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Should’ve been the version saying:
Geanie: “It is done”
Person: “But… nothing changed”
G: “Correct”
My 5th rule would be “no ‘fix my IT problem without me telling you what the error message says’”. Because fuck that
Error 0x2e8da08150469
I imagine an alternate 4th panel wherein the genie says “ok you can bring back dead people.” What do yall think? Also I bet we could come up with a themed genie or setting that would punch up the joke too. ♡♡ love it BTW, op.
Database? Good.
I use it to connect to another Excel “database” and generate a PDF form to print. No other way around unfortunately.
Japanese companies, this isn’t a wish, it’s a fundamental truth of the universe. Like gravity. No matter the scale or importance of them. I promise you your car exists because of an Excel 2003 file on some underpaid engineer’s laptop that they periodically sync with an inventory system.
I once worked for a Japanese company where I had to make a presentation. In Excel, I shit you not. Then we had one of our “shadow” managers make a Japanese translation of the same thing. It took me two days to get the kerning and print layout right, especially with that weird english typeface that is Japanese standard, I hate to think how long the translator took to get their version right.
What’s the typeface? I’m sorry, I know nothing.
I used to make a monthly document that was in English and Japanese. I used either Meiryo or Meiryo UI. That looked ok in both scripts but there is another font where the en looks shit. Or maybe I’m thinking of full width characters.
This is the way
Last panel is wrong. Genie would just grant him an MBA from a top tier school
It would be funnier if the genie says “there are two rules”
I learned this in my first statics class, and I have a BS in business administration.
Statics? They teaching yall physics?
Not spelling though… they skipped right past that.
They gave you some bs alright.
I once looked through a textbook from my friend’s MBA course. The first thing I noticed was in a highlighted box in the chapter on business negotiating: “Your skill at negotiating will affect the outcome of the negotiations.”
These are the people that make 10X what I make.
This is why I refuse to get an MBA. I already know my pants go on my legs. Thanks.
taking notes On the legs, you say? Interesting…🤔
In Czech we say MBA means Mladý, Blbý, Arogantní - Young, Dumb, Arrogant.
I have an MBA and I can assure you, most are not young.
Depends. It’s a business here and there are lots of young people with MBAs and not enough experience to contextualise the things learned within the masters. I mean, some are even doing it post grad.
From my past experience with these types of people, I have a very low opinion on young people with MBAs. Business degree holders who want a shortcut to the top.
My comment was mostly a self deprecating joke, denying the only neutral part of the statement. But you’re right, wide range of ages in any business program.
Whoops. My bad!
Are you sure that wasn’t the introduction to the Speech skill in Skyrim?
This just struck a nerve…
cries
Isn’t the Genie usually depicted as malicious, or at least mischievous? I would expect the Genie to grant the wish, knowing what a shitshow it would be.
Even Genie have standards.
May I introduce you: webxcel
What the fuck. Thanks for sharing!
“I have to make a brochure for the printing shop and I’d like to compose it in Excel”
“There are actually five rules…”
“In Powerpoint?”
“Make that six.”
Except PowerPoint is actually quite nice to make quick, easy and good looking visualizations and brochures without having to deal with Word
Use Libreoffice Draw
I can personally attest to entire universities advocating for student use of powerpoint for all sorts of printshop work to include thesis and capstone presentation posters for conferences :)
For people who don’t want to spend time learning yet another single-purpose application, it works quite well
Well, Word isn’t really a good choice either.
It’s the most approachable for most people. For real graphics design more professional tools are available
like Paint
Paint?
matplotlib
Anyone else use Microsoft Access…30 years ago?
Fun fact: most of the electronic voting machines in the 2000 presidential election used Access to store vote counts. Access, the “database” with a user-editable audit table.
At least it had an audit table.
How about last week?
Why yes this comic made me think of our users, why do you ask?
ADO or DAO?
My old ass crying in MS Access
one of our partners we have to integrate with at work sends us reports in ms access format. it’s not fun, especially when everything is running in lambda and there doesn’t seem to be any good libraries for reading ms access files that would easily run in lambda.
3gb CSV file goes brrrr…
Kind of related question: Is it okay for me to use JSON as a small DB? I just store basic blog page data there.
yep, though IO might bottleneck you at some point, and then you can happily switch to mongoDB
then you can happily switch to mongoDB
TinyDB literally does this. in general its more of does this work for my use case and am i aware of its limitations.
I mean it will work, but for a blog I’d store the pages in markdown files, to make it easier to edit. For context, look into how Hugo works
I thought of that as well. I might switch to that. It will make the organization better anyways.
A few circumstances to consider…
If it’s just your own little tool and you don’t intend to share it with others: do whatever you want. SQL or NoSQL or JSON, it doesn’t matter. Use your own judgement.
In my experience tho most homegrown JSON-based “databases” tend to load all data into the memory, simply because they are very simplistic (serialize everything into JSON and write to disk, deserialize everything into a struct). If your dataset is too big for that, just go straight for a full-fledged database.
If it works then it works.
Don’t be gross, use CSV files
CSV is great but the byte loss on numbers is sometimes gruesome.
I mean it’s a simple file format so it’ll perform better because it doesn’t have to decode any complex formats or protocols.
Big O? Never heard of it!
