Comment on: SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
Funnel data people from Excel into real DB technologies.And if they did more to blur the lines between spreadsheets and databases, and make it seamless to work out of both Excel and Access, add more spreadsheet features
Comment on: 'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
I found different versions of Excel, and Excel in general, are less consistent ingesting XLS(X) files than tabulated text or well-crafted CSV's.
Comment on: Every visual workflow tool is just Excel for developers who gave up
More excels and more improvements to debugging excel please (:The real super power to excel is you can see the data as it flows through the cells. Whenever I see a visual programming tool that is just a way to write a regular script by linking up a DAG I can't help but feel like they missed the point. Motivated non-programmers have been using COUNTIF, VLOOKUP and such since forever. They're not incapable of writing a textual program 1 statement at a time, it's just that most programming environments don't facilitate it.
Comment on: Boeing 787s must be rebooted every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' (2020)
> it is considered worth it with those limitations.These people make decisions based on Excel spreadsheets that are not properly documented. I wouldn't trust their judgement, despite the fact they managed not to crash the global financial system too frequently.
Comment on: People upload sensitive documents to random AI tools – is this safe?
I kept noticing something that didn’t feel right.People upload contracts, bank statements, and other sensitive documents to random tools just to get a quick summary.It works, but you don’t really know what happens to your data.At the same time, reading these documents manually is painful and time-consuming.So I tried to approach this differently.You upload a document, it extracts the content, and gives you a clear explanation of what actually matters (key terms, obligations, risks), but with a strong focus on privacy and minimal data handling.No accounts, no dashboards, no setup.It’s still ear