• saigot@lemmy.ca
    76·
    10 months ago

    I think this is the only time excel hasn’t decided something was a date.

  • herrcaptain@lemmy.ca
    27·
    10 months ago

    I’m not defending AI, but I’ve seen Excel manage worse on its own. Granted, it’s almost always my fault for not fully understanding the enigmatic systems that power its logic.

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      52·
      10 months ago

      It’s amazing what you can do with Excel if you know how. It makes it so easy to analyze complex data sets, accidentally summon the Dark Lord, create pivot tables and graphs, etc.

        • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          20·
          10 months ago

          Lol no that just summons a few demons. When you write an entire “application” in VBA and use hidden worksheets as the “database”, then try to share it with the entire organization via a shared drive, then and only then will the gates of hell open and Satan himself come forth.

          • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
            8·
            10 months ago

            The last application I wrote in VBA/Excel is still running 24/7 on a big screen in the command center of a company that was purchased for several billion dollars.

            And yes, there are multiple database sheets. Filled with data scraped from another database. Data that was being written down on paper before I arrived and decided to learn VBA instead of develop permanent hand cramps.

          • TexasDrunk
            6·
            10 months ago

            But have you tried using Excel as the back end database for a poorly designed Access front end?

      • ilinamorato
        14·
        10 months ago

        Whoa whoa whoa! The world is already in rough enough shape without you creating pivot tables

    • Bertuccio
      12·
      10 months ago

      That’s some Stockholm Syndrome talk right there.

  • Nurse_Robot
    22·
    10 months ago

    I think Mayuary is my favorite, it’s not often I find an arrangement of letters that look that wrong

    • lugal@sopuli.xyz
      10·
      10 months ago

      And the short form of MAY is already the complete name so it doesn’t need any completion

  • umbraroze
    221·
    10 months ago

    Uh huh. Interesting

    (furious scribbling in the scifi worldbuilding notes) “In 2050, the names of the months got inadvertently legally changed when a megacorporation released a new version of their office suite and silently corrupted thousands of government document drafts.”

      • umbraroze
        4·
        10 months ago

        When I was taking my introductory courses in computer science over 20 years ago, they told me to not use Excel if you can avoid it, because it’s not very, you know, precise. So I’m well aware that this is an ancient joke. Excel will fuck your data up - AI is just another way to do it.

        But it is a potential scifi plot point.

        However, I will concede that it’s probably not a scifi plot point for too long. Worse things have already happened.

          • umbraroze
            1·
            10 months ago

            For data gathering? Pretty much anything that doesn’t fiddle with the values. Usually, bespoke apps or applications specifically designed for survey data. People actually use spreadsheet programs a lot, but those who do spend a lot of time on ensuring data gets entered correctly.

  • tektite@slrpnk.net
    16·
    10 months ago

    I paid real money for a wall calendar that had the months of Feburary and Ooctober.