Notices by Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org), page 7

@kensanata in an interesting twist and example of language evolution, how I pronounce it now *isn't* how I originally wrote the language. Even languages written and spoken by one person can evolve :)

@kensanata mine is also RPG related, but it's a long story...

So in 2nd ed. D&D, druids have their our druidic language. Playing a druid for a new campaign, and geek that I am, I decided to write my own language - just nouns and noun fragments, so I could name places/people/things. I based it on Welsh syllables, hence the vaguely Celtic feel.

"Gwmngilfen" was the name of my character's wolf companion, meaning "valiant protector". I rather liked it, and it's *never* taken :)

@cybette ewww, which app is that? I've got about 7 and I don't think any do that (except maybe Signal which needs a phone number, and thus only exists on one device...)

@HerraBRE plantar fasciitis is, as far as I can tell, the medical term for "you've got a sore foot". It's a bit disappointing really...

Gout, however, is a total bastard.

@HerraBRE word. Especially mine. Plantar fasciitis *and* gout, sometimes at the same time. Lovely :)

Oh oh oh! `rlang` 0.4.0 has a proper interpolation operation to replace awkward `enquo` and `!!` patterns. Yay!

https://www.tidyverse.org/articles/2019/06/rlang-0-4-0/

#rstats #tidyverse #tidyeval

(Hat tip to @dataandme@twitter.com)

OK, so `purrrogress` for adding progress bars to `purrr` map calls is *lovely*...

https://github.com/halpo/purrrogress

#rstats #tidyverse #purrr

@jordan31 I have the opposite problem, given I work from home - I raid their lunch cupboard.

I managed to cut back once I reframed it in mybhead as *literally* stealing candy from children...

@jordan31 eh, stealing^w borrowing the kids stuff is standard fare for parents, right?

A sunny day, an hour to kill, a new book. Can haz contentedness.

#rstats #tufte

@cybette does this mean I need to go caching tweet hashtags again? :)

@HerraBRE hehe, nice. I have to say I tend to lean with @jwildeboer on this, despite my toying around with alternate bootstraps. I usually opt for ODroid stuff now, native SATA, GigE ports, proper ARM64, what's not to like? :)

@jwildeboer @HerraBRE sure, I never intended to suggest NFS roots are what *you* want - my point is that if you can get it to pivot to a network device, it *must* be possible to get it to pivot to a USB device too.

Sure, native USB boot would be preferable, but it *should* be possible to do *something* if not :)

@HerraBRE @jwildeboer I'm not sure about PXE et al. but I did once manage to get a Pi to boot from a 128Mb SD card and pivot to an NFS root. I assume that same technique could be used to boot from other things...

@fitheach I'll be more interested to know who the author is, not the subject :)

Dayum, Tufte hits hard:

"The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial" - Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Feel the burn, there...

#rstats #datavisualisation