bipolaron

@bipolaron@scholar.social
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I'm a Materials Scientist who works part time as an instructor and otherwise does consulting.

I like to help people with clever ideas for science or art build prototypes and installations. My science passion is materials, my art passion is the fascinating space where strobing lights interact with your visual cortex to make patterns.

Or just shining pretty lights on art that my friends and family make.

#MaterialsScience
#Energy
#Chemicals
#Electronics
#Art
#LEDs

I delete posts after 2 months.

@68000 I sure have, not being certain you'll be employed when people are relying on you is a strong incentive to figure out how to buy rice and beans in bulk.
@secretasianman "the price is increasing, pray I do not increase it again" vibes for sure. I suppose "occupying cloud city" is sort of equivalent to "AI will train on your email".

I guess Google wasn't getting enough users to willingly pay for hallucinating AI's to "help" with email.

Glad I already switched to FastMail, though I had hoped to be indefinitely lazy about breaking it off. I really don't want to spend the energy closing the account but so it goes I guess.

See, the thing is, even if I reinstall Windows from scratch bluetooth may still not work so it may still be impossible to practice voice control of Windows.

But it works if I run Ubuntu from a liveCD image.

It's amazing to me that there's no way to repair something like this in Windows short of a full reinstall that might not even help.

@broadwaybabyto and the person telling them to do their own research is one of the very few who could actually push publishers to at least make "the research" publicly available.
@luckytran It is so frustrating that the publications they need to do their own research, largely funded by tax dollars, are sitting behind a paywall far too expensive for a new parent (or pretty much any individual).

ah, now you simply create a blank workbook, then go to the data tab, then import CSV.

but it's totally worth it because now it formats it as a table (the formal kind with cell headers and formulas using column names).

:laughcry:

Every website that automatically does a calculation when you change numbers in a box (say, order quantity) should have a checkbox for "update immediately".

Digi-Key sitting here taking twenty seconds when I click on the quantity field for any item to recalculate the entire cart. Only 73 more to go...

@JordiGH I mean, I don't care if you mention it but I don't think I need a suggestion on this one, I already have LibreOffice. ;-)

Every version of Excel seems insistent on being shittier and shittier about opening CSV files.

Meanwhile, LibreOffice has just kept doing the same thing for the last twenty years and it still works perfectly.

I don't understand why it ignores the file extension and obvious file pattern and obvious text encoding in order to open each line in a separate row, all in the first column.

At least in older versions they let you say "open options" to manually force the importer to be used.