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Excel xlsx, xlsm, xlsb, xls, xltx, xltm, xlt, xlam, xla, xlw, xml, csv, txt, prn, dif, slk, ods, xps, dbf

https://www.onlyoffice.com XLSX, XLS, ODS, CSV, TXT

https://www.libreoffice.org ods, ots, fods, xlsx, xlsm, xls, xlt, xml, csv, dif, dbf, slk

But I'm much to impressed by Modern CSV

https://www.moderncsv.com CSV, JSON, XML

I like CSV for not trying to be an incompetent version of SQL

This is exactly what I've been thinking for decades.

I once made a proof of concept. Wikipedia use to have static menu entries. I had a greasemonkey script that hides some of them them.

For entries that shouldn't be hidden the line that hides them is commented out.

https://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/review/170442

Then I had a form that let you pick which ones you want. It spit out a gm script with all entries commented out except from the ones you wanted to keep.

https://go-here.nl/gm/wikipedia-clean-up.php

I also wrote this as a joke.

https://neanderthal.go-here.nl

When a link or button is clicked the server return a js file that contain one function. Then it executes the function.

To borrow your example, when you've picked the functionality you want in your note taking app a version number like 1.0.0.unixtime can be generated and stored so that you can later populate the config form with the chosen configuration and add or remove things.

Or you could do something with a config file to populate the form again.

An LLM can also modify a config file. Before execution it can be validated, as it is so simple it can show which mandatory entries are missing, which ones are spelled incorrectly.

If you provide the LLM with the html form or the config file (+docs) it shouldn't have much difficulty generating exactly what you wanted.

As the application has now been turned into ravioli it also addresses the ancient puzzle of separating feature updates from security updates.

You can still introduce a new gui that confuses the hell out of users. Then if no one checks the box you can take your learnings from it without 1000 people having to tell you in 500 different places.

[] Icons? [] Text? [] Icons AND Text?

In this case you can just let it fail. I suspect people on archaic browsers are much more likely to prefer it that way.

The joke is that those who react have no idea and those who don't have no idea either. I never use react so I'm going to have to go with: Those other companies are also just bad. (joking) If everyone can work with/without it should be fine? As long as you don't try to do both.

For this specifically I would have the "you have upvotes" banner in the dom already with a class display:none.

I consider it a huge advantage to have the code for both the counter and the banner in the same place. thisCounter++; thisBanner.className = "shown";

I gave your resume to the B-9 HR bot and it said you should be escorted off the premises. "DANGER DANGER!"

don't search, ask an llm. Ask it to keep it as simple as possible and have it explain the tags you've forgotten.

.htaccess

    <If "req('Content-Type') =~ /multipart/i">
        Require all denied
    </If>

It would be lovely to trim or get rid of the ruling class but that is far more ambitious than to somewhat guard our political machine from their influence. They will of course still have influence, it just wont be their flavour of direct democracy where they always get what they want.

We should at least try to be a somewhat worthy adversary if only to keep things interesting.

> I say we roll out america.gov decision models trained in public, deployed in public, built around a legal philosophy of immutable rights to shelter and healthcare and the related technology development and have it bubble initiatives for public vote that don't violate the core legal rights

We have the water boards in the Netherlands that are independent governing bodies with their own taxes and elections. They didn't get absorbed by government because people don't trust generic elected officials. I find it absolutely fascinating because it's so incredibly boring. Their job is to manage everything involved in living below sea level.

It shows that government doesn't have to be one giant hierarchical organization arguing over one giant budget. You can use the formula to house this legal philosophy and make it reasonably immutable. Place it outside the control of the generic political battle ground.

Just having a bunch of obvious static values would already stop the most crazy modifications like making corporations into people and money into speech, how male and female should be defined. As if they ran out of real work.

It would be interesting to see an entire philosophy bolted into place.

> This whole Mr Rogers touchy feely kid gloves for the professional managerial class

I'm most offended by blurring the entire spectrum from incompetent and corrupt to brilliant and hard working.

