_Wintermute

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by _Wintermute 3y ago
> which defines the symbols and methods exported by the package Which are all dumped into the one single global namespace regardless if you want everything or not. I can't remember the exact number, but tidyverse package imports lit
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
I think a lot of the problem is that R does everything it can to prevent people from writing modular code. It doesn't have modules or namespaces, and the current fashion is for packages to use non-standard evaluation which adds frictio
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Strangely enough wasm might get support for 64 bit ints, but their native R code won't.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
For Europe, the Russian invasion of Ukraine very much is our business.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
I don't understand why base R silently converting integers into characters is seen as a positive? Especially coupled with the comment "In R there's rarely any uncertainty when loading genomic data", surely this just incr
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
This is a regional thing. In the UK they're all brackets. Brackets, square brackets, curly brackets.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Nim?
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Only a small fraction of the covid test and trace costs were on software, the overwhelming majority was on lab tests and PCR kits.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
The R syntax is not kind on the eyes. I know that's a shallow dismissal, but I think it would really start to irritate me if I had to read that all day.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Posit (Rstudio) have been carrying out layoffs for the last few months, judging by the twitter posts of well known R developers looking for work, but the actual numbers seem to be a well held secret. I can't tell if they're strugg
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
I work in scientific computing and I'm a huge fan of nim. I started writing a few tools at work in nim and was quite quickly asked to stop by the software development team. In their eyes, they are responsible for the long term maintena
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
In my experience getting a PhD doesn't require above average intelligence, it does require a lot of perseverance and a good amount of organisation though. I honestly think most skilled tradespeople are more intelligent than me and my P
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
I didn't enjoy the puzzles as much as previous years. My guess was they were structured in a way to make them non-trivial to solve with chat-GPT as the leaderboard is taken seriously by many.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
I don't see how that logic differs from using `=` as an assignment operator. "Assign X with value equal to 5"
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
This makes sense, but then why the use of `=` for function arguments?
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Probably because it's full of inconsistencies and gotchas, largely caused by backwards compatibility with S.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
I really didn't enjoy Catch-22 because it felt like a short story dragged out to 200 plus pages, just repeating the same observation about war again and again each chapter.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Car ownership is correlated with income in London. https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-do...
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Instead we got Tensorflow for ... Swift, which nobody asked for.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
The number of times I witnessed tourist's suitcases being swiped from the RER B as the doors were closing was just depressing.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
If they remained in people's backyards then it wouldn't be an issue, however they're used and often stored in public spaces. So I think it is valid for other people to have an opinion about these things.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
I've heard "some people use their 2 ton car as a rain jacket" and thought it was urbanist hyperbole, but here you are.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
They're making the CS7 Tooting even worse in the near future, allowing more left turns across the cycle lane, and introducing more parking bays.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Running maybe not, but if you get too into cycling or swimming (or I guess any low-impact endurance sport), it can sometimes be a chore to shovel enough food into you.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Strong disagree, there's a reason RStudio/Posit are spending so much time trying to develop 3rd party alternatives to install.packages() and CRAN. Try installing an older version of a package without it pulling in the most recent
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
They have more an issue if they ever try and claim something on their insurance. Insurance companies are definitely motivated to find reasons not to pay out, and undeclared modifications are a pretty easy way to void your insurance.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
I regularly lie awake as some idiot is racing round residential London streets in the distance, in densely populated areas it must be in the thousands of people that are being disrupted by a single person.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
That's what controls are for, you're always comparing against the DMSO control. I also don't think anyone who's doing small molecule screens thinks DMSO is inert.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
I worked at a pharma company who disabled internet access for most people. Many downloaded things on their phone's 4G and transferred them to their computer with a USB cable, it was pretty pointless. That said, I'm sure Google&#x2
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Wind turbines kill such a small number of birds compared to cats, cars, windows, powerlines etc.

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