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Comment Re: The issue isn't Excel itself... (Score 1) 187

Same. I have many workbooks with more than 10K rows feeding multiple pivot tables and they work really well. The problem is likely not the software but the implementation. Managing performance is straightforward: let Excel do most of the heavy lifting since it's always going to be faster than what you do in VBA, use memory judiciously (INDEX/MATCH instead of xLOOKUP), minimize formatting to keep things simple. Above all, have a database person look over your work before you publish if you're not that person.

Comment Facebook threatens to punch itself in the face (Score 1) 161

I'm trying to understand why Meta threatening to pull all news from its Facebook feeds is a bad thing for anyone who doesn't spend their whole day in Facebook. Removing news would give people one less reason to hang out in Facebook...how is this bad? Call their bluff, Congress!

Comment Re:Well, Jisti is free... (Score 1) 49

You touch on an interesting point. Offering something for free that requires infrastructure, and not telling users it may have to be monetized later somehow, is essentially a bait and switch. I get why they don't tell you and you can argue that this should be assumed by the savvy user, but as a point of transparency and good faith, we should be told up front. Anything else is either dishonest or so shortsighted that it calls into question the founders' business acumen and, consequently, their ability to make a go of it long term, so maybe don't lock yourself into their offering.

Comment Uh, no. (Score 1) 192

Correct me if I'm wrong, but global GDP is less than USD 100 trillion, so the putative value of 16 Psyche is an order of magnitude greater than 10,000 times the value of the world economy.

Also, bringing these quantities of raw materials to Earth, even if technically feasible, would drive down corresponding commodity prices, making such an operation even less economically viable than it would appear to be.

So, interesting to know and maybe a source of raw materials for future space explorers, but not of practical value in our lifetimes.

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