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• Post #2047462

  Kindergartner has demanded I make an “envelope with pockets” to send two letters at once to their cousin. Apparently having the pages touch each other in one compartment will simply not do.

• Post #2047461

  My only topical take for today is that “undoing a 600% increase is an 85.7% decrease” being arithmetically true does not stop it from being a great example of why to avoid percentages if you want to be understood.

• Post #2047460

  OK #RStats, can I conditionally use an imported function if it's available without check complaining in cases it isn’t? My use case: styling with `element_geom` if user has a new enough ggplot2, skipping it if not Conditioning on package version appears to _run_ correctly for all ggplot versions… ``` if (packageVersion(“ggplot2”) >= “4.0.0” ) { foo <- ggplot2::theme(…, geom = ggplot2::element_geom(…), …) } else { foo <- ggplot2::theme(…, …) }} ``` …but runnin...

• Post #2047459

  Today in inevitably turning into one’s parents: Wander around the house singing half-verses of John Prine songs ✅

• Post #2047458

  Had a long, baffling back-and-forth with my 5yo that opened with a demand to print out my entire Git history on paper and ended with them happily playing restaurant using a one-page printout of a decade-old Taco Bell menu, thereby reminding us all that negotiation only works if all parties understand what they want.

• Post #2047457

  P sure this farmers’ market vendor just inaugurated the customer ahead of me as a regular: “Nah, it’s fine, bring an extra $3 next week. You’ll remember, I won’t.”