Dr B Learned Hand @pvsundarb@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2022
Pedestrian Deaths at Night in the USA is off the charts
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/11/upshot/nighttime-deaths.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare
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W3C has posted that we are no longer active on X/Twitter and have directed all our followers here to Mastodon.
We are encouraging all W3C-related accounts to do the same.
Encourage your friends to follow us here!
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"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."
— Mother Teresa
#Quote #QuoteOfTheDay
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How many of you are using #TELEGRAM
Telegram is a popular instant messaging app that focuses on privacy and security.
Telegram is most popular in the following countries:
India: 104.04 million users
Russia: 34.40 million users
Indonesia: 27.21 million users
United States: 26.85 million users
Brazil: 21.94 million users
Egypt: 14.85 million users
Vietnam: 11.84 million users
Mexico: 11.61 million users
Telegram is also popular in countries with heavy censorship and surveillance, such as Iran, Russia, and Uzbekistan.
Telegram Revenue and Usage Statistics (2023) - Business of Apps
Jul 27, 2023 — Telegram's largest market is India, which accounts for more than 20% of its userbase. Telegram also has a large amount of users in countries with heavy censorship and surveillance, such as Iran, Russia, and Uzbekistan.
Telegram is most popular among young adults aged 18-24, with 30% of users falling in this age group. It is also popular among people aged 25-34, with 28% of users falling in this age group. The app is more popular among men than women, with 64% of users being men and 36% being women.
Telegram has 55.2 million daily active users across iOS and Android.
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I am using TELEGRAM
@freemo not following your question
I am using TELEGRAM
How many of you are using #TELEGRAM
Telegram is a popular instant messaging app that focuses on privacy and security.
Telegram is most popular in the following countries:
India: 104.04 million users
Russia: 34.40 million users
Indonesia: 27.21 million users
United States: 26.85 million users
Brazil: 21.94 million users
Egypt: 14.85 million users
Vietnam: 11.84 million users
Mexico: 11.61 million users
Telegram is also popular in countries with heavy censorship and surveillance, such as Iran, Russia, and Uzbekistan.
Telegram Revenue and Usage Statistics (2023) - Business of Apps
Jul 27, 2023 — Telegram's largest market is India, which accounts for more than 20% of its userbase. Telegram also has a large amount of users in countries with heavy censorship and surveillance, such as Iran, Russia, and Uzbekistan.
Telegram is most popular among young adults aged 18-24, with 30% of users falling in this age group. It is also popular among people aged 25-34, with 28% of users falling in this age group. The app is more popular among men than women, with 64% of users being men and 36% being women.
Telegram has 55.2 million daily active users across iOS and Android.
Such a small world that we start with and then embrace all humanity. A wonderful life
“She had been delivered by Mr. Carter’s mother, a nurse. And a few days later, in a scene that might have been concocted by Hollywood, his mother took little Jimmy to Rosalynn’s house, where he “peeked into the cradle to see the newest baby on the street,” as he recalled in his 2015 memoir, “A Full Life, Reflections at Ninety.” - The NY Times
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"At Bumble, the women-centered dating app that calls Austin home, executives say that about one third of their 150 Texas employees have left the state entirely, opting for remote work...The reason: It’s not just hard to keep talented employees in Austin in a post-Roe world, where doctors might not perform even medically necessary abortions for fear of reprisal, it’s also hard to attract them to Texas in the first place."
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/bumble-abortion-lawsuit-texas/
"Word has also been significant in helping establish English as the global language of business. While it would be an overstatement to say Word alone made English the dominant language, as a US firm, Microsoft's mother-tongue is American-English. When this is coupled with Word’s ubiquity, it at least reinforces this dominance.
"Word primarily operates in English," says Noël Wolf, a linguistic expert"
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231025-the-surprisingly-subtle-ways-microsoft-word-has-changed-the-way-we-use-language#:~:text=Word%20has%20also,a%20linguistic%20expert
Top 3 states people move from to WA
California
Oregon
Texas
Overall, more than 248,000 people moved to Washington from another U.S. state in 2022. Nearly 50,000 came from California alone.
Data: Most new WA state residents in 2022 came via 10 states | Tri-City Herald
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/state/washington/article280955493.html
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“Back in the day” a grade of “C” on a report card meant “average,” so it was reasonable that lots of folks saw them. Grades have much different meanings now.
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ChatGPT from OpenAI relaunches the Browse with Bing feature after respecting robots.txt protocols https://www.seroundtable.com/chatgpt-relaunches-browse-with-bing-36124.html
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As I was donating a couple placemats to Hospice Boutique, an old lady in line in front of me was trying to donate a monitor and some other computer stuff. They wouldn't take it because they don't take computer stuff, so I was like, "I could use that monitor to go with an old computer I'm planning to give away soon". She agreed but didn't know much about computers, and I think because she didn't know what thing I was talking about when I said "monitor", she just started giving me stuff in case the things she was giving me was the monitor I was referring to. So I got an old monitor, an old laptop, and an old tablet.
The tablet ended up not turning on, and the laptop is super old with Windows XP. However, unlike newer laptops, it has a working DVD drive. I installed Puppy Linux on it, a distribution intended for extremely old hardware, which wasn't too difficult and works great even on hardware that seems to be about 20 years old! And it played DVDs right away without needing to install any new software. So now I have a portable DVD player.
The biggest challenge was that when I first tried installing Linux using the bootable USB key I had of a more mainstream distribution, it just showed a black screen. I thought it might have meant the laptop was dead until I realized that the USB key is for 64-bit computers, and this laptop is so old that it's 32-bit.
So the moral of the story is: if you have a super old computer that you think is worthless, it can still be used. Just install Puppy Linux!
"The prospect of strengthening political partnerships overseas and within U.S. borders was usually enough to get a quick response from invitees.
“You’re supposed to say yes,” Ms. Smoot said of responding to the invitations, “unless there’s a death in the family.”"
"“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is,” said Labour’s shadow leader of the House, Thangam Debbonaire, turning the words of political hero Winston Churchill against him.
“This isn’t just the reasonable person test,” Ms. Debbonaire said. “And he fails both.”" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/world/europe/boris-johnson-parliament-uk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare
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If you're using {renv} to reproduce #rstats projects, do yourself a favour this month and set:
options(renv.config.mran.enabled = FALSE)
MRAN has been going down intermittently, weeks ahead of its advertised July 1 shutdown, leading to intermittent problems restoring projects 😩
(Posit are well on top of this! https://github.com/rstudio/renv/issues/1343)
Joined Nov 2022
