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xylogx@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there something like a spreadsheet for hierarchical data structures?English1·1 day agoSo you can bring json into a spreadsheet as ling as you are cool with some if your cells containing multi-valued entries. The question is how do you want those multi valued fields to o be handled? How are they displayed? How would sorting and filtering on these fields work?
xylogx@lemmy.worldtomicromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.world•Those pesky enclosed mobility scooters: are they legal on roads?English2·1 day agoSaw someone weaving in and out of traffic on a unicycle doing 50mph. So that happened.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Archaeology@mander.xyz•Rare 1,800-year-old Roman soldier’s wrist purse unearthed in Czech Republic reveals life on the empire’s frontierEnglish1·1 day agoSuper-interesting, that must be where they kept their iPhone during battle! I wonder if they get steps for swinging their gladius?
xylogx@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time?English6·11 days agoHumans sweat. It is one of our superpowers and enables endurance hunting. Anthropologists theorize that early humans would have had to have developed water carrying technologies for this to be viable. They study primitive hunter gathers who still practice endurance hunting and they use water skins during the hunt.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you think Lemmy has a culture separate from Reddit or is it basically the same?English13·15 days agoEvery subreddit has its own vibe. Some have fully transitioned here like linux and some of the meme sharing communities. Many have not. I cannot really think of communities on Lemmy that do not exist on Reddit.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•"Airplane!" is the unofficial movie of Air Traffic Control. "Waiting..." is the unofficial movie of waiters. What should be Lemmy's unofficial movie?English1·19 days agoOffice Space, but also the IT Crowd
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Got any security advice for setting up a locally hosted website/external service?English21·20 days agoCloudflare has a free tier for their security services. Worth checking out IMHO -> https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/free/
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteerEnglish1·21 days agoJust salt works too.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Finally making the move to Linux, and I have questions before I get started.English31·24 days agoRun a live version of kubuntu from a usb drive to confirm wifi/lan drivers work and you can access the internet.
xylogx@lemmy.worldOPto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The horns emoji is the hearts emoji for boysEnglish6·1 month agoRock horns. Shorthand for “that rocks” a more manly way to say I love that.
xylogx@lemmy.worldOPto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The horns emoji is the hearts emoji for boysEnglish3·1 month agoThats great! I feel comfortable using the heart emoji with my wife and kids, but for co-workers it can be a little creepy depending in the circumstance. I started using the blue heart, but that just caused confusion. I found the horns conveyed the thought better without being creepy.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Things you don't find: Married bachelors, perpetual motion machines, or this...English6·1 month agoThat’s right, you pay for support not the binaries and the source code is free under GPL.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you play a multiplayer game, and lose, who is the author of your defeat?English3·1 month agoIf I am pubbing then teams are rando and often the mix of team players is more important than any one player’s individual skill.
Its funny how Michael Meyers decided ogres are Scottish and Scottish people are kind of ok with it.
Hatred, fear and loathing.
I hate you. I hate you all.
And a grandkid or two would be nice…
xylogx@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business modelEnglish1644·2 months agoSo you’re saying the ad driven internet will die? And we will be left with what? Wikipedia and Lemmy? I for one welcome our AI overlords!
Our big brains take a lot of care and feeding for sure.
We also adapted for endurance hunting and fine motor control in our hands. A Chimpanzee could tear your arm off, but they could not throw a curveball.
Just to add to this all data is ultimately stored as ones and zeros. In order to translate it to a piece of text or some type of number the computer needs to determine what type of data it represents. If the computer guesses the wrong type you just get garbage. Languages like C allow you to store data without rigid type definitions, it is up to the programmer to make sure the code gets the type right. In a strongly typed language you are not allowed to use variables of one type as some other type without some explicit conversion. It is safer but a little annoying.
An art museum and this: