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Oneiros posted:It’s an old problem, I remember reading an el reg article about it back in high school (pre 2006, was into bio). lmao of course, at least it's not reformatting the actual dna sequence, you could still BLAST it and redo the gene labeling better export to a .txt next time!
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Feb 3, 2019 22:38
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Oh man, the ads. When I lived in MoscoW the old, unchanging ads were still on and they were comical. "Smoking asphyxiates you!" With a metro lady in uniform being attached by a cigarette. They were great and, as much I appreciate a public transport system w/o ads, I kinda miss them.
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Feb 3, 2019 22:48
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The Nastier Nate posted:Being able to turn up or down the hvac with your phone without having to get out of bed is nice but don’t buy a unit that doesn’t have a manual control on the panel unless you’re prepared for some very hot or cold days. Like is there a technical reason why you wouldn't be able to do something like that just using wifi?
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Feb 3, 2019 22:59
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Outrail posted:Does excel have a 'do not ever mistake anything for dates ever. No not ever. Clippy you rear end in a top hat I know you're in there cut that poo poo out I swear to God' option? Because gently caress I hate mis-dating half my data. I wish it did. The open source equivalent doesnt have that either afaict.
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Feb 3, 2019 23:00
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Hell I run into problems in excel where you write a simple if statement saying compare a value to 0 and for some reason the caculation of 1 - 1 returned 0.00000000000000000000001 so the formula to catch a 0 is WRONG!
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Feb 3, 2019 23:06
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Fried Watermelon posted:Hell I run into problems in excel where you write a simple if statement saying compare a value to 0 and for some reason the caculation of 1 - 1 returned 0.00000000000000000000001 so the formula to catch a 0 is WRONG! there are studies out there on how floating-point arithmetic fuckery subtly distorts or completely invalidates tons of scientific research / published papers too.
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Feb 3, 2019 23:20
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the cool thing about being a service worker with a regular schedule is when the small talk in line at the gas station is a real conversation because you see them every day for months and you hold up the line specifically to piss off the rear end in a top hat with a nice car
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Feb 3, 2019 23:22
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Tastykake posted:well we have like 560 browsing right now so maybe there are a couple thousand of broke brained morons who post or lurk here excuse you, some people are broke brained geniuses.
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Feb 3, 2019 23:31
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i prefer to say we have special brains
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Feb 3, 2019 23:32
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Fried Watermelon posted:Hell I run into problems in excel where you write a simple if statement saying compare a value to 0 and for some reason the caculation of 1 - 1 returned 0.00000000000000000000001 so the formula to catch a 0 is WRONG! If you import a csv file it will helpfully trim off leading zeroes, and discard that information, because clearly you didn't put them in for a reason
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Feb 3, 2019 23:54
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BULBASAUR posted:What do you want to know about? All this. We grow up with 'in soviet russia' crap and get the assumption it's nothing but miles of cottages with a Babushka making guel in an old helmet or dilapidated apartment blocks that smell of old borscht. It's interesting to get a look at how the culture actually is/was, especially how youth culture changed and how the establishment handled it. Also the corruption and illegal side jobs you mentioned. What sort of jobs? Drugs and chop shops?
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Feb 4, 2019 01:01
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Turtlicious posted:excuse you, some people are broke brained geniuses. Radicalised by C-SPAM!
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Feb 4, 2019 01:20
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at least we have the running man https://twitter.com/MillionDollar/status/1092223697929134080 minus the murder for now
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Feb 4, 2019 01:58
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Outrail posted:All this. We grow up with 'in soviet russia' crap and get the assumption it's nothing but miles of cottages with a Babushka making guel in an old helmet or dilapidated apartment blocks that smell of old borscht. It's interesting to get a look at how the culture actually is/was, especially how youth culture changed and how the establishment handled it. Also the corruption and illegal side jobs you mentioned. What sort of jobs? Drugs and chop shops? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXTAMdHwvWdmFyOlQmEtpQ This dude is good for a look at 70s/80s USSR. He's a libertarian, so that colours his opinion of things a bit. Some of the things he complains about (guaranteed housing but you have to wait 5 years!!) are the sorts of things you'd look at nowadays and go "wow that would be awesome to have".
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Feb 4, 2019 02:03
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Rhesus Pieces posted:a software guy in that work gossip twitter thread floating around a few weeks back implied that a staggeringly high percentage of coders can’t code at all and just copy/paste off of google and stack overflow all day and collect a handsome paycheck for it the thing is that most companies aren't doing anything remotely original, new, or interesting with software, so most of the time just copy-pasting other people's code together in different ways is more than enough the software industry has no training and no standards, and barely any regulation, so people just fuckin run wild and no one cares most of the time it's nothing important so who gives a crap. traditionally, the important stuff has all been siloed off into its own little mini-industries that haven't hired any outsiders for twenty years, so the incompetence is at least a different flavor. but now that wifi chips are cheap as hell and the bubble is throwing money at any huckster with an idea, newcomers are coming right down to the bottom of the barrel with a shovel and a drill to start digging
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Feb 4, 2019 02:45
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The CCCP was fuckin rad, dude!
