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hrbrmstr, to random
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Drop (2024-05-20): Make-Up Monday

The late Monday edition of the Drop focuses on productivity tools and news sources. "btw" is a minimalist blogging platform, while the technique of using a calendar for task allocation is recommended for time management. "News Minimalist" uses a rating system for news significance. Additional text-only news sources are suggested for those who prefer lightweight news consumption.

http://dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev/2024/05/21/drop-469-2024-05-20-make-up-monday/

rmflight,
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@hrbrmstr really liked the idea of calendar planning. @tpoisot had a similar sounding post (geared to researchers writing papers and grants, but still) that was along similar lines.

https://buttondown.email/ctrl-alt-tim/archive/vol-4-a-big-thing-is-just-10000-little-things/

futurebird, to random
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I saw these cool golden mirror hexagon stickers and got all excited about making a model of the Webb telescope without thinking about WHY I’d do that so they have been on my desk for a month giving me a mix of vague excitement and slow burn anxiety— I think I will give them to one of the science teachers so I can stop worrying. I already gave them a gyroscope (which they loved)

Alternately I could make a model telescope and hang in the math office and refuse to explain why.

rmflight,
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@futurebird It's a cool piece of engineering, that's why! Seriously, who cares about the "why" if you really want to do it.

hrbrmstr, to random
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🚨Looks like #RStats was not immune to deserialization bugs after all https://hiddenlayer.com/research/r-bitrary-code-execution/

Watch those R Data files (and, we now shld come up with better ways to ensure local R library integrity)!!

CVE-2024-27322

rmflight,
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@hrbrmstr They say that 4.4.0 this particular exploit is fixed. I didn't see anything in the NEWS, but went digging in the source. A commit last month shows that a commit to serialize.c was made, to return an error instead of a promise.

Wonder if that's the fix?

https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/c06f7f2518673a75f9b36f2af9caf7b69ab4952e

rmflight, to python
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Kind of thankful that #RStats is not a system dependency that is pretty much embedded in the OS, and that I can upgrade it even on older software (like running R 4.3.0 on Ubuntu 20 LTS) without worrying about other things depending on it.

In contrast to #python 3.6, that I'm not keen to try and force an upgrade to 3.8 so I can get access to a newer version of SciPy that exposes some underlying functionality that one of our python packages depends on.

rmflight,
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Before anyone suggests Docker or VM, this is already a VM running on top of a cluster of machines, and it has another big project for a manuscript that is currently under review inside of it, so I'm very hesitant to break it in any way before the manuscript is completely done.

So I guess I'm just leaving it be for now.

rmflight,
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@brodriguesco I've done that for packages, but not generally python versions.

Someone else suggested pyenv to give a custom version of python and packages, I will probably end up trying that.

BigAngBlack, to random
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What was your favorite movie that started with this?

New Line Cinema animation

rmflight,
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@BigAngBlack oh man, so many good films from them, hard to pick just one "favorite"

TMNT (1990)
Blade
Lord of The Rings, The Return of the King

grrrck, to random
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I’m learning to accept that is dinner a series of snacks for a group of people who collectively hate everything I’ve made.

rmflight,
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@grrrck 😆 I hear that.

We were spoiled with 13, he will still eat most things.

10, she was picky. It's been years of work (and buying a food guide / program for picky eaters) and she is slowly finding more foods to enjoy.

6, he will throw us for a loop. Won't touch a food they enjoy at one meal, but then devour it at the next, the same day. 🤷‍♂️ And has stopped eating peanut butter from them getting some bread to the roof of their mouth once, six months ago.

hrbrmstr, to random
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Say what I/you will abt this daft twice-yearly manipulation of the time-space continuum, but I'll never not take it being light out at 18:30+ ET.

rmflight,
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@hrbrmstr yes it is nice. But being exhausted that first day b/c you lost an hour of sleep, not fun.

Also, why does the eastern timezone go all the way from Maine to Louisville KY?? What if the real problem with DST is that timezones are just too wide??

hrbrmstr, to random
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This season of Bad Batch is especially good.

rmflight,
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@hrbrmstr I agree. Youngest is very disappointed we can't watch more episodes until next week.

LeftistLawyer, to random
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Ok, I rarely do this, but for the sake of anecdotal research could you please boost?

  1. Are you O negative blood type?
  2. Have you had covid?

Please chime in with your experience.

rmflight,
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@LeftistLawyer 1. Yes. 2. Yes. Only once. But vaccinated as well as I can, and wear an N95 mask everywhere and avoid eating in public indoors, except for the two times I did (both within a week) and our entire family contracted COVID.

Cmastication, to random
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Played around with making generative AI prayer candles:

rmflight,
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@Cmastication is it just me, or is that a likeness of Bruce Springsteen??

hrbrmstr, to random
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I know I'm "supposed" to hate the live action Avatar (Netflix), but I'm 10-minutes in and it’s…not bad?

rmflight,
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@hrbrmstr I'm on episode 2 after last night, and I agree, this far it's not too bad.

mbonsma, to random
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Feeling cute*, might delete later

*like a sleep-deprived chaos monster #NewBabyLife

rmflight,
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@mbonsma omg, "sleep-deprived chaos monster" feels like the perfect description of being the parent of a newborn.

hrbrmstr, to random
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I honestly did not expect to wake up to the start of the second civil war in 'Murica. At least not this soon in 2024.

rmflight,
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@jt_rebelo @hrbrmstr also, ??

What are you seeing Bob? Could use more info, if you don't mind sharing.

MickaelCanouil, to dashboard
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Dashboard, Typst, new cross-reference system allowing more customisation, …
What are you waiting? Time to download, upgrade, and enjoy all these new features (and bug fixes).

https://quarto.org/docs/blog/posts/2024-01-24-1.4-release/

rmflight,
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@MickaelCanouil is one of those big fixes the table cross referencing and captions in Word files?? 🤞

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