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Filboid Studge posted:The idea of using Access for data analysis is upsetting me, I have to admit. I'm interested to know why? I used it 20 years ago (Access 97) for analyzing spacecraft data and it could cope with 1 million rows of data containing 30-40 fields, various relational links (1-1, 1-many, many-1 etc etc) and do numerous calculations that I could easily test were working properly. (On a Windows XP machine at home so I could work from home instead of going into the uni, sharing a wildly overheated and no windows cramped office with 4 other postgrads and a big pile of heat-emitting servers) Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Jul 17, 2020 |
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Camrath posted:Thanks for the advice. Make sure your solicitor will talk to you - I almost lost my buyer as my solicitor was incompetent, and ignored me for months until I threatened legal action. That didn't actually work, but the estate agent I was using where friendly with the firms' owner, and didn't want the bad publicity. OwlFancier posted:I've been using openoffice for probably a decade now on the odd chance I need to use an office package. Openoffice hasn't been supported for a while now, libreoffice is the version that split off that still gets updates.
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Jul 17, 2020 16:35
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Yeah, I don't do anything high-intensity but LibreOffice is fine for the odd CV, personal spreadsheet or thing I want to print off.
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Jul 17, 2020 16:37
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm interested to know why? Size limits, security, tendency to corrupt datasets, doesn't really do statistical analysis, swore while doing it for GCSE in 2003 that I'd never use it again if I could help it. Professionally I use SPSS because I have to for some third-party datasets, but we mostly use R (which has many of its own insanities but at least you can fix them or ask Python to).
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Gort posted:Yeah, I don't do anything high-intensity but LibreOffice is fine for the odd CV, personal spreadsheet or thing I want to print off. This is important - what do people want to do with their machines. I can't get through enough to people who want me to help them choose something. I'd say 80% of people can manage ok with just their phones these days and don't even need a laptop. Me, I'm spreadsheeting day in day out for hours on end and even using this forum or FB or whatever, it's much easier with a proper keyboard (laptop keyboard) than the stupid little thing on a phone that also keeps doing autocompletes, for when I am away and using the app. (I learned to touch type 35 years ago and type faster than I write - tested at 96wpm in a temping agency years ago. Probably not unique amongst goons.)
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Filboid Studge posted:Size limits, security, tendency to corrupt datasets, doesn't really do statistical analysis, swore while doing it for GCSE in 2003 that I'd never use it again if I could help it. Professionally I use SPSS because I have to for some third-party datasets, but we mostly use R (which has many of its own insanities but at least you can fix them or ask Python to). I've not experienced those problems. I did download R but haven't put much effort into learning it yet. Also used SPSS (and minitab) in my last work but was very familiar with Access so it was just easy. I did get a 30 day 'free trial' of minitab to do some of the more detailed statistical analysis to complete the PhD work but it was something like £900 for a licence back then. I just made sure I knew exactly what I wanted to do to squeeze as much value out of the free trial as I could. (Maybe I should reiterate that my PhD was 20 years ago and things are available now that weren't then! Eg Google. I did all my science searches using Excite back then as it was best for science, and yahoo for everyday stuff. Oh and the internet was dialup and it would take all night to download a 130MB file and then some dilwad would 'wrong number' call at about 128MB and the whole darn thing would fail. Dialup used to break the internet if someone phoned you.) Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Jul 17, 2020 |
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Jul 17, 2020 16:49
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https://twitter.com/jane__bradley/status/1284076185190883328 Tory Mindset.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:(Maybe I should reiterate that my PhD was 20 years ago and things are available now that weren't then! Eg Google. I did all my science searches using Excite back then as it was best for science, and yahoo for everyday stuff. Oh and the internet was dialup and it would take all night to download a 130MB file and then some dilwad would 'wrong number' call at about 128MB and the whole darn thing would fail. Dialup used to break the internet if someone phoned you.) Did my final year thesis in 99. It was comparing two 'new' image compression techniques, Fractal Compression and Vector Quantization. Sounds sci-fi as gently caress. Now just taking 256x256 black and white images (colour ones are just the same but three times the size) it took 3 hours to compress just one image! I have to take 2 rows of the uni's computers to process them in parallel to get what I needed, and still took a month of sitting at black CMD screens for 10+ hours a day. I ported the code a few years ago out of curiousity and it took milliseconds.
