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  • Calling any Excel guru

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    AxtremusA
    @Klaus said in Calling any Excel guru: @Horace said in Calling any Excel guru: If I had to do it in general, I'd output a CSV and write a quick tool to create a new CSV as described. So I can't help That's what I would also do. Dang, that’s also what I would do. But that’s just a function of whether one is more fluent with Excel or with another scripting/programming language. :man-shrugging:
  • Hay Copper! Some traffic at the airstrip

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    CopperC
    I have seen maneuvers pretty close to that, more than once. Go out to your local muni airport on a nice Saturday morning, bring the camera.
  • "Latine"

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  • 8 Ways

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  • Speaking of the Eclipse....

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    George KG
    [image: 1713009485054-img_0285.jpg]
  • Mandating the SawStop

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    George KG
    @Horace said in Mandating the SawStop: it'll make you care less about safety, which will bite you on all the other tools that don't have a safety mechanism. I understand that thinking. Let me tell you about my only injury... When working with power tools, I was always mindful about the "what if my hand slips" scenario. IOW, if I'm pushing a piece through a cutter (saw blade, router, whatever), I always kept in mind, "If my hand slips, will it slip INTO the cutter." If the answer is yes, I'd change my hand position, or use a push stick or some other safety device. So, one day, I was going to cut a large flat dovetail into the end of a piece of cherry that I would fit into a mortise at the top of a leg. You'd never see the joint, but I just thought it would be fun to see if I could do it. I chucked this piece (about ¾" by 2" by 24" into a vise, with the end of it sticking up. I had marked the lines of the dovetail out, and I got out my dovetail backsaw and started sawing away. The piece chattered a bit as I sawed, and I used my left hand to try to stabilize it. The saw jumped out of the kerf, and landed directly onto the knuckle of my left index finger causing a 2 inch cut through the skin. Fortunately, it didn't go deep, but it required a trip to the ER for some sutures. [image: 1713009263615-img_4145-large.jpeg] I'd never considered "What if the BLADE slips..."
  • Double lucky!

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    MikM
    I believe that.
  • Who Killed Caravaggio?

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    George KG
    Interesting that this should come up. In the Netflix series "Ripley," there's a lot of time devoted to Carravagio, his death, etc.
  • No work done

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    jon-nycJ
    I think he got work done before his 2020 run and it shows.
  • Anyone have a hot water recirculation system

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    MikM
    All of which is TNCR-speak for “I have no idea”.
  • Meanwhile, in Laos...

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    taiwan_girlT
    More of the same from mainland China https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-12/addis-ababa-ethiopia-metro-s-decline-shows-china-s-step-back-from-africa A Crumbling Metro Reveals Failed Promise of China’s Billions in Africa A $475 million light-rail system serving Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa shows how some China-funded infrastructure investments across the continent are now suffering from neglect. and From Kenya to Nigeria and beyond, China over the past decade has loaned billions across Africa and other parts of the so-called Global South as part of its drive to gain sway and counter US influence, build markets for its products and gain access to the natural resources needed to drive its economy back home. The US says the money simply leaves host governments mired in debt. The project may have prioritized short-term political goals over long-term operational sustainability, says Frangton Chiyemura, a lecturer in Global Development at the UK Open University’s Development Policy and Practice Group who studies China-Africa relations and Chinese-funded projects in Africa.
  • RIP, Robert MacNeil

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  • Spies among us

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    taiwan_girlT
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-us-ambassador-nsc-official-admits-acting-secret-agent-cuba-learns-fate-doj A former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia and a National Security Council member pleaded guilty on Friday to secretly acting for decades as an agent of the government of the Republic of Cuba, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). A federal judge sentenced Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, of Miami, to 15 years in prison for working against the U.S. government for decades for communist Cuba in "clandestine intelligence-gathering missions."
  • You owe another $21.14

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    LuFins DadL
    So will the Fed have to raise interest again to get all those billions back out of the M1 that Biden just pumped back in?
  • $785,000 Australian

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    JollyJ
    Oh, what fun they'll have!
  • Warrantless Surveillance law reauthorized for 2 more years

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    JollyJ
    That's an interesting vote...
  • American Thinker du jour - Stupid Doctor Edition

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    Aqua LetiferA
    Neither here nor there but credit for honestly labeling an AI image in the article.
  • The Return of Bone

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  • Salt Trucks in Chicago

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    George KG
    https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/657662449-dexter-reed-felon-killed-after-he-shot-at-police-received-20-832-ppp-loan-for-his-transportation-business
  • Hey! It's a day that ends in "Y"

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    LuFins DadL
    Break the silence? How about a few fvcking minutes of silence? By the way, we’re always told how strong and brave they are. If that’s the case, why do they need constant reaffirmations and why do they all apparently kill themselves in a mass genocide f we call them the wrong gender?