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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited October 8
    Veevee wrote: »
    CEO's obsession with ChatGPT is hitting critical mass. We got 10 company-wide emails last Sunday as he asked it to do competitor analysis and then copy and pasted the results into an email saying how amazing it was and making snide comments about how it only took him 5 minutes and when he asks marketing to do it it takes weeks. Never mind the fact that each email which covered each competitor was pretty much identical with only the bullet points in a different order and some different wording. He's clearly not reading the generated slop and just forwarding it on as "something to ponder."

    This week we've come in to an email saying that he fully expects everyone in the office to spend half an hour every morning talking to it and asking it how we can make our jobs more productive. He's previously sent out examples of how marketing can do it so now he expects product, customer support and engineering to do the same.

    "Hey ChatGPT, can you tell me why when this customer exports a 13,000 line table to PDF on pages 300-303 the spacing gets a bit messed up and the text is clipped slightly? Here's our codebase for reference"

    Does he realize that when you put data into chatgpt you lose control to that data? I wonder what confidential information your competitors can now easily access now that it's on the chatgpt database.

    I'm now imagining HR doing annual review shit through chatgpt and just uploading employee records.

    We've got some kind of corporate account with OpenAI so apparently anything we upload doesn't get incorporated into the wider model but as has been said - this is a model built by plagiarising the entire internet so I trust that claim about as far as I can throw it.

    Meanwhile he fed it our entire company confluence wiki and tried to get it to summarise how we get a new API connected to our data lake, then sent the instructions to the head of engineering who very diplomatically said "that's interesting." He's not happy with long it takes the connectors team to get a new connection up and running and thinks it's something we can farm out to AI.

    What's stopping this AI from sending nazi propaganda to your clients with the company logo on the header?

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    I'm writing a story set on great depression era Capella 3

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Does anyone know how to change the timer on saving drafts in the new outlook?

    I quickly type a two sentence reply and hit send and end up with the message sent and an identical draft.

  • Kane Red RobeKane Red Robe Master of Magic ArcanusRegistered User regular
    Whee! Fire drill day today!

  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    Does anyone know how to change the timer on saving drafts in the new outlook?

    I quickly type a two sentence reply and hit send and end up with the message sent and an identical draft.

    In the client? it should be under File -> Options -> Mail, about half way down

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    I tried to expand my cool sign in system and currently I have 14 formulas referencing 8 different sheets automatically when a number is entered but I think I reached the operational limit of excel. It takes a minute to save and open and keeps thinking it has crashed.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Kadith wrote: »
    Does anyone know how to change the timer on saving drafts in the new outlook?

    I quickly type a two sentence reply and hit send and end up with the message sent and an identical draft.

    In the client? it should be under File -> Options -> Mail, about half way down

    My workplace must have done something to it, I have no options to change anything related to drafts

    Thanks for trying though, I appreciate it

  • Anon the FelonAnon the Felon In bat country.Registered User regular
    I tried to expand my cool sign in system and currently I have 14 formulas referencing 8 different sheets automatically when a number is entered but I think I reached the operational limit of excel. It takes a minute to save and open and keeps thinking it has crashed.

    Sweet summer child, you're not even close. When the entire thing flickers, white screens then recovers, then gives you a system resource error... After about 15 minutes of "calculating", then you're about half way to a kind of operational limit.

    Try lowering the amount of system cores it's using in the options menu. Sounds like you're hitting CPU limit on the math and it's having a hard time. That will usual smooth things out.

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    I tried to expand my cool sign in system and currently I have 14 formulas referencing 8 different sheets automatically when a number is entered but I think I reached the operational limit of excel. It takes a minute to save and open and keeps thinking it has crashed.

    Sweet summer child, you're not even close. When the entire thing flickers, white screens then recovers, then gives you a system resource error... After about 15 minutes of "calculating", then you're about half way to a kind of operational limit.

    Try lowering the amount of system cores it's using in the options menu. Sounds like you're hitting CPU limit on the math and it's having a hard time. That will usual smooth things out.

    Where do I find this setting? Also I figured it shouldn't be this bad. people have to use excel for crazier stuff. Also the file is somehow 94 mb and I'm not sure how. The normal lunch only version of the system is only 300kbs.

