• HexesofVexes
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    496 days ago

    I’ve done things in excel that are an abomination in the eyes of the divine.

    I have absolutely 0 regret.

    • @[email protected]
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      24 days ago

      i once used an excel sheet to emulated a von Newman architecture ALU+RAM

      fun and useless, but very (un)efficient way to calculate Fibonacci numbers

    • @[email protected]
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      36 days ago

      Generate localization strings in all requested languages with the “translate” macro without proof checking because you don’t speak Finnish or Japanese?

      • HexesofVexes
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        126 days ago

        Worse - pulling data from a web page, then using the power of pure jank to parse this input, and then invoking a sheet of reference string builders to construct formulae and execute them using too damn many @indirects nested into vlookups before finally adding in date aware data reveals, because no excel abomination is complete without trying to parse dates.