this seems like every kitchen blender available to the general consumer market having a high speed puree setting that activates automatically as soon as you put any food in the jug, as the default... but given that this has been a Known Problem for a long time, why not produce a special edition called Excel Science, which doesn't change anything you don't explicitly ask it to? Or given that Microsoft is Microsoft, why hasn't LibreOffice (or even fucking Google) done that, and the scientists made that the standard?
Re: me to every modern application, sobbing: STOP TRYING TO HELP ME
Date: 2020-11-20 04:36 pm (UTC)"LibreOffice csv viewer"! has almost no "features" other than "you can look at a thing and maybe make a manual edit or two, and i promise your data will not change in any way"
if I really wanted to learn software engineering and had a lot of spare time I would fucking fork LibreOffice or whatever and just get rid of giant swaths of code until I had what I wanted. (and if wishes were horses, etc)