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xkcd #3151: Window Screen

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Home Improvement or DIY

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[–] magikmw@piefed.social 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

On one hand, sure. On the other, excel formulas lead to excel spreadsheets and those are a scourge on the land.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

what's wrong with spreadsheets?

or just Excel ones

[–] magikmw@piefed.social 7 points 6 days ago

Commonly abused to be the only thing that holds a company's accounting or cuatomer database. Trauma.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Every time you pay for proprietary closed software, a puppy dies.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

who said we are paying for it