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Interviewer: Why did you decide to open an Italian restaurant?

Limp Bizkit: 🎵 I did it all for the gnocchi! 🎵

If you're posting a poll on Mastodon, you can make a "choose one" poll or a "choose one or more" poll.

On the website interface, you can switch types by clicking on the voting buttons when you're posting the poll. When they are circles it will be a "choose one" poll, when they are squares it's "one or more".

The official apps don't (yet) support changing this, some of the third party apps may support it though.

#MastoTips #Mastodon #FediTips #Polls

version 4.2.0 is "Vigorous Calisthenics", which sounds an awful lot like "Furious Handwaving".

(Also, make your own 420 joke.)

Wat.

> x <- sqrt(2) ^ 2
> x
[1] 2
> x == 2
[1] FALSE
> x - 2
[1] 4.440892e-16

I recognize that floating point error is an issue, but printing a float as its approximate integer value seems ... perilous.

(Example from Wickham & Grolemund, R for Data Science.)

Tech kvetch 

I've got 20 years of personal photos in Google Photos, which is associated with my work email account. Photos is being deactivated for this account at the end of the month, so I need to download them.

Google has a process for downloading all of your photos:

techadvisor.com/article/743371

(Scroll down to "How to download all Google Photos at once to PC or hard drive".)

I initiated it and am waiting for the email that my archive is ready. The site says they're still working on it.

It's been four days.

When, in a programming language, you say

b = a

one of two things can happen:

1. a and b are the same object, so changing one changes the other, or
2. b is an independent copy of a.

1 uses less memory, but can lead to surprising behavior.

If I understand correctly, R does something stranger: a and b are the same object, but a copy is made *later* if either of them is modified.

Is this a clever way to get the best of both worlds, or is it perilous?

Actually, Frankenstein is the doctor. The creature only has a monster's degree.

Sure, rolling in stinky things is fun, but there are consequences. #Violet

Do I have any followers who speak Chinese who can confirm (or refute) that the language has a suffix "-mén," meaning "door or gate," that is roughly used to mean a scandal in the same way as "-gate" from Watergate?

Why don’t pirates take a shower before they walk the plank? They just wash up on shore.

Star Trek Discovery S2 

For someone raised on Vulcan, Michael Burnham sure gives a lot of tearful speeches.

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