I appreciate the answer but I regret I asked

I promise, one day, I’ll start using this site. Also, what’s the proper verb to describe writing on here? Still tweeting?

Do I know anyone in Edinburgh? (Or did I use to know anyone from Edinburgh back when Twitter was good Twitter, and haven’t connected them here yet?)

Gonna start guessing… Off the top of my head… @johnmackintosh.bsky.social?

@mpopov.com were you looking for this?

Yep. That's heuristic #1 adopted into our daily life.
The heuristic #2 is, of course, "You can have your willpower. I'm going home now to bake a cake".

BBC rage against the machine YouTube video by Habitual Viral Uploads

Reminds me of that time when Rage Against The Machine were supposed to play “Killing In The Name Of” live on BBC (long story there), and BBC asked RATM not to swear on live TV, hoping the band will, in fact, do what they told them… on that very song... Oh the layers of irony
youtu.be/t7kNgfY8vg4?...

Plot twist - it’s Taco Bell

What if bars didn’t start at zero, either?..

How this chart is not titled “Christ on a bike!” is beyond me…

But have they given a bicycle to every animal though? Feels unfair. I bet salmon on a bike could beat the record.

And just like Andre3000 said “I ain’t got no raps” and took up flute, I ain’t got no R scripts, either. I’ve been living in the world of Outlooks and PowerPoints for 3 years now. The funny thing? I’m loving it all!

I bring it up all the time. It was peak society: guillotines and metric everything.

But I’ll settle for less. International Fixed Calendar. Swatch Internet time. Holocene Calendar. Abolishing of Daylight Saving Time. Anything just to feel alive.

Great map, can’t believe it’s 100% R!
Looks like admin boundaries in this package include sea borders (Crimea and Odesa look “puffy”), I’m confident there are packages that have sf objects of landmass only.
I also hope more geo datasets are updated with the preferred spelling of “Kyiv” over time.

Gets my dad every time when he calls me at noon and is surprised I’m asleep and it’s 4 AM somehow. Flat Earth was not a bad prototype, why did we have to go 3D? /s

I recently faced a crueler time zone issue, where the columns on both sides of the join are in UTC 00, but one somehow secretly carries the time zone of where the server at, and so values *look* the same, but aren’t treated the same (an extra -5 applied under the table by db). I’m still shaking

It’s funny because the original Power BI, when it came into general release (I’m so old - I was there), was really just 3 Excel modules - Power Query, 3rd party Power Pivot, and Power Charts - split away from Excel and packaged separately.
“We’ll get the rest later, boys!”

It’s the ship of Theseus, only they replace all Power BI parts with Excel parts.

Why am I here?