I cannot articulate how perfect this synopsis is.
MelodiousFunk
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I've done some seriously stupid shit in excel, mostly due to it being the only tool I had. By the time I handed the project off to someone else for maintenance/feature creep, there were VLOOKUP ranges spanning dozens of columns. VLOOKUP doesn't care what column the target is named, only the offset from the beginning of the range. So being able to calculate CA minus W is pretty handy.
Yes, the project should have been a database. But these things happen when skinflint company meets annoyed amateur: you get a sprawling VBA abomination that, despite making actual developers want to choke a bitch, still works orders of magnitude better than the previous system.
The grey is labeled BSE-free areas, though there's enough jpeg in there to squint and make it say whatever.
That's the general gist of the standard advice, yeah.
If you have a hatchback, it's even easier. Lean in, start the car, roll down the windows, walk around to the hatch. I don't even bother doing more than one open and close anymore.
Depending on the episode, so is the Federation 🤫
I just finished Advocate, book 3 of Daniel M. Ford's The Warden series. I've been really enjoying this world. The first two books ended on cliffhangers, and the year wait between entries was killing me. Book 3 ended with a nice wrap up of one arc and a setup for another, both building up the bones of a larger story that's been looming ominously.
The problem is, it looks like Tor has dropped the series. The Warden and Necrobane were available in hardcover, but Advocate only got a TPB release. I can't find anything concrete about book 4, and according to a friend of a friend (and taken with the appropriate grain of salt) sales weren't good enough on the first book (?!?) to warrant re-upping the series.
I'm bummed. I found out about Ford's first series, Paladin, through word of mouth. I thought it was okay - a little tropey in places, but once he found his pace it was entertaining enough. Then he did some detective stuff that I had no interest in, but when I heard that he was doing another fantasy series, and that it got picked up by Tor, my interest was piqued. The result so far has been a marked improvement from Paladin, and one of the few things to poke through my deep depression these past few years. And now it's all in limbo.
Maybe I'm overreacting. I'm not going to pretend the know the machinations of the publishing world, and maybe someone else is going to pick up the series. It's just frustrating to find something nice and get it yanked away.
Anyway, rant over. I enjoyed my time with this series regardless of its future. If anyone else has read it (or has heard any news about continuation), I'd love to hear your thoughts.
What day is it, anyway?
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/20408569
This one has been bugging me for awhile, so I don't know when it started. But images in-line in the text portion of posts show at their original resolution, and do not scale down.
Example: https://50501.chat/post/19511
Etc
Possibly related, images that are wider than they are tall don't scale down in comments.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18961205
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24006342
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