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His album with Ben Folds, Has Been, is a legit must-listen. A genuinely great album, including for his great cover of Common People.May I offer the following counterpoint?
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His album with Ben Folds, Has Been, is a legit must-listen. A genuinely great album, including for his great cover of Common People.May I offer the following counterpoint?
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His album with Ben Folds, Has Been, is a legit must-listen. A genuinely great album, including for his great cover of Common People.
Not sure if I put texture over taste, but texture is very important to me.Two quibbles. One minor, one major.
Filet mignon is often expensive, but it's not great meat. It's meat for people that prefer texture over taste. People with money that like meat don't order it. But given the price, this is a quibble.
Truffle oil is not gourmet. It's a petrochemical. It's something that middlebrow restaurants will use to make you think something is fancy. Truffles, on the other hand? The real ones? The ones that are charged by weight, shaved on your food in front of you? Yeah. That's a flex.
If you only take one thing from this, it's never use or order food with truffle oil.
Have you tried Google Appsheet? See if it comes with your company's Google Workspace account. If you are dealing with that much data you are better off using something more robust than a spreadsheet. I prefer QuickBase, but I doubt you can put company data in a free, personal QuickBase account and, if your company is too cheap for MS products, they are likely too cheap for QuickBase. But if AppSheet is available, and you don't mind a little bit of a learning curve, it will eventually make your life easier than trying to use Excel for large data sets.I am so happy my company is too cheap for Microsoft products.* Google has many issues -- and they're accumulating -- but Gmail for Work makes a heck of a lot more sense than all the weird hoops Outlook requires jumping through.
* Except for when I need to work with a truly massive dataset that makes Google Sheets choke and have to hunt someone down with an Excel license.
Hey, if it is good enough to learn a new song on the guitar or how to fix my garage door, surely I can trust it to help me master macroeconomics.Some of y'all studied business and economics at the College of YouTube, and it shows.
I'll check. It's only once every year or two that I get a dataset that is hundreds of columns wide and thousands of rows long, but when I do, it's an important project.Have you tried Google Appsheet? See if it comes with your company's Google Workspace account. If you are dealing with that much data you are better off using something more robust than a spreadsheet. I prefer QuickBase, but I doubt you can put company data in a free, personal QuickBase account and, if your company is too cheap for MS products, they are likely too cheap for QuickBase. But if AppSheet is available, and you don't mind a little bit of a learning curve, it will eventually make your life easier than trying to use Excel for large data sets.
Also, depending on what you are needing to do, check out Knime (Knime.com). It is open source and free. Its my swiss tool box for normalizing, transforming, combining, and generating reports from large datasets, especially if dumps from multiple sources.
I've been fighting e-mail for years. Trying to get my team into better business process habits and using better systems for requests, task tracking, and updates. I heavily use Power Automate to turn e-mail into something useful (and back in the day ProcMail, took me years to move from PINE and ProcMail to e-mail systems with a GUI because of lack of good filtering and automations). But its a losing battle.Damn, you get emails long enough you need a search function?
Gmail lets you. But I've gotten very particular with short cuts and text expansion and have been using tools like ActiveWord, PhraseExpress, and AutoHotKey for decades. I also use a Kinesis keyboard that lets me program the keyboard to automate a lot of things with a few keystrokes, with multiple layers depending what I'm doing. I'm also left handed. Basically, my computers are unusable to other people. I feel like a stick-shift driver in the United States. Few people are ever going to want to use my computer, because they don't know how to.If everything is turning into videogames, business software should allow everyone to remap their keybinds!
#featurenotabugFew people are ever going to want to use my computer, because they don't know how to.