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.
#rstats version 4.2.0 is "Vigorous Calisthenics", which sounds an awful lot like "Furious Handwaving".
(Also, make your own 420 joke.)
Anna "Delvey" Sorokin announces she will "move away from the 'scammer persona'" and launch NFTs
Wat. #rstats
> 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:
(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?
Two #jobs open at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR:
Adjunct professor to teach Algorithms in fall 2022:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1--JYpwbp1mPD4Z74snQtRi0dOQqrlNYW/view
Computer science lab technician:
Please boost.
"Apparently this type of program is called a polyglot"
submitted by unrecognizable_name
https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/vbckpg/apparently_this_type_of_program_is_called_a/
Celsius pauses all withdrawals, claims it's due to "extreme market conditions"
June 12, 2022
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=celsius-pauses-all-withdrawals
Tesla's "self driving" software disables itself just before crashes to sneakily avoid liability https://fortune.com/2022/06/10/elon-musk-tesla-nhtsa-investigation-traffic-safety-autonomous-fsd-fatal-probe/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.