Post #3425855
2026-06-27 10:39 UTC
@Leszek_Karlik@circumstances.run Back in 2013 Excel was already autocorrecting anything that looked like a date to the idiots in Redmond—including thee names of genes, causing havoc for genomics labs.
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@Leszek_Karlik@circumstances.run 2026-06-27 10:41
@cstross@wandering.shop I remember, but it was still a far cry from a sycophantic algorithm created to please instead of being accurate :-) ("It took many years and billions of dollars but we've finally invented a calculator that is sometimes wrong")