Because I stole this meme from some guy on LinkedIn (of all places) who choose to generate it with nano-banana.

OLS is well used in a lot of domains. If you have a continuous outcome you have a straightforward and very easy way to get a quick reliable estimate of some interesting parameter. The typical use in most social sciences is to implement some sort of difference-in-differences (or DiD event-study) estimate within a simple linear regression.

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Technically at least YouTube shorts and other short video formats run on people who try to grab attention to market their onlyfans.

Half of the most famous papers in my discipline have good pun titles.

As a (data) scientist I am not super familiar with most databases, but duckdb is great for what I need it for.

Selam alaykum, dear Swiftie

I have coded VBA-based shadow-IT back in the day, but I seriously think this is something that needs to disappear in most firms that still have it. It is typically unmaintable automation of tasks at the department level that is super dependent on who is around and is still often in use after the programmers are long gone. I have seen a few old VBA tools in use that should be done with standard python/R or god forbid even JS Code in a decent documented repo.

Jeremy the incel in shell

Na, but Millenials used it in their (pre-)teens seeing some fucked-up shit (and strangely most of us are still fine)

Yeah probably some people at bell labs bullied some people in Stanford over ARPANET in the 1970s

I had one in 2010 in Germany. Was basically a UMTS modem plus some really shitty phone software

Going to Germany as a nurse should be possible. You would need to do some language courses and handle some bureaucracy but we have a big nurse shortage.

This is a bluesky screenshot, not a twitter screenshot. This is to show, where I reposted this from.

If you can tariff penguin island you could also tariff polars, which isn’t slow.

Code Didn’t Break — They Did

Text encoding ‘standards’ were clearly the devil’s work, handed down to humanity to sow chaos and suffering.

It did depend a little bit, what kind of machine/production line he was working on. Before he retired, he worked for an automation engineering company and had different projects in other EU countries, and tried to be understandable for people in those places. He once even coded some Siemens control panel for an aluminum oven loading robot in the czech republic and tried to translate everything to czech with a dictionary (to have the panel info available in czech,english and German). He did of course speak to the foreman of the workers to get it correct.

My dad used that a lot to program Siemens Step5 and Step7 PLCs. I think it was German but names were 8 chars since this was straight from the 80s. When he fixed old machines or updated them with new PLCs he had to do full rewrites a few times because nothing was documented in old school machinery.

Upgraded every old MacBook (2009pro, 2015 pro) I had with bigger harddrives and did small repairs with ifixit instructions. But you notice they get less repairable over time. The 2009 thing was built like a tank and you could upgrade ram, replace a broken GPU and this thing over all felt very repairable. I still works but isn’t that useful any more 16 years after release. 2015 was way less repairable.