When they privatized the National Address Database I picked a cheap provider thinking it would be fine but now my street is blocked off and they are digging to disconnect my utilities because they say some suspicious activity happened in the street and the address is no longer supported. They cant tell me what is exactly going on right now because I'm not on the premium boutique pro road tax system which is $1 more expensive and has a random chance to win a support ticket. Usually they find nothing suspicious but this waiting in my car for a week is really annoying. I cant even fill my taxes now.

I'm happy it isn't state enterprise tho as that would probably be even worse.

Of course!

I don't know how hard you work but assuming you enjoy accomplishing something, did you ever have a job where a substantial % of the employees are trying to cut all corners?

In my current job, for two months, two employees have been to lazy to drive 2 hours to bring tools. People working there will simply not do the work. They won't report it to higher ups because the first question will be: Why didn't you report this two months ago? I grind them every day but wont report them either as there is nothing to gain for me.

This is exactly how governments works.

I wrote a web app, I put some screenshots into an LLM and instantly know who isn't working, for how long or at what point they cant continue and how long ago they should have known. It paints a preposterous picture but it is currently only useful for job security.

Not enough room here to write out the manifesto but in short: it depends on the stakes and on how secure you can monitor the data. In general we never have enough resources, if we have just a little bit more more people will live [longer] and lives may be improved. A little bit of corruption will only ruin a few lives. A good scheme will kill millions. That they get away with it is not even half the problem, you end up encouraging repetition and eventually end up normalizing it. Securing the data properly is important or people become afraid to act when they should.

If you catch them early enough you might not even persecute, if the members of the organization act suspicious enough the next contract could go to someone else or you might discontinue on the spot. When someone proposes the bribe you get a notification that your employment is under review.

People tasked with enforcement can go straight to prison when they fail to arrange your hearing or your day in court.

Earnings to match the working conditions of course and the conditions should be clear from day one.

I disagree, I want all of my decision-making government employees monitored and logged 24/7 complete with a peeping tom AI to sort the recordings by suspiciousness and performance with accurate potentially large bonuses on large time delays.

seems a good price to pay, it gives that guy something to do before he can switch off the server/product.

I'm a really slow reader. Had some hilarious conversations with fast readers. They really enjoy fluffy low density content. I ask what is on the page they just read and their first reaction is to look at it again. I describe barely related thoughts I had reading the page, the character of the author from their choice of words, they look at me as if I've done just the thing you aren't suppose to.

Some flavor of support/lifespan real or imagined.

From gazing over the job offers I think in Europe developers have always been machine operators.

Now that the days in the ivory tower are over I'm rather disappointed with the lack of effort people made changing the status quo. If anything they made things dramatically worse. Software can be incredibly liberating and empowering but in stead we got portable prisons that seemingly primarily exist so that the man can keep an eye on everyone. We did get some cool stuff of course but things like amazon, linkedin, twitter, facebook, whatsapp and even youtube should simply have been protocols.

There is a design choice to be made balancing apm and technical play and I think they went to far towards the apm side. Could compare it to bullet chess. While broodwars was arguably even more neurotic it oddly seemed to have more surprising builds. Like many, I've been wondering what slower speed sc2 tournaments would look like.

Also interesting, they went with a specific kind of maps with things like nearly identical mineral lines, no islands or isolated high/low ground, map symmetry, not to big, not to small, ramps, chokes etc and then they balance the game mechanics around those maps making those choices almost permanent.

I use to download a lot of replays and there is a lot more technical fun to be had that is pretty much irrelevant in apm battles. It is also funny to see the game fall apart on maps that don't follow the standard design. Like, flying buildings should be fun not useless or the end of the world.

I think since the beginning of google I've seen a gif in image search maybe 5 times in total.

preordained slop it is then

One should notice the new narrative where something is done to people but the journalism never involves those people.

I once read some stuff from someone sanctioned for other reasons. Accounts "frozen" no way to receive income. Deserved or not, that is the package. More interesting was that they also blocked his wife. They should receive some weekly living money but no one responds to his queries. It got even more interesting where they have 3 very young kids and aren't allowed to leave the country.

He denies doing what they accuse him off but argued it isn't even relevant. He argued that if he should be punished for something the punishment should be for him. Why take it out on an 1 year old?

My point being, how terrible do these icc sanctions turn out? Isn't that the story?

