This mirrors my experience. I am the accounting manager responsible for updating these dashboards at my saas employer. Troubleshooting powerbi errors during month-end close is the most stress-inducing thing. And whenever management wants a dashboard edit, we have to somehow know that the spreadsheets being fed the powerbi cloud data will also change. Maybe an extra row inserted into the pivot table of ARR by product. Now any formulas directly referencing the cells rather than using XLOOKUP are pointing to the wrong product category. I was chewed out hard for that one a few days ago even though IT made that change, since it updated our report after review. TLDR: Powerbi suck, use a data warehouse and SQL for data transformations.

I'm curious to know if anyone sees better results by using site:reddit.com vs just appending the word reddit to your search. I've felt the results are similar.

Appending the word will occasionally get you blogspam "here's the top X of Y according to reddit". The `site:` query doesn't have that problem.

I feel like plain text accounting software is overkill for splitting vacation expenses. The Splitwise phone app is very good for this, and shares some of the responsibility.

Here's a visual representation of flight cancellations and delays at major US airports https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/

Oh wow! Thanks for that. I use flight aware and twas not award of that particular page.

this animations were all the rage in Chinese wechat while this was going on

Agreed! Hard cell references should rarely be used. Names for metadata variables (eg. Current_Month) and tables for datasets.

Yes. But many parts of excel don't support those. E.g. conditional formatting just doesn't deal with names.

Also, when you need names, it is a sign to reach for a proper programming enviroment like Delphi or Lazarus.

Very cool. Looks like it could use some more controls to reduce bad data. For example the Dove year 9999 data point.

I would love to see a list of Parent companies. Single brands will be hard to remember.

It was good, thanks! https://youtu.be/llGvsgN17CQ

Sorry for the pain you went through. I suffered subtle trauma as a kid. Some examples were verbal anger from father, lack of a model of a secure relationship since parents hated each other in private, no empathy, and rare sympathy, between all family members. We basically didn't care about each other but put on a facade of a happy family with others. Recently I came across Attachment Theory which describes types of insecure relationships compared to secure ones. Combined with some professional therapy, it has been enlightening and relieving understanding my issues. A long journey ahead. Reading about Attachment Theory is my recommendation for anyone feeling similarly.

Your life sounds similar to mine, and with few words, I think you've described emotional neglect.

I've found myself to be quite avoidant. I found attachment theory before I heard of neglect, and I found it to explain my relationships pretty well. I actually think I found running on empty while looking into attachment theory. I feel like it adequately explained how I came to be so avoidant. Based on your words, I am pretty confident that at least one of her stories of neglect will hit hard.

Probably, yes. Is it more efficient for the single poster to write out a few extra words, or for the hundreds of readers to go to Google or AI to help them interpret the letters? I work in accounting, an industry that throws out work-life balance into daily conversations, and i still didn't recognize it.

Most people in that situation would be carrying a backpacking stove and pot. I have known plenty to melt snow in dry areas.