Will this ever integrate rest of the ggplot2 dependent packages described here: https://exts.ggplot2.tidyverse.org/gallery/ in the near or distant future? Sorry if it already mentioned somewhere.

I don't think we will get the various niche geoms that have been developed by the ggplot2 community anytime soon.

The point of this is not to superseed ggplot2 in any way, but to provide a different approach which can do a lot of the things ggplot2 can, and some that it can't. But ggplot2 will remain more powerful for a lot of tasks in many years to come I predict

Looks intriguing. Brings plotting to Sql instead of “transforming” sql for plotting.

There was also Tiny Firewall which got bought by Computer Associates around 2005. Probably the most complicated or fine grain control for me at that time in Windows XP.

This is what I used! At some point I managed to block DHCP lease renewals on my computer, and Internet would always stop working after a given timespan. Took a good while to figure out I caused the problem myself.

and that's how you learn...

Shooting yourself in the foot really helps to built intuition!

It is probably easier these days when you have a phone to fall back on for if you break the internet on your computer.

Playing with your router is still a pain though, especially if you don't have a device with an Ethernet port. You learn all sorts of fun things like "If you change your router's IP address you get logged out of its management at the old IP address" and "Oh, that's what subnet mask means, weird."

> It is probably easier these days when you have a phone to fall back on

Most definitely. The old lessons were hard learned, and they stayed with you. Going through everything, trying all the combinations, and reading obscure materials for any hints.

I don't want to glorify the old hard way of spending perhaps days on problems that ended up being trivial, but it's obviously different now when one can get all the answers and helpful scripts directly from LLMs. Much less is retained.

Sometimes called "high instructional value".

I don't hear much about Ibis here. https://ibis-project.org On paper it sounds like a good idea. Any opinion about this option.

Ibis is great! Used it with duckdb & Snowflake. Worked well for these backends

Ive used it but definitely ran into issues where Ibis couldnt handle a transformation and had to move back into Polars or DuckDB to do. I just eventually stripped it out.

Yes. I think Air is a better buy if you are going to have a "laptop". I wish it was lot lighter if I am losing features against MacBook Air.

Yes, this is spiritually more of a successor to the old plastic MacBook or iBook lines. Not a successor to the premium ultra-portable 12" MacBook.

That seems like a product they could also potentially revive with Apple Silicon.

This reminds me of another article I read today about Gallium.

https://archive.ph/YgRUv

Original Link: https://www.wsj.com/business/the-defense-department-is-infat...

Apple Music is ok but it is not as good on MacOS as it is on iOS. It will skip some songs sometimes and the ui is not very consistent for the player bar.

Oh yes, indeed. On iOS I quite prefer it, but I also use it daily on Linux. But the linux web version is still much better than the terrible Windows client. That thing is plain terrible.

I think the Apple Music service is still good. There are little features that I rely on a lot, like the asterisk next to the prominent/popular songs on a given album.

It looks nice but very "LLMsy". I liked that it specifically annotates "Lytic" vs "Lysogenic" categorization for phages. Important in terms of virome analysis. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11097211/

Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee, and Pips (All modes) for me. Wordle is fun but Pips is very satisfying. Pips medium can sometimes be more difficult than hard one.