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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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Earlier today I listened to a podcast where someone described their work "using a new AI method such as clustering".
The relevant Wikipedia page has citations from the 1930s.
And how is your day going?
The relevant Wikipedia page has citations from the 1930s.
And how is your day going?
December 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Earlier today I listened to a podcast where someone described their work "using a new AI method such as clustering".
The relevant Wikipedia page has citations from the 1930s.
And how is your day going?
The relevant Wikipedia page has citations from the 1930s.
And how is your day going?
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An #RStats blog entry by Heather Turner explains the new Research Software Maintenance Fund grant.
blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...
blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...
RSMF: Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R - The R Blog
blog.r-project.org
December 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
An #RStats blog entry by Heather Turner explains the new Research Software Maintenance Fund grant.
blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...
blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...
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The R Foundation is happy to be a partner on the project
"Enabling the next generation of R contributors"
awarded £500k under the Research Software Maintenance Fund (Software Sustainability Institute, UK).
Announcement: www.software.ac.uk/ssi-awards-f...
Congratulations to the project team!
"Enabling the next generation of R contributors"
awarded £500k under the Research Software Maintenance Fund (Software Sustainability Institute, UK).
Announcement: www.software.ac.uk/ssi-awards-f...
Congratulations to the project team!
SSI awards funding to 13 projects through the RSMF Round 1 | Software Sustainability Institute
We are pleased to announce that the Research Software Maintenance Fund (RSMF) has funded 13 projects to advance the sustainability and impact of research software. Through this initiative, the SSI, wi...
www.software.ac.uk
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The R Foundation is happy to be a partner on the project
"Enabling the next generation of R contributors"
awarded £500k under the Research Software Maintenance Fund (Software Sustainability Institute, UK).
Announcement: www.software.ac.uk/ssi-awards-f...
Congratulations to the project team!
"Enabling the next generation of R contributors"
awarded £500k under the Research Software Maintenance Fund (Software Sustainability Institute, UK).
Announcement: www.software.ac.uk/ssi-awards-f...
Congratulations to the project team!
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The Pink Book of #MarginalEffects (aka Model to Meaning) ships next week and I've got a backlog of Zoolander memes.
Hope you're hungry for some spam in your timeline.
#RStats #PyData
Hope you're hungry for some spam in your timeline.
#RStats #PyData
September 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The Pink Book of #MarginalEffects (aka Model to Meaning) ships next week and I've got a backlog of Zoolander memes.
Hope you're hungry for some spam in your timeline.
#RStats #PyData
Hope you're hungry for some spam in your timeline.
#RStats #PyData
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Yes, it's a QR decomposition, a bespoke one modified by Ross from LINPACK fortran code.
The key difference from LINPACK (in src/appl/dqrdc2.f) is that it pivots only when really needed, so that computing sequential "this beta adjusted for the previous ones" is more straightforward.
The key difference from LINPACK (in src/appl/dqrdc2.f) is that it pivots only when really needed, so that computing sequential "this beta adjusted for the previous ones" is more straightforward.
June 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Yes, it's a QR decomposition, a bespoke one modified by Ross from LINPACK fortran code.
The key difference from LINPACK (in src/appl/dqrdc2.f) is that it pivots only when really needed, so that computing sequential "this beta adjusted for the previous ones" is more straightforward.
The key difference from LINPACK (in src/appl/dqrdc2.f) is that it pivots only when really needed, so that computing sequential "this beta adjusted for the previous ones" is more straightforward.
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this is my very favourite comment from the R code base: github.com/r-devel/r-sv... (this more than 28 years ago - I didn't feel like doing the archaeology to trace the code back through a file reorganization that was done in 1998 ...)
June 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
this is my very favourite comment from the R code base: github.com/r-devel/r-sv... (this more than 28 years ago - I didn't feel like doing the archaeology to trace the code back through a file reorganization that was done in 1998 ...)
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R version 4.5.0 "How About a Twenty-Six" (source version) has been released. (You can find it in cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/, or wait for CRAN to be updated.)
April 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
R version 4.5.0 "How About a Twenty-Six" (source version) has been released. (You can find it in cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/, or wait for CRAN to be updated.)
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Clay Bennett nails it.
February 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Clay Bennett nails it.
Stand with Ukraine: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A humiliation at the White House and what does it tell us? Trump would make a colony of my country | Andrey Kurkov
A cold reality hit us in Washington. Zelenskyy was being forced to buy hope of survival by people who have no care for our freedom, says Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Stand with Ukraine: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨
It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax.
This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types.
Check it out!
grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/
It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax.
This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types.
Check it out!
grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/
February 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨
It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax.
This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types.
Check it out!
grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/
It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax.
This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types.
Check it out!
grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/
Facebook is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner
Maria Ressa says decision to end factchecking in US means ‘dangerous times ahead’ for journalism and democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Maria Ressa says decision to end factchecking in US means ‘dangerous times ahead’ for journalism and democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Facebook is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner
Maria Ressa says decision to end factchecking in US means ‘dangerous times ahead’ for journalism and democracy
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Facebook is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner
Maria Ressa says decision to end factchecking in US means ‘dangerous times ahead’ for journalism and democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Maria Ressa says decision to end factchecking in US means ‘dangerous times ahead’ for journalism and democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...