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tetris11 ( tetris11@lemmy.ml )  to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

What task would you excel in if you lived in the Stone Age?

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What task would you excel in if you lived in the Stone Age?

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tetris11 ( tetris11@lemmy.ml )  to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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  • baduhai ( baduhai@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    Dying.

    • tetris11 ( tetris11@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      Dying is not a task, dying is a condition

      • bobs_monkey ( bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ) 
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        Not with that attitude

      • baduhai ( baduhai@sopuli.xyz ) 
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        Well, it can be both.

      • circuitfarmer ( circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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        Seppuku is a task

      • Greg Clarke ( Greg@lemmy.ca ) 
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        Wouldn’t death be the condition?

      • irelephant [he/him]🍭 ( Irelephant@lemm.ee ) 
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        Not with that attitude it isn’t.

  • tupcakes ( tupcakes@midwest.social ) 
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    I’d be the best at powershell. Unfortunately I wouldn’t live very long.

    • x4740N ( x4740N@lemm.ee ) 
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      Plot twist: powershell is slang for a sex act in the Stone age

  • a14o ( a14o@feddit.org ) 
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    Yelling yabadabadoo and sliding down that dinosaur

  • scathliath ( scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    I know how to make rope, among other things, as an eagle scout, and I have some experience with atatl so, probably dying of fever at 14.

  • Aggravationstation ( Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ) 
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    Excel, it wouldn’t be useful but I’d still be great at it.

    • Notyou ( Notyou@sopuli.xyz ) 
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      Great! I got a random Excel question. Sometimes when I pull reports at work the format for the price changes. Instead of showing the $ and the correct amount of spaces after the cent sign like .00, it has no $ and many digits after the cent sign like .000000000000000.

      Now when I try to change the cell format back to currency, accounting, text, or anything it keeps the same format and amount of digital after the cent sign. The work around I found is to open up a different Excel doc type it in the correct format and then copy and paste over the incorrect formatted cell.

      Do you can a better answer or did I explain horribly and your as confused as me when I try to fix Excel?

      • B0rax ( B0rax@feddit.org ) 
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        That’s just excel being excel.

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          It Excels at formatting.

      • Aggravationstation ( Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ) 
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        Yea when I said that I excel at Excel I was somewhat exaggerating, much as I have at every job interview I’ve ever had. It’s become something of a reflex these days. But as someone else has said I think that particular issue is just down to Excel being crap.

        • Notyou ( Notyou@sopuli.xyz ) 
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          The more I learn about Excel, the more I know I don’t know Excel.

        • GreyEyedGhost ( GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ) 
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          I had someone at work ask me if I was an expert at Excel. I’ve written macros in VBA and made formulas that would have been easier as a macro so I could save them as xlsx instead of xlsm. I said yes, with some hesitation. She asked me if I could help her with a problem and I said sure. The problem was a bunch of hidden cells. At least it wasn’t a bunch of data she’d deleted and wanted me to get back for her.

          The amazing part was how hard it was to show the cells in the latest version of Excel.

  • Asafum ( Asafum@feddit.nl ) 
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    I’d probably be something of a builder/ “engineer.”

    I’m not actually an engineer, but I have a knack for utilizing what I have around me or simple enough objects to serve other goals. I suppose I’m what people used to call a Macgyver or “mechanically inclined.”

  • SoulWager ( SoulWager@lemmy.ml ) 
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    With or without my current knowledge?

    Because I’m pretty sure I could smelt Iron with what I know, and a year or two of experimentation. So the answer would be “ending the stone age”.

    Without? I dunno, maybe building traps and snares.

    • KazuchijouNo ( KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol ) 
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      Been watching primitive technology huh?

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        I mean, I have, but I saw this long before he started trying to smelt Iron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCnZClWwpQ

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    I’m pretty good at thinking outside the box and innovating, so I’d probably just die.

  • Contemporarium ( Contemporarium@lemm.ee ) 
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    Dying

    • Nailbar ( nailbar@sopuli.xyz ) 
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      I came here to write Dying, but 7 other people had already done that.

      • Contemporarium ( Contemporarium@lemm.ee ) 
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        Yeah I typed my comment then scrolled and realized I’m extremely unoriginal:)

        • Nailbar ( nailbar@sopuli.xyz ) 
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          Cavemen would have just rolled their eyes when people died back then. Like, pffft, everybody does that.

  • HappinessPill ( HappinessPill@lemmy.ml ) 
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    deleted by creator

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    deleted by creator

  • UltraGiGaGigantic ( UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ) 
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    I would invent God so others would do all the hunting and gathering for me while I partied in the cave basement drawing on the walls.

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    I’m a natural at shooting a traditional bow.
    I know every edible plant in my area, and some that get you high.
    I can find north without a compass, day and night.
    I can make a fire from things I can gather in the woods.
    I know how to safely fell a tree, split logs and build a shelter with hand tools.
    I know how to act around most predators and have experience handling a spear.

    I think I’d do reasonably well.
    Sometimes I wish I was born in the stone age. My ADHD is completely gone whenever I’m in the wild.

  • Mearuu ( Mearuu@kbin.melroy.org ) 
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    Dying quickly

  • crowbar ( crowbar@kbin.earth ) 
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    drawing dongs everywhere

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