What could be more undignified than looking at your phone at the urinal?

{sqltargets} 0.3.0 just hit CRAN, now includes the ability to pass 'dbi' parameters into queries. Turns out using SQL with #rstats {targets} is pretty fun! github.com/daranzolin/s...

Getting faux-outraged or flabbergasted at every thing the cat does around the house is peak living.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

Gonna be a data.table person after seeing this. (slice_head/slice_max should’ve been peak())

There was a house in my neighborhood with three signs: No on A No on 50 Rishi Kumar for Assessor Knowing nothing about Kumar, I knew immediately not to vote for him.

Found a right_join() in some of my old #rstats code and legit gasped out loud

"Which brings us to the real reason why Trump is an enemy of urban America. If cities like D.C. and Los Angeles truly were crime-ridden hellholes, they would pose little threat to the MAGA movement. It is because these are prosperous and dynamic places that they must be occupied."

The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.

Finally checked the Use Native Pipe Operator RStudio #rstats option. For those constantly piping into [Vv]iew(), a small advantage to the native pipe is that the 'title' argument gets automatically supplied as the function call instead of the cryptic '.' from magrittr.

Unironically yes--to quote the scientists at the IPCC in a report on the MITIGATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE: '...cities will achieve the largest GHG emissions savings by replacing, repurposing, or retrofitting the building stock, targeted infilling and densifying...'

Now: 📕 Say Nothing 🎮 Expedition 33 I am MOVED. Life is good.

Inside the NBA was neither informative nor entertaining. The emperor’s new clothes of sports shows. If I wanted to listen to a bunch of petty republican bullies spew nonsense I’d turn on Fox News.

This is the least sexy data and programming post of all time, but sqlfluff is great software. Useful, intuitive, and versatile, it's helped me write better code.

This is 100x worse than any pie chart.

@jdcmedlock.bsky.social was cooking here 🔮

Sephiroth is our next Surgeon General. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

📺 Watching Andor. 📕 Reading Clytemnestra. 🎮 Playing Disco Elysium. Hitting the elite storytelling trifecta across all media.

This is the education plank of the plot to enslave America: secular private academies for the rich, religious instruction for the middle class, and a prison-like rump of public schools for the poor. With our Constitution in tatters, they're racing to implement it

Thinking about Disco Elysium. Harry is somehow both a singular individual and “Everyman” like from a morality play. A work of true genius, on par with Shakespeare, Homer, Tolstoy, Twain, etc.

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

{targets} is so good it's imo the only remaining reason to learn and use #rstats

You read this on a cover letter: "I love working with people, code, and even other people's code." You think this person is: A. Funny B. Extremely skilled C. A liar

It’s {excelgesis} by a mile.

I’m not totally sure why but pak::pkg_install() >>>>>>>>>>> install.packages() Especially on Windows. #rstats

Tax positivity now seeping into video games, @jdcmedlock.bsky.social is coming for the gamers

I think we did a tremendous disservice downplaying Wikipedia as a source for the last 20 years. Paved the way for people treating LLMs as encyclopedias.

Manchester United Football Club, I will never be free of you

I would be curious to learn more about LLM code biases. A coworker handed me an #rstats script by Claude and it was littered with {reshape2} and require(), like a time capsule from 2013.

A portion of my work is now preparing data to be consumed by AI for adhoc analyses, analyses which would've come to me... #nooticing

Working exclusively within {targets} #rstats projects has made internal packages kind of irrelevant and even cumbersome. They're annoying to track w/{renv}, and if a function gets updated you have to reinstall a separate package before rerunning. Easier to just throw custom fns into R/utils.R.

I'm letting {hacksaw} 📦 slide off CRAN--I think updates to the tidyverse have mostly obviated the package's utility, sans the obvious exception of keep_na(). Twas a fun #rstats project for awhile.

The fact is Newsom could've used his influence as governor to support radical housing production bills like SB 827 but sat on the sidelines and now the housing shortage is so bad and construction costs so high he's blaming local cities for having encampments. calmatters.org/commentary/2...

Are any #rstats folk developing dbt projects in Positron? Any reason it wouldn’t work seamlessly?

@cityofoakland.bsky.social @cityofsanjose.bsky.social @cityofsanfrancisco.bsky.social

Someone should make a #quarto template that takes the manifest.json and catalog.json from 'dbt docs generate' and produces some simplified, maybe self-contained, documentation.

Waymo is peak American innovation. With way less money they could have built a reliable public transport network, but instead someone was like "what if we could find a way for empty vehicles to contribute to traffic too? There's no reason we can't have more cars on the road than there are drivers"

Reading American history is always a trip. Just happened upon, “Supreme Court Justice and former Ku Klux Klan member Hugo Black…”

Slay the Spire cured me of this hoarding neurosis.

Read some bangers in 2024 #books

Amad Diallo….prepare to get baptized with all the honey in the world

Still in a meeting at 5:02 Friday afternoon and about to invoke the #Sabbath.

The number of columns in a new 'report' is directly proportional to the requester's lack of clarity and direction. Ask for 35+ columns? I know you don't know what you're doing.

Evidence has demonstrated this effect in numerous cities now. I understand why it sounds weird to say, 'building a bunch of fancy new townhouses and skyscrapers will make housing more affordable!' but it simply appears to be true.

And for those piping into View(), run rstudioapi::writeRStudioPreference("data_viewer_max_columns", 1000L) to display more than 50 columns at once. #rstats

As many have noted, there is a conspicuous and intriguingly lack of “smelling-specific” words in English (e.g. stink, fragrant). I would read the hell out of this thesis.