silverhand
@silverhand@reddthat.com
- Comment on SoA day of action following allegations of Meta’s mass theft of authors’ work 3 weeks ago:
A small British trade union vs a 1.5 Trillion dollar American corporation?
LOL, good luck
- Comment on A Trump H-1B crackdown could hit Big Tech hard, with Amazon suffering most. 4 weeks ago:
After his master Musk’s tirade on Xitter explicitly supporting H1Bs and shitting on the slightest criticism? I highly doubt it.
- Comment on A Trump H-1B crackdown could hit Big Tech hard, with Amazon suffering most. 4 weeks ago:
There won’t be a “Trump H1B crackdown”. The oligarch masters love their cheap imported labor a bit too much.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t use Brave but honestly there aren’t many options left. I can’t wish for Orion to launch any sooner.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 4 weeks ago:
There are plenty of back-office ticket-processing jobs that can, and have been, replaced by current-gen AI.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 4 weeks ago:
Good ideas are dime a dozen. Implementation is the game.
Universities may churn out great papers, but what matters is how well they can implement them. Private entities win at implementation.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 4 weeks ago:
Misleading title. From the article,
Asked whether “scaling up” current AI approaches could lead to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), or a general purpose AI that matches or surpasses human cognition, an overwhelming 76 percent of respondents said it was “unlikely” or “very unlikely” to succeed.
In no way does this imply that the “industry is pouring billions into a dead end”. AGI isn’t even needed for industry applications, just implementing current-level agentic systems will be more than enough to have massive industrial impact.
- Comment on $16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet. 1 month ago:
Anybody who used ANY library to process xslx knows MS keeps changing it :-)
I highly doubt that, also, people in corporate finance do not use libraries to process excel files.
About ranges… can you give me the range for whole columns minus 6 first records and 9 last records?
=OFFSET(range_name, 7, COLUMNS(range_name), ROWS(range_name)-9)whererange_nameis the label given to the whole table. - Comment on $16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet. 1 month ago:
Try to write a formula range which covers only lower half of the column which is typical setup in summing numbers( avoiding headers ) You can literally label ranges to use them as variables in Excel formulae, not to mention Excel Tables has more operations and features than you’ll ever need.
limits in columns and records Unless you are working with an unfiltered, un-aggregated ledger dump straight out of your database (in which case you shouldn’t be let anywhere near an office computer), it’s rather hard to cross 1M+ rows and 16.4k columns in corporate finance.
ever changing formats across versions The .xlsx format was introduced in 2007 (18 years ago) and hasn’t changed since. Not to mention you can still use all kinds of plaintext formats whenever you want.
- Comment on $16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet. 1 month ago:
Only those with no experience in corporate finance will find this surprising.
Excel is a powerful tool. The only ones who ridicule it are idiots who don’t understand anything.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 1 month ago:
Cromite doesn’t seem to allow opening supported links in other apps for some reason
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 1 month ago:
Literally every other browser with uBlock Origin? I am still able to use it even on Chrome.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 1 month ago:
The fact that he invented Javascript alone makes him a villain. Everything he did after that is just complementary.
- Comment on Chegg sues Google for hurting traffic with AI as it considers strategic alternatives 1 month ago:
Chegg still exists!?
- Comment on Why do people think it’s selfish when I don’t get them things/ask about them? 1 month ago:
Social skills are not something you can “learn” by questioning things like this. You have to live more of your life among people.
It’s like swimming - you can’t learn to swim no matter how much you study about it, read books or ask questions. You have to get into the water. And the first couple of times you’re in the water you’ll drown, tire out, may even feel frustrated or bad. But you’ll only be able to swim by going back in, over and over until you start floating. So it is with socializing with people.