_Wintermute

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by _Wintermute 8mo ago
A number of the tube lines have large sections above ground.
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by _Wintermute 10mo ago
A fixed wheel counts as a brake, though I've only seen the law in relation to bicycles which require 2 working brakes not sure how this applied to unicycles.
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by _Wintermute 10mo ago
In my experience R is king of happily chugging along spitting out nonsense results when it should have errored 100 lines ago.
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by _Wintermute 10mo ago
The increasing prevalence of non-standard evaluation in R packages was one of the major reasons I switched from R to python for my work. The amount of ceremony and constant API changes just to have something as an argument in a function dro
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by _Wintermute 10mo ago
It's because you're in London. I have family in rural Cumbria with full fibre, yet none of the flats I've rented in London have availability.
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
I don't see how I could ever afford to retire whilst still having to pay rent in the UK.
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
If you've ever had to deal with the UK police as a victim of a crime, you'll quickly find out they're pretty useless at obtaining CCTV footage. I was asked to get it myself, to which the business who owned the CCTV told me th
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
The coachloads of Chinese tourists that I see every summer make me doubt this.
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
I think it was largely pushed by Phil Gaimon who was trying to get into the news to sell his new (at the time) book.
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
You can get some very permanent water-proof inks. Platinum Carbon black is my favourite.
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
Yep, at one point in my life I was consistently cycling for 30 hours a week and eating enough became a chore. So it's definitely possible, but it requires enough exercise that's essentially a full time job.
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
Dataclasses have the one massive benefit of not being an additional dependency.
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
The choice of groovy was unfortunate, but yet it still seems more popular than snakemake which I can only attribute to the nf-core set of curated workflows. I have a dislike of nextflow because it submits 10s of thousands of separate jobs t
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
My biggest issue with R package management is version pinning. If I specify an older version of a package, R will fetch the latest versions of all its dependencies, regardless if they're compatible or not, which leads to manually chasi
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
R kinda sucks at anything that isn't a dataframe though.
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
This comment has inspired me to switch to Valkey, thanks.
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
They can invite whoever they want, but I think they will struggle to attract talent unless they actually start making some changes to make it a more attractive option rather than just assuming elsewhere is going to get worse. I did a post-d
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
A 63 watt average must have been taking into account all the time you weren't pedalling, that's extremely low - you would struggle to ride into a slight breeze.
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
We tried plumber at work and ran into enough issues (memory leaks, difficulty wrangling JSON in R, poor performance) that I don't think I could recommend it.
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
Happens with R as well where everything gets dumped into a global namespace. It's a huge mess. If you're lucky all functions will have a common prefix str_* or fct_*. If you're unlucky then you have to figure out which packag
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by _Wintermute 1y ago
I would argue a European PhD prepares you for research better than a US one. You're expected to hit the ground running with required prior research experience and you have no classes or teaching obligations which explains why they&#x27
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by _Wintermute 2y ago
Looks like it's staying: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/401988/#comment17640529
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by _Wintermute 2y ago
I'm not sure which European country you're thinking about, but we had lockers, individual backpacks and heavy textbooks. I never used my locker because we didn't have enough time between lessons, so I just carried all my heav
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by _Wintermute 2y ago
It's mentioned in the abstract and 45 times in the article. Most scientists don't use the brand name of a drug.
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by _Wintermute 2y ago
Counter-steering is how bicycles steer, whether you're doing it consciously or not.
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by _Wintermute 2y ago
> And the ones who do care about reproducibility are using R anyway I worked in a pharma company with lots of R code and this comment is bringing up some PTSD. One time we spent weeks trying to recreate an "environment" to repr
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by _Wintermute 2y ago
Reminds me of the hysteria we had about drones shutting down an airport in the UK, with loads of reported sightings yet no evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatwick_Airport_drone_incident
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by _Wintermute 2y ago
The logic to detect and attempt to fix ID switches is unfortunately a huge part of multi-object tracking.
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by _Wintermute 2y ago
True, but trying to wrap any of that into a function rather than simple scripts makes you delve into the ever-deprecated API for non-standard evaluation.
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by _Wintermute 2y ago
In my opinion R should thought of as an unbeatable graphical calculator, but an awful programming language.

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