Good

https://energydigital.com/top10/top-10-ceos-in-energy

https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors

https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/who-we-are/board-and-executive-management/the-board.html

https://www.chevron.com/who-we-are/leadership

https://www.shell.com/who-we-are/leadership/board-of-directors.html

On the other hand, I guess that company names are much easier to recognise.

Definitely a strong choice, but I’d think if something like this happens with their actual names, it’ll make oil execs second guess staying at their job.

All of them should be oil exec names, slimy politicians that have greenlit fossil fuel use, or otherwise hindered progress on halting climate change.

On its own that’s misleading, you should be using the per capita stats.

https://actualbudget.org/

https://github.com/actualbudget/actual

It’s software for budgeting. You can run it entirely local, or set it up as a server. It stores everything in an SQLite dB, let’s you import and export CSV files, and it gives you great options for querying and seeing reports on your financial records.

I’ve got a handful of accounts, so I set up a small python utility to parse the CSVs my banks give me to something actually sensible and readable for Actual. I do that once a month, add a reconciliation entry here and there, and it’s all kept on sync very well.

I have one morbid report titled “money pissed down the landlord drain”, and it’s far higher than I’d like to be. But it’s got close to every penny I’ve ever spent on that bullshit in one place.

That just means they become 100% efficient in winter!

I’ve had everything on this list with Visual Studio alone, with the exception of #2 maybe.

1. All the AI shit they’re adding, plus the millions of windows you can pull up that are all hidden in different places. The only way this is remotely usable is with the search.

2. This happens every other day when working with Blazor. As an added bonus, it can never decide on spacing and will constantly change it.

3. Probably a symptom of using legacy code and modern code at the same time, but good god the settings for everything are in a million places.

4. Another symptom of blazor.

5. Our project is too big.

Agreed

It’s a bit of both. I’ll try to help him if he asks for help if/when the AI leads him down the wrong path, but who knows how deep in the tangled weeds of spaghetti he’ll be in by then.

I don’t think he’s gonna need much math. He will need complicated editor things set up though, and I’m doubtful that the AI will understand much.

I have a friend who is trying to vibe code a unity project. I don’t have high hopes for him, but I’m doing my best to support him and help him out.

Can’t sell my data if I’ve never given them any

Definitely another option.

It’ll probably work for a good decade or two before it goes out of date. They still need to support the enterprise LTS version, which I think includes excel.

To be fair, if you’re using large amounts of data and formulas as a power user, you should probably be instead writing some python or something to handle CSVs.

As for your particular example, LibreCalc would work just fine.

IIRC there is browser support for excel

I have never had any of my MC servers run without a whitelist, even the one I had publicly listed on planet minecraft back in the day. You should know who has access to your machines on some level.

stateless

Yeah, that’s pretty similar, the main difference being the setting. For me, I can only really tolerate books if they’re science fiction for some reason.

But yeah, that book was so bad it honestly makes me want to take a crack at the idea myself and see if I can do it better.

I know I probably can’t, I have very little writing experience. But it’s gotta be at least worth the attempt.

Not a film, but a novel:

Starflight 3000 by R.W. Mackelworth

If I remember, it was about this asteroid called “The Biosphere” that got hollowed out and sent on relativistic speeds through deep space to seed other solar systems with human colonies. The inside of it was set up like a giant rural town with massive skies, and a foot print the size of New York. And that’s a cool ass premise.

But the book was so fucking milquetoast and bland. I could not tell you anything about the protagonist, their challenges, or anything.

The only “open world” game that’s been a linear story survival sandbox that I’ve seen do it well is Raft. And that only works because of the medium of it being an open sea where the players can wander, then move through the story at their leisure.