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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 22:46:30 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <9OCcnRW7grqkbPT6nZ2dnZfqnPUAAAAA@earthlink.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:46:30 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ab784ba7ba6b36eb7fc7c3f5d05b5c3d"; logging-data="1937892"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19wBkFxKRH0E/bo786COWFj" User-Agent: Pan/0.161 (Chasiv Yar; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UzZLk65ObqOjejeA9vFfbkneOIs= On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 16:16:20 -0500, DFS wrote: > I entered a gene named 'March 2' (no apostrophes) into LO Calc and it > converted to a date. I tried importing some of those potentially troublesome gene names from a CSV file with LO Calc’s default settings, and it read them in just fine. You see, it has some smarts to tell what’s supposed to be a date, from something that’s not. > That egregious data mangling issue would affect a whole lot of genetics > research work... if anyone was crazy enough to use LibreOffice. That is in fact the recommendation in that paper I cited -- if you don’t know how to use proper stats software, but only know spreadsheets, than LO Calc is a better (or rather, less bad) choice than Excel. > You're literally blaming human error on Excel. HAL: “Well, I don’t think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.” Poole: “Listen, HAL ... There’s never been any instance at all of a ... computer error occurring in the 9000 series, has there?” HAL: “None whatsoever, Frank. The 9000 series has a perfect operational record.” Poole: “Well, of course I know all the wonderful achievements of the 9000 series, but ... uh ... Are you certain there’s never been any case of even the most insignificant computer error?” HAL: “None whatsoever, Frank. Quite honestly, I wouldn’t worry myself about that.”