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Excel requires some skill to use (to the point where high-level Excel is a competitive sport), and AI is mostly an exercise in deskilling its users and humanity at large.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Is that creepy thing still alive?

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

It can't be ... but I wouldn't be surprised if it was. I remember making fun of Access on StackOverflow circa 2008 and running afoul of some dude there who was like the last living Access consultant on Earth. I've never encountered defensive rage like that before or since.

Fun Access fact, the Diebold-manufactured voting machines that featured prominently in the 2000 presidential election cycle used an Access database as their underlying data storage mechanism. Access DBs did incorporate an audit table - which was manually-editable.

[–] crapton_america@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I did not want to read this, today … or ever.

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