This is probably a reference to (canonical?) Rewriting gnu coreutils in rust and changing the license from GPL to MIT

What is it that makes excel so exceptional?

Imagine a flatpack but made by canonical

You have over 100gb of ram? What do you need so much ram for?

Yes that’s a very good point. I played with python’s CSV module recently to make some graphs with numpy and it seems pretty good. I’ll check out visidata - at the moment I’m experimenting with the idea that there is always a better option than using excel style spreadsheets. I’m seeing how much I can achieve while never opening excel/calc/gnumeric

Very cool thanks for sharing. I don’t have a CSV viewer app in “Open with…” context menu because I don’t have a file manager…

Last time I had to deal with a large CSV file I think I just used some combination of sort, wc, cut and grep. Or I import it to python and use numpy

DM me a link I’ll take a look tomorrow

I partially blame people with big audiences that keep hyping him up and platforming him. Primeagen interviewed him on YouTube and was worshipping him the entire video. Embarrassing display.