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by knighthack 816 days ago
Sorry, can't understand, and that excuse is unacceptable. It's totally a skill issue, and a failure of it, and a laziness of these 'scientists'.

You'd expect scientists - people working to understand the nature of reality - to have some base competency about how they measure reality. Could have at least used a database for things like this; moreover any decent database can often import from CSV and export to CSV as well. Excel is not at fault here; the 'scientists' are.
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eigenket 816 days ago
Haha, you think scientists have control over what software their employer buys for them to work on.

There are probably wonderful places where that is the case, and probably several of those places use something like libreoffice which doesn't do the idiotic data conversions excel does, but they are definitely not the norm.

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cqqxo4zV46cp 816 days ago
Coming up next: people should still use C because writing insecure code is a “skill issue”.

Why can’t we as a society make ANYTHING easier without the usual blathering on from the peanut gallery turning it into a question of one’s intelligence?

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