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  • callouscomic@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzThoughts??
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    10 days 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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    12 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.





    • Parking Garage Rally Circuit is pretty fun and runs well.
    • V-Rally 4 is pretty smooth as well if you turn down settings a little bit. I love that it has a unique hill climb road in eastern Europe that Top Gear or Grand Tour covered. I don’t remember the name.
    • Truck Racer is a fun ps3-era arcade style game.

    I have yet to play them on Steam Deck, hut I’ve played these on other consoles and loved them:

    • WRC 4
    • FIA European Truck Racing Championship
    • Wreckfest