Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!

Anywhoodle, checked these out.

If you like starburst, they're fine.

However, they chose to use the same size chew as the OG candy, which is a *mistake*. A good gummy must be one you can stuff your face with, and these are awkward.

7.5 / 10

It insults the memory of all those who gave their lives so that I might travel via "wheels", I tell myself.

The zero-dependency part is the biggest selling point here. You don't need to "set anything up" to get larger-than-memory workflows with these tools!

At a certain scale you do, but at that scale you were going to need help anyways (probably).

Data.table deserves all the praise it gets, though.

The IIJA was supposed to build hundreds of EV chargers and they ended up actually building... like a handful? Not a great record.

But this is nothing new. Even the Shovel Ready™ jobs of Obama-era stimulus took years to disburse funds.

We built in 15-16, and pretty much all I've seen since ~ '19 on has been horror shows

For that kind of money... Wow

Liquid Nails is a house-in-a-tube if you've got enough of them and you're patient enough!

`fs` is awesome.

Base R has a decent toolkit for managing a lot of this stuff (or you can pass `system()` commands like a psycho), but the usability and bonus power of `fs` makes it absolutely worth the install.

You can't tell, but it's just concrete and woodchips under there. Retvrn!

I agree *except* for the opinion pieces (I disagree strenuously!)

I'd rather a writer just tell me their biases so I can calibrate accordingly than have them adopt their pretend-objective-writer voice and leave me guessing.

Much of the worst writing online is rooted in faux "balance".

I have! It's just straight up fraud, though, right? That's the actual practice of dentistry and the state has an interest in public health. I'm fine with ~ all vaccine mandates, and licensing dentists is well within that outer bound!

There's only like 4-6 states that have lactation consultant licensing, which is why I chose it -- It can range from positioning to get a good latch to *almost* nurse type stuff. Should these tools check your state of domicile? (Maybe they should)

You'd think "risk of near unlimited payouts" would make these products more conservative.

To my knowledge, Open AI hid behind their TOS for that. Were there ever lawsuits?

For "other licensed professions", the potential harm seems so so so much smaller.

I think this answers my question.

I can understand using these tools for researching how a lawyer might advise a client.

I can see how that gray area tips into legal advice, for which it's hard to hold anyone* accountable if it's defective. I'm shocked these companies don't tighten that up to CYA

"I'm not competent to give legal advice, but..." would do what for these products?

I ask that earnestly. Not taking a client's unique circumstances into account and just giving "casual advice" is a type of shield.

The issue is how it's represented.

I think you get closer to "yeah that's just fraud", and there you have a very very good reason for state action.

I would think these companies would be more cautious because of lawsuits, but maybe not!

(1) lots of professions have dumb licenses (eg, "lactation consultant". Is that a real job that's useful? Yes! But the state doesn't need to be involved)

(2) People give each other free legal advice all the time. I'll do it right now: don't talk to the police without a lawyer present!

Of course...

The trend towards everything secretly being a web app and annihilating your CPU is wack as hell, and I'm not into it.

I've never loved anyone enough to cost my employer almost a billion dollars in a defamation settlement.

So there's that, I guess.

Dierdre McCloskey's Economical Writing has a section titled "Avoid Elegant Variation". This is the root of a lot of terrible writing.

"I need to use a new word here!" -- someone about to sound like an idiot

Same as it ever was

This is where it's very hard to argue against introducing dplyr/tidyr to students. They're going to work in industry where the data is 20... or 200M rows.

A "write once, run just about anywhere" approach is an easy sell. It won't make them good programmers, but it arms them with something durable.

Slur-activated safety measures are the step we need to heal the divide, naturally

Muppet Christmas Carol Scrooge: you there, boy! What day is it? Boy: today? Why today is GAM day! Scrooge: Then I haven't missed it!

Yessssss

But gdp per capital can go up if you turn enough young men into cannon fodder!

I found the broader conversion interesting, even if the particulars weren't something I cared about. Interesting people talking about the things that interest them usually makes for something worth a listen.

rix, my package that leverages #Nix to provide reproducible data science environments for #RStats (and #python and #julia) is in the top 10 starred ropensci packages!

that’s pretty cool

"Am I being detained?"

"That Drambuie is for my snowblower"

"I don't answer questions"

Etc etc