In my pass job I was a business intelligence analysist in an insurance company, and my boss came to me and told me to take my computer and go to some conference room. There was one of the managers of legal affairs and she ask me to do look up something on the database, pretty regular job that is usually a ticket but ok, so I did her queries when suddenly they went a direction they don’t normally go and asked me to join the table with the employees database and do a pivot table for employee and count of lines and there was this lady with like 95% of the count, the manager asked me to send her that table and told me that she already knew it was her, but needed the evidence to HR. One week later the lady was fired and I still feel uncomfortable about that. Later I read some essay about abstraction, and how upper you go on the corporate chain, people gradually stop being humans to be just numbers, but for me, that day, my work had a name and a direct consequence that I can’t abstract from.

Where the sanctions on Saudi Arabia or any others western aligned dictatorship? Sanctions are weapons that kill innocent people, denying people of medicines and food.

Please educate yourself.

Sanctions are indiscriminate punishment that mainly affect innocent civilians.

Guess Russia.

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Fucking Citations Needed, every time I finish an episode, someone comment something related to it.

I went back to school at 32yo. Best decision ever.

I tough this was about excel and was like yeah haha!

But is about Python, so I’m officially offended.

57006?

Isn’t a variable, is a parameter for a daterange function.

They actually used red tape for that, and this is why burocracy is called red tape, because they had to fill paperwork everytime a code change was needed or reversed.

Ah fuck, this happened me with the Chainladder library. Had to modify the source code to change the M to ME.

Remove the tape.

Easy, pens, eraser, tape and writing comments on the card

And Claude, off course.

The best is when the version also had the name of an ex employee on it.

At least they were humble and didn’t blame it entirely on Cursor… they also blamed Claude.

Sure, but sometimes you need to do a pivot table and get transformed, or you while working you accidentally made it a number, or just because excel being excel it import the number as scientific notation, or any other case.

It completely screws up numbers if the column is a number and the number is over 15 digits long.

I work in insurance in Brazil, by standards of our regulatory body, claims numbers must be a string of 20 numbers (zfill(20) if needed). You can’t imagine the amount of times excel had fucked me up rounding down the claim numbers, this is one of the first things I teach to my interns and juniors when they’re working with the claims databases.

Oh yes, I remember using power query for a few months once I started working with bigger databases, but I saw that moving to Python would be better carrer wise and never came back to excel to do actual work (but at the end everything get exported to excel)

Excel have a limit of 2^20 rows, something more that 1M. Curious what version of excel are you using for that.