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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Hello, can I suggest the package code for LXML? I once wondered why the fuck etree.tostring() returned a bytes object instead of a fucking string and made the mistake of diving into the function. Never again. That library is cursed script condensed from the haunted cries of forgotten pharaohs and inscribed in the blood of a newborn foal onto an ancient ash tree under Venus’ vexatious gaze.




  • It was pretty funny, Quora actually used to be pretty interesting, and it was a pretty decent place to get some in-depth answers from knowledgeable people. Then, the people running the platform decided they wanted to use the content to train LLMs and they started paying people to produce slop and made the platform virtually unusable. They went from pretty good quality to worse than yahoo! Answers in like three months.




  • “We conjured 10,000 gibbering mouthers into boxes and just pipe their outputs over runes and components all day; we figure that eventually, we’ll come up with some pretty incredible spells, though most so far have been pretty weak, buggy, and weirdly horny.”




  • Follow up: I called the IT dept and spoke with them. Apparently they already get the “low cost” licenses with Microsoft for users who don’t need access to office (which is the overwhelming majority of them) and just basically get them an email address. The cost increase is really down to the city having added more staff, which means more licenses, since they’ve got a fixed rate contract locked in with MS. It sounds like moving non-power-users into LibreOffice would have negligible benefit and cause more disruption than not. Ah, well, swing and a miss. Thanks for the support, everyone!






  • Is LibreOffice calc much worse? And, again, I feel that most users of office suite software are fairly basic users. I want to specifically leave MS Office power users alone, let them keep their licenses, but if people are just using the basic features, there’s no reason for us to be paying outrageous amounts for MS Office licenses for them. Yeah, I’m aware that this is going to increase the load on the IT dept, but I’m hoping that the targeted user base are basic enough users that they can be onboard with an orientation video for most cases.