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Comment #39930018
> The link is just about a move from one part of Munich to another (MS German HQ has always been in Munich). Nope. They moved from Unterschleißheim (administrative district of Muni…
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Comment #24076363
And actually it depends on the locale you work in whether SEPT is a valid month abbreviation or not.
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Comment #24076335
SEPT-2 is changed to date (that is how all major spreadsheet software works if an input is accepted as date), SEPT2 is kept as text as entered.
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Comment #24074516
> if they had a "scientific mode" to not be smart with your data That "scientific mode" is called text. Assign the column type Text during CSV import and nothing is converted to nu…
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Comment #24074432
LibreOffice Calc: "SEPT-2" is a date, "SEPT2" is not.
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Comment #18395763
So we need 4400 persons falling off a roof to be par with nuclear power plants. I still consider this ratio a much better outcome than a power plant going off anywhere near (radius…
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Comment #18395597
With the difference that one person dropping dead from a roof hurts one family, a nuclear plant going off spoils a huge area for generations.
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Comment #18395592
Whether solar and wind power are major energy sources depends on where in what region you live.
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Comment #18395446
They did not include any numbers on wind, solar, hydro, tide, ... renewable energy; limiting the comparison to "the dominant" energy sources what they call "all major energy source…
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Comment #17990719
Lovely. Thanks!
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Comment #17986533
Try to "simply follow" when it's nested twelve levels deep. Anyhow, with both approaches, nested or early return, the reader has to read the function from the beginning (or read ba…
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Comment #17542986
Regarding your fraction example there: =RAWSUBTRACT(0.1,-0.2,1/3) => -0.033333333333333 =RAWSUBTRACT(0.1,-0.2,2/7) => 0.014285714285714 So which one is closer to 0.3?
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Comment #17542847
As you referenced that bug and there also gave an example involving fractions and =0.1+0.2 you would certainly also agree that the binary floating point representation of =0.1+0.2-…
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Comment #17323436
Exactly. You don't want documentation editors having to learn git and all cumbersome processes first. They may not even want to learn that. They want to edit and get their changes …
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Comment #17223709
If it's Electron it's the reason to not use it.
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Comment #16727958
Everyone please stop copy-posting .../amp/ links. Here's without: https://ragpickinghistory.co.uk/2013/03/30/into-the-forbidde...
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Comment #16727923
No, never.
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Comment #16727919
Eventually C++ will be a well thought out standard.
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Comment #16673145
Jerks do jerk moves to move as jerks.
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Comment #16563216
This is fun, but (at least for me) there's awful scratch noise when each note's sound starts playing, which unfortunately doesn't make it enjoyable at all.
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Comment #16514999
Understanding how to use any word processor is a job skill. LibreOffice supports Akan, an official language spoken in Ghana. Projects could translate the UI to Akan so even more pe…
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Comment #16510620
So you prefer to throw them into the MS mono culture pit.
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Comment #16508884
He should teach LibreOffice Writer instead so when actually some laptops arrive at the school they wouldn't have to waste money on MS product licenses.
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Comment #16434353
The other passgen also can use a wordlist.
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Comment #16433144
https://defuse.ca/passgen.htm uses /dev/(u)random on Linux and CryptGenRandom() on Windows, with source code on GitHub for Linux https://github.com/defuse/passgen and https://githu…