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AUKUS from where we are – and why that’s the problem Australia’s AUKUS submarine program is tied to struggling US and UK shipbuilding systems, escalating costs and political whim, raising questions about whether the right defence choices were ever prope...

Australia’s AUKUS submarine program is tied to struggling US and UK shipbuilding systems, escalating costs and political whim, raising questions about whether the right defence choices were ever properly debated.
MG: No they weren't.
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

literally every hardcore geospatial pre-installed libraries docker image I start up doesn't have nano or emacs

for crying out loud! install nano at least! (and vi, for the other people ...)

I grew tired of searching "time now utc", please take a look at {timenow} #RStats

github.com/hypertidy/ti...

(thanks for the {clock} package by @davisvaughan.bsky.social !)

This man is extremely unwell. He is a delusional maniac who lives in a complete fantasy world, constantly posting fantastically insane nonsense like this he sees online from imbeciles who are even more deranged than he is. How the country and our leaders are numb to this is terrifying, seriously.

Listen to Freedom Jazz Dance and then listen to Freedom Jazz Dance again.

Vernon Reid version is absolutely a revelation

GitHub - mdsumner/gdx: GDAL backend for xarray, enabling Classic or Multidim GDAL backend for xarray, enabling Classic or Multidim - GitHub - mdsumner/gdx: GDAL backend for xarray, enabling Classic or Multidim

a new #GDAL backend for xarray, coupled directly for Multidim *and* Classic raster (and actually works, pretty good improv this week)

github.com/mdsumner/gdx

Please try it out with your most|least favourite Zarr! If you have connection issues just ask I know enough to be dangerous #python

F u uck. Not sure what went down last night, but it had *nothing* to do with AI tech boolshit

We already had a rwnj self-serving leader who destroyed many public institutions and exploited the vulnerable and shamed us many times on the world stage.

His name is John Howard

He remains the worst thing to happen to Australia in my lifetime, other than Rupert Murdoch. Every miserly, self-serving calculation led us inexorably downward and rightward.

👌 Tampa was the day we all died 😢

Just your regular reminder that John Howard never pushed back against Pauline Hanson and One Nation policies. He embraced them, which is how he outflanked them, while also setting the stage for what the Liberals are today. The myth that he 'pushed back' truly needs to die.

Saw a family of five cycling in Buckland obviously on tour. One bike.

🫠

Seems like a good video for his trial

lolz

usethis::use_package("data-raw")
ℹ The package "data-raw" is required.
✖ Would you like to install it?

1: Yes
2: No

Selection: 2

I merged a PR for mirai today (fixing an esoteric bug), that came with a performance boost that I'd never have thought existed. That means that on my laptop, the default (with dispatcher) round-trip performance now dips into sub-100 microseconds territory!! Get it now: `pak::pak("r-lib/mirai")`

I enjoyed this friendly journey all the down to here

I genuinely had no idea #rstats technically has a module system.

my_module <- new.env()
source("helpers.R", local = my_module)

my_module$add(1, 2)

Australia Day is such bullshit. NSW proclamation day at best. At worst a celebration of the crimes of colonisation.

If you have to acknowledge that the day is a source of pain for many, that’s a damn good sign it’s a shit day to have as your national day.

nursesonja • 7h & Threads Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control. This is about total control. O240 Q5 G34 → 21

The nurses are pissed

A screenshot from a Facebook group called the friends of the Bay: “ oily slicks streaming out of cooke/tassal salmon pens, going towards beaches in South Bruny. That’s on the surface. Imagine what’s happening beneath the surface.

oh cool you can see salmon farm pollution from space

Wondering if std::variant can be empty and discovering the answer is "no, unless [lengthy edge case about assignment] then yes" is the most C++ thing imaginable

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

genuinely stunning image

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

I long thought we'd have robot cars way before anything like these helpful worker models.

"It's all boilerplate" ringing in my ears, here it is. Very interested to benchmark this moment and see where we're at in a few years

Tonight in Santa Ana, California w/ John 5 at the Observatory

Working with big spatial data sets in #rstats? You should try {duckspatial}. The dev version of #duckspatial (soon on CRAN) uses #duckdb to perform super fast and memory efficient spatial operations cidree.github.io/duckspatial/...
In a benchmark against, {sf}....

GitHub - mdsumner/gdx: GDAL backend for xarray, enabling Classic or Multidim GDAL backend for xarray, enabling Classic or Multidim - GitHub - mdsumner/gdx: GDAL backend for xarray, enabling Classic or Multidim

a new #GDAL backend for xarray, coupled directly for Multidim *and* Classic raster (and actually works, pretty good improv this week)

github.com/mdsumner/gdx

Please try it out with your most|least favourite Zarr! If you have connection issues just ask I know enough to be dangerous #python

A reminder as to why @djnavarro.net is one of the greatest of all time

Ahead of an exceptional heat wave, SE Australia this morning was very chilly
In Particular the Tasmanian King Island dropