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CosmicOS: An open source Contact message(cosmicos.github.io)
3 points by paulfitz 1mo ago|0 comments
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by paulfitz 2mo ago
That Dropbox like system is literally all these worms need to propagate.
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by paulfitz 8mo ago
Thanks! Fair about styling :). You can bring your own stylesheet https://support.getgrist.com/self-managed/#how-do-i-customiz...
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by paulfitz 8mo ago
The enterprise features are self-hostable. Look at "your servers" on the pricing page for Grist. Individuals (and orgs with < $1 million in annual income) quality for free activation keys btw.
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by paulfitz 8mo ago
[grist employee here] Grist forms are open source and were used to keep the toilets clean at FOSDEM just a few days ago https://fosstodon.org/@grist/116001932837956733 Everything you see in our standard docker image is
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by paulfitz 8mo ago
Grist forms support uploads since 2025 https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/pull/1655 Since it is relevant here: support for uploads was code written by a French contributor, and reviewed by a developer wo
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by paulfitz 8mo ago
I work at Grist, the "tableur collaboratif" (collaborative spreadsheet) listed on the La Suite homepage. We're in the interesting situation of being both a NYC-based company, and open source software the French gov has adopte
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The Bash Reference Manual Is in the Epstein Files(mastodon.social)
14 points by paulfitz 8mo ago|5 comments
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by paulfitz 1y ago
I'm quietly adding "pull requests" for data to Grist https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/issues/1829 - been wanting to do this for a long time. I tried doing this years ago as a stand-alone
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by paulfitz 2y ago
This is excellent, thank you!
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by paulfitz 2y ago
Escaping is needed no matter what separators are used, but if a character from the astral plane is always present (like U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO) then you can be pretty sure the software is handling unicode well and isn't corrupting cells w
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by paulfitz 2y ago
The main problem is they are still in the basic multilingual plane, so U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO still has an edge there for tickling problems quickly.
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by paulfitz 2y ago
Meant to link to this! Thanks, will update.
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How to fix CSV: make it even more U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO(getgrist.com)
26 points by paulfitz 2y ago|27 comments
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by paulfitz 3y ago
The overlap if you work 9 to 5 hours in that timezone has proven a bit of a drag for us.
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by paulfitz 3y ago
Thanks for playing! :)
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by paulfitz 3y ago
Grist Labs | Systems Engineer | Full-time | NYC OR REMOTE +/- 3hrs | https://getgrist.com We're looking for someone to make our modern spreadsheet software run everywhere. To apply, there's a puzzle. Just do: d
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by paulfitz 3y ago
A surprising number of people submitting "bread pickles tomato cheese" as the answer. No! That was just an example! (I was hungry)
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Battery correct horse staple hiring puzzle(fosstodon.org)
7 points by paulfitz 3y ago|4 comments
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by paulfitz 3y ago
The motivation for calling Grist a spreadsheet is that it has formulas, and cell values get updated automatically when something they depend on gets updated. Agree there is scope for misunderstanding here, maybe there's a better word?
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by paulfitz 3y ago
In Grist, reference columns let you do a lot of what you can do with a join https://support.getgrist.com/col-refs/ while still having spreadsheet-style immediate updates when underlying data changes. Also, if you just
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by paulfitz 3y ago
Snapshots are there, but you need to configure an s3-like store to enable them, e.g. MinIO (or S3 itself). [Grist employee]
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by paulfitz 3y ago
In the few days since we wrote this post, Code Llama came out, including a flavor fine-tuned on 100B tokens of Python code - could be great for Grist, I look forward to re-running the benchmarks. This is an unexpected side benefit of using
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Grist Is the Evolution of Spreadsheets(github.com)
1 points by paulfitz 3y ago|0 comments
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by paulfitz 3y ago
The exact LLM used in the experiment mentioned in this post was upstage-llama-2-70b-instruct-v2.ggmlv3.q2_K. Grist was configured to use it via llama-cpp-python and https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core#ai-formula-ass
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From no-code to co-code(getgrist.com)
1 points by paulfitz 3y ago|1 comments
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The Werewolf in Your Support Tickets(getgrist.com)
3 points by paulfitz 3y ago|0 comments
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by paulfitz 3y ago
Neal Stephenson calls them earthsuits in Termination Shock.
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by paulfitz 4y ago
Agree, I started paying attention to duckdb when it started allowing FROM before SELECT https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/pull/5076
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GPT3 and Python-based Grist spreadsheets work well together(getgrist.com)
3 points by paulfitz 4y ago|0 comments

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