Well, to be a little charitable, sometimes it’s text with numbers in it. I just need to figure out how best to extract the numbers from unstructured text, which is mostly tedious to validate.

Other times it’s text where there are supposed to be numbers, like the dates on invoices, which leads to really funny mixups when we look at the revenue per supplier and someone asks “Hey, we didn’t bring this supplier on until 2019, why are there revenues for 2012?” And the answer is “Because your invoice date is a manually entered text field and if you’re a quick typer, 2021 and 2012 are really close together.”

And then some times it’s questions like “How many customer service tickets do we get about X”. If X is a specific product name, odds are a simple full text search for the term gets most of them. If X is a general thing like “Office supplies” it becomes a nightmare really quickly.

Give it a shot. Asking, I mean. Don’t actually drink any concoction an AI brews up. The rate we’re going, it’ll come up with some combination of ingredients that’ll react, turn into a strong acid and physically change you into a chemical burns patient.

A Data Analyst’s reading of your comment:

I am misusing Google Sheets to plan my character builds in Final Fantasy Tactics

Oh?

I have entered all the information in the sheet by hand

Uh-huh

and it is mostly text

Eww

This information cannot be put into a graph of any kind.

Phew

People asking me to turn text into graphs are the bane of my life. Well, one of many banes, really.

Sorry, reality has outshitted your posting

With modern warfare, the only one that wins is the arms dealer, if he can escape the hell his products wreak

The only actual issue in a confrontation between NATO and Russia is that it’s a conflict between nuclear powers. Whatever the balance in conventional or drone warfare would turn out to be, the fact that either party could, if pushed to desperation, decide they have nothing to lose and might take a chance on the enemy’s retaliation strikes failing: That is the risk of open war between NATO and Russia.

No matter who you’re rooting for, we may all end up losing.

I think the nuance is that Nazis ought to be acknowledged as being people, but not afforded any of the respects and graces the Nazis themselves deny others.

I don’t like them, but I’d like to remind my fellow Canonical-Haters to not become User-Haters instead. It’s okay to have preferences, but let’s not antagonise each other.

That said, flatpak > compiling from source > writing from scratch > writing with binary editor > not having it at all > snap

So it’s not hard to see how this new definition came about but it is, still, sort of just plucking the word and modifying it to a very different context

I think the difficulty here is the assertion that this “unc” stems from black slang rather than a parallel evolution. After “bro” and “cuz” made it into wider adoption, the pattern of taking the first syllable or so off a term for a relative is familiar.

Unrelatedly, the image of the weird uncle spouting bullshit is a cultural meme in at least those parts of the (presumably mostly white) Internet I’ve been exposed to. The subjectively most common forms I see are holiday season complaints about uncles being racist or conspiracy nuts.

That is a very different image of uncles. Combining it with the aforementioned pattern of taking the first syllable to refer to people of a vaguely similar persuasion will lead to a derogatory meaning of “unc” that may well have developed entirely independently of the more respectful sense you mention.

Hence, I’m inclined to believe it’s more of an unfortunate coincidence than a corruption of an originally benevolent term. Either way, it’s unfortunate to have an otherwise positive term associated with something negative, whether by accident or by ignorant misuse.

more community-destructing than community-building

In some sense, that destruction of community may precede the term. If my reasoning above is correct, the term refers to a type of person one would rather not share a community with.

Also, thanks for asking, rather than downvoting; it’s (obviously) not everything but there’s a non-negligible segment of Lemmy that just seems to have an emotional tantrum every time race comes up.

There’s an odd discussion space around the topic, where even the way you treat it becomes a discussion of its own that I don’t wanna get into right now.

However, one part of it may be that people afford the meaning of words different weights. You comment on how slang becomes trivialised, turning into buzzwords rather than proper language. I’d counter that this seems to be a feature of mainstream communication in general: Words (with some exceptions) are treated more lightly, and as we trust the other to catch the intent of our statement, we also throw them with less care.

That doesn’t mean a word I throw lightly also becomes weightless to others, and I suspect that’s where part of the conflict stems from: When you say “this was taken from black culture”, that feels like an accusation of appropriation and racism. If I adopt a word without any intent of disrespect and then get (or feel) accused of saying something racist, I get defensive because that wasn’t my intent. But the way I said it might still have hurt others, and the fact that I said it carelessly is no help.

I think I first saw that disconnect in the discussion around the N-word: To many white people (including myself), it doesn’t have much weight anymore. We don’t hold the contempt that it used to be an expression of. However, to many black people voicing their thoughts online, it seems to still have the sting of centuries of oppression and disparagement. They don’t – can’t? – separate the intent from the vessel that carried it.

The switch of perspectives isn’t intuitive. But it’s worth learning.

I’m curious to learn and to hear the experiences of others. Whatever thoughts I may have are coloured by my own biases, my upbringing, the social environment I live in. I’d rather ask, converse and risk offending out of ignorance than to assume I know the answer and probably end up offending out of negligence.

Avoiding conflict also avoids the lessons we can learn from it. If we take care to avoid lasting harm, we can “play” conflict and learn to avoid actual conflict in the future.

That’s what I said the first time he bragged about his doctors saying that he doesn’t have dementia: I don’t think people without indicators need in-depth screenings in the first place.

How so?

I feel like there is always some level of condescension when talking about other generations of slang and I wonder why. There’s a smack of snark to the redundant duplicated repetition of “hot hip fan-didly-tastic” and “sleek Gen-Z packaging”, and “cringe” is obviously derogatory. Can’t we casually accept that “the new slang is” what it is, and set an example for the younger ones in turn?

Couldn’t contemporary colloquialisms coexist comfortably?

Seed and feed

No, they don’t.

Microsoft wars on the other hand…

That is also a joke. Don’t base your identity on brands, technologies or corporations; not even on hating them. Base it on values and moral convictions, then judge the rest by them.

I assume some kind of force – airbag or emergency brake – slammed their legs into their body, dislocated the hip joint and pushed the femur sideways and into their pelvis.

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I was trying to make a joke of my own, juxtaposing my own use of “being autistic” with the prior assertion that “autistic” isn’t a symptom. I suppose it didn’t land. Sorry about that.

Delusion + whatever you ate

That’s a neurological condition, not a symptom, or am I being needlessly autistic about exact semantics?

Edit: this was supposed to be a joke. If “being autistic” isn’t a symptom but a condition, the front and back halves of that sentence are contradictory. But since the second only applies if the first doesn’t, the contradiction is self-referentially resolved.

Automatic updates will not work though and there’s no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.

That’s probably a disqualifying feature for laypeople-suitability. “Normies” ad in “non-techies” won’t easily dare touch the command line and certainly not think of frequently using it to check for updates, but not having any security updates is a bad idea.