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[–] 137 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates

Sometimes it’s easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel

Aug 6, 2020

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Best thing is, they introduced some settings to turn that auto-conversion off and they don't work 🤣 can't make that stuff up.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean, I know of a Microsoft product that allows for a batch import of data provided in an Excel file. You need to use their template file. Which, when used, automatically formats all dates the American way, ignoring your locale settings. Depending on which date is first encountered on import (e.g. which date you entered in the first line) then designates whether the whole file is imported with dates read as MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY.

    You start your list on January 1st? It will import everything as MM/DD/YYYY then. You start you list on e.g. January 22nd? DD/MM/YYYY it is then. Good luck getting that import running without errors...

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Nothing works in Excel. Excel will do what it wants.

    But that doesn't stop the MS support and a thousand stupid people from claiming "oh, you just have to format it as text, are you dumb or what"...

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  • [–] 126 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Not OP, but let's make this better:

    PS: i doubt anyone here would honestly say "damn, that's beyond my skill", which goes to show that "not everyone can draw" is a bullshit argument for using AI to make comics

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The glass is floating in the air. The excel character says something without a speaking bubble. Looks kinda souless.

    Probably just AI slop.

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    [–] 92 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    January second for the Yanks.

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    [–] 80 points 1 year ago (38 children)

    Honestly, for a community (lemmy) that wanted to get away from corporate stuff (reddit) it pains me to see how even the most basic thing to draw is being delegated to Ai (corporations).

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I've come to the conclusion in the last couple weeks I simply can't identify AI images anymore. I have no clue what about this makes everyone call it out as AI, and there's have been many such instances of this happening with me lately. I'm going to get modern day Nigerian princed when I'm older I can feel it in my bones

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The reason this one is blatant AI is that the imagery doesn’t make any sense. Why is the glass of water itself the optimist?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I fed it into ChatGPT, highlighted the errors, and told it what I wanted to be different.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Most of it for me is the font. It seems like chatgpt likes to use the same font for everything

    It also kind of feels off somehow. I can't explain. it, but there's just something wrong with this image

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Same here. I did not think twice about this picture or a few other posts in the past and yet there are pitchforks in the comments and I think to myself "What are you all on about?". I rue how unrecognizable AI "slop" has gotten.

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    it's funny how you can tell at a glance exactly what model generated this image, just based off the background color

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    you

    No I can't. Have you considered you might be beyond normal smart about this stuff?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    well it's supposed to be the "passive" you (or "indeterminate" you)

    but I think anyone can learn to notice the pattern of comics with this particular odd color style ^(assuming^ ^you^ ^would^ ^want^ ^to^ ^learn^ ^it^ ^for^ ^some^ ^reason,^ ^and^ ^if^ ^we^ ^ignore^ ^color^ ^blindness^ ^or^ ^other^ ^similar^ ^problems^ ^etc)^

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    [–] 36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why the fuck is the glass talking

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    [–] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Was this made by ai? It looks soulless, and the coffee cup is talking.

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    [–] 30 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Someone explain to me why i have a sense for ai? This is like the fourth time this week i see an ai image and i spotted it even tho at first i hadnt seen the mistakes the ai made. Something just feels off in ai pictures and i cant really pin down what it is. But when i see one i can just spot it for some reason.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    I can sense AI now.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Yesterday I laughed at this, today Excel stripped leading zeros from a sheet of UPCs and converted them to floating point.

    Also format as Text apparently means nothing

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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