Someone once told me that if you have an ingredient that may have 0.3% toxins and you bought a cheap badge with 0.4% and a quality badge with 0.25% it is awfully tempting to mix them as close to 0.29% as possible. You might even convince the quality supplier to aim for 0.2% so that you can use the almost worthless 0.5% It isn't unthinkable that some would use the food supply to somewhat legally dispose of 100% toxic materials. Properly mixing is really hard and you cant really trust people who would do such a thing to mix in the poisons "properly".

They will increasingly rely on increasingly good AI and in the process the mistakes will inevitably not be made by humans.

My joke referred to having someone to blame in general.

I cant help but tell stories, sorry... I got a new job once, an inspection happened, same things were wrong as the previous 3 inspections but this time the other employees blamed me for everything. I greedily took the blame. I wish I had pictures of the faces they made.

I one time unravel why old dutch city centers are so enjoyable to just walk around. I had somewhat of an idea but it was insufficient for the millage. Bothered me for decades hah.

One ingredient was that each building was added to the whole one by one, they could build anyplace as long as it didn't piss anyone off. Those who had money build big luxurious and in the face, those who were poor build some place out of sight, say at the end of an alley and everyone in between found their place to fit their thing. Some wanted to look more wealthy than they were, some wanted the opposite. On a slightly curved road one side is small on the front and large in the backs while the other side offered the opposite.

The final clue came as an old painting of a road that currently has the most expensive buildings in the city. They are 3-4 floors and have all kinds of attachments and expansions. The garden borders on the harbor and sits one floor lower than street level.

In the painting however the brick work was terrible, the attachments were made of rotten wood. Then it struck me the painting was some spot half way in 500 years of "cardboard" prototyping. If a building or pig shed was ever so slightly in the way, slightly misplaced or didn't fit in it didn't survive in the long run. Eventually someone would correct it again and again until they got it right. Then when they got the shape right they would rebuild it the same or upgrade it. In the last cycle over the last 60 years the old monuments got floor heating, AC, modern wiring and plumbing, some even got new floors and a new foundation with the building still standing. It's not done, it's never done.

https://www.alamy.com/old-brick-waterfront-houses-of-de-boch...

The second building has the wrong color bricks at the top and the 4th has these cheap ugly modern windows in the roof that should really be deleted.

The scaffolding really completes the story.

One of those jobs LLMs can easily take over.

I've tried and couldn't find anything wrong with the article.

Perhaps the only thing to note is that you should pay attention to your long term health. You can definitely stay fit if you don't grind on when you shouldn't. No job and no amount of money is worth destroying your body.

Oh, and desk workers die from lack of activity. If you sit for more than an hour you gradually start dying.

It doesn't work like that overthere. It's just like there is no need to make profit from trains. We have road tax, it isn't enough to cover road maintenance. They are just investing in driving their economy all kinds of places... almost literally.

I got a new job once, the boss asked me what I thought after a few days. I told him I wouldn't be around for very long. "why?" It took me 2 hours to figure out you don't get it. "how?" Well, you have a coin operated coffee machine in the lunch room. It tells me everything I need to know. "But it's just 50 cents?" I laugh and point at him, EXACTLY! Now tell me how it tastes. "I don't know, I have my own machine upstairs" I dig in my pocket and pull out a shiny 50 cent coin. HERE! "what is that for?" I say, it's uhhh just 50 cents? "Why are you giving me 50 cents?", well technically you should explain to me why I would have to give you 50 cents but okay, you are selling a product in the lunch room, I suggest you go and test if it lives up to your standards. He actually walked off to the lunch room, I could see though the window that he put my 50 cents in the machine, then he waited... the cup filled up slowly... he took a sip then spit it into the sink. He came back but I was unable to continue the conversations, I couldn't stop laughing so he walked away. I wanted to say it tasted like: I need to get away from this place as fast as possible.

They aren't buying tokens, more likely it costs them 1m to run the 10000 agents for 88 hours. Still leaves room for the PhD ofc.

I'm trying to map it on other fields and cant help but think it is absurd. If some company spends 1m developing a new alloy, should metallurgists be upset when they publish the recipe?

I can see it already...

document.registerElement('AmericaScript',{prototype:Object.create(HTMLScriptElement.prototype)});