Seems like you could benefit from a bit more shrooms, to learn up take jokes about them a bit more lightheartedly ;)

Holy shit that’s Lemongrab! Acceptable!!

That hit a bit too close to home. 😂

Yep, that’s true haha.

It’s perhaps not so much Excel, as much as it’s just the symptom of a lot of bigger issues: working without version control, without column validation or access control, limited documentation (not necessarily better in data warehouse but at least the functionality is easily accessible), limited automated testing, etc etc.

If only they could keep their data for themselves, then ok. but no no, we have to ingest it, and do work on top of it in dwh, and it just breaks so often due to a variety of different stuff.

Data (dwh) people hate Excel

Interesting, thank you for sharing!

I’m curious, what does the Bible say on “how to abort”?

Sounds cool!

Is it Android-only? Can’t find anything food related called broccoli on Apple app store unfortunately

Nope, why?

I look up recipes a lot, would love to know the actual cost of visiting a site, given all of the JavaScript and cookies, tracking, images etc that has to be loaded, that I don’t really care about

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

Good point!

Looks great too!! Have you been following a recipe you can share?

Aha I misunderstood, thanks for clarifying.

Actually for this specific context, there’s an easy solution: I reckon for llms self-hosting would be the way to go, if your hardware supports it. I’ve heard a lot of the smaller models have gotten a lot more powerful over the last year.

This is any company, government, or other organisation with +80 employees. The two other alternatives are

1. Have all data in Excel with no data governance, robust procedures, or trust in data, as the organisation grows in size
2. Use only external tools (which in turn are owned by organisations that work like I described in my parent comment)

I’d love to hear of there’s other ways of doing this stuff that actually works, but so far I just haven’t experienced it in my career yet.

As a person working in a field close to data engineering this sounds like they’re actually honest about the process.

Tldr: it’s not possible to “just delete” everything at once, even though we’d love to be able to.

There’s so many layers of where information is stored, and such insane amounts of data in their data platform. so running a clean up job to delete a single persons data in oltp databases, data lakes, dwh’s, backups, etc, would both be expensive and inefficient. Instead what they then do is to do it in stages: flip a flag somewhere (is_deleted = true) which lets it be removed from view initially, and then running periodic clean-up jobs.

I just say “sorry, I haven’t”. I think as long as you just try to acknowledge them in a good way, i.e. smiling, maintaining eye contact, being polite, so you still acknowledge them as the human being that they are.

Sure it’s bad to lie, but so is being insensitive with the truth, whether it’s “I wanna spend the money on myself” or “there are more effective ways to make a difference than giving money to you”

Just downvote and move on

80 meters lol. I’ve lived in cities, where it’s always been less than 700 meters.

GiveWell is a charity that seeks to answer this exact question.