Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[MNblockhead]

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.

EDIT: Nope. It must have cost a few extra bucks a month.

If you are just needing to generate reports or manipulate data, check out Knime. There is a bit of a learning curve, but the few hours invested in learning it can save a huge amount of time in your day-to-day if you have to work with a lot of data.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If you are just needing to generate reports or manipulate data, check out Knime. There is a bit of a learning curve, but the few hours invested in learning it can save a huge amount of time in your day-to-day if you have to work with a lot of data.

I will, thanks. I hope to tackle at least one such big project before next summer.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Few people are ever going to want to use my computer, because they don't know how to.

Tangent: I once designed a PAG (Power Armor Goon; old HERO slang for Iron Man type characters) whose suit had an INTENTIONALLY clunky operating system. Almost anything beyond the most basic functions required a skill check*. (His skill was so high he almost never had a malfunction.)




* programmers and other PAGs were assumed to have a just enough basic, common understanding to have a base roll of 8-

 

[overgeeked]

Mariachi Entertainment System. A mariachi band that mostly does covers of video game music. You're welcome.

Mariachi Entertainment System

MES is a mariachi cover-band dedicated to connecting cultures through nostalgia. Mariachi Entertainment System | MES | El Comal Studios

www.youtube.com

 

[DrunkonDuty]

His album with Ben Folds, Has Been, is a legit must-listen. A genuinely great album, including for his great cover of Common People.

I'll grant you that it's a cover.

 

[Deset Gled]

What do you use it for? It completely mystifies me. And I even saw the point of Clippy.

I'm not saying I use it often, mind you, but occasionally.

Sometimes to create a custom shortcut that includes commands in the target line. This is very convenient for a couple of programs I use at work.

Also, I've used it to customize things the first time I was exposed to Windows 8, 10, and 11. Microsoft seems to screw with the Start menu interface every could of years just for the heck of it. But as you properly noted, some tools like this have been unchanged forever. So it's fair to say I have used an old tool for no other reason than it's old.

 

[Scribe]

Wow, the second piece of cake was an absolute mistake.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Sometimes to create a custom shortcut that includes commands in the target line. This is very convenient for a couple of programs I use at work.

Ah ha! Now that makes sense -- it's a programming tool and is probably popular with in-house programmers, who are among the audience that get its value.

 

[Maxperson]

I don't want to start a meat war! Seriously, grass-fed, or corn-finished. Aged. Wet or dry. Yada yada yada yada.

Eat what you like! And what you choose should change- you shouldn't order the same thing if you're at the best steakhouse in Chicago* that you'd order if you're at Chili's. Think about what type of meat they are likely to have, and how they are likely to treat it.

That said, if you're at a high-end steakhouse, you should know this- the person ordering filet mignon is making the wrong choice.


* A hot dog, of course!

When I'm at a high end place, I always go with either the ribeye or new york, depending on what sauce(s) are on them.

 

[Maxperson]

Well, there are a lot of "American" cheeses, meaning cheeses that are made in America. And some of them are pretty good: cheddar and colby from Wisconsin, cream cheese from Philadelphia, Monterey jack cheese from Monterey, California (obviously) just to name a few.

Unfortunately, what most of the world knows as "American cheese" is a specific, heavily-processed cheese-flavored product made by Kraft Foods Inc., who patented the process of making it in like 1920. It's not cheese; it's what Capitalism does to cheese. It's a pale, sad mockery of actual cheeses from America and it's embarrassing us in front of the whole world.

So before you write off the whole catalog of American cheeses because of that single emulsified example, go treat yourself to some Humboldt Fog, or some BellaVitano. America can do so much better than Kraft Singles.

Those are good cheeses. Pepper Jack is my favorite, though. Monterey Jack with a bit of spice.