Yes, clearly that wasn't way more significant than the 1 or 2 backroom computers.

Oh really? Name one that can do exactly what I said. Open program on a new empty file, import from a .csv or other file, set up a calculation, apply to data, and create a graph of the results in under a minute.

If it's not a dedicated spreadsheet, it has spreadsheet embedded into it.

Are they used for the wrong purpose? Undoubtedly. So are databases. So what? How does that matter, except for smug nerd superiority complexes? If it works, it works. It might not be optimal, but if it works for the users and isn't causing problems significant enough for the users to care, then maybe optimal isn't needed.

I can, and have, created small to medium sized databases for businesses. I have also many times used spreadsheets for tasks better suited for databases, and will again, because when you factor in the time it takes to set it up, I can get results faster with the spreadsheet. Especially if it needs input or manipulation by a non-tech person, since it is trivial to put it in a format they can use, as they are already familiar with the tools.

And, yes, I know I can use databases for the data and the spreadsheet for input/results, but, again, is slower to create and only marginally faster to use in many cases.

Thousands isn't a lot of numbers for a spreadsheet to handle, I have tons of spreadsheets with thousands of numbers (spectral data) that update immediately if I change the calculations being done on all of them. Hundreds of thousands are when it starts slowing down, but then again, so would a database if it had to do calculations on all of them. Would a database be ultimately more efficient? Sure. Does that difference matter? Not to me, not to the users. Only the IT guy gets morally outraged, and the data isn't for him.

How is "proprietary formats exist" news? This is all this post is, a randomly timed rant about proprietary formats, and the fact that Microsoft is one of the thousands of companies who use them, nothing else. Was anyone confused what open source companies' position on proprietary formats was?

Did absolutely nothing else happen in tech besides some guy bitching on his blog about an issue that's existed for decades?

Yes, the very software that created the need for computers in business should not exist. The software that made "computer" an object instead of a person. One of the most useful inventions of mankind, used by a huge swath of people including engineers and scientists, should be banned. A tool that can be used to set up and calculate thousands of numbers with multiple variables and graph the results in less than a minute is completely useless.

Good lord are you sheltered and naive. This is one of the dumbest takes I've ever seen on Slashdot.

"Can" is doing some really heavy lifting in that statement.

The only people who can 3, 6 or 7 are people with access to a chemistry lab. There are ZERO facilities to recycle those anywhere in the world.

If the bag I have has a "6" on it, then I cannot recycle it, since no facilities to do so exist. It has a 0.000000% chance of ever being recycled.

This is a symbol that was designed by the Society of to Plastics Industry to SPECIFICALLY resemble the recycling symbol. It was there to prevent the sane, rational approach to this, which was to return the bottles to the store, who would return them to manufacturers or refill at the stores. The trucks on both the store to distributor and distributor to manufacturer routes are empty anyway, it would have been the far cheaper solution. But this would massively reduce plastic sales. They pushed "recycling" to move the responsibility onto the consumer and boost their own sales.

This is 100% about the industry continuing a lie.

You are either incredibly stupid or an industry shill. Either way, fuck off.

A surprising large number of people don't seem to understand the basic principle of survival in expensive cities and basic economics.

Always live where it is possible to find a job. This way you have an income with which to buy food and pay for a place to live, that way you don't die of hunger or exposure.

Furthermore, while it's very easy to spit platitudes from a long past era of financial security at people who work in a city where 50+% of your salary has to go towards rent even with multiple roommates, it's very difficult to actually have a clue when you were privileged or lucky enough to have enough disposable income to save in your 20s.

Be sure to waste all your good years living as miserably as possible, so that you have a lower probability of later misery. You'll have passed up opportunities for many possible life experiences, but you can reminisce all those great memories of staying home eating discount food.

And for god's sake, stay away from avocado toast, bread and gruel is good enough for anyone.

No idea why ignorance was modded as insightful.

They are taking an electric motor and re-implementing a control scheme that allows control over the torque delivery that isn't available with just a throttle.

But if you didn't ride motorcycles, you wouldn't know that, and post some drivel about older inferior power source and mention the drive chain twice for unknown reasons..

25 years later they will be saying "what took them so long?".

"US vehicles have been heavily subsidized and favorably regulated by the US government to win market share in the US markets long dominated by other countries.

Just like everything else from the US, it's meant to kill small manufacturers and make the world reliant on a small handful of corporations and subject to the whims of the US Government.

It's not in the interest of anyone living outside or inside of the USA to buy these cars. The US government doesn't care about you. The US carmakers don't care about you. They don't care about making a good product. They only want your money. The US government and US large corporations are perfectly happy to lie, cheat, steal, and fuck over you to make money, obtain, and hold power."

Fixed that for you.

Maybe he should've asked ChatGPT how to set up bets to not be so obvious.

Seriously, opening 13 new wallets and immediately placing one massive winning bet on each is asking to be investigated.

So the government's claim is that they can order you to design something that kills people, and if you refuse then your company will have all your government contracts to any branch cancelled.

This is like going to the company that makes the plates for several large government building's cafeterias, including the Pentagon, demanding they make guns now, and removing their plates from everywhere including the Department of Education's cafeteria if they refuse.

Sounds like a great environment for business deals. What company wouldn't like those terms?

Yes he replied and clarified you were wrong in your assumption that he only needed 2 point to point.

It's amazing how far you go to defend being wrong.

That would be a good excuse only if you completely ignored the first 5 words of his post:

What you assumed was unreasonable because you either didn't read the entire sentence or it was above your reading level. Either way, you still made unwarranted and incorrect assumptions.

You are assuming that was the only thing he needed a mesh router for, which is not the only or most likely possibility. Your assumptions are getting in the way of reality. Both were not warranted, and I would never have assumed either point.

You are assuming he only needed 2. That was never mentioned in the post you responded to.

TP Link has many different mesh routers, at least one model (AX3000) you can get 12 mesh APs for $500.

You really just publicly equated "Shut down specific airspace where a person is actively firing a laser weapon" with "Shut down all airspace everywhere because something similar might happen".

Thanks for confirming there is no lower bound on stupidity.

Do you not understand that there is no bottom limit on human stupidity?

A person stupid enough to not only mistake a mylar balloon for a drone, but also decide that this particular drone needs to be shot down right now using a new laser weapon in a public airspace over a US city, regardless of consequences, is most likely stupid enough to make larger mistakes.

Are you seriously that naive?