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Randy Boyes

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Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 11d

I want to watch a debate between the atheists who said yes and the evangelicals who don't believe in jesus

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Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 12d

I’m doing my honest best to listen to this with an open mind but hooiiioill

There are so many words said that have absolutely no bearing on the facts of the case

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The Law, such as it is

Government Podcast · Monthly Series · An exploration of a broken, if beautiful, institution, the law, and tradition, America. Season one told the story of a case, LESSIG v. NYT. Season two begins the ...

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Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 14d

If this is wrong I don’t want to be right

Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 16d

Just wait haha

Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 16d

Bilewater runback gives me no satisfaction

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Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 18d

Type jaywalking
Typeslaughter
Insider typing

Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 19d

If they didn’t want us to commit type piracy they should have named it after a less cool crime

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Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 19d

Oo silksong though

Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 20d

I miss being able to just buy a thing and have it, I hate paying for subscriptions

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 20d

Am I the only one who thinks Liquid Glass actually looks kinda good

Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 20d

I wish email wasn’t free - I would much prefer email if it cost a tenth of a cent per recipient per email

Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 23d

At my high school you had to have a librarian or teacher come over a manually type in a password every time you wanted to go to a website that wasn’t on their whitelist

At least, you did unless you found a way to obtain that password …

Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 24d

Sure? And I think that’s fine because essentially nothing of consequence depends on what is and is not counted as indie

Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 24d

The scale in the figure goes from 1 to multiple thousands. On that scale, 28 is “not high”

Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 24d

I’m confused - Are you saying that stray isn’t an indie game? It pretty clearly is, to me … 28 people working on a game is not high and it’s the first (and only, so far) game that the dev has made

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Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 24d

I think indie is a “know it when you see it” label and that’s totally fine - I can’t think of a game where there is legitimate argument over whether or not something is “indie” and also who could possibly care

Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 24d

I’m guessing you get 90% of the way there with just credits size. Game size on disk seems irrelevant

Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 24d

It should only be a month or so until he’s good with one wake-up during the night, and then another few weeks until he sleeps through the night. The “every 2 hours” phase is 2-3 weeks long, in my experience

Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 26d

Devastating dad joke miss not referring to this as “embraces the {} notation”

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Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 28d

I honestly can’t square this take with my experience using LLMs. I find them useful for small, well-defined problems where checking correctness is easy, and mostly a waste of time outside those bounds.

Do you really think a whole job (e.g. a professor) is automatable right now? Feels far to me

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Randy Boyes @randy.pub · Sep 9

Can we not just write code without being freaks about it for once

Randy Boyes @randy.pub · Sep 7

socviz.co

Data Visualization

A practical introduction.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · Sep 3

I really enjoyed giving a brief introduction to Julia for statisticians yesterday - thanks to Jake Grainger and Charles Dufour for organising such a great session!

Slides: nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rss-in...

#RStats #JuliaLang #ggplot2 #RSS2025Conf @tidierjl.bsky.social

Screenshot of slides comparing R and Julia code for visualisation

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Randy Boyes @randy.pub · Sep 3

Given she did the fraud, of course - which I still think is much more likely than not. Everything in this appeal feels like an attempt to get her off on a technicality

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Randy Boyes @randy.pub · Sep 3

I think there’s at least some truth to the idea that she’s being punished harder than people in her position typically would be. But - the fix is not “she should get off with a warning”, it’s “the others should also be fired”

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