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  • callouscomic@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzThoughts??
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    1 day ago

    I learned how to do a fucking LOT of statistical shit in my degree. I also learned to get REALLY good at all kinds of shit in Excel.

    Guess which helped my career on an actual practical way the most? Guess which made people seek me out at work for help with things?

    Sometimes Excel is what’s available. Sometimes it’s just faster to do it that way rather than code up some ridiculously overdone solution in some programming language. Having both skills is best, but don’t shit on opening an excel and just fucking getting it done, whatever it is.

    If used right, it can also be a great equalizer with those less technically skilled in your workplace. You can quickly format and tune things and even layer a little bit of vba to make their lives easier without having to get into the complexity of an entire bespoke coded solution.


    Also, a reminder for those in the back. For most of us, we aren’t in college to learn a specific skill so much as we are there to learn how to be taught. To prove we are capable of taking instructions and producing results as requested.

    If you never understand this, then you’ll never understand later why you fail to land a high quality job.











  • callouscomic@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzPlant Slurs
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    4 days ago

    California’s general mishandling of nature and natural resources is a great example of what I’m talking about. We don’t have a fucking clue, yet we think we know better, and no lessons get learned despite how clearly wrong our solutions are. Like the wildfires and water “management.”

    To be clear, most other states are also run by morons making idiotic natural resource decisions. California’s just a good example since you brought it up.





  • Warhammer. The tabletop one with the figures, not the video games.

    Vacations/travel for some people. Its clearly something where they have zero clue about their privilege and zero self awareness as they talk about it.

    Parenting. Seriously, it becomes some people’s only fucking identity and the way they talk about it feels like religious proselytizing mixed with a bit of used car salesperson energy.

    Comic conventions. Some people make it uncomfortable how seriously they take it.

    Wasting some time on Lemmy trying to leave shitty comments just looking to rile people up or something.