CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@pjf One wonders how the Finns are the happiest nation on earth when they eat this kind of stuff. Not to mention their licorice!

@pjf I'm wondering how good these mushrooms could possibly taste to risk eating them.

@nixCraft FWIW I've also got a beloved HP LaserJet that no longer works with my new Air because HP dropped support for it. Because I'm not INSANE, my solution to this problem was to just use my old laptop when I need to print something.

I really don't understand the logic of dropping support. I thought they sold their printers at a loss and made it back in overpriced toner?

@wordshaper Also they're the one piece of tech that corporate staff could use without the involvement and hassles of working with IT, so it's not surprising they've been used creatively for all sorts of tasks.

@wordshaper As a counterpoint, I went to a talk in grad school on finding errors in spreadsheets. They claimed that the average spreadsheet has a surprisingly high number of errors in it. Once an error exists, they can be very hard to find since everything just looks like rows and columns of words and numbers. Moreover, it's very easy to propagate the errors throughout the rest of your spreadsheet.

This is why getting LLMs to create spreadsheets for you seems like a really bad idea. Sure, they might look fancy, but they've been trained on spreadsheets which likely have lots of bugs. And you know that most people aren't going to check every single formula to make sure they're correct.