petersr

petersr, 10 days ago

But can we at least get him out the election?

petersr, 10 days ago

Can we at least avoid a dystopia future?

petersr, 9 days ago

Stuxnet would like a chat with you

petersr, 13 days ago

Don’t be evil, you know.

petersr, 18 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Let me tell you something. I cannot tell you what company, but I have been tasked with putting Excel files in git “because they are just zip archives with xml” and it is just a disaster. Everytime you save the document it will save certain parts of the xml code in arbitrary ways (like each image is in a list and the order of that list is random everytime), some metadata is re-written everytime like time of last modified and finally all the xml files are one single line. The git diffs are complete useless and noisy and just looking at the Excel file will cause git to consider it updated. So sure, you can use git to snapshot you Office documents… But just don’t.

petersr, 18 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Yeah, I made such a tool - and kept polishing edge cases until I gave up. So just wanted to warn everyone.

petersr, 18 days ago

I will join that therapy session. This is pretty much what we did, except LFS, since it was “a requirement” to also track what they layouting of the Excel file was like.

And even extracting and inserting the code was not stable. Excel will arbitrarily change the casing of “.path” to “.Path” for no reason and add and remove whitespace between functions as it see fit. It was such a pain. We also had a hard time handling unicode strings for instance containing a degree sign. And the list goes on.

petersr, 17 days ago

I hear ya. But to be honest, what they are doing here is fine, and doesn’t seem malicious. There is an Open Document specification and they stick to it, but the spec doesn’t enforce everything. For instance for the ordering of certain elements on the page, I bet you they store store those elements in memory in an efficient data structure where ordering doesn’t matter, so when writing out the memory to disk, the easiest for them to do is just write it out in what order it appears in their data structure.

But there are probably other cases where they are not so innocent.

petersr, 20 days ago

Sounds like you should find a new product to use.

petersr, 27 days ago

I am Danish and I have never seen this…

petersr, 27 days ago

Hard to argue with that logic 😂

petersr, 1 month ago

And someone’s broken heart!

petersr, 1 month ago

Can we at least see it?

petersr, 1 month ago

And how long you watched

petersr, 2 months ago

And would you call SSH a library?

petersr, 2 months ago

Look. Doing A-E is going to be expensive enough for the young fella. I don’t think he can also afford gunshot wound treatment.

petersr, 2 months ago

I will also go with 2013.

petersr, 2 months ago

To be fair, this is a classical strategi in startups called “wizard of Oz prototyping” - it is used to test if there is a market for something before the tech is ready. But the tech is supposed to be created soon after and actually work…

petersr, 2 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/710467d5-933c-4ba2-a982-adcd3745348e.webp

petersr, 2 months ago

Who would have thought that Tolkien would be 100 years ahead by depicting smart phone addiction. He even got the fact right that you become invisible (ie isolated in your room, not going out) when you use it.

petersr, 2 months ago

Makes me realize I haven’t seen a dickbutt in years.

petersr, 2 months ago

You knew it was fake/going to be a joke when anon got a girlfriend so easily.

petersr, 3 months ago

I second this. It is the option in the three dots when viewing a stream of posts, right? I recall it had the icon of a finger and and arrow and was called “Swipe mode”.

petersr, 3 months ago

I can hear this image.

petersr, 3 months ago

Imagine sitting in a bathroom stall, with a gorilla pounding full force on the door, you just waiting for it to break, knowing full well that you will be crushed soon.