Life hack: always do that direction on a weekend and the other during on a weekday :p

Just to be clear, the full, raw source directory (e.g. git repo) should *not* be in the PBW, only a self-contained source tarball sufficient to build the binary; gist:

1. stage ./ => *.tar.gz
2. build *.tar.gz => *.pbw
3. prune pbw => *.light.pbw

In bsky.app/profile/eric..., you say random tests shows a ~5x increase in PBW size. There are comments concerned about bloat or download sizes.

I can imagine distributing *.pbw and *.light.pbw (w/out source) and have an option in the app which to download.

Past experiences with Pebble disappearing and Rebble stepping in, but where it was hard to track down the source code (at all or for specific version) for those who wanted to take over maintenance or development, showed that there is a need for archival of source code.

As a long-term FOSS person, I think this is an excellent idea. As you hint at in follow-up comment, this also brings:

3) self-contained code archiving

We cannot rely on GitHub as a long-term archive - we need a dedicated project for that. Self-contained "tarballs" helps preserve code

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Thanks for doing this tests and sharing your findings. Be able to move away from meetup will free up budgets for more constructive things.

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Luma is fairly easy to use. Very impressed

External events can be added to the calendar.

Very easy to publish calendars - promoting multiple events in one fell swoop.

Once a critical mass has been achieved- we can have multiple calendars going

#rstats

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I'll only be offended if you don't come! /s

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Yeah, it can be annoying to submit a *new* package, especially when you end up at the end of a multi-day "Newbies" queue (nx10.dev/cransubs/). Then u missed one thing & end up in queue again. Been there. github.com/DavisVaughan... has saved me a few times

On the upside, *updates* are much quicker

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library(progressr)
handlers("beepr", "cli")
handlers(global = TRUE)

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Shouldn't be too hard to add support for BRRR

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CRANhaven dashboard has been fixed

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(The lack of updates was due to a new package that showed up on CRAN briefly and then it was *removed* not just archived - that case should now be handled)

And here I was thinking we're all living a happy life - turns out we have a bug on our end

It's been 27 days since an #RStats package was archived on CRAN

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Are we using NULL more than we should in #RStats?

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My version: With CRAN, the package maintainer pays the price for end users to have a smooth ride, instead of vice versa

Used StickerApp last year. Happy with em. Had no idea but they ship out of Malmö, Sweden ~10 days to US

I rushed in order that arrived just before catching a flight to teach workshop in Sweden. I could have walked to their place in Malmö when I landed - turns out my brother even knows them. Haha :)

It's unfortunate that data.table seems to require a list, as async() creates, because otherwise:

data[, .(x = future(long(x))), by = .(group1, group2)] |> value()

would have worked

Not sure, but I think

value.default <- function(x, ...) x

was in the 'future' package at some point, but I then cleaned it out + protect against unexpected mistakes