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made a few plots and we can now quantify it: in terms of its effect on canada/us travel, the second trump presidency is over three 9/11s
January 23, 2026 at 5:44 PM
throwing this out there in desperation -- does anyone have any idea how to get filled polygons with no border lines in ggplot2 with geom_sf()? this used to be possible because i did it all the time by setting colour = NA but now i get lines between adjacent polygons and it looks awful #rstats
January 16, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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hey!

hey!!!

if you are an academic of any rank in the critical tech studies space who cares about how money, finance, and business structures work in science and technology, i want to see your abstracts for a collected volume! they're due tomorrow!!!

https//oddletters.com/tech-money/
January 5, 2026 at 1:30 PM
(final countdown voice) IT'S MY LOCAL POSTGRES
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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We're not asking you to start learning Haskell. We're saying, when the time is right, you will look in the mirror and will already have started learning Haskell.
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 AM
clair obscur expedition 33? yeah, it's pretty good, but tbh I think the series really ran out of new ideas between expeditions 17-19 and has just been coasting since
December 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
ahh, time to relax and play some nethack (spend all evening reading wikis and trying to remember key bindings)
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
three young posters were arguing about which was superior.
"my best post is 2,000 words," said the first.
"my best post is 5,000 words," said the second.
"my best post is over 10,000 words," said the third.
"my best post is 824 words," said the master.
hearing this, the students were illuminated.
December 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
extremely funny to me that the blue prince kid keeps sleeping in the tent even after he inherits the house
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
today i joined the ranks of the few, the weird, the strangely attractive: those brave folks stumbling through advent of code in haskell for the first time. it ain't pretty but i've got two stars!
December 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
unironically excited to save Santa from the moon base or whatever insanity they've cooked up this year

Daily programming puzzles at Advent of Code #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com
Advent of Code 2025
adventofcode.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
RETVRN
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
guys will literally jury-rig their own #rstats package to procedurally generate opendocument presentations before g̶o̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶r̶a̶p̶y̶ reinstalling windows github.com/chris3141592...
GitHub - chris31415926535/odp
Contribute to chris31415926535/odp development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
til there's apparently a business in wrapping linux command-line tools in a web frontend and throwing it up free with some ads on it? not the worst idea but i gotta wonder about the economics of it
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
*slaps hood of the R language for statistical computing* you can fit so many runtime dynamic type errors in this baby
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
you pronounce camus like samus. i pronounce samus like camus. we are not the same
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
these are actually incredible if you read them in colonel kurtz's voice

"skin as part of brain?"

This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
eyeing the closed doors in my home and instinctively checking my pockets for keys and gems
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
would love to know what percentage of open-source projects are motivated by pure spite towards microsoft
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
emily dickinson was the first true poster. consider:
1. only interacted with friends through short cryptic text messages
2. creative use of capitalization and punctuation
3. categorically refused to touch grass
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
switching to nixos because i like my config files tidy and my drama messy
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i used to think i was "good at the computer" but trying to set up neovim for elixir development on nixos has thoroughly disabused me of this notion
October 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
extremely funny for a corporate official to be like "our product, nay our entire product class, is functionally unworkable"
Every appeal gets reviewed by moderators, but literally no social media site at scale can scan user content in a timely fashion for violations using only humans. They do not retain or train on any Bsky user data or images.
October 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Playground
Lidgerwood, ND
October 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
ICE officer playing Wolfenstein on his steam deck and shaking his head the whole time so his coworkers know he disagrees with it
August 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM