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Interesting article, thanks. FYI, the outbound links are broken for me.
January 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Interesting article, thanks. FYI, the outbound links are broken for me.
Pretty sure this footage is from Fires of Kuwait (1992), which is on youtube and is a great documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tUz...
Fires of Kuwait (1992) HD
YouTube video by NLX78
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Pretty sure this footage is from Fires of Kuwait (1992), which is on youtube and is a great documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tUz...
I can recommend @aptshadow.bsky.social's Tyrant Philosophers series. I've been racing through them and thoroughly enjoying myself, and they're somewhat discworldy (although serious rather than satirical).
January 2, 2026 at 8:43 PM
I can recommend @aptshadow.bsky.social's Tyrant Philosophers series. I've been racing through them and thoroughly enjoying myself, and they're somewhat discworldy (although serious rather than satirical).
I quite like going by starting frequency:
December 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I quite like going by starting frequency:
You could also write wrapper functions for the DBI functions which open and close the connection, along the lines of this. read_duckdb <- function(q) {
con <-dbConnect(...)
on.exit(dbDisconnect(con))
dbGetQuery(q)
}
con <-dbConnect(...)
on.exit(dbDisconnect(con))
dbGetQuery(q)
}
December 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
You could also write wrapper functions for the DBI functions which open and close the connection, along the lines of this. read_duckdb <- function(q) {
con <-dbConnect(...)
on.exit(dbDisconnect(con))
dbGetQuery(q)
}
con <-dbConnect(...)
on.exit(dbDisconnect(con))
dbGetQuery(q)
}
delete this before the italians wake up
December 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM
delete this before the italians wake up
The 12 year olds are on it already: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Google plans to put datacentres in space to meet demand for AI
US technology company’s engineers want to exploit solar power and the falling cost of rocket launches
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The 12 year olds are on it already: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Left is a table, right is a figure. Left has headers, information is primarily text/numeric. Right's information is primarily visual - I view it as 2 faceted plots with the headers as titles and the text as captions.
October 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Left is a table, right is a figure. Left has headers, information is primarily text/numeric. Right's information is primarily visual - I view it as 2 faceted plots with the headers as titles and the text as captions.
I literally did this last week lol
October 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I literally did this last week lol
I think "The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game" may be possible in that timeframe, though I've not played it myself.
August 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I think "The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game" may be possible in that timeframe, though I've not played it myself.
fired for having a girlfriend smh
July 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
fired for having a girlfriend smh
Yeah, I couldn't find a nice explanation for how {systemfonts} works with Google Fonts. I will probably stick with {showtext} for now.
April 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Yeah, I couldn't find a nice explanation for how {systemfonts} works with Google Fonts. I will probably stick with {showtext} for now.
I like {showtext}. Here's the section from my person cheatsheet (code in alt text).
April 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I like {showtext}. Here's the section from my person cheatsheet (code in alt text).
Great stuff, I love this package!
April 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Great stuff, I love this package!
Figured out a nicer way of doing it, using the existing clip = "off" in coord_cartesian() and multiple new lines before the title, you can use the defaults labs() for title and subtitle without resorting to annotation or label layers.
gist.github.com/simply-rayte...
gist.github.com/simply-rayte...
April 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Figured out a nicer way of doing it, using the existing clip = "off" in coord_cartesian() and multiple new lines before the title, you can use the defaults labs() for title and subtitle without resorting to annotation or label layers.
gist.github.com/simply-rayte...
gist.github.com/simply-rayte...
Apart from the typos, oops! Thanks!
April 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Apart from the typos, oops! Thanks!