#Humanism

"Okay, here's the scenario. You are a crew member on a starship."
"Cool."
"Space travel is slow, you'll be stuck with your crewmates a long time."
"So we must get along."
"Yes. Communicate, listen, share limited resources."
"I can do that. What's the starship called?"
"Earth."

Yet another lorry driver kills yet another cyclist then drives off without stopping.

When will this #RoadViolence stop!

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/battersea-bridge-cyclist-death-london-b1099800.html

The engineers who designed the #Voyager probes half a century ago even thought of the possibility that a wrong sequence of commands may point the antenna dish away from earth (like someone did a couple of days ago).

And they implemented a self-adjusting mechanism that a few times a year scans the positions of a few known stars to infer the position of the earth, and point back the antenna in the right direction.

50 years later, these wonderful machines are still working, tens of billions of km away from earth, with only 69 KB of RAM, and even a wrong sequence of commands won't put them out of use, while nowadays 4 GB of RAM aren't even enough to start VsCode or IntelliJ.

The more I understand how they were designed, the more I feel like an early Medieval engineer looking at the Pantheon or other marvels of Roman architecture. Some amazing skills, knowledge and attention to details have been lost from that generation to ours.

We're thrilled to announce the second edition of R for Data Science is out!

The second edition is a major reworking of the first edition, with new material added, unuseful material removed, and updated code and text.

• Read it for free online: https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
• Buy a copy from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492097403?&tag=hadlwick-20
• Read more about the new edition in the blog post from new co-author Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel: https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/07/r4ds-2e/

#RStats

When your home burns, floods, or is destroyed in an extreme climate weather event, when someone in your family dies from heat waves, or when crops fail and people starve—come for these three people: Wael Sawan (Shell CEO), Darren Woods (Exxon CEO), and Patrick Pouyanne (TotalEnergies CEO). They knew what was coming and did it to you anyway. Sue them, shame them, heckle them, despise them. These are choices. They are to blame, not society.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/big-oil-climate-pledges-extreme-heat-fossil-fuel

This week in #geoweirdness we head back to northern Europe to look at the geographic oddities of Sweden 🇸🇪

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"Tough choice for boomer motorists"

submitted by u/markvauxhall
https://redd.it/12nbivy
#fuckcars