OT: Sens Lounge CIII | Stranger Things Fashion Debate Edition

[Do Make Say Think]

What Omni hates the most at work... Excel spreadsheets... Bah gawd help me.

Protip: knowing how to use Excel will propel your career. I am not kidding.

Bonk gets it, VLookUp has allowed me to make much more money than I ever thought I'd make

 

[YouGotAStuGoing]

Even the extreme basics are really useful. If you can get a hang of pivot tables and IF statements, you're already ahead of the curve.

 

[Micklebot]

Eh, they're not so bad.

Vlookup is your friend.

I started automating things with recorded macros, which lead to me then customizing my macro's in VBA, which lead to me writing all sorts of short cuts including custom functions that could be called like any other excel function.

I love working with Excel, provided it's being used for the right reasons. These days though I seldom have the need to do anything fancy or fun with it...

 

[OmniSens]

Protip: knowing how to use Excel will propel your career. I am not kidding.

Bonk gets it, VLookUp has allowed me to make much more money than I ever thought I'd make

I know how to use them... They just crash sometime's and even though they do backups once in a while, you're always backtracking to see if everything you previously worked on is up to date. This sucks even more when you have 6-7 sheets open at once. It was 10x worse on Windows 7.

 

[Micklebot]

I know how to use them... They just crash sometime's and even though they do backups once in a while, you're always backtracking to see if everything you previously worked on is up to date. This sucks even more when you have 6-7 sheets open at once. It was 10x worse on Windows 7.

Hmm... I know our costers split data across a couple workbooks and then combine the results to get around limitations in excel that cause it to crash on them. Also, conditional formatting and array formulas can cause problems when you get into bigger sheets.

You can also temporarily turn off automatic recalcuation of formulas, that way it will only recalc when you tell it to if you need to make multiple changes that each result in a massive amount of recalcs that potentially lock things up.

 

[DrEasy]

 

[Harbinger]

Whats a good vacuum to buy?

 

[BonkTastic]

Whats a good vacuum to buy?

Miele brand, easy.

 

[Engineer]

Whats a good vacuum to buy?

For a small place?

eBay official Dyson outlet has their wireless vacuums on amazing sales every few months
We got our V7 Complete for ~$250, retails for $500

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Whats a good vacuum to buy?

I have had a small Dyson for what seems to be forever. I can recommend that brand but my experience in vacuum cleaners is limited.

 

[SPF6ty9]

Alright, which one of you guys pushed the door open on the LRT this morning and threw the whole rail system off??

 

[Knave]

I don't understand the transit commissions reluctance to add train capacity or peak hour bus service (morning commute, evening commute).

All they're doing with these fair hikes and shittier commutes is pushing people into cars. If their goal is a war on the environment they're succeeding.

 

[SPF6ty9]

I don't understand the transit commissions reluctance to add train capacity or peak hour bus service (morning commute, evening commute).

All they're doing with these fair hikes and ****tier commutes is pushing people into cars. If their goal is a war on the environment they're succeeding.

At the very least I hope they have their contingency plan in case of train problems better prepared for winter time. Having people queued up back to the bus stops at Tunneys because the station didn't see a train for 30+ mins during rush hour is going to be a massive problem on those -25 degree days.

And over a year delay on this thing and they couldn't come up with a fix / detect a problem for someone trying to push a door open? Fortunately that's a situation that shouldn't come up too often

 

[Stylizer1]

I don't understand the transit commissions reluctance to add train capacity or peak hour bus service (morning commute, evening commute).

All they're doing with these fair hikes and ****tier commutes is pushing people into cars. If their goal is a war on the environment they're succeeding.

You would think they would have all trains on the go and buses to make sure everything is as smooth as possible. Instead they "guesstimate" how many they think they will need. Also they make the train platforms too small.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Lots of time before winter sets in. I'm confident they will work out the kinks. I still think this is very cool, I wish people didn't seem to be in a hurry to see it fail.

I haven't had to commute by car or public transit to work for at least decade. It is the only way to live.

 

[Stylizer1]

Lots of time before winter sets in. I'm confident they will work out the kinks. I still think this is very cool, I wish people didn't seem to be in a hurry to see it fail.

I haven't had to commute by car or public transit to work for at least decade. It is the only way to live.

I don't think people want to see it fail they just want it to work better than what was there before. Forcing people in the suburbs to take these trains just makes the transition more undesirable. Express buses were working because it allowed people to skip most stops on their way downtown and when coming from Orleans or Kanata that saved a lot of time. Until the trains reach everyone people shouldn't be forced to use them.

 

[Harbinger]

Miele brand, easy.

How are they with pet hair?

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

How are they with pet hair?

I have C2

Awesome

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

I don't think people want to see it fail they just want it to work better than what was there before. Forcing people in the suburbs to take these trains just makes the transition more undesirable. Express buses were working because it allowed people to skip most stops on their way downtown and when coming from Orleans or Kanata that saved a lot of time. Until the trains reach everyone people shouldn't be forced to use them.

Exactly.

Folks can handle a long ride on a train or bus. It's the switch overs that are a killer. You just want to get on your ride, sit down, and put on the earbuds until you're at work. Having the average person form the suburbs go from bus to train to another bus...just to get to work? What a royal pain in the butt.

You'd think they would've done the smart thing and just build the entire LRT line in one phase, instead of 3 (or is it 4?). Have the entire ting up and running at once, even if ti took a few more years to complete.

 

[OmniSens]

Whats a good vacuum to buy?

I just recently bought a Bissell 2258C (Pet rewind) off of Amazon.

 

[Micklebot]

I don't think people want to see it fail they just want it to work better than what was there before. Forcing people in the suburbs to take these trains just makes the transition more undesirable. Express buses were working because it allowed people to skip most stops on their way downtown and when coming from Orleans or Kanata that saved a lot of time. Until the trains reach everyone people shouldn't be forced to use them.

The trains will never reach everyone, what's the difference between taking a bus from Chapel hill to Blair and taking it to Jean D'arc or Place d'Orleans? The way the train is set up, at best it will replace the setup for those who took a local bus to the 95/96/97 ect instead of paying extra for an express pass back before they changed the setup while the rail was being built. Express bus convenience is never going to be replicated. The trade off was supposed to be trains shouldn't be impacted by accidents or congestion on the roads meaning more reliable timings.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Exactly.

Folks can handle a long ride on a train or bus. It's the switch overs that are a killer. You just want to get on your ride, sit down, and put on the earbuds until you're at work. Having the average person form the suburbs go from bus to train to another bus...just to get to work? What a royal pain in the butt.

I thought we supposed to be on board with doing what we can for the environment. Ah well, screw future generations, I don't want to wait for anything anywhere.

 

[Upgrayedd]

There has been consistent delays so far this week at least commuting into the core from the west end, hopefully it gets better as some adjust, it also seems like they have reduced services in underserved areas which doesn't make sense but i digress...I won't look to make alternate arrangements until i see how things shake out in a week or two. I would have thought they would have slowly implemented the changes to the bus lines over a year or two as opposed to all at once, especially only a few weeks after the 1 line of the LRT has opened.

 

[YouGotAStuGoing]

I thought we supposed to be on board with doing what we can for the environment. Ah well, screw future generations, I don't want to wait for anything anywhere.

Meh. Growing pains are to be expected – we're throwing a whole city's routine through a loop. It's a long-term net gain, but for a population that has waited patiently for this LRT system while it faced setback after setback, it's a pretty reasonable reaction to be frustrated when this highly touted system has complete breakdowns on two of the first three days. Once the initial woes calm down I'm sure the complaints will die down too. But for now they're well-deserved. It's not a matter of "screw future generations," it's a matter of "we all have places to be and these delays are unreasonable."

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

I thought we supposed to be on board with doing what we can for the environment. Ah well, screw future generations, I don't want to wait for anything anywhere.

We do need to be greener....but there's also a limited number of hoops you can expect the average person to jump before it gets to be too much of a burden. It shouldn't take anyone 2 hours to get to work from anywhere in the Ottawa-Carelton-Gatineau area. There are also a growing number of cities that use electric buses to cut down on carbon emissions.

We need solutions that are actually feasible. Otherwise, people simply won't do them long-term.