Lupi

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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.

i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi

I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory

they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"

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Lupi @lupi1/30/2023, 11:47 PM

frankie boyle's beanbag chair of death @micolithe

colin @vogon1/30/2023, 10:42 PM

today has been a day mostly composed of paperwork for me and I have realized something important about spreadsheets

there is nothing intrinsically wrong with spreadsheets; the problem is that most of the time you are looking at spreadsheets you are doing work, and also not the kind of work you like doing

mint @mintexists1/30/2023, 11:04 PM

Spreadsheets should be game-ified

in tuft we trust @tit1/30/2023, 11:19 PM

hot take: many things should be gamified

allow me to program stuff in excel with a node editor or whatever, fuck the current incomprehensible system

mint @mintexists1/30/2023, 11:44 PM

more things should have node editors. As far as i can tell theres not even many good libraries for making node editors, which makes me sad because they are amazing and more of them should exist!!

frankie boyle's beanbag chair of death @micolithe1/30/2023, 11:46 PM

This is a legend but

When i took Data Structures in College, we were allowed to use whatever language we wanted as long as we could demonstrate the code worked.

According to the professor, one year, someone did this in excel and managed to make linked lists, binary trees, hash maps, and all sorts of shit. I dare not question if this was real, for the sake of my own sanity.

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David Smith @Catfish-Man1/30/2023, 10:44 PM

This reminds me a lot of people desperately searching for an email client that doesn’t make them feel overwhelmed… 🙃

frankie boyle's beanbag chair of death @micolithe1/30/2023, 10:44 PM

My job for a long time was a business intelligence analyst being like "hey here's a fucking insane spreadsheet i built, i need you to recreate this in Cognos so it can go out via e-mail every day."

nora @nora1/30/2023, 10:47 PM

i mostly have a good relationship with spreadsheets because most of the time i spend with them is running character sheets for blades in the dark

Rey @nothe1/30/2023, 11:02 PM

I want to note that there are indeed things wrong w/ spreadsheets, and it's mostly interpreting data as dates. that vowel difference matters! ;)

in tuft we trust @tit1/30/2023, 11:48 PM

if only software wouldn't assume thing about the users intentions this wouldn't be an issue

Rey @nothe1/30/2023, 11:52 PM

but if it just worked, it'd be amazing! so people keep trying. <gestures at the """""AI"""" shit we're dealing with, right now>

in tuft we trust @tit2/1/2023, 1:14 PM

gestures at @tuftedtitmouse's ML bits which actually solve problems

it just works but people generally only use it to solve problems that don't exist

Meli @mismatched1/31/2023, 1:59 AM

and compare: many admin people love spreadsheets because it's work we love doing, not the part of work where someone is irritated at us about something not in our power to fix

pearfalse @pearfalse1/31/2023, 1:31 PM

for as long as i’m using spreadsheets for my day job less than i am for my factorio playthrough, there is some balance in the world

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Fred @fcbsd1/30/2023, 11:33 PM

those were called macros - they let you game other peoples systems...

mint @mintexists1/30/2023, 11:44 PM

lmao true

@secrets1/31/2023, 1:12 AM

Isn't that just called strategy gaming

mint @mintexists1/31/2023, 1:18 AM

thats spreadsheet-ifying games, not game-ifying spreadsheets

doing my taxes should feel like playing factorio

@secrets1/31/2023, 1:34 AM

bit more like Disco Elysium ime

Piper @piper16181/31/2023, 5:50 AM

The first experience I remember of using spreadsheets was using one to build a turn-based rpg. It sucked, but I had fun with it!

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in tuft we trust @tit1/30/2023, 11:47 PM

yeah but they do have issues, too! most notably the reversed way of writing logic & usually no loops or different states (i use node editors a lot)

mint @mintexists1/30/2023, 11:50 PM

Yea node editors arent perfect but they are wonderful and smooth to use

i wonder if some sorta node editor that ran on a system that like. sent a particle of data down the paths where it moved one step every tick and had loops and stuff would work

in tuft we trust @tit1/30/2023, 11:57 PM

iirc blender is now working on simulation nodes which deffo do support loops! still have to check it out though but I've seen folks do fluid simulations in Substance Designer (2d heightmap editor) so I wouldn't be surprised if there's already wizardry being done

in reply to @micolithe's post:

\phi @phi1/30/2023, 11:48 PM

wew, time fur me to try this, meowf...

~@modulusshift1/30/2023, 11:53 PM

I 100% believe it, people do incredible things in Excel. I definitely don't want to know the details, that brain space is better filled with other things lol

@joXn1/31/2023, 3:13 PM

Someone solved the Matasano crypto challenges in Excel, so anything is possible.

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