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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.










  • Maybe it depends on what I want to happen when that load spike comes.

    I don’t know what they wanted to happen, but at my old place the load spike overloaded the UPS units.

    Me: “we really shouldn’t be running these at 85 90 95%.”

    Brass: “That’s not 100. Find room to ingest this company we bought when the CEO made a friend at a circlejerk.”

    Overnight server update check: blip

    UPS: Bypass mode, bitches!

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯






  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.nettoMemes@sopuli.xyzYes
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    I hate Windows. I will always fondly remember XP and Win 7. Windows 7 should’ve been the last Windows.

    Windows 7 was the first and last version that I didn’t immediately (and lastingly) despise. Something something stopped clocks etc.


  • if you’re in academia you should be able to produce a five paragraph essay.

    So, K-12 is “academia” now?

    Being able to produce a narrative is an essential life skill.

    Lots of essential life skills are difficult for lots of people. Something we get reminded about every time it comes up by people who have no clue what they’re talking about yet see fit to tell others what they should and shouldn’t do, and how to feel about it.

    The world isn’t going to cater to you

    No fucking shit.

    your self diagnosed executive dysfunction

    I’m sorry Dr. Jackson, I’ll have to let my old neurologist, psychologist, neuropsychologist, and psychiatrist know that The Internet told me that the assessments I had done at ages 23 and 44 are all in my head.

    learning to adapt is probably a useful habit.

    You’re right! I’m just going to do that instead of being in constant psychological agony. Where were you all of my life? ❤️ If only I had someone talking down to me saying Just Do The Thing over and over again, from childhood onwards, life would have been so much easier.

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  • Hi,

    I would have failed every single one of your tests. Not because I don’t understand the material, or the English language, but because structured writing, to this day, makes me seize up. Blank space is one of my biggest triggers for executive dysfunction/PDA. Turning everything into a cookie-cutter essay is just a different form of trying to fit everyone into the same box. More selective than making everything multiple guess, but no better. I feel bad for your students.

    Signed,

    Former “gifted” kid (with then-undiagnosed AuDHD) who got sick of bad teachers 30+ years ago