Thomas Lumley

Mandelbroc season

@jackeric@beige.party @buzzyrobin@chaos.social @realsimon@mastodon.green @danielgibert@mastodon.online my favorite old Aus road signs were the ones saying "Loose Stones Travel Slowly", which would make a good meaningless proverb

@futuresprog other way around. He was nicknamed "Miles" O'Brien because he travelled a lot

@thirzajane @RedRobyn @BobLefridge @thomasbeagle but Pharmac still can't spend those expected future cost savings, it would have to cut something that it's currently funding that was lower priority than maybe preventing dementia.

@RedRobyn @BobLefridge @thomasbeagle @thirzajane I think the window should be wider, but the problem with funding it for the entire age range is that the start-up cost is unpredictable and perhaps very large. If even half a million people got it the first year it became available that's a serious chunk of Pharmac's budget for the year.

@coolbutuseless @jonocarroll Seconded

@roots@stefanbohacek.online not to be confused with the New Zealand podocarp conifer Prumnopitys taxifolia, formerly known as black pine but now known as mataī.

@gannet @betsybookworm the NZ robins are less colorful, perhaps because the pre-human predators here were all birds, with full colour vision

@StompyRobot @rygorous @aeva there's a New Zealand member of Parliament who has been struck by lightning three times. She doesn't approve of synthetic pharmaceuticals or believe in climate change, but that's apparently unconnected with the lightning

@jakalopes@mas.to phylopic is great!

@baz@mastodon.scot @jackeric@beige.party @buzzyrobin@chaos.social @realsimon@mastodon.green @danielgibert@mastodon.online and someone needs to mention the Ogden Nash poem based on the US signs like Soft C A U T I O N Shoulders and Cross C H I L D R E N Walk

@LeoRJorge@mastodon.social It's model.response(), which has a type="any" or type="numeric" option. lm() uses "numeric" and glm uses "any" I think the reason I didn't know is that character variables were much less common before the stringsAsFactors revolution so I'd never come across the issue before.

@baz@mastodon.scot @jackeric@beige.party @buzzyrobin@chaos.social @realsimon@mastodon.green @danielgibert@mastodon.online I love HEAVY PLANT CROSSING

@stevelieber@mastodon.social nice. That's how the Lord of the Rings movies handled human/hobbit size differences

@timrichards@aus.social look out for the drag queen lights, too

@debe@mastodon.nz Pink Martini Get Happy/Happy Days are here again https://youtu.be/8DrYXdAB8H0?si=N2BBp5KVld-Dz4LY #celebrate #JukeboxFridayNight

@Firr@mastodon.social bet against him at 36:1 odds. Or even 40:1.