it has come in clutch a few times

Massive disrespect for not learning a thing.

That image you linked requires authentication to download.

Was there supposed to be a “not” under that yellow blotch in the speech bubble?

I think the homeowners are right regardless. You don’t need to be a genius to figure out that even a moderately higher population density increases transportation demand. Even doubling the density could affect traffic considerably.

Now before the haters come out: I’m not saying that the transportation demand must be addressed by more or bigger roads.

You’re absolutely right! Those dumb English people are wrong for not adhering to the German spelling reform. How dare they?

Also the spelling reform only changed the previous ß to a ss. The spelling reform has nothing to do with the c/k debate. What was your point again other than brainless insults?

Krass is German.

c not as fun as k.

That’s the worst attempt at Motte-and-bailey I’ve ever seen.

no one cares.

This conversation proves otherwise.

Krass is German.

That doesn’t change that the English spelling is crass.

Also, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crass says crass made its way from Latin via French to English, not German. Always with a C, btw.

heinously written stuff that wasn’t expected to be in service even in the '90s.

Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.

On a more serious note: If anyone can just claim anything in a conversation, that would be detrimental to any discussion. Either everybody makes up their own “facts” because no-one bothers proving everyone else’s version of a story (which is just everybody lying in everybody’s face); or everybody is constantly fact-checking everyone else, which makes the conversation take much longer than necessary.

You already have the source, or at least an idea in which context you got the information and how to find it again. It’s just common courtesy to share it the others rather than making them do the work, too.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)

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.

Removed by mod

How I show up to work during my mandatory vacation:

(there’s nothing there)

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I think I saw one that wasn’t from me.

The reason for this is simply because you include the base note when you start counting, so if you stop midway and stack another interval on top, you have to account for that stop because it decreases the total travel distance by one.

I’m arguing that ‘counting the base note’ is necessary because there is no zero. If you travel 1 unit of your favorite unit of length, stop, and move one unit more, you have moved 2 units, not 3 as it is in music. Stops don’t add to or reduce travel distance.

You can set that in the options somewhere. Referencing G4 is probably easier for most people than (7,4).

Why do you assume I’m doing this inside Excel? I was importing a data sheet into other software. By the time I got my hands on the data, it was an object of the sort {A: [/*data*/], AA: [/*data*/], B: [/*data*/]}. I had to sort the keys for presentation purposes.

In retrospect, sure, there would’ve been easier ways. But at the time I wasn’t aware yet that converting Excel columns to numeric indices isn’t as straightforward as a simple base conversion (like, e.g. from hex to decimal).

Pray tell how I would graph someone’s address.

Because I wasn’t even using Excel at that point. I was importing an excel sheet.

I had to use Excel today. That’s the reason.

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.