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Writing C++ is easy. (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] Saneless@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And don't even try to do a conversion of text to numbers in a big column. There's a super fast way (name is eluding me) but if you respond to the error popup I imagine it looks at each cell of text, thinks says, "abracadabra you're now a number!" for every row. It takes that long