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Comment Re:Despite (Score 1) 223

I will do that. I use gnumeric all the time for small CSVs because of the quick startup, but I haven't tried it on large files recently. Last time I did, it didn't acquit itself well, but I will give it another go. When I'm doing this it's really always CSVs, and I'm just trying to massage some data slightly before I import it somewhere. I finally resorted to just writing perl, but it was to do things that would have been faster to do in a spreadsheet if it didn't crater.

Comment Re: seen this movie before (Score 1) 223

Can we please drop this "windows is spyware" crap?

Why do you imagine that it is crap? Every expert disagrees with you.

No government is buying Windows Home or leaving telemetry on.

Aww you're so cute. Dumb, but cute.

You think you can be sure you've disabled all of that functionality.

Even if they didn't, GDPR.

Those are certainly all letters, but they don't prevent international espionage.

And calling the US untrustworthy because you don't like a President needs to go as well.

Some of us are just smart enough to call a fascist a fascist, and just dumb enough to do it, too. But you're dumb enough to deep throat the boot.

It is a foolish conceit that serves you poorly.

I will continue to resist this regime as long as I am able, because failure to do so is how to be destroyed by it.

Comment Re:Despite (Score 1) 223

For all the crybragging of the faithful, the open Office suites work just fine.

I'm not faithful to any software, and I use LO for almost everything. But sometimes I try to load a big CSV into Calc for massaging and it crashes. Then I load the same file into Excel and it's fine, and not even slow. They clearly need to do fundamental work on Calc. Writer is already superior to Word in this regard, so this is not a blanket complaint about LO.

Comment Re:GIGO... (Score 1) 78

I've had it spit out songs which didn't exist under bands, write code with function arguments that are not implemented, and so on.

It will confidently spit out functions that don't exist and give you a detailed explanation of how they supposedly work. Anyone who trusts it is mentally deficient. No shortage there, though.

Comment Re:People just won't pay for news like this (Score 1) 130

It's not a question of whether the medium matters, it's a question of whether the medium matters *FOR THIS SUBJECT*

The subject is news, that includes newspapers, and part of why people like them is the experience. Maybe when you become corporeal and aren't simply a bot you will understand.

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