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I wish more people stop hating on Excel. It's an incredible tool with cool stuff baked in (Python support, PowerQuery, etc.). Just because some people misuse it as database or it doesn't scale well beyond a couple of 10k rows does not make it a bad product. For 90% of daily office tasks it's just fine.

IMDB Terminal Browser 11 months ago

Don't want to be that guy, but [1] says

Robots and Screen Scraping: You may not use data mining, robots, screen scraping, or similar data gathering and extraction tools on this site, except with our express written consent as noted below.

[1] www.imdb.com/conditions/

We’re also building tools to help detect misleading content such as a detection classifier that can tell when a video was generated by Sora.

I am curious of how optimised their approach is and what hardware you would need to analyse videos at reasonable speed.

*@gmail.com 3 years ago

I was still curious about the exact response, therefore I see no harm in posting that.

Vanilla Handbook 3 years ago

It is so frustrating when there is nothing at the top that forwards to the main page,e.g., a project name or logo.

I managed it by clicking on the How to Install guide and then on the download image link.

My decision to delete Facebook is not captured in their data.

I think for some people, it is. If I want to "delete Facebook" then I want to delete my account and every data associated with it. This is often not a straight forward process because sometimes the delete account option is buried in settings, you have to contact support, fill out a form, etc. Hence a quick search will guide you through the deletion process.

So a lot of comments here suggest copying it to another application and process it there.

Two points from my side why I would not do that:

First, you can do this directly in Excel either with a regex expression in a macro [0] or PowerQuery [1].

Secondly, I don’t know about the authors example but generally if you have to do something like this the column is likely to be one out of many, i.e., part of a table. I can’t point my finger to it but I imagine there might be a lot of steps in that process that could go wrong (formatting issues, altering table scheme, etc.)

[0] https://software-solutions-online.com/vba-regex-guide/

[1] https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/extract-letters-numbers-...

As someone who has only experience with vim and not Emacs, are there any advantages to Emacs or is it just „different“?

It won’t be a problem if you don’t know German. Everybody is at least capable of basic English so you will almost never be able to not communicate with somebody. You can take your time with learning the German basics but you can also totally live there for 1-2 years without speaking German. Australian/Irish pubs are generally hosted by people with English as their mother tongue.