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  • Anon the FelonAnon the Felon In bat country.Registered User regular
    edited October 8
    Uuhh, in my experience over like 32mb things start to get dodgey, so you likely have a Real Problem. You can flatten out a sheet into a table to reduce file size, you can also synthesize multiple workbooks together with PowerQuery to speed things up if you're just bringing in data from other sources.

    CPU settings are file > options > advanced > formulas > change to manual at system max - 2 initially.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited October 8
    I tried to expand my cool sign in system and currently I have 14 formulas referencing 8 different sheets automatically when a number is entered but I think I reached the operational limit of excel. It takes a minute to save and open and keeps thinking it has crashed.

    Sweet summer child, you're not even close. When the entire thing flickers, white screens then recovers, then gives you a system resource error... After about 15 minutes of "calculating", then you're about half way to a kind of operational limit.

    Try lowering the amount of system cores it's using in the options menu. Sounds like you're hitting CPU limit on the math and it's having a hard time. That will usual smooth things out.

    Where do I find this setting? Also I figured it shouldn't be this bad. people have to use excel for crazier stuff. Also the file is somehow 94 mb and I'm not sure how. The normal lunch only version of the system is only 300kbs.

    Did you have any images in it? Or have revision history on?

    Edit: or also a bunch of empty rows/columns that it's not treating as empty?

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Boss! I need your help finding the key! Can I just walk off and leave it in the car?

    No.

    *15 minutes of upside down karma sutra positions looking under seats*

    You left it in the gear pocket

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    We had a 2 second black out in Brainerd last night.

    Shit happens

    One of my coworkers is now talking about how nervous it made because it was October 7th.

    So I THINK she’s blaming our 2 second outage on…the anniversary of when we invaded Afghanistan?

  • KwoaruKwoaru Registered User regular
    edited October 8
    We had a 2 second black out in Brainerd last night.

    Shit happens

    One of my coworkers is now talking about how nervous it made because it was October 7th.

    So I THINK she’s blaming our 2 second outage on…the anniversary of when we invaded Afghanistan?

    I'm guessing more to do with the hamas attack on Oct 7 last year

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Kwoaru wrote: »
    We had a 2 second black out in Brainerd last night.

    Shit happens

    One of my coworkers is now talking about how nervous it made because it was October 7th.

    So I THINK she’s blaming our 2 second outage on…the anniversary of when we invaded Afghanistan?

    I'm guessing more to do with the hamas attack on Oct 7 last year

    I was debating between the two.

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    I tried to expand my cool sign in system and currently I have 14 formulas referencing 8 different sheets automatically when a number is entered but I think I reached the operational limit of excel. It takes a minute to save and open and keeps thinking it has crashed.

    Sweet summer child, you're not even close. When the entire thing flickers, white screens then recovers, then gives you a system resource error... After about 15 minutes of "calculating", then you're about half way to a kind of operational limit.

    Try lowering the amount of system cores it's using in the options menu. Sounds like you're hitting CPU limit on the math and it's having a hard time. That will usual smooth things out.

    Where do I find this setting? Also I figured it shouldn't be this bad. people have to use excel for crazier stuff. Also the file is somehow 94 mb and I'm not sure how. The normal lunch only version of the system is only 300kbs.

    Did you have any images in it? Or have revision history on?

    Edit: or also a bunch of empty rows/columns that it's not treating as empty?
    I tried to expand my cool sign in system and currently I have 14 formulas referencing 8 different sheets automatically when a number is entered but I think I reached the operational limit of excel. It takes a minute to save and open and keeps thinking it has crashed.

    Sweet summer child, you're not even close. When the entire thing flickers, white screens then recovers, then gives you a system resource error... After about 15 minutes of "calculating", then you're about half way to a kind of operational limit.

    Try lowering the amount of system cores it's using in the options menu. Sounds like you're hitting CPU limit on the math and it's having a hard time. That will usual smooth things out.

    Where do I find this setting? Also I figured it shouldn't be this bad. people have to use excel for crazier stuff. Also the file is somehow 94 mb and I'm not sure how. The normal lunch only version of the system is only 300kbs.

    Did you have any images in it? Or have revision history on?

