Barry Rowlingson

@geospacedman
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Maps, statistics, guitars, land rovers, photography.
just going to change the brake pads on my bike... #foreshadowing
will reveal tomorrow, unless I've triggered Davy Jones' curse by opening it.. Aaaar!
Went on a community litter pick on Saturday and amongst some builders rubbish... this treasure chest... contents intact... what was in it? wrong answers only...

💗 Schengen

“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”

https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/borders-are-a-construct-but-this-swing-isnt

Just returning an unwanted election flyer which will cost them £2.50

Interviewer: Why did you leave these jobs after such a short amount of time?

Me: Because they were toxic environments with awful people working there and I care about my mental health too much.

Interviewer: Oh, this definitely isn’t a good fit then.

When you read about Steve Jobs always wearing the same thing because it was something off his cognitive load so he could concentrate on work, that's the privilege of the man who doesn't have to think "ooh, is it a bit cold out today?".
Why is the package called `libcairo2` but the cairo version is 1.18?
Note I'm not blaming R for this - I don't understand what the CairoSVG device is doing and why the output SVG is so complex but it renders in Inkscape et al so its probably Qt.
If you want to try this at home, a plot with a `rasterImage(... interp=TRUE)` shows as a black rectangle in a QtGraphicsItemSvg when created with svg()