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There is a pretty widely-used extension [0] for using Positron with WSL, if that's helpful to you. [0]: https://open-vsx.org/extension/kv9898/open-remote-wsl

That is in fact a common topic on Gelman's blog, if you go through the (large) archive.

Our organization looks similar: models are almost all written in R but the business operates in C#. We just use simple HTTP APIs to intermediate. Specifically, we do the following:…

Most of these tidyverse vs. data.table arguments end up sounding a bit irrelevant to me. They tend to focus on syntax, which is largely down to preference, or performance, which is…

I'm in a similar boat, using base R, data.table, or tidyverse as needed. But over time I've found that I respect, more and more, the good decisions that have been made in base R.

Absolutely. I usually respond to the "R-is-not-a-real-language" line with something like "R is syntactic sugar on a Lisp where the atoms are APL arrays". It's plenty interesting fr…

The blog this post belongs to has loads of interesting posts on C.

This is attractive in theory but it's a bit difficult to do in practice. Usually the places with the worst comparative odds are also quite aggressive in banning sharp accounts (inc…

This is exactly what happens at the sportsbooks that take sharp customers.

In practice these outfits have accounts at large Asian sportsbooks (which don't bother to ban sharps) or at Pinnacle (which has traditionally welcomed them). Even setting aside the…

This is only true in major metro areas -- that is, Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto. Most smaller cites/towns or rural regions are far less tolerant. (In fact, differential enforcem…

My understanding (granted, second-hand from international copyright law experts) is that this is the correct interpretation: Microsoft does not want Chinese or Russian governments …

Likely because that would mean rewriting public history, which I believe Linus is opposed to, particularly in the case of a huge project like the kernel.

The hledger implementation [0] has Windows binaries available, and it's mostly compatible with the original. [0]: http://hledger.org/download.html

This is really neat, but I'm wondering if you are better off triggering the change by sending SIGUSR1 to the Emacs process [0]. This would remove the need to run the function in a …