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Feb 4, 2019 03:03
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Tunicate posted:Excel's date autoformat has turbofucked a surprisingly large amount of genetics research. which reminds me of a client I worked with, a very profitable tech company, and they had in the corner of their datacenter an entire rack wrapped in tape and signs that said "DO NOT TOUCH! DO NOT RESTART!" because the machines are running on defunct hardware with defunct software that literally nobody knows how to maintain they'd be running for 25 years last I checked, their IT monkeys check the power supplies and backup batteries every now and then, but otherwise they respect the signs
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Feb 4, 2019 03:14
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Dead Beef posted:people would be worried if they knew how many critical systems are held together by excel It's cool that technology is indistinguible from magic already, but in the bad way.
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Feb 4, 2019 03:17
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Dead Beef posted:people would be worried if they knew how many critical systems are held together by excel LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:It's cool that technology is indistinguible from magic already, but in the bad way. 
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Feb 4, 2019 03:25
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Dead Beef posted:people would be worried if they knew how many critical systems are held together by excel i work for a company that handles literally millions of dollars in healthcare transactions via excel documents. nothing serious, but your insurance can be involved. it owns so much.
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Feb 4, 2019 03:30
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The Super Bowl is the most dystopian thing I’ve ever see
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Feb 4, 2019 03:34
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Dead Beef posted:people would be worried if they knew how many critical systems are held together by excel excel is tried and true and - evidently - can be used for anything. frankly it's the ones not using it that we should be worried about
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Feb 4, 2019 05:58
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Giga Gaia posted:i work for a company that handles literally millions of dollars in healthcare transactions via excel documents. nothing serious, but your insurance can be involved. it owns so much. I know of at least one company that decided to invest hundreds of millions of dollars pushing into the American market based on a few weeks of calculations. I know for a fact the calculations involved multiple 'I pulled this number out of a hat, lol' assumptions. The numbers they based this very big decision on are essentially meaningless. This sort of thing happens on a week to week, if not day to day basis. I can tell you who I worked for, but they're an industry leader.
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Feb 4, 2019 06:10
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The Machine That Won The War but it's our reality.
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Feb 4, 2019 06:25
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https://twitter.com/burnbegin/status/1092293033113120768 https://i.imgur.com/b0WQvUi.mp4
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Feb 4, 2019 06:27
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:The Machine That Won The War but it's our reality. I think about this story a lot
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Feb 4, 2019 06:40
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StashAugustine posted:I think about this story a lot I also like the short story where the space empire loses their space war because they put a tech idiot in charge and he keeps deploying untested technology onto the battlefield.
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Feb 4, 2019 06:58
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:I also like the short story where the space empire loses their space war because they put a tech idiot in charge and he keeps deploying untested technology onto the battlefield. General Elon Musk
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Feb 4, 2019 07:05
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:I also like the short story where the space empire loses their space war because they put a tech idiot in charge and he keeps deploying untested technology onto the battlefield. what's this called?
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Feb 4, 2019 07:34
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Socks4Hands posted:what's this called? "Superiority" by Arthur C. Clarke
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Feb 4, 2019 07:36
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Feb 4, 2019 07:58
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Socks4Hands posted:what's this called? The military industrial complex and the F35.
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Feb 4, 2019 08:17
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https://twitter.com/bldgblog/status/895728956724322304?s=19
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Feb 4, 2019 08:28
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do people actually like andy warhol?
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Feb 4, 2019 08:34
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:do people actually like andy warhol? some of the things he made were cool I thought
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Feb 4, 2019 08:35
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the moral of the story is always sanitize your input narrator: "but they didn't"
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Feb 4, 2019 08:46
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:do people actually like andy warhol? Boomers
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Feb 4, 2019 08:52
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im on the net me boys posted:some of the things he made were cool I thought some interesting art and perspectives and he gave us Basquiat i guess? but a complete poo poo human
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Feb 4, 2019 09:36
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Morphix posted:My buddy is currently helping one of the devs on his team doing this exact thing. I guess she might of not been too forthright about her qualifications and after a year the company's looking to dump her. Now my buddy's stuck training her and doing his own work because shes' nice, and who cares they're making web software, so it's not life or death. This world is probably loving amazing to anybody without scruples. Probably why nothing will ever really change.
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Feb 4, 2019 10:53
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all pop art during the Cold War was a CIA operation aimed at discrediting the Soviet Union's undeniable, unrivaled mastery of fine art
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