“then” is used to depict time, sequence or a causal relationship. “than” is used with comparative adjectives, to depict comparison.

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  • I don’t really remember enough about Excel anymore, but considering that I don’t remember having that problem despite how many years I used it, I guess that is the case with it.

    And yes, a toggle would be nice. In fact, a few months ago, I was thinking of putting up a request over to the LibreOffice team, when I was working on the table view of another OSS project, but then procrastinated until I forgot. Honestly, if there are enough people that have a problem with this little thingy, it’d be better off fixed. Specially in the Qt implementation at least, it really is just a boolean toggle even for the developer.

    Would you like to put up a bug report to them?


  • So, “jod” is hilarious, but “jift” is disingenuous?
    I don’t get it, but I guess it’s fine.


    Also, I was trying to go by the fact that “gift” has the same 2 letters after the ‘g’ as “gif”, which tends to be an often stated thing when people try to make a semblance of logic[1], explaining why something is pronounced the way it is, in English (and then also used in comedies, where all of that logic fails due to exceptions everywhere).

    For pronunciation in the English language, I consider that there is often not a logic behind it, but a history. And from that POV, “jif” would be the correct one (∵ the creators). But I still pronounce it “gif”, because:

    • it’s an acronym, so I consider the pronunciation to not be very important and it is better to go with what clicks in my mind faster [2]
    • I first read .gif in a file name and there was noone to tell me how it was pronounced. I went with G.I.F. until I felt like calling it “gif” with the logic of “gift”. Then again, I heard quite a few people call it “gif” and it set in.

    1. people tend to look at the previous and next letter, and if that one is a consonant, then maybe also the 2nd, previous and next letter. ↩︎

    2. Not many people go around arguing 'nome vs G-nome, right? ↩︎












  • So I don’t find coding challenge sites/events fun, but a few years ago, I thought it might be nice to try out ChatGPT on it.
    Although I exited after the first question itself, I did get to evaluate ChatGPT at the point (3, I suppose).

    I simply pasted the whole question into ChatGPT and it spewed out code which was a pretty good match for what was required.
    But no matter how many types of prompts I tried (even giving the solution logic to the part that was wrong), that specific part of the output was always wrong.

    On the other hand, when I manually corrected the C code and gave it to convert to C++, it ended up working on the first try (I didn’t even read that output).
    I then tried converting the correct code to Rust and I don’t remember what I did with the output, but it surely didn’t pass the assessment.