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paulfitz

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    Comment #49105702

    That Dropbox like system is literally all these worms need to propagate.

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    Comment #46880369

    Thanks! Fair about styling :). You can bring your own stylesheet https://support.getgrist.com/self-managed/#how-do-i-customiz...

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    Comment #46879915

    The enterprise features are self-hostable. Look at "your servers" on the pricing page for Grist. Individuals (and orgs with < $1 million in annual income) quality for free activati…

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    Comment #46879203

    [grist employee here] Grist forms are open source and were used to keep the toilets clean at FOSDEM just a few days ago https://fosstodon.org/@grist/116001932837956733 Everything y…

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    Comment #46879068

    Grist forms support uploads since 2025 https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/pull/1655 Since it is relevant here: support for uploads was code written by a French contributor, an…

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    Comment #46876302

    I work at Grist, the "tableur collaboratif" (collaborative spreadsheet) listed on the La Suite homepage. We're in the interesting situation of being both a NYC-based company, and o…

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    Comment #45427228

    I'm quietly adding "pull requests" for data to Grist https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/issues/1829 - been wanting to do this for a long time. I tried doing this years ago as …

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    Comment #39868255

    This is excellent, thank you!

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    Comment #39868046

    Escaping is needed no matter what separators are used, but if a character from the astral plane is always present (like U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO) then you can be pretty sure the softwar…

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    Comment #39867901

    The main problem is they are still in the basic multilingual plane, so U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO still has an edge there for tickling problems quickly.

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    Comment #39867859

    Meant to link to this! Thanks, will update.

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    Comment #39603659

    The overlap if you work 9 to 5 hours in that timezone has proven a bit of a drag for us.

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    Comment #39591090

    Thanks for playing! :)

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    Comment #39562989

    Grist Labs | Systems Engineer | Full-time | NYC OR REMOTE +/- 3hrs | https://getgrist.com We're looking for someone to make our modern spreadsheet software run everywhere. To apply…

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    Comment #39495149

    A surprising number of people submitting "bread pickles tomato cheese" as the answer. No! That was just an example! (I was hungry)

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    Comment #38114601

    The motivation for calling Grist a spreadsheet is that it has formulas, and cell values get updated automatically when something they depend on gets updated. Agree there is scope f…

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    Comment #38113207

    In Grist, reference columns let you do a lot of what you can do with a join https://support.getgrist.com/col-refs/ while still having spreadsheet-style immediate updates when under…

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    Comment #38111585

    Snapshots are there, but you need to configure an s3-like store to enable them, e.g. MinIO (or S3 itself). [Grist employee]

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    Comment #37293882

    In the few days since we wrote this post, Code Llama came out, including a flavor fine-tuned on 100B tokens of Python code - could be great for Grist, I look forward to re-running …

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    Comment #37235247

    The exact LLM used in the experiment mentioned in this post was upstage-llama-2-70b-instruct-v2.ggmlv3.q2_K. Grist was configured to use it via llama-cpp-python and https://github.…

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