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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Python and Excel should be buff wojaks with brainlette heads, they get the work done but ughhhhh to using them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're probably at the wrong job then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it just me or is office 365 just worse and more impractical than the old office suites?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think it's mostly because they keep trying to push other services down your throat. For example, opening a link in Outlook opens it in Edge, even when your default browser is something else. I can't use Edge for that link, I'm not signed into stuff there. So now, because of retarded decisions like that, Outlook actually is missing basic features that Hotmail in the 90s had.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

because of retarded decisions like that

You know you could have just used shitty instead of using a slur, which would have the same emphasis without the baggage of the other word.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Seriously, wtf is wrong with this website? I saw this again just this week. Next I know these a holes will be going around calling things gay. "WeLl AlShUlLy ThE dEfInItIoN Of GaY iS HaPpY sO... "

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

If you really felt it necessary to offer a synonym, you could have said "backward" ... because that's what the word actually means

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Idiot. Moron. Imbecile. All words used as retarded before it. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Shitty has a different meaning. Above commenter meant to say the person making the decision was differently abled with regards to their cognitive capabilities. The other is excrement.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

FYI you can change that in settings to launch the systems default browser. Extra steps yes, but the option is there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

because of retarded decisions like that

"Retarded", really? JFC what is this, 2001?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The definition of "retardation" is as follows:

  1. The act or process of delaying or impeding.
  2. The condition of being delayed or impeded.
  3. The extent to which something is held back or delayed.

Considering that the features being complained about impede the user, calling those features "retarded" is an adequate description.

It is also in-fitting with the definition of lacking of intellectual development; as mentioned, other programs do not feature such impediments, and in the case of Office 365, may actually be a regression of features.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wikipedia:

Retard has transitioned from an impartial term to one that is negatively loaded. For this reason, the term is now widely considered as degrading even when used in its original context.[10]

Much like today's socially acceptable terms idiot and moron, which are also defined as some sort of mental disability, when the term retard is being used in its pejorative form, it is usually not being directed at people with mental disabilities. Instead, people use the term when teasing their friends or as a general insult.[11]

Do you think people who have the condition of mental retardation experience bigotry in our society? Are you not aware "retarded" has been used extensively as a slur? And are you so inconvenienced you can't come up with a single less-problematic synonym?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yes I am aware that retard has been used as a slur... Against those that don't have any reason to behave like a retard.

I do not see any issue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Caveat emptor ESL here but, while that's true, wouldn't under those terms "retarding" be a much better fit?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yes the decision isn't retarded, it was made fast enough. The consequence is retarding though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

In what way? I use it a lot and feel like it's still on par with the older versions. It's got some annoying "Microsoft-y" things typical to them from the last 10 years or so but I think the core functionality is still intact.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Solidworks, Matlab is not exactly what you call CHAD open-source tech as opposed to Python where you can get shit done with it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Being a SOLIDWORKS customer is exactly the same as being a rat in a cage. They are the most aggressively evil I’ve ever experienced. Adobe etc not even close

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

What are some examples? What makes them so much more evil than Adobe?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have to use solidworks at work. God, do I miss Creo.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used Creo for about 5 years at a previous job but I never knew the cost. How does it compare?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Creo has a bit of a steeper learning curve to be sure, and is more expensive.

But it also is, in my experience, much more robust and has a lot more capability on the advanced side of modeling. Solidworks requires more workarounds in order to accomplish what you're trying to do, vs Creo with probably a dedicated tool for that specific task.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Not that bad when you sail the high seas

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah I wanted to comment on this too. It's a win for ms against dassault every time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Matlab logo looks like a boner under a sheet and now I can't unsee it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I can't unsee it but I like it more now 😆

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

why did you have to say this

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Nope I'm not seeing it personally.

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