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Jul 17, 2020 17:01
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sounds like they deserve it OP
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Seriously, there comes a time (it's the time after the first one) where you just don't loving let him leave until he pays. Or you send the bill to his house.
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yeah but it's a salon that voluntarily decided to give free haircuts to  journalists like Sarah Vine for publicitynow they're haunted by Michael Gove because they're too scared to risk getting an angry column written about them it's beautiful in a way
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Thread reader spotted: https://twitter.com/DavidOlusoga/status/1284133067779723265?s=19 As a side note I'd strongly recommend Olusoga's work- a great public historian. I think a few of his documentaries are on iPlayer atm Lobster God fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Jul 17, 2020 |
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Jul 17, 2020 17:16
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What was the dambuster dog called? It's headstone has been altered by the RAF because it is a racial slur.
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in the movies they changed its name to trigger, if that helps e: lol https://twitter.com/sma08889997/status/1284117298920525825?s=20 XMNN fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Jul 17, 2020 |
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Dead Goon posted:What was the dambuster dog called? Just straight up the n word. Which was also my great uncle's nickname in the desert during the war because he tanned easily.
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Dead Goon posted:What was the dambuster dog called? It was called n*ger (that rhymes with trigger).
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What a delightful name for a dog.
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Jul 17, 2020 17:30
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It was a fairly common name for black and brown dogs back in the days when there were vast swathes of the country with zero Black people to say what a hosed up name for a dog it was. H P Lovecraft's cat was called n—r man. quote:Words aren’t dropped from a language in the blink of an eye: While new terms can swiftly become part of the common lexicon, that which has fallen from linguistic favor departs far more slowly. Though now widely regarded as one of the words one must not say, it wasn’t that long ago that Western society routinely used “n—r” as a color descriptor of various goods, even well after it was no longer used as a descriptor of people. Around 1914, Lady’s Pictorial a London magazine, routinely presented ads for soft taffeta hats in “n—r-black.” A 1915 edition of the British Home Chat magazine described cloth as “n—r-brown.” Writers D.H. Lawrence and John Dos Passos wrote about “n—r-grey” and “n—r-pink.” And, as late as 1973, The Times of London wrote of autumnal colours in a shade that “used to be n—r brown.” I think the English just like saying it. N—r-pink indeed. 
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Dead Goon posted:What was the dambuster dog called? https://twitter.com/kathwitch/status/1284037490299604993?s=19 It wasn't a racial slur it was just a colour!!!! ^^^ oh wow, I thought this person was being particularly bigoted but it turns out she was being normal bigoted, excuse me
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Can't let anything tech related without mentioning this absolute clusterfuck which had thankfully been fixed and patched on almost every machine by the time I started work. There *is* another factory non-volatile memory setting which can lead to severe toner spill and back-up which *still* is rolled out without being set correctly at the factory, even on newer updated versions of the same print engine
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Guavanaut posted:H P Lovecraft's cat was called n—r man. HP Lovecraft was incredibly loving racist though
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Stop searching for offence when I use racial epithets as much as possible in my daily life.
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Landlord melt confirmed.
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Doe Boris still want to do that Celebrate Britain thing in 2 years?
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Lobster God posted:Thread reader spotted: I suspect the BBC are leveraging the gently caress out of their one(?) Black historian at the moment. I second the unaccountably spoiler-tagged recommendation anyway!
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oh my loving god i'm glad the opening ceremony didn't mention harry potter, could you even imagine
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My (American) granddad said that when he was a kid (in 1920s Minnesota) he had a dog called the n-word. He didn't defend it or anything, he just said that "oh, well, we thought it was fine at the time".
