New version of RStudio will add these lines to your ignore files. Automatically. Each time you open the project. Even when you don't have any of those tools installed. I think the time to jump ship is approaching. This shit is going way to far.

Nice. I added a git hook to remove all the metadata and output crud from jupyter noteboks before stashing. That keeps commits clean and (mostly) readable, but now it takes AGES to get a diff.

I think I need to write a blogpost v̶e̶n̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ documenting all my plotting woes with python. It's morally repulsive in every conceivable way.

I am shocked! Shocked to find that price-gouging is going on in here. --- Coles’ ‘Down Down’ discounts misled customers on industrial scale, court finds https://www.theage.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/watch-live-coles-learns-its-fate-in-fake-down-down-discounts-case-20260514-p5zwoi.html

python is doing my head in. What the fuck is going on here. ``` ↳ which cdo /apps/cdo/2.4.3/bin/cdo ↳ python -c 'import os; os.system("which cdo")' /opt/conda/analysis3-26.04/bin/cdo ```

Awkward certainly lives up to its name by being very awkward to spell.

From @sjamieit.bsky.social: The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eliocamp/116560174152329157 Ah, I've just realised that this doesn't even work. Adding more new artists to your catalogue would increase inequality, because you would have more artists with few listens. So, if you listen to one artist 1000 times and to two other […]

Buddhist don't like Object Oriented Programming because they know thay the self doesn't exist.

Yearly gini coefficients of my music taste. Inequality in this context is good; it means more artists. It seems my listening habits have been a bit narrower since 2024, although this year is still not done, so there's time. #rstats #lastfm

It's been two days. I still can get jupyter lab to find my virtual environment. I still can't believe that we are teaching students to use this POS.

Today we had a nice chat with @mpadge that reminded me of this post I wrote years ago about the benefits of taking dependencies. Essentially: taking a dependency is an invitation to collaborate and form a community. He made me realise that developers using LLMs to re-implement functionality […]

This pitiful thing is jupyter's "save as" dialogue. You need to write the route directly. No UI to navigate, no autocomplete paths. "home" doesn't even truly exist; I assume is some lousy shortcut for $HOME or something. It's utterly unusable. The fact that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

In the #ai era, this is what passes as a "sophisticated algorithm"

I've sadly given up on email clients for #linux. Thunderbird is reliable and usable but can't handle drafts (it saves a new draft each time), Mailspring looks nice and has good features, but it's not reliable to actually send, sync or find mails. Geary / elementary mail looks gorgeous but it's […]

It's interesting how much of how many cultures is about drinking hoy water with leaves.

Almost every single time I try to use #python for data analysis I rediscover Clause Wilke's post. Especially the part about separating logic from logistics. In today's instance: I want to get the full path of all the files/folders in a folder, in #rstats that's just `list.files(path, full.names […]

I love it how #ubuntu just decided that hdmi wasn't going to work any more.

Folks, what's the best printable #regex cheatsheet that I can stick to my wall for quick reference? #programming #rstats

I simply cannot understand how #Slack can fuck up notifications so badly. I toggled all the settings I could think of to get a notification for every single message in a channel. And today I open slack and... there's a new message from two days ago and I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Every time it's windy outside, my office windows whistle with a sound that reminds me of Engel. So now I'm listening to Rammstein. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2rQzv8OWEY

Learning to make genuine Australian dishes.

I've just found this 22 year-old bash script to add history to the cd command. And it works perfectly! 🤯 https://linuxgazette.net/109/marinov.html #linux

This hits right in the middle of the Venn diagram of aus dot social tooters, I reckon. #naarm #trains #gunzel https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/4421229071/victorian-train-tracker

The journal typesetter modified every instance of "days" (as in "the forecast reaches its maximum error in about 30 days") to "d" (as in "the forecast reaches its maximum error in about 30 d"). I imagine the argument is that "days" is a unit of measurement and units of measurement are always […]

Journal is asking for a persistent identifier (DOI or ISBN) for #rstast itself. `citation()` doesn't return a DOI and I can't find that there is. Any tips for that? #academicchatter

Why did they named it "Young Sheldon" instead of "The Small Bang Theory"?

Github is such a bloated POS. It got stuck following a link on a wiki. It was faster to reload the repo in another tab and click the link in the readme.

Prefix plot filenames with figure number in knitr/#QuartoPub ``` knitr::opts_hooks$set(label = function(options) { this_label <- knitr::opts_current$get("label") if (!startsWith(this_label, "fig")) { return(options) } all_chunks <- knitr::all_labels(startsWith(label, "fig")) fig_num <- […]

The turbines are ruining the natural beauty of the giant hole

According to the rector decision in my university, the university library will put all research articles under CC license and making it publicly available regardless of the journal! This is an amazing news that promotes better research practices imho. I'm super […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

My opinion of the Newcomb problem is that if you answer how many boxes you would chose when asked, you're literally telling the predictor what to do. So just don't do it and the predictor will now be able to predict what you do with any accuracy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wDha-G35KA

Google calendar's timezone selector has always been bad. Now they changed it to have search, which is good, but it only understands cities, so you can't select UTC. How can they fuck this up so royally?

Is someone else having issues with #positron using remote SSH? My #rstats sessions take FOR EVER to startup and the console has enormous latency and sometimes it just completely locks up and I need to close the whole session, sometimes even restart Positron completely. Meanwhile, using R from […]

A few hours back in #australia. I already miss bidets.

We knew, but the proof is nice. "Apple just proved that AI models cannot do math. Not advanced math. Grade school math. The kind a 10-year-old solves" The guess-the-next-words machines don’t actually understand anything. https://nitter.poast.org/heynavtoor/status/2041243558833987600#m #math #ai

Preparing our haul to bring back to Australia.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116369551683567626 I was just thinking about this stuff a few day ago. Process knowledge is also important at the national scale. A country can't just buy a bunch of books and get skills. It need to invest in people; people who learn to do stuff by doing it […]

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What's the latest on the impact of #leather vs. no leather? I'm a #vegetarian and I tend to avoid leather shoes because I want to minimise animal deaths and suffering. But non-leather clothes still have an environmental impact and are much less durable, and a lot of leather is a byproduct of the […]

RE: https://flipboard.com/@rollingstone/politics-news-rgm2ohbiz/-/a-RbuxclrmSDmawvemdPHTxQ%3Aa%3A3199477-%2F0 Hey, US, if your planning on a general strike, now's the time.

Oh, boy. This last name didn't age well, did it, The Expanse?

It's quite bankers that #artemis still has a blackout period. One would've thought they by now we would've had a robustish satellite network around the Moon to use as relays. #Artemis2

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eliocamp/116340965833365936 This has to be one of my greatest creations.

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116334687196585255 You know your tool is safe when it needs constant reminders not to be malicious.

🌌🌖🚀 El libro que más recomendaría para orientarse en la nueva fase de la exploración espacial que hoy ha comenzado: "Una ciudad en Marte" de @weinersmith.bsky.social y @zachweinersmith.bsky.social. Premiado en 2024 como mejor libro de divulgación científica por la Royal Society. #ArtemisII

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116331940556649057 Claude does self-prompt injection. Amazing.

Bizarre. I'm trying to connect to https://polarwatch.noaa.gov/ and I get nothing from my regular wifi. If I connect to a VPN with my phone, it works, but if I connect to the same VPN with my laptop, it doesn't.

I realised that both #australia and #argentina can be abbreviated as precious metals. Australia -> Au -> means gold Argentina -> means silver (or "silvery"). Follow me for more utterly useless facts.