Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

And here's the podcast. It was so much fun to argue with Michael again. He's wrong about 1 cent/ kilowatt-hour solar, by the way.

https://www.cleaningup.live/the-solar-revolution-past-present-and-future-ep173-jenny-chase/

Working on the next XLConnect release. The master branch build can be installed the usual way:

install_github("miraisolutions/xlconnect")

or using r-universe:

install.packages("XLConnect", repos = c("https://miraisolutions.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org"))

#RStats #XLConnect #Excel #runiverse

@simon In reality the Enterprise computer requests were sent to cheap labour on Zargon V.

I'm fascinated by how difficult LLM-based AI systems are proving to use

Makes me realize that the Star Trek ship computers are actually a pretty good representation of this: you need to have a very high level of experience to know to say things like "Computer: reroute auxiliary power to the forward shield emitters"

Much like getting ChatGPT et al to reliably-enough perform useful tasks for you!

i’m definitely not against making big changes, quite the contrary, i just realize that i will always be me. no matter how much i grow, some things are unchangeable. i can see those as faults, or i can find a way to make them assets

Serious question to people born on 1970-01-01: Did you ever encounter weird IT related issues due to your dob?

Sharing encouraged, because I'm genuinely curious

Okay, this is part of my contribution to the idea of a monoculture on mastodon.

I'm Nigerian. Nigeria is about to go on a huge public strike, and I haven't heard anything about it here. Now, I don't blame anyone for that, obviously, but I think it shows the fact that perhaps there aren't as many Africans as I'd like.

Curiosity: the ultimate business superpower. Get the full Software Misadventures podcast here: https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/oxide-ditching-the-rules?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

am finally done with twitter

what got me was the incredible degree of disgust from discovering that i have some kind of flag set that lets me say "cis" wantonly while my peers cannot

fuck everything about that

... what if my legal name was Aria Maker Of Desires

Thinking about submitting a talk proposal to a quirky lil tech conference with the working title "It’s Easier to Learn a Programming Language than a Foreign Language: An Unpopular Opinion."

For "who is she to claim this!?" context: I learned how to code as an adult, after ~ 8 years teaching English as a second/foreign language. I have an M.A. in this area, and am versed in linguistics and the science of second language acquisition.

Would you want to hear this talk? Or will I be heckled lol...

any good new scifi out there, ideally without useless techno-violence, weapon glorification and warfare? please send me

@HalvarFlake I have found it helpful to talk to GenAi when stuck on a problem, but I suspect it's just a more advanced (and less self-conscious) form of rubber-duck debugging. I wonder if anyone has tried talking through their (technical) issues with ELIZA...

Kinda weird that it seems to me that GenAI has made writing boilerplate or throwaway code much faster, but debugging remains an unchangedly difficult skill.