Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK

Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by moneywoes on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:37AM (#25277260)

Didn't an agency store data and loss data due to using an old format of excel file

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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by cian on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:58AM (#25277542)

Yes, they hit the legacy 65,000 row limit for .XLS files: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988

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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by BurningFrog on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:09AM (#25277686)

As I read it, it was actually (and amazingly) a 65,000 column limit!

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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by makomk on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:33AM (#25278052)

I'm pretty sure the "column limit" claim was a false online theory that just stuck around because we're in such a post-truth era that even the definition of post-truth is itself post-truth... The reputable news coverage all said it was the number of rows that was the problem.

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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by BurningFrog on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:52AM (#25278289)

Now that you mention it, the story does have that "too inherently viral to be true" smell.

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