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erAck

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About erAck

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Recent public activity

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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…