Notices by Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org), page 39

Today's cultural learnings for make great nation of Statistics:

* Chi Squared distribution is useful
* Likert data is hard work
* I have a lot of survey data that needs re-doing... :)

#rstats #chisquared #likert

@Modern_Industrial @mthedestroyer for science!

https://xkcd.com/54/

Welcome indeed. Hope you're getting some sleep...

@garrett ugh #theforeman stupid autocorrect ..

@garrett we've set /mode +q $~a for #thefireman, which allows anyone to join but must be authed to Freenode to speak. Coupled with a topic message about the situation and link to the Freenode registration FAQ, we seem to be coping. Sad that we have to though...

@kev one other option, if your needs require, is a home lab of some kind. One of my old desktops is currently running an #oVirt hosted-engine setup for me to play around with some virtualization stuff...

@Floppy I have observed that children seem to violate thermodynamics - if you confine a few in a box (I.e. the house), then you have a constant number of "particles" and constant temperature, but the pressure increases over time anyway. Very strange ;)

The @kdecommunity Akademy delegates get a choice of lanyard. One lets other people know they don't want to be photographed. Not seen this at many events.

@david_ross also worth looking in /proc/<pid> at the various files and descriptors, eg env, path etc

@HerraBRE @ohyran very true, and difficult to unpick. Similarly I'm *very* glad there's a male practitioner at my daughter's nursery - we need role models in those spaces, to show that caring roles is something men are perfectly good at.

@ohyran @HerraBRE oh I forgot one point - on my time off I definitely met mothers with an attitude of "oh no, we couldn't do that - its *my* year off and I'm not sharing"... Such a policy deals with *that* ridiculousness...

(It's very short sighted, and a form.of knowledge gatekeeping. The mother generally can't subsequently go away for a few days as (a) the child is very dependent, and (b) the father has no experience and/or the mother has no trust. Terrible all around)

@ohyran @HerraBRE yeah, I'd love to see something like that here in the UK - my gut feeling is that it helps with a lot of tangentially-related things like employment discrimination etc.

I presume there are caveats/equivalents for single parents, adopters, etc? Not leaving groups out matters, as I know you know. I recall a company policy here I saw that covered mothers, adopters, and same-sex couples but not fathers... There was a fuss made... ;)

@HerraBRE could not agree more. I took my half of the available year of parental leave with my daughter (only 2% of fathers do that here in the UK, sadly) and it was the right choice, definitely. I wanted to be doing my share of everything anyway, and it was a great way to start that off. More fathers should be doing it, 2% is way too low (only 50% of couples even know its possible :/)