It's a lot of individual tables because Santa's excel struggles with anything past a few hundred thousand rows. It's not just names, but addresses, lists of desires, and so on.

There are around 2 billion children. If you wonder why he skips so many children, it's not religion or poverty, it's because Santa's files got corrupted.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 53 points 1 week ago

In an unfortunate coincidence, the tables were sorted by the children's parents' annual income, so it was the poor kids whose data was lost. That's why rich kids get more presents.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Copilot is going to ruin Christmas.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Santa already extrapolates data for children without lists but with generative AI, we're going to see new and exciting ways to disappoint children this Christmas!