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Data Science is my thing. Fan of FOSS. A good day is writing code in R (#rstats) with no meetings and nary a Microsoft product in sight. Introvert, appreciator of excellence. Should update avatar to have a gray beard now...
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The Iran decision will be announced on TACO Tuesday
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There are lots of good options! You could include it in the R package, or store it on Github, AWS S3 / Azure storage / GCP, HuggingFace, etc.
How big is the data?
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Mo' MSFT mo' problems
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And even if "AI" did "cure" cancer, half the US would be convinced it was a conspiracy created by Steve Ballmer's accountant's roommate from college's dog that was financing chemtrails that caused "birds" to traffic children in the basement of the Alamo's pizza parlor.
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Microsoft has played a part. They pretended to embrace/extend R, but extinguished the efforts. Remember Revolution R, MRAN, or R integration for SQL Server? Positron (improved VS Code clone) has taken focus from RStudio (the greatest). R support in Azure/Databricks is almost non-existent.
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TBF, he is SO popular and such a STABLE GENIUS that "it’s not possible to meet the number of people that want to see us". So we shouldn't be surprised there are 0 actual deals. They probably wouldn't understand his terms anyway--his IQ is just too high!
www.cnn.com/2025/05/16/b...
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Shh, you wouldn't want to impact the $62B valuation of the Hadoop successor
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Take comfort, fellow #Nixplay owners--it was their "pleasure and privilege" to enact this #enshittification demanding we pay for a feature that was free when we bought the device. I also love how they frame the allowed number of albums instead of saying they're removing the most important feature.
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What types of economic models are being used to better understand/predict potential outcomes given current levels of instability? Are they having any success? Agent-based models seem like a good candidate: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/agent-b.... Have you seen any tariff models that use them?
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Hopefully your physician is better than this: youtu.be/6u7XKsJvBJI?...
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In fact it's so vital for national security, I'm sure OpenAI and Google would happily turn over all profits and assets in exchange for the privilege of ensuring our safety by letting their hungry slop machines slurp up everything. Right? Right...?!
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They used the "deep state" as an excuse for an unelected billionaire to gut whatever programs/spending he didn't like and to enrich himself
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Also, wear Mockingjay pins
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Lock arms, and sing We Shall Overcome as loudly as possible to drown out his lies. Make them remove you by force.
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Another valid response to Musk asking what five things federal workers did last week:
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If that gets you fired, we know it's all hypocrisy and performative. (But we already know that.)
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The expanded clip makes slightly more sense: rumble.com/v6k2s4g-trum.... He's talking about elevators on an aircraft carrier that lift planes. With the intellect of a sixth grade schoolyard bully.
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#DataDriven
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For me... On Windows, yes, it takes 10-30 seconds. But that's the #Microsoft tax--all programs start slower on Windows. On macOS/Linux, RStudio starts in a second or so.
Windows network drives can cause the startup to take minutes. I was able to resolve it by changing an RStudio setting, IIRC.
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Was it something like this: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflo...?