Every device has an IPv6 address these days, in addition to an IPv4 address. Many providers even allow you to use IPv6 exclusively but of course you can't really because sometimes the other end only supports IPv4.

This has nothing to do with Excel but more to do with the fact that there exist at least three different nomenclature schemes for genes followed by the major databases such as ENSEMBL, NCBI RefSeq and UNIPROT. Then there is a "common name" and "official name" and so on.

Automatic data conversion features can be turned off in Excel for years now (your citation is from 2016).

Typical "but it works for me, and everyone else is a fool. âoe reply.

I am a systems biologist regularly handles tons of genetic, spectroscopic and clinical data. I often want to use a spreadsheet to look at data structure, even it is only to write extraction and curation scripts. As much I hate Excel, I have repeatedly seen the Calc is crappier and especially so on MacOS.

People have different requirements and priorities. And MS Office as a whole is like 60 bucks a year. Well worth it to avoid the catastrophe that is Impress. FWIW, Writer seems the least bad component of Libreoffice for my use cases.

Problem with Libreoffice is that they think a lot. I was once told that a bug is so trivial that it would take at most a couple of hours to fix - therefore I should do it myself. Two hours of my time is worth at least a 100 bucks. I offered the user the 100 bucks if they could do it for me. They didn’t accept. A subscription to MS Office for a year is worth 60 bucks.

Guess which one I took. Libreoffice is the new Mozilla in their attitude towards their users. Overtly pro-user, but in reality so out of touch that they don’t understand why they can’t beat the evil company they are competing with.

AI works well if you know what you are doing and you use it to take away the tedium. Say coding a 500-line routine that you know how to code, know what it should do and have the ability to tell a shit result from a good one. This is like a Doctor telling a nurse exactly what drug to administer. If you are going to use it actually diagnose the problem and come up with solutions , current LLM models are pretty shit. It's too bad most people who are using LLMs think it can replace actual domain-specific knowledge just because LLMs can fake it so well.

The problem with SELinux is that it interferes with Userspace first-party applications in a way that is completely enigmatic to the end-user...even someone who wants to try out the new advertised feature that Gnome/KDE released. Case in point : GNOME Remote Desktop

The determination of outliers is subject to specific assumptions about the underlying population distribution, and arbitrary thresholds with respect to how far a particular data point should be to be counted as an outlier. Further, statistical significance depends on another arbitrary threshold (conventionally p0.05) giving the probability of achieving that result purely by chance. Due to these arbitrary values, there is no ‘correct’ answer to these questions.

The question to ask is not whether a student is an outlier, but merely what percentile they are in. Sounds to me like AI gave the right answer, but the user asked it the wrong question.

It will also be their first experience in buying/installing third party apps for everything from scrolling up on the mouse and maximising a window properly.

There is a reason for that called Microsoft Office. And Photoshop. And a million other niche applications that are Windows only (I work with scientific lab equipment) because not enough people wanted or cared about Linux support. Heck, companies selling hardware to labs will bundle a free Windows workstation rather than port their complex app to Linux.

And no, Libreoffice is not good enough if you are a person who uses Office specifically rather than any random Word processor. Writer is ok. Calc is incompatible with Excel, and Impress is just inferior to PowerPoint. The activation barrier to switch is not worth the 60 bucks Microsoft charges a year for their suite. 60 bucks is what a professional who uses these apps earns in 1 hour.

FOSS people need to understand that FOSS is not a selling point. Superior software is eventually what people will use, irrespective of its FOSS nature. Linux is in the unfortunate situation of being the superior OS with inferior application coverage. Too bad the only thing people use the OS for is to run applications.

It won't take long, but really ...is anyone really that desperate to use Windows ?

Most people use Windows because they cannot be bothered to / have no idea they can install something else. Most people do not see the operating system and hardware as different things. No more than one typically things of a digital wristwatch and the firmware running on it as separate things.

I was hoping that Microsoft saying "No more Windows until you jump through hoops" would get people motivated enough to figure out that there are many fewer hoops if you just ditch Windows.

The problem is that this is a Nash equilibrium situation. The contention is that the most natural and advantageous thing to do for a single entity is bad for the group, in this case the (market, economy, state).

Not very different from nuclear proliferation, deforestation, environmental issues etc.

The single entity is not ‘wrong’ to do what it does. But it has been shown mathematically shown by John Nash that this kind of setup is inevitably detrimental in the long run. Ref: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1...

It is relatively trivial to remove out any such pattern using an FFT and pyramidal decomposition.

Oh. My. God. Any kind of place that is not a private office, will be a cacophony of mundane computer instructions. And how is your computer going to know to listen only to you?

Moronsoft is paying millions to some idiots who have no common sense.

Now this is stupid. Almost every OS/DE including Gnome and KDE follow this paradigm : Hotkey + First Letter + Enter to launch programs.

In that case, that definitely puts in on par with many humans that I know.