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@riotmuffin@ni.hil.ist @sotolf@polymaths.social Plot twist: It's a bedpan.

@michcampbell@fediscience.org @defuneste@fosstodon.org This is probably a legacy of the original Lotus (or maybe even VisiCalc) spreadsheet storing dates internally as the number of days since Dec 30, 1899, and every major spreadsheet since falling all over itself to be bug-for-bug compatible. It's decades of legacy stupidity.

@rysiek We've been doing war crimes this whole time. Can we have some regime change here, too, please?

@nrennie@fosstodon.org I have seen these types of charts plenty, but I never knew what they were called. I confess that at first I thought your package was for generating these, (which I would also appreciate, BTW):

@tomasino@tilde.zone Combined with my mechanical keyboard, this can help make me _truly_ insufferable at work!

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@defuneste Thanks to everyone who showed up in my issue. This is fixed!

@Mara You'd think a computer would know that A, C, and D are all perfectly-acceptable numbers.

@spacehobo I'm with you; it's an unnecessarily ugly wart on an otherwise great file format. BUT, at least there are a zillion reference-quality implementations around, CSV problems can generally be debugged with one's eyeballs, and reading tabular data from them is generally a snap. Unlike "Open"XML, where THE reference implementation (Excel itself) seems to behave subtly differently than the spec would suggest, and the official .NET library is only marginally more useful than a bare XML parsing library. I realize that it's the fate of the developer to spend more time feeling like he's going FUCKING INSANE than the average person, but a good half of my work-related sanity loss (and like 98% of my stomach lining loss) has been due to this file format.

@a @ryan My first thought!

@aral@mastodon.ar.al 12-year-old me, watching crowds knock down sections of the Berlin Wall on television, would absolutely not have had, "Our president invades Greenland" on his "Causes of WWIII" bingo card.

@gwynnion@mastodon.social This is supercallafragilisticexpyalla-right-on.

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@csk @rysiek This is Art.

@veronica@explains.social @goofpunk@wetdry.world I way agree on the other three, but: I would only ever call ELO a rock band if someone were holding my kid hostage. Abba never did anything like "Fat Bottomed Girls" or "Black Dog".

@nrennie@fosstodon.org This is like if Piet Mondrian had my mom's taste in colors.

@ryan@m29.us @spacehobo@teh.entar.net This made me laugh out loud. Thank you.

@spillanemike@mastodon.ie @rysiek@mstdn.social donald_glover_saying_good.gif

@ieure@retro.social @jwz@mastodon.social lol, I just sent this to my boss.

@hejsna@ruby.social I don't necessarily think not knowing about an open source maintainer's political views is some sort of grand ideal we should all strive for; software is political, after all, and open source kind of obviously so. I do, however, think that not hearing about _DHH's_ political views would be just great, especially for the Rails (and larger Ruby) community. "Having a particular political outlook" and "being an intentionally inflammatory asshole" are different things, and the slope between them isn't even all that slippery.