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Julio Cruz posted:HP Lovecraft was incredibly loving racist though I can't get over n—r-pink though, that's being deliberate, like it takes information away rather than adding it, absent context I can't tell whether it's supposed to be actual pink but they added a slur for no reason, or whether it's an ironic 8chan way of saying 'brown'. JeremoudCorbynejad posted:i'm glad the opening ceremony didn't mention harry potter, could you even imagine
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Comrade Fakename posted:My (American) granddad said that when he was a kid (in 1920s Minnesota) he had a dog called the n-word. He didn't defend it or anything, he just said that "oh, well, we thought it was fine at the time". Are you saying he was a racist
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Ash Crimson posted:Are you saying he was a racist Well, he was a white man born in 1918, so, yes. But I meant he wasn't saying it was okay he had a dog called that, his remarks were more along the lines of "it was pretty crazy that that happened considering what I know now".
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XMNN posted:in the movies they changed its name to trigger, if that helps It wasn't changed in the original film, only in the upcoming remake. That BBC article has a searing hot take from a facebook random: Dorothy posted:"Are we not supposed to buy black dogs or cats now for risk of becoming being called racist?"
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Proposed solution that will definitely please all the people in the twitter comments: Dog (and mission name) are both still called the n-bomb but we go Hamilton and make No. 617 Squadron RAF entirely Black.
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my concerns about climate change are not a catastrophic extinction level event - hey maybe methane will be that but if that's coming we have absolutely no chance to do anything about it now. who cares. my concern is that in 2011, in large part dude to a famine caused by poor crop yields following extreme high temperatures, syria descended into civil war. about half of the population needed critical humanitarian aid, about six million left the country. these refugees - fleeing a horrific environment with, in my opinion, with total moral justification for trying to resettle - mostly moved to neighbouring countries, but a small percentage joined with the usual migrant channels and wanted to go to western countries. many of these were doctors, nurses, professionals who spoke fluent english and who could easily contribute to any functional state - from the perspective that training people costs money a huge saving for us. in response, these western countries created brexit, trump, put machine guns and gunboats on the EU border and embraced full blown fascism with popular support. vigilantes hunt latin americans on the US border with impunity. a bunch of EU countries elected out and out fascists or came close enough that they'll probably manage next time. there is a valley in india/pakistan/kasmir that homes about a billion people (i can't remember the name of, apologies). they are already getting heatwaves of 40 degrees and more - a few more degrees warmer and in the summer we will exceed the wet bulb temperature for safe human habituation, and pretty much everyone will need to leave. hysterical and racist panic over few million syrians got us to 2020. what will a billion people do. i do not think climate change will kill us all - i think climate change will make us kill ourselves, the remotely decent ones anyway.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:i'm glad the opening ceremony didn't mention harry potter, could you even imagine It did; it had a whole segment that was opened by JK Rowling with a giant inflatable voldemort or something.
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Disproportionation posted:It did; it had a whole segment that was opened by JK Rowling with a giant inflatable voldemort or something. I must be the only person who's never seen the opening ceremony, and the more I hear of it, the less likely it is that I will change that
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CoolCab posted:
there's a scene in 1984 where Winston goes to the movies (or remembers going to the movies? idk it's been a long time since I read it) and watches a newsreel about a boat full of refugees in the Mediterranean getting annihilated by a helicopter gunship while the audience goes wild for it for some reason this never gets brought up by all the people going "1984 is happening right now because the woke left tore down a statue and they had the memory hole thing in the book" even though we're definitely going to see it in our lifetimes (the gunships, not dead refugees or people celebrating their deaths, we already have that) fake edit: I found the extract, plus some discussion of it https://digressionsnimpressions.typ...e-no-longe.html XMNN fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Jul 17, 2020 |
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Jedit posted:I seem to recall that Venn diagram is the clichéd circle. This is not how Venn diagrams work.
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I must be the only person who's never seen the opening ceremony, and the more I hear of it, the less likely it is that I will change that It was an amazing piece of theatre and Danny Boyle did an incredible job of bringing together the history of the UK and the myths we tell about ourselves. On the night it was incredible, and you should watch it. The political movement that sprung up around it can get to gently caress.
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Relatedly, "POTTERGAME" is UKMT as gently caress. I had a bunch of screenshots but I failed to upload them before heading out, but it's worth the ~20 mins it takes to play.
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