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[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 242 points 1 year ago

Are you dating a spreadsheet?

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 126 points 1 year ago
[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 year ago

Gotta remain positive and see the glass half full, or January 2nd depending on the cell format.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

She's so perfect. Literally not a single flaw. She's a 1.

[-] Localhorst86@feddit.org 16 points 1 year ago

Excel would say Oct. 10

[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 7 points 1 year ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

If your mind goes to "spreadsheet" instead of "calendar," that says more about your... proclivities... than it does his!

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

It's really more of a DataFrame I've mismanaged. Which might be why I'm struggling to handle my relationships.

[-] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe it’s time to upgrade to a relational database.

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think I'm ready for that. In fact, I think I'm just going back to individual delimited text files to store every record separately using a custom encoding I made up.

I'll add arbitrary folders to split them up based on inconsistent logic and never make backups.

[-] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did you know you can also store your data on random pieces of paper of various sizes and shapes, and pile them on the kitchen table? You also get bonus points, if you write/draw the data using colorful crayons! I call it the CLUTTER format which stands for: Chaotic Loosely Unstructured Tangled Tornado Explosion Records. It’s a new data storage method, and I’m pretty sure it will catch on.

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 81 points 1 year ago

First post here that kind of fucked me up for a moment.

[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

this hit me like a mental flashbang. your wisdom is beyond all of us

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago

Yes, and if we're playing my connect 4 rules, you can also aim for a Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday diagonal.

[-] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 52 points 1 year ago

You can also go 3D. January 8, February 5, March 4, April 8 would be 4 in a stack.

[-] Ferris@infosec.pub 27 points 1 year ago

thank goodness i can see time in 3d now. this wont end badly.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Seeing time in 3D, mayhaps like a Time Cube?

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, what an opener, and then the second paragraph is the perfect punchline. I think the wiki editors knew exactly what they were doing.

[-] jh29a 2 points 1 year ago

huh? please elaborate. The opening paragraph of the time cube article appears normal

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

It is entertaining.

[-] Sparky 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What if we add a 4th dimension with years?

[-] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Sure. That would be 4 days in a… well stack is already taken, so what do we call that?

[-] Sparky 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe a box, or a jumbo stack

[-] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Four days in a box. It’s settled then.

[-] Szyler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's only moving in the third dimension without moving in any other.

If you have movement in all 3 dimensions, you get January 1, February 6, March 13, April 25.

Thats diagonally and stacked.

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[-] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you see someone on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, that counts as only three days in a row, since Monday is on another row. If you see somebody on four consecutive Tuesdays, that would be four days in a column.

Like this

[-] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

What if the Mondays span different months?

Like 8/19, 8/26, 9/2, 9/9?

Now the Mondays are on another page or they're a swipe to the right

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe!

Bonus!! Love this concept:

Some context:

[-] bottleofchips 8 points 1 year ago

The bonus is absolutely terrifying

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

If you can, hope you make today a great day 🌈

[-] bottleofchips 2 points 1 year ago
[-] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You got me there!

[-] Nobilmantis@feddit.it 31 points 1 year ago

This what a calendar does to a mf

[-] xep@fedia.io 25 points 1 year ago

Are you perchance Bobby Tables?

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I see where this question is leading, and I don't think I like the implications

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 6 points 1 year ago

... Where is it leading?

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Get your ducks in a column.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

No, it's boating related. Four days in a sail.

[-] SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I absolutely love this.

Life is row-order; suck it, FORTRAN

[-] 10_0@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago
[-] noxy@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago

There is no human entity, just human Cubics - as in 4 different people in a 4 corner stage metamorphic rotation.

4 corner quadrants compose Earth sphere, as 4corner room with 4corner dimensions, with 4corner perspectives and the 4seasons. Earth's 4corners rotate 4corners of TIME, creating 4simultaneous day Earth rotation, as if 4 different Worlds with their own day, for 4separate races with 4corner life stages, with outer limits of 4x4 great-grandparents.

(sorry, I couldn't resist!)

[-] tektite@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

Evil Ass Educators Suppress Time Cube, and dumb ass students condone such evil. Cubeless institutions are spreaders of evil, and students lack mentality to challenge it.


I bestow upon myself the "Doctorate of Cubicism", for educators are ignorant of Nature's Harmonic Time Cube Principle and cannot bestow the prestigious honor of wisdom upon the wisest human ever.

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Belly Button Logic Works.

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[-] Michal@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago
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[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd say so.

Although I still think it's weird that "consecutive" became a requirement.

Edit: Not implying blame for OP about the requirement. But colloquially it does mean consecutive, and I think that's a little strange. Probably a weird etymology rabbit hole to look at sometime.

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago

Well you're not seeing them periodically. That would require them being on the same row.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Not necessarily.

It could be five days in a column then there are five Mondays in a month (like this month).

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