Post #2455631
2026-04-16 14:25 UTC
@thatdnaguy@genomic.social I shudder to think how many errors are present worldwide because of fuckery like this...
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@thatdnaguy@genomic.social 2026-04-16 14:26
@michcampbell@fediscience.org I've taken to starting an Excel doc and manually setting specific columns to text format so it doesn't interpret as dates. Then copy into it from a tab separated text file. It's silly. But I can't trust it otherwise.
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@jrosell@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 14:46
@michcampbell@fediscience.org @thatdnaguy@genomic.social overwriting a .csv file is a feature that should be removed from Excel.