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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.