Interesting. They chose not to use any background music, not even sound effects. They really sell that the protagonist is deaf.

Oh, nevermind. It was muted.

How I show up to work during my mandatory vacation:

(there’s nothing there)

And don’t forget that 1900 still is a leap year in Excel.

Thank you! Saying this finally made me realize why I always need to add/subtract one day when I’m trying to convert dates to and from the Excel representation. 🤦

I have been able to outsource low level parsing to third party libraries

Hahaha!!!

Today I watched a Java server crash because a library decided it needed more than 3GB of heap space to read a 10MB file. That was after manually removed background colors from around 100,000 cells, which apparently caused the parser to create even more objects in its internal representation of the sheet.

1: what the frick are you doing in Excel that needs even 10^2 columns?

Nothing. Here’s this meme’s origin story:

At work we have a tool that imports Excel spreadsheets into user-defined data records. We let the user decide which column goes into which record field.

Today I noticed that when you upload a spreadsheet with more than 26 columns (that is, you enter the double-digit range), the columns aren’t sorted anymore. (When I programmed that, stupid me thought that it was absolutely unreasonable to import 26 columns, given the way the data is processed later.) Instead of A…Z, AA, AB, …, it was A, AA, AB, B, C, ….

So I thought: I should fix that. It’s easy. Just convert the hexavigesimal system to decimal and sort based on that. I even was happy that I could apply some school knowledge for once. (It wasn’t all useless, yay!) Then my math wasn’t mathing. It took me a few minutes to find the system by which Excel columns are numbered. In the end I was annoyed that a task of 5 minutes took… longer… and made this meme.

By the way, to come back to the 10² columns: I’ll take any bet that such a spreadsheet will be shoved into the importer before I retire from my current company.

I thought about that, but decided to leave it as an exercise for the reader.

Don’t forget that Integer8 (the middle dragon) counts increments of 100 nanoseconds, because… reasons.

And don’t forget that 1900 still is a leap year in Excel.

strict ≠ abusive

I found Watchdogs 2 weird in this regard. You steal money from random people, who often struggle themselves, steal cars like nothing, murder a suburb’s worth of people, and still you’re “the good guys”?

Sunroof. So what?

There is an option to default to the GRUB entry you chose last. I didn’t know that either until Manjaro used it.

I’ve never heard of an open sandwich [Edit: until now], but then again English isn’t my mother tongue. To me, a sandwich has always been food between two slices of bread.

Shouldn’t a sandwich have two halves of bread? There’s only one here. Canapés and Hors d’œvres are usually small, aren’t they? A Mettbrötchen takes several bites to eat and is usually eaten as a meal, not as a starter.

Mein N64 ist gestorben gerade als ich Majora’s Mask spielen wollte :'(

That sounds like something that would be apparent from the get-go, no?

Trying to keep up with you

That’s me in the spotlight

Yes, way better. Thanks!

I think OP was going for fiction.

You just don’t know how much to eat.

Ugh. Why did ‘yellow text on white background’ not strike the creator of this as a bad idea?