it has come in clutch a few times

Massive disrespect for not learning a thing.

That image you linked requires authentication to download.

I think the homeowners are right regardless. You don’t need to be a genius to figure out that even a moderately higher population density increases transportation demand. Even doubling the density could affect traffic considerably.

Now before the haters come out: I’m not saying that the transportation demand must be addressed by more or bigger roads.

Look at the last table in my original post. It contains 26 columns (A–Z), some of which are not shown, and 27 rows (blank–Z). There are 27 rows and 26 columns, regardless of the contents of the table. If the top-left cell (A, blank) were a 1 and (B, blank) were a 2, then (Z, blank) would contain a 26, and ZZ would contain a 702. Nothing about the layout of that table changes.

To summarize: The table will always be lopsided, if you start counting at 0 or at 1.

The argument stays the same. Only every index gets incremented.

And don’t forget that 1900 still is a leap year in Excel.

Thank you! Saying this finally made me realize why I always need to add/subtract one day when I’m trying to convert dates to and from the Excel representation. 🤦

I have been able to outsource low level parsing to third party libraries

Hahaha!!!

Today I watched a Java server crash because a library decided it needed more than 3GB of heap space to read a 10MB file. That was after manually removed background colors from around 100,000 cells, which apparently caused the parser to create even more objects in its internal representation of the sheet.

I thought about that, but decided to leave it as an exercise for the reader.

Don’t forget that Integer8 (the middle dragon) counts increments of 100 nanoseconds, because… reasons.

And don’t forget that 1900 still is a leap year in Excel.

From the makers of: Why is this game running so shittily all of the sudden? [30 minutes later:] Charge your battery or your laptop will die.

Disabling CPUs by writing a zero to some file under /sys

I use Mint and I just double-click *.deb files to install them. Ubuntu does not do this?

Windows runs better on Linux than on Windows…

Could you elaborate why you don’t want a software audio mixer? I mean, mixing is essentially what you’re trying to do.

Also: Is the bluetooth output from your laptop required? Would a wired connection be acceptable?

I’m very, very late to the party. Why is Flatpak the latest shit? What’s wrong with the classic *.deb viz. *.rpm distribution?

Right! I forgot about ramen or canned stews!

I read a lot about ADHD people reading random shit on Wikipedia or wherever. Do you retain the information you ingest and all become walking encyclopedias yourselves?

Would a container of “emergency food” help? That is, food that takes little to no effort to make. I’m German, so I’m raised to eat a slice of bread with a slice of sausage on top as the default meal. I take it this is not a thing in the US. How about making sure you’re always stocked on cereal?

Should be “−1 HP” or “1 Damage”, not “−1 Damage”. That would be healing.

I think it’s more accurate to say that water is readily available in places where humans are likely to go. Because, you know, humans don’t tend to go where there is no water.

“as you would have them do”, not “as they do”