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Fiat seems doing well in Southern Europe.

This is amazing, I had no idea about this, I have been cloning my repo locally for years.

Studying in the EU is cheap. I mean Germans pay almost 45-50% personal income taxes, money has to go somewhere!

> What's the point of getting to the top of the search results if you are unable to monetise it?

Promoting your product/service, see brand astroturfing in Reddit.

> It’s highly unlikely for Apple to choke on hardware given their cash.

It just means that it will take a while, like Intel, or what is happening with search and Google.

Some feedback: I was about to try now (paying) but currently I can only install it in my desktop (no iOS support), and I am very worried about the idea of giving full access to a close-source unpopular extension with not-very-clear ownership.

I think it would go a long way to create some trust to show who are you in the webpage and maybe open source the extension too (the backend is not as importa nt).

> leading the space by far in terms of technology, products, funding, revenue, popularity, adoption and just about everything else

I am not 100% sure that they are still clearly leading the technology part, but agree in all other accounts.

> Yes, I'm adding support for arbitrary text-based formats

That would be extremely powerful, and also would allow you to differentiate your extension from the Quarto one.

Did not downvote, but the basic cert price (Foundations) appears in the website for $350

Course is free, cert takes about 60-90 hours and cost $350 dollars.

> Bankers/Academics go to the UK and make twice the money

Academics does not make more money in UK than in Germany, in fact for junior positions (PhD/Postdoc) they make less. Full professors seems to make more, but I rumors say than new professors in UK are making significantly less than their older (boomer and older) counterparts.

https://fastepo.com/comparison-of-salary-of-postdoc-in-europ... https://academicpositions.com/career-advice/professor-salari...

SREs will end up the same gatekeeper reputation as traditional IT teams, and a new buzzword will need to be made to signify the "move fast and break things" cool kid energy than DevOps and SREs (still?) have.

Men have a very limited wardrobe range, and most of them does not care about it. You have to look a the woman clothes.

As an continental European, first time I heard about Netherlands as a "paragon of virtue". Is this some UK/US talking point?

And it's inspiration of plenty of media and fashion designers. I think this example goes against his conclusion.

Very interesting, I am sure that if something like this is packaged in Linux distros would become popular.

Try to set enabled=False in ~/.config/user-dirs.conf

https://www.unix.com/man-page/centos/5/user-dirs.conf/

Few people in the R world use Jupyter environment, they are generally inferior to use the Rstudio environment. This might change in the future though, VSCode and DataSpell are becoming really good. Jupyter Labs are slowly improving too.

> Is possible that Julia will replace R for a lot of use cases

R is a interactive statistical programming language that acts as a frontend for more performance languages. AFAIK interactivity is not the strongest points of Julia at the moment.

I work in this space: most "cool" ML is useless, and stakeholder are very skeptical of new modelling techniques. It is a long slog of EDA and finding actionable causality. Deep learning, modern reinforcement learning... are not the best fit here.

However I have seen CV and NLP useful here and there... but it is not the bread and butter.

I had several interviews years ago and was hired for one of the companies. Much better experience on average that other job boards.

Please check my Medium post about how I use a Postgres WASM instance for my TODO web3 app in Cloudflare Workers KV for pennies a month.

Same thing with MacBooks. Air +200$ for 256 GB of disk drive (from 256 to 512).

You can say the same for >95% of the "self-improvement" book market.

The same country that gave us Dexter.

Sleep deprivation migth help to focus and do those tasks at all instead of procrastinating. That's my experience at least dealing with boring and unpleasant tasks.

There is a trillion of tutorials for every young and hyped technology out there: Svelte/FastAPI/Elm etc. However try to learn how to maintain and secure a server or a database or anything fundamental... and it can be really hard to find good and updated material.

> Or Equatorial Guinea?

100% sure that they have spy software, of course, bought abroad. Equatorial Guinea has oil money and it is one of the most authoritarian countries in the world.

> What's the advantage of Python if you already know R?

AFAIK in statistical modelling Python is better only in neural networks, so if you do not need to do fancy things with images, text, etc. you do not need Python. R is still the king.

In terms of charting and dashboards, I would say that if you work high level R and Python are both pleasant. R has ggplot, but Python has Plotly Express. R has Shiny, but Python has Dash and Streamlit. You can do great with both.

I want a FOSS PL with bloated higher level primitives and APIs, like Wolfram. Think about how having a data frame class (+meta-programming) makes such a big impact in R. I want the same for images, sound, etc.