Rambling "How I Spent My ${DURATION}" braindump.

Last week I was carrying bags of water softener #salt into my furnace room and noticed a small #limescale deposit on the floor in the middle of the room that hadn't been there a few days before. Directly above it are a bunch of water #pipes going off in different directions. Found one 90 degree elbow that had more than the usual accumulation of green stuff on it, like a tiny #stalactite. Okay, water #leak found.

I was going to wait for the weekend to fix it, but it seemed to be speeding up, so I did it Wednesday. I had to cut a chunk of #convoluted pipe out of the system that was way more complex than it should have been. It had to go around other #pipes and join another #pipe and around some joists, but the #plumber who put this in 40 years ago had a #fetish or something. No word of a lie, it reminded me more of the Windows NT "pipes" #screensaver than anything else.

In a volume about the size of a 2L bottle of pop, there were 4 #elbows, 3 #unions, and five little pieces of pipe if I remember correctly. I soldered together a matching jumble of parts ... and then couldn't solder one side of it in, because it's at a local low point, and I couldn't get the last dribbles of #water to stop. Any water wicks the heat away and the #solder doesn't stick.

Ended up using a #flex line with #sharkbite connectors to replace the whole thing. What a shame, I was proud of my replacement.

#DIY #plumbing #HomeRepair

Aaaw yies. Perfect integration of pv with rsync.

#rsync #pv #pipes

About GNU

GNU was launched in 1983 by Richard Stallman

Quote
The primary and continuing goal of GNU is to offer a Unix-compatible system that would be 100% free software. Not 95% free, not 99.5%, but 100%. The name of the system, GNU, is a recursive acronym meaning GNU's Not Unix—a way of paying tribute to the technical ideas of Unix, while at the same time saying that GNU is something different. Technically, GNU is like Unix. But unlike Unix, GNU gives its users freedom.
^Z

Realize this
Without GNU, Linux {distributions} would *not* exist. You would only have a kernel after boot, no user land programs

Be grateful for the existence of GNU

#GNU #OperatingSystem #programming #technology #Freedom #100percent #Full #free #software #UNIX #vi #mathematics #reg #ex #regular #expressions #gettext #man #pages #OpenSource #files #pipes

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/about-gnu.html

Having gotten my head fully around R pipes, I feel I need to write an article about it before I forget the fiddly details:

|>, %>%, with(), lambdas, %$%, ...

there are a lot of clever tricks for edge cases! (The with() hack I should have figured out for myself though!)

Also, %$% -- the exposition pipe -- why didn't any of you tell me about this one!?!? You're slacking!

#rlang #datascience #stats #statistics #rprogramming #tidyverse #tidydata #Rpipes #pipes!