Taras Kaduk
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Taras Kaduk
@taraskaduk.com
I appreciate the answer but I regret I asked
July 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
@mpopov.com were you looking for this?
January 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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".
January 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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?...
BBC rage against the machine
YouTube video by Habitual Viral Uploads
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January 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Plot twist - it’s Taco Bell
December 3, 2024 at 9:54 AM
What if bars didn’t start at zero, either?..
November 26, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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.
November 23, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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.
November 23, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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
November 23, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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
November 23, 2024 at 1:13 PM
November 23, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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!”
November 23, 2024 at 3:53 AM
It’s the ship of Theseus, only they replace all Power BI parts with Excel parts.
November 23, 2024 at 3:51 AM