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This afternoon, I was working on my presentation style for my "Deal or No Deal: Furry Edition" panel at the upcoming #FurryFiesta2026 . Think of it as more of a rehearsal, so I can get used to tabbing between windows while still accessing the right information behind the scenes.

As I was testing it out with some dummy entries, I was caught off guard to see a "banker's offer" of zero when I wasn't expecting to. I looked closer at the formula, and determined that the zeroes I'd placed in some cells as dummy numbers, were being picked up by the formula as legitimate.

I spent a bit of time, determining how I could obtain the original desired result without having dummy zeroes affect the calculation. Then I remembered that similar intermediate calculations were also being run on a different sheet, where empty cells were skipped rather than being treated as having a zero value. I rewrote the "banker's offer" formula to reference these values instead, while also changing the COUNT function to a COUNTIF.

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Intaglio Whitegraven 6d ago

@herzenschein And now it's playing in my head, thanks to me reading this post.

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Intaglio Whitegraven 6d ago

@Sjru I could use that kind of tender rubbing, right about now.

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Intaglio Whitegraven Mar 13

@cass_m @pluralistic The wording here reminds me of Dave Barnhart's post about "the unborn" that went viral on Facebook (quote re-posted to Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10357009-the-unborn-are-a-convenient-group-of-people-to-advocate )

A quote by Dave Barnhart

The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, ad...

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Intaglio Whitegraven Mar 13

@yksteldus If these popups are coming from a Windows OS, I'm honestly surprised they even bother showing the start-up time for OneDrive, let alone giving the user the choice to disable it on start-up.

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Intaglio Whitegraven Mar 12

@riley "A broken clock is right twice a day" is only half of the original phrase. In context (and to your point), "A broken clock is right twice a day, but only a fool would check it for the time."

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Intaglio Whitegraven Mar 12

@linkachus17 There's a built-in tool where you can convert the FLAC to a lower-quality MP3. But that still has the same issue of downloading the original large FLAC file.

There are a few other web-based solutions I'm finding (Spotisaver.net, Spotitrack.com, Spotidost.com, Spotilab.com). I have not used any of these myself, so I cannot attest to how well they work.

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Intaglio Whitegraven Mar 12

@linkachus17 I've been using SpotiFLAC since I discovered it in October:
https://github.com/afkarxyz/SpotiFLAC/

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Intaglio Whitegraven Mar 12

@Hanuwu Based on the particular snacks on the tray table, and the Boeing 737-700 info card that's partially visible, I'm guessing it's Southwest Airlines.

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Intaglio Whitegraven Mar 12

@FayeDrake I know of at least two medical-based organizations (Doctors Without Borders, and Mercy Ships) that do work abroad, but I'm unsure offhand of any qualifications they might require.

If you're not opposed to a faith-based organization, UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) has various missionary positions in the U.S. and worldwide. Term lengths vary, and so does the specific type of work. I'm familiar with this organization myself because I've donated to them in the past and (for years) have volunteered at a local facility who assembles relief kits of various kinds: https://umcmission.org/work/humanitarian-relief/relief-supplies

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