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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 13:09:48 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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So, we're taking stuff that I already don't really understand and wrapping them in functions. The "wrap this in a function" is mostly pretty easy, except the part about renaming a function-internal variable. That part is also easy, but I never remember it until I submit the exercise.

I think I need to download some data from the US Census Bureau and start chewing through their data with R-Lang, JuliaLang, and so on.

Too bad #DataCamp doesn't also cover GNU Octave. It's been so long since I used Octave and SciLab that I'm sure I'd just sit there staring at a blank screen.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 11:25:39 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I didn't ever have a pager for on-call, but I did sometimes have the company Blackberry.

And, no, I didn't get paid unless I got called.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 10:47:51 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Pushing back the "skill assessment" in R-Lang because I'm 100% sure I'd fail it currently. I need to check, because if they have a similar assessment for JuliaLang, I'd like to prepare and take it also.

In other news, I had a certificate I was pursuing that would have required about 200 hours between the time I started on it in early August and the end of December. But from mid-August, my available time and concentration to put into the program have been about half what they were previously, as I'm being squeezed between my mom's death and extra grandchild duties because Son_2 and his wife are about to have another baby.

#DataCamp

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 07:05:56 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://gnusocial.jp/url/3184676 [www reuters com]

Reuters -- For the first time, a slight majority of Palestinians now say the 2023-OCT-07 attack was the wrong decision, according to a recent poll.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 03:12:34 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun Most HTML renderers don't even replace ugly "curly" quotes with real quotes, so I'm not surprised.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 00:36:40 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun Most HTML renderers don't even replace ugly "curly" quotes with real quotes, so I'm not surprised.

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Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 21:10:05 JST Angry Sun

if you want me to update your software promptly then make an apt repository for it.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 03:41:44 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Spider crawling on the table. https://gnusocial.jp/url/3179496
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:33:18 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Time wasters: $SERVICE that decides I need to prove I'm me using an e-mailed code. Bro, I have a YubiKey. Better, faster, and a lot more secure.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 01:45:54 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUnf8rudc8Y

My now deceased friend Mike told me that when the song Mellow Yellow was popular, his peers were smoking banana peels trying to get high. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellow_Yellow Mr O (my high school history teacher who came from Latvia) took his students smoking banana peels as proof that getting high was mostly about expectations rather than ingredients.

I was much younger, so I was never aware of any of it until much later, when Mr O and Mike told me their stories about it.
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1. We've ALL SUNG This CLASSIC HIT for DECADES...TURNS OUT It's About a SEX TOY! | Professor of Rock
  
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  Coming up, the story behind one of the biggest hits of 1966 Mellow Yellow by Donovan. Packed with hidden meanings and controversial themes, this song, someho...
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  "Mellow Yellow" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. Released in the US in 1966, it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Outside the US, "Mellow Yellow" peaked at No. 8 in the UK in early 1967. Content The song was rumoured to be about smoking dried banana skins, which was believed to be a hallucinogenic drug in the 1960s, though this aspect of bananas has since been debunked. According to Donovan's notes, accompanying the album Donovan's Greatest Hits, the rumour that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins was started by Country Joe McDonald in 1966, and Donovan heard the rumour three weeks before "Mellow Yellow" was released as a single. According to The Rolling Stone Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, he admitted later the song made reference to a vibrator; an "electrical banana" as mentioned in the lyrics. Donovan stated, "I was reading a newspaper and on the back there was an ad for a yellow dildo called the mellow yellow," he said. "Really, you know the 'electric banana' was right in there and gave it away. And that's what...
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 23:22:45 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

The kids have had mild colds for the past few days and have been arguing almost non-stop. They seem to be a little better, so my daughter-in-law is trying to get them ready and take them outside.

Meanwhile, I still hear them screaming over who gets to use which toys when they go out there.

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silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 03:31:34 JST silverpill

How many domain names your government needs to block in order to censor an entire network?
Bluesky: 1 domain name
Nostr: 680 domain names, but blocking 10 most popular relays and hosted clients would probably be enough to kill it
Fediverse: more than 20000 domain names
#Fediverse #Censorship

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 09:40:18 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Daugher-in-law stopped at a yard sale full of educational toys and games. We've been playing some of the ones she got, but with few exceptions, they are missing pieces.

There was a motorized Lego-licensed building kit that Grandson_3 (age 5) really wanted to work on today, but I estimate that somewhere around 2/3 of the parts are missing.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:48:18 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240911-02.html

I'm not European, so I don't believe EUROcrats should listen to what I have to say. (Same thing for American bureaucrats considering foreigners' requests.)
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  Bring Back Free Software Funding: Give Your Feedback to the European Commission - FSFE
  
  The European Commission has cut important funds for Free Software. The non-transparent decision shows the need for sustainable long-term funding to allow t...
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:19:56 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_kW4GF7Ye8

Wildfires burning in #Los_Angeles, #San_Bernardino, and #Orange counties. #SoCal ... I don't see any real incursions into the High Desert, but one of my sisters did say someone she knew had to retrieve their vehicle from the park and ride along the I-15 because of threats from the fires.
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1. Bridge Fire burns 50,000 acres across LA, San Bernardino counties
  
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  The Bridge Fire rages on, continuing to burn Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties with no containment.Subscribe to FOX 11 on YouTube: https://www.youtube....
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} started following Week in Fediverse.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 14:30:57 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

RE: https://stereophonic.space/objects/d4f856a8-4f97-4799-a10f-22ead2505603

Rebecca Black could have told you this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0
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  Rebecca Black's debut album 'Let Her Burn' out now. https://lnk.dmsmusic.co/LHB Vinyl available for preorder now. https://rebeccablack.co/merchThis is the on...
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 22:36:44 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

> This is why I use GNOME ...

You know why I don't use GNOME? Almost every desktop decision and most application decisions are wrong for me and they make it impossible to change them. It's like they go out of their way to make everything they touch unusable by normal people.

And this includes Gtk+, as it gets pulled in less and less user-friendly directions by its primary use case (GNOME software) leads it that way.

This isn't new, by the way. Back around 2000 (+/- 2 years), it was already noticeable. That's when I started avoiding GNOME and butt-ugly Gtk.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 21:33:49 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

All three kids have slight colds, as do I. We're not sure whether this is the first installment of "brought it home from school" or something that Son_2 carried in.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 07:21:47 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I really do not like this bank.

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A GNU+Linux bearing nomad migrating across a Windows-centric desert. I save the world from incompetent headquarters IT folks. I invite comment and discussion, but I dislike arguing.

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