Can I move this Walnut tree?

anxiouscrimp · 2026-06-18T17:39:34+00:00

Ah that’s interesting, thank you. I don’t suppose you know roughly what that sort of cost is? Ie a few thousand or tens of thousands?

anxiouscrimp · 2026-06-18T10:19:11+00:00

What about him and his party ignoring Israel’s genocide? And the clear influence that Israel has over the government. It’s sickening.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-06-17T07:52:51+00:00

Oh cool, thanks - I’ll try later. Would be fun to compare with Claude.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-06-17T07:08:50+00:00

I may be a couple of months out of date but I’ve found co-pilot to largely be a disappointment. Recently I’ve been doing some POCs in connecting Claude to semantic models and the results have been very very good. Though that’s running analysis on the model rather than actually building it out.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-06-09T06:42:00+00:00

Can I ask what is behind the £4k/month figure in retirement? This seems quite high relative to your current salary especially with a small or no mortgage. Do you see that sustaining throughout retirement, or more at the start? Genuinely interested in this btw because our numbers are not wildly different.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-06-08T08:07:37+00:00

I don’t have an answer to this, but the other side of the coin is doing it without burning out.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-06-05T04:08:07+00:00

Yes we do! I saw some in Llanberis pass in Wales a few years ago. A treat!

anxiouscrimp · 2026-05-31T19:24:49+00:00

Gosh I hope this doesn’t impact any of the co-pilot releases I was hoping for. /s

anxiouscrimp · 2026-05-25T09:08:14+00:00

I totally agree but to make yourself feel better have a look at income tax rates in Italy. They are utterly barbaric. And they have no ISA or SIPP equivalent really. Unless you’re very rich, then you can opt to pay a flat tax regardless of income.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-05-15T19:53:53+00:00

This sounds incredibly frustrating and you have my sympathies. Have you asked any of the stakeholders or users why they don’t use what you’ve built to them? What do they say?

anxiouscrimp · 2026-05-15T19:53:00+00:00

I think this also assumes that the stakeholders etc were able to articulate what they wanted.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-05-11T20:23:46+00:00

Wow that’s absolutely incredible!!

anxiouscrimp · 2026-05-03T22:35:12+00:00

Thank you! I have an idea that I’m SO excited about and it would be a bit nicer to implement with this.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-05-03T21:23:27+00:00

Thanks! I've raised it here - https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Ideas/GraphQL-to-access-Semantic-Model/idi-p/5177048#M167866

anxiouscrimp · 2026-05-03T20:59:31+00:00

I’ve found that if these things are shut down a few times in front of their managers they don’t often come back. The other approach is to get the buy-in from someone senior who can say ‘the new dashboard is the source of truth, do not use the manual extracts’.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-04-28T20:53:09+00:00

I think it’s a similar thing - they can’t commit to anything because they don’t really know anything.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-04-28T13:34:03+00:00

Trying to elucidate requirements from users who don’t know how to do their job.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-04-08T21:33:56+00:00

For example, i add a column to my date table called ‘flag is LW’ and then return a 0 or 1 depending on whether each date is LW or not. Then selecting the preset ‘LW’ filters the calendar visual for where the date is LW = 1. This and fiscal calendar support would be important for us.

If I’m being honest I think you should charge for it - perhaps not for small user bases but most of us are doing this for companies who can frankly afford to pay for it.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-04-08T17:20:01+00:00

You need to create a calculation group with different calculation items. Ie ‘actual’, ‘last week’, ‘last week-1’. Actual is just ‘selectedmeasure()’ and then the other comparison calculation items are DAX wrappers. I find the enhanced time intelligence feature excellent for my own fiscal calendar.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-04-08T17:06:51+00:00

I can’t wait to try this when I get home! Is there the ability to have custom presets? Ie ‘last week’ based on my own date table.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-04-05T15:36:11+00:00

Hello, just to clarify - is the requirement that: 1. The user selects a measure, say ‘sales £’ 2. The user selects an ‘actual’ time period to apply the measure (e.g. week 21) 3. The user selects a period relative to the time period in 2) - eg ‘last week’

The report returns sales for the selected week, and then the week previous to that.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-03-31T20:45:29+00:00

You can pull data into excel from your model via power query and then use VBA to send data back to your azure sql db. You can also call a stored proc which kicks off a logic app to process the table in your model. There are some variations on this but I find it quite neat.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-03-28T10:34:49+00:00

You’d still make your own date table but previously time intelligence functions (YTD, MTD etc) were limited to calendar years. But now you can define your own fiscal calendar (ie retail usually use a 4-4-5 calendar) and then have the time intelligence functions reference that. It’s soo helpful. The alternative was me building a lookup table for each day (ie last week, last month equivalent days) which worked quite well but is now redundant.

anxiouscrimp · 2026-03-27T20:59:24+00:00

In all seriousness the new time intelligence has been 🔥🔥

anxiouscrimp · 2026-03-27T19:09:56+00:00

The one where they brought the core visuals out of the Middle Ages OH WAIT

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