I am so sad and angry on your son’s behalf. Kudos to him for all his hard work!

Basically any of the power features (power pivot, power query).

On Fedora KDE.

Office, specifically Excel. I use it professionally for work and the lack of feature parity in Linux alternatives (Libre Office and Only Office, specifically) are a perpetual thorn in my side.

I do my best to use Linux alternatives in my personal life, and, if necessary, use the MS web version of Excel but every so often I run into something that can only be done in the full desktop version and I have to boot back into Windows.

I’ve heard of WinBoat and https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps, but at least when I tried them they were too resource heavy to realistically run on a laptop

Posts like these are hard to upvote.

I would wear a cape, but just too darn lazy.

Dang, I guess the real emotional damage is in the comments. Hope they’re making ends meet and are happy! 🫤

Done! Thanks for the heads up and for creating/moderating the community!

For anyone curious and lazy:

Speaking at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, Nadella pontificated about what would constitute such a speculative bubble, and said that the long-term success of AI tech hinges on it being used across a broad range of industries — as well as seeing an uptick in adoption in the developing world where it’s not as popular, the Financial Times reports. If AI fails, in other words, it’s everyone else’s fault for not using it.

Nadella explained the pitfalls the AI industry would need to avoid, perhaps betraying his own anxieties about its future.

“For this not to be a bubble by definition, it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread,” Nadella said, as quoted by the FT. The “tell-tale sign of if it’s a bubble,” he added, would be if only tech companies were benefitting from the rise of AI. He gave the example of a pharmaceutical company using AI to accelerate drug trials; it doesn’t need to be used to discover the “magical molecule,” but provide some other tangible, less extraordinary benefit to developing the product.

Nadella is adamant that these kinds of boosts that AI provides will justify AI and carry the industry, stressing less spectacular and more practical applications of the tech.

“I’m much more confident that this is a technology that will, in fact, build on the rails of cloud and mobile, diffuse faster, and bend the productivity curve, and bring local surplus and economic growth all around the world,” he proclaimed.

Thanks for triggering some tramatic memories! I’ve definitely bawled my eyes out to all of these that I recognized (and am definitely not looking up the ones I don’t)

Link for the lazy: https://voteyesornoai.com/

For anyone who didn’t know:

Hachi

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Sprinkles was founded in 2005 by Candace Nelson, opening its first location in Beverly Hills. The brand later made headlines in 2012 when it launched what it billed as the world’s first cupcake ATM — a novelty that helped fuel the cupcake craze nationwide. That same year, the company was sold to a private equity firm.

Fucking private equity…

Congrats on the kiddo!

This looks neat! Thanks for sharing!

How crazy would it be if Trump’s corruption and conflicts of interest are what gets us to invest in cold fusion and make it a practical, scalable energy source.

Doubt it. Probably end up like another one of his casinos.

I have no words but sending you a big hug. I hope the pain fades but the memories last forever.

Wooooo! 🇲🇼 Warm heart of Africa!

That hot sauce is indeed delicious. Great blend of heat and flavor!

For the lazy:

The Paterson pageant was a dramatic depiction of the 1913 Paterson silk strike acted by the strikers themselves in New York City’s Madison Square Garden while the strike was ongoing. Staged by John Reed and other bohemians of Greenwich Village, the pageant played before a full audience and received positive reviews, though its public support and sympathy did not translate into success for the six-month strike, which crumbled following the pageant. One of the Wobbly leaders behind the strike, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, credited the pageant with hastening strike’s end, having split the strikers’ attention from their primary cause.