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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 10h

Maybe they really like writing regex and hate that the computer does it for you now?

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 4d

Aw yeah that’s what charts were designed for

Lateralized Sleep Positions in Domestic Cats bar graph. 192 cats curve left. 109 curve right.

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 5d

Experimenting with a custom made static site generator. Super simple stuff: a build script that uses pandoc to convert markdown to HTML and then spatchcock it into a template file. Surprisingly successful so far

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 6d

At this point I’ve just made peace with the fact that divs cannot be centred and I’m much happier for it. Blessed is the mind too small for CSS

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 7d

LLMs have got me doubting my sanity. Y’all call spronions “spronions”, don’t you?

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 9d

I don’t blame the individual. Notebooks incentivise this.

By default there’s no where to put throwaway pieces of code, like a REPL. That stuff has to go somewhere so it ends up in the notebook.

It’s temporary code, and nothing is as permanent as temporary code.

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 9d

I am simple guy my brain is small. I am not smart enough to run a notebook.

It’s always stuff like “okay run cell 1 and then cell 3 but don’t run cell 2 because that’s just some throwaway code I wrote and oh you don’t have conduvpip installed so this won’t work”

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 9d

The worst thing about notebooks isn’t that they’re an incentive to write horrendously unstructured code, but that they displace proper IDEs. Lots of data science tooling is built with a mindset of “data scientists only use Jupyter”.

Plz I just want directories and plain-text files

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 10d

I believe kids should be protected from having to deal with merge conflicts until they are of a suitable age (at least 500 years old)

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 10d

I don’t want kids “pushing to main”. What are they pushing? It could be drugs.

The Register @theregister.com · 14d

Is GitHub a social network that endangers children? Australia wants to know

As ban on under-16s using some sites looms, cyber-safety regulator sends Microsoft’s code locker a letter Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has written to GitHub to ask it to consider if it’s a social network that endangers children.…

dlvr.it

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Jonathan O'Brien @jonobri.com · 13d

No, Australia does not need new cities.

My new essay sets the record straight: we have a lot of cities, but we aren’t using them as well as we could be. To make our cities more successful, we have to open up a lot more land for commercial uses to enable agglomeration.

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 13d

Disagree. I think we could build lots of big cities around Melbourne. Like Carlton, South Yarra, Richmond…

Seriously though, great article.

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 14d

My little victory is that I’ve introduced the word “spruik” to the Americans and some of them have started to use it

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 14d

Once again explaining to my overseas colleagues that we have public holidays for football and for celebrating animal abuse. One day they’re going to call me out on this

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 14d

I use `next` and `break` in my for loops in R, and I’ll never stop

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 21d

Every programmer dreams about this day and it’s finally happening to me: one of my bullshit abstractions made a future change easier than it would have been otherwise

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 28d

Why is it that universities don’t want to offer their Master of Economics course online, but are willing to offer a degree in clinical ultrasound online? How does that work?

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 29d

That sounds like some bullshit. I’m so sorry

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 29d

Why do you think this NIMBY considers London, New York and Los Angeles to be good, but Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Mexico City are bad? What's the difference? What could be the distinguishing factors there? What a mystery!

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · Sep 9

The neighbourhood kids have invented a game called “Wizards vs. Snipers”. The Wizards have summoned zombies, which is a rookie error because the Snipers are “casting headshot”

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