@kristoffer It turns out that the hyper-moderated culture of Mastodon has costs in addition to benefits, I'm afraid.

@sliminality It's just manifestly not what people mean when they say "if-then"! But students of logic expect a formalization of the kind of thing they do when they say "if-then" (and "and", "or", and "not").

@thomholwerda @olafurw This root seems not to have survived in English, but it reminds me a little of "execute".

@baldur When you renovate your home, will you hire a "house smith"?

@baldur But I read this post with my phone's "bedtime" feature on, which makes the display black and white.

@Posit On the contrary. Do not deploy an LLM-powered application of any kind.

Does `cowplot` have any functionality that `patchwork` doesn't?

Why in the world did they make `ggplot2::coord_radial()` count angles in radians but start at north instead of east and have `direction = -1` mean the positive direction?

@hadleywickham must answer for these crimes!

#ggplot2 #chaos #evil

"Excel has a lot in common with the automobile: At an individual level, it's a remarkable technology that enables many things that were previously prohibitively difficult, expensive, or impossible. At a societal level, it's terrifying and dismaying the extent to which things are structured around it."

@SocietyOfSigns Jarring to see non-Isotype people on a traffic sign.

@datawrapper TKTK

@miskaknapek Despite their "traditional design training", they couldn't get the apostrophe in "studio's" the right way around. Digital typesetting is tough, I guess.

@overholt KroneckerWallis published a completed edition including all 13 books of The Elements, available here (though very pricey): https://www.kroneckerwallis.com/product/euclids-elements-completing-oliver-byrnes-work/

New feature announcements like this seem a bit absurd when one's background is in fully-programmable dataviz. You couldn't already do this?

@smach Using dots for the regression line really gives the impression of a second data series. Helps show the size of the residuals a bit, though.

@mogwai_poet Fantasy Myers-Briggs.

@baldur Those blank signs are very striking.

@pglpm Isn't 89% used to emphasize the arbitrariness of the interval width? There isn't supposed to be anything special about it!

@humantransit As a senior data analyst with an interest in public transit (and who enjoys reading your blog), I'd be excited to apply for this role if visa sponsorship or remote work (from Canada, in my case) were a possibility.

@baldur English has eleven basic color terms and turquoise is not one of them, in part because "blue-green" is used more-or-less interchangeably with "turquoise" by native speakers.

Jackson Crawford, who wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the basic colour terms of Old Norse and modern Icelandic, just published a YouTube video on exactly this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6qOJX8-SLQ