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  • Agree on stack overflow. And part of learning how to program is trying to structure logic into thoughtful questions.

    With R specifically I’d recommend looking into the tidyverse library for R. Or at least understand the libraries your work environment will be specifying to make sure you’re on the same page.

  • iOS 17 Tip of the Week: Password Options
  • Not sure how to take this. Out of all people who handle my data at this point - Apple seems to be towards the top. Not the top - but above many who handle my data and above google specifically.

    Can you elaborate on this? If you have a moment.

  • How would I start as a database consultant for a niche software?
  • As others have mentioned - I would second. A good website. Let them come to you. Give your solutions to common problems. Create a github. Provide repeatable examples on your GitHub and encourage contact for custom solutions.

    This won’t be a multi million dollar business. At best you’ll give yourself some work to get your name out. Companies don’t talk to each other - but maybe your niche is different. This is really the only path I can see without attaching yourself to a larger entity.

  • Car free vacation in Mexico?
  • Don’t do it. Please don’t. As someone married into a family of Mexicans who are very open about the state of Mexico please don’t. If my fluent wife who is familiar with the area would not feel safe then I stress to not do it.

    It’s a shame. Beautiful country. Wonderful people. But you are very much at the whim of others and please do not.

  • Sony Reveals Tons of New Details About the PS5's Adaptive Controller
  • Surely it will be. Even if there’s not official drivers - which I’m guessing will happen soon - the community will probably get it going quickly. It’s got to have a close enough interface to a standard ps controller I wouldn’t be shocked if it works out of the box.

  • Python developers won’t let go of Python 2
  • 20 years on giant enterprise codebases. And any enterprise worth their salt at this point will be scanning these servers and flagging eosl software.

    My experience the last five years of the 20 - security and service life trumps all fucking complaints about complexity.

    To the point where it’s the opposite and I’m fielding weekly questions about why we’re still running an older 3.7.9 version. Among 50 other things.

  • Python developers won’t let go of Python 2
  • Meh. I’ve ported a fair many py2 projects to 3. At this point just bite the bullet. Even from a security standpoint. Trying to not let my bias seep through - but it’s been so long.

  • $70 Mortal Kombat 1 Switch version called "robbery" as graphical comparisons flood the internet
  • Sometimes I wish I could have a job where companies just say “hey should we make this decision” and I tell them “that’s so fucking stupid no one will actually like that” and get paid well for it.

    That’s my dream.

  • $70 Mortal Kombat 1 Switch version called "robbery" as graphical comparisons flood the internet
  • Others have already replied with this info but I’m just spelling it out for anyone who is not familiar like me:

    They fucking named the brand new game mk1. Is it a remaster? No. It’s not a remaster. Is it a recreation of mk1? No. It’s an alternate timeline game given the worst name in the history of naming things. It’s genuinely a brand new game.

  • Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2, Laptop Go 4 Details Leak Ahead of AI Event
  • Really freaking great. I get awesome battery life on arm MacBook compared to an intell one I still need to use. I feel like it’s about double when I compare my workloads between the two. Wish I had something more scientific to offer - but for what I do - much longer battery life and a much much much cooler and quieter laptop. I had to use my i7 for something the other day and forgot how freaking noisy the thing was.

  • Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2, Laptop Go 4 Details Leak Ahead of AI Event
  • What is your use case? If it’s dev or data science work I can at least give my feedback. Early on kind of awful - competing packages , incompatibility between tools assuming arm and others that had to be emulated. I can go on if it helps - it’s much better now but the occasional pain point.

  • Changeling
  • That’s a shame - ep 4 is when it really kicked in for me. I think if it didn’t have forward momentum then I would have probably been more meh about it.

    It did have a great setting, tone and actors. Even though I like it - still feels like there is some wasted opportunity to me.

  • Changeling

    Anyone watching this at all? Made a post in some tv subreddit - but as far as I can tell there are no discussions and I really don’t want to switch back to Reddit to discuss one show.

    Thoughts so far if you are?

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    Changeling ep 4 - spoiler discussion
  • So I’m convinced there is something up with William. Or at least it’s a misdirect.

    I’m still happy it’s just not outright fantasy. No idea on the source material and how closely this follows. I would have expected more forward momentum in the first four episodes - but still great atmosphere and direction so far.

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    Changeling ep 4 - spoiler discussion

    Thoughts so far? Spoilers below

    “I cannot tell a lie” sounds something like a magical creature would say. I’m not even done with the episode and major suspicion from him.

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