    Edit: or also a bunch of empty rows/columns that it's not treating as empty?
    I tried to expand my cool sign in system and currently I have 14 formulas referencing 8 different sheets automatically when a number is entered but I think I reached the operational limit of excel. It takes a minute to save and open and keeps thinking it has crashed.

    Sweet summer child, you're not even close. When the entire thing flickers, white screens then recovers, then gives you a system resource error... After about 15 minutes of "calculating", then you're about half way to a kind of operational limit.

    Try lowering the amount of system cores it's using in the options menu. Sounds like you're hitting CPU limit on the math and it's having a hard time. That will usual smooth things out.

    Where do I find this setting? Also I figured it shouldn't be this bad. people have to use excel for crazier stuff. Also the file is somehow 94 mb and I'm not sure how. The normal lunch only version of the system is only 300kbs.

    Did you have any images in it? Or have revision history on?

    Edit: or also a bunch of empty rows/columns that it's not treating as empty?

    I shouldn't? I'll check later when I feel like it.

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  • PacificstarPacificstar Registered User regular
    edited October 8
    I tried to expand my cool sign in system and currently I have 14 formulas referencing 8 different sheets automatically when a number is entered but I think I reached the operational limit of excel. It takes a minute to save and open and keeps thinking it has crashed.

    Sweet summer child, you're not even close. When the entire thing flickers, white screens then recovers, then gives you a system resource error... After about 15 minutes of "calculating", then you're about half way to a kind of operational limit.

    Try lowering the amount of system cores it's using in the options menu. Sounds like you're hitting CPU limit on the math and it's having a hard time. That will usual smooth things out.

    Where do I find this setting? Also I figured it shouldn't be this bad. people have to use excel for crazier stuff. Also the file is somehow 94 mb and I'm not sure how. The normal lunch only version of the system is only 300kbs.

    I often set large files to manual calculations. That means it won't hang up doing calcs until all of the data has been entered/ until you tell it to calculate. Press F9 or save the file to force the calculation.

    Tools-> options -> Formulas -> Workbook calculation

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  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    I think my record for a functional sheet was 500mb, but I inherited that monster and quickly killed and replaced it with a proper BI solution.
    If your school has a full boat Microsoft thing you can do a lot with logic apps, flow and/or forms

  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    I suspect based on the use case that it's not really that large unless they're getting many thousand library checkins per day. (I dunno, maybe they are?)
    But generally that kind of largely text driven stuff in a spreadsheet doesn't take much actual space, and the culprit is usually something happened in the sheet to make it actualize the blank rows/columns, or to think it needed to apply separate formats to individual cells or something so it can't deduplicate it in the XML or compression that Excel uses.
    Copy/pasting the relevant data and formulas with no formatting to a brand new document (and maybe archiving out any older checkin stuff that doesn't need to be actively looked at) may fix it.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I don't know what calendars our program manager checks when trying to set up meeting times, but she constantly tries to schedule them for times I already have marked out as unavailable. If it's just a one-off I'll often try and rearrange the conflict to accommodate her, but she just sent round an invite to a weekly meeting series scheduled at precisely the same time as another recurring meeting, which well pre-dates this new one.

    I'll tell her I can't make the time and hopefully that will be sufficient, but I feel like I shouldn't have to. There are only five people to herd on this one, it takes five seconds to check a calendar, and if there's really no universally free slot then at least ask. Literally 90% of her entire job is enabling and facilitating project discussions.

  • asurasur Registered User regular
    I'll give a polite heads up the first time, but if you keep scheduling over times I'm not available I'm just going to click Not Accept and move on. The person can figure it out.

  • DaimarDaimar A Million Feet Tall of Awesome Registered User regular
    asur wrote: »
    I'll give a polite heads up the first time, but if you keep scheduling over times I'm not available I'm just going to click Not Accept and move on. The person can figure it out.

    I started at declining the meeting, figured it was fair since they started by not checking my schedule or asking if I was free.

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  • PellaeonPellaeon Registered User regular
    I can't wait until I'm retired like my parents so I can randomly text my kids in the middle of the work day if they have time for a call, then wonder why they are suddenly worried someone is in the hospital or dead.

    I mean, I'm not having kids, but I'm sure I'll find a nephew to call at random times when I'm bored on a Tuesday to give a minor panic attack.

  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    I figured out why I was struggling with getting assignments done for geology. The assignments are in chronological order of when they need to be completed. Except for the ones that aren't.

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Pellaeon wrote: »
    I can't wait until I'm retired like my parents so I can randomly text my kids in the middle of the work day if they have time for a call, then wonder why they are suddenly worried someone is in the hospital or dead.

    I mean, I'm not having kids, but I'm sure I'll find a nephew to call at random times when I'm bored on a Tuesday to give a minor panic attack.

    It's been one of those background things most of my life to know someone who was in the hospital or had died
    An example was someone asked me what would it mean if I got 3M and the person I hated got 9M I replied I think they are dead
    And yes they are

  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    I'm so fucking sick of rain

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I'm so fucking sick of rain

    Maybe you shouldn’t have chosen Rainology as a profession then.

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    It has not rained here in over a month. It is not great.

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  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    Both smof and I would, I believe, be more than willing to enter into trade negotiations.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    We’ve had weird weather this year, it’ll rain like 9 times in a week then it won’t rain for 3 weeks.

    Hopefully our snowfall is relatively mild this year

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    It's 55 in the office. I like cold, but working on computers? This is pain.

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    So admin used the late sign-in system I made for them fully today. It is a simplified version of the library sign-in I made. Yesterday they tried it but opened the excel in the online version which doesn't run the code, so the time stamps didn't work, but today I made sure they opened it in the desktop version. It worked well on both computers and they were very happy.

    I also came up with a solution to a side issue my library sign-in had. The computer would lock after not being used for like 15 minutes. This was regardless of the settings that were changed to not do that. I think it is some district setting overriding the computer's setting.

    Anyway, I hated it and didn't want to bother our IT person, who could probably fix it but he's very busy, so instead I found an app on the Microsoft store called mouse mover that moves the mouse cursor a pixel every ten minutes of no use. I could install it without the admin password since it was coming from Microsoft. Seems to be working great!

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Way back about about 10 years ago the hospital system I work for had a similar issue in like, their operating rooms or something where there were some computers that needed to keep awake and the screen going without someone actively touching them because their hands were full of organs or whatever. So they implemented a similar system with what they called the "wiggle scripts".

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Way back about about 10 years ago the hospital system I work for had a similar issue in like, their operating rooms or something where there were some computers that needed to keep awake and the screen going without someone actively touching them because their hands were full of organs or whatever. So they implemented a similar system with what they called the "wiggle scripts".

    There are apparently physical little vibrating coasters you can buy to put your mouse on. They are designed for work places that monitor idleness.

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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    Quid wrote: »
    I figured out why I was struggling with getting assignments done for geology. The assignments are in chronological order of when they need to be completed. Except for the ones that aren't.
    Freakin’ igneous layers.

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    I get to have a disciplinary sessionwith a teammate who took a 2.7 hour work load and turned into a 10 hour shift.

    Maybe 11

    I'm not sure if he's actually off the clock yet

    I got off over an hour ago

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  • see317see317 Registered User regular
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    Those arrow buttons do exactly what you think they do.
    I didn't think they would, but they do.
    For a six character two factor authentication code.
    One. Digit. At a time.

    Sure, I just typed in the code.
    But why are those buttons there?

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    It's 55 in the office. I like cold, but working on computers? This is pain.

    The teachers union filed a grievance on our behalf. We didn't ask for it, but suddenly the principal showed up and was like "alright, how do we fix this issue?"

    Unions rule, even when you're not in one.

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    see317 wrote: »
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    Those arrow buttons do exactly what you think they do.
    I didn't think they would, but they do.
    For a six character two factor authentication code.
    One. Digit. At a time.

    Sure, I just typed in the code.
    But why are those buttons there?

    Its like someone looked at one of those, "fuck the users" ui contests and implemented it

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    see317 wrote: »
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    Those arrow buttons do exactly what you think they do.
    I didn't think they would, but they do.
    For a six character two factor authentication code.
    One. Digit. At a time.

    Sure, I just typed in the code.
    But why are those buttons there?

    stealth entry into the Worst UI competition

  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Someone set the input type to "number" and forgot about their site template that automatically adds those.

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