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A number of the tube lines have large sections above ground.

A fixed wheel counts as a brake, though I've only seen the law in relation to bicycles which require 2 working brakes not sure how this applied to unicycles.

In my experience R is king of happily chugging along spitting out nonsense results when it should have errored 100 lines ago.

The increasing prevalence of non-standard evaluation in R packages was one of the major reasons I switched from R to python for my work. The amount of ceremony and constant API cha…

It's because you're in London. I have family in rural Cumbria with full fibre, yet none of the flats I've rented in London have availability.

I don't see how I could ever afford to retire whilst still having to pay rent in the UK.

If you've ever had to deal with the UK police as a victim of a crime, you'll quickly find out they're pretty useless at obtaining CCTV footage. I was asked to get it myself, to whi…

The coachloads of Chinese tourists that I see every summer make me doubt this.

I think it was largely pushed by Phil Gaimon who was trying to get into the news to sell his new (at the time) book.

You can get some very permanent water-proof inks. Platinum Carbon black is my favourite.

Yep, at one point in my life I was consistently cycling for 30 hours a week and eating enough became a chore. So it's definitely possible, but it requires enough exercise that's es…

Dataclasses have the one massive benefit of not being an additional dependency.

The choice of groovy was unfortunate, but yet it still seems more popular than snakemake which I can only attribute to the nf-core set of curated workflows. I have a dislike of nex…

My biggest issue with R package management is version pinning. If I specify an older version of a package, R will fetch the latest versions of all its dependencies, regardless if t…

R kinda sucks at anything that isn't a dataframe though.

This comment has inspired me to switch to Valkey, thanks.

They can invite whoever they want, but I think they will struggle to attract talent unless they actually start making some changes to make it a more attractive option rather than j…

A 63 watt average must have been taking into account all the time you weren't pedalling, that's extremely low - you would struggle to ride into a slight breeze.

We tried plumber at work and ran into enough issues (memory leaks, difficulty wrangling JSON in R, poor performance) that I don't think I could recommend it.

Happens with R as well where everything gets dumped into a global namespace. It's a huge mess. If you're lucky all functions will have a common prefix str_* or fct_*. If you're unl…

I would argue a European PhD prepares you for research better than a US one. You're expected to hit the ground running with required prior research experience and you have no class…

Looks like it's staying: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/401988/#comment17640529

I'm not sure which European country you're thinking about, but we had lockers, individual backpacks and heavy textbooks. I never used my locker because we didn't have enough time b…

It's mentioned in the abstract and 45 times in the article. Most scientists don't use the brand name of a drug.

Counter-steering is how bicycles steer, whether you're doing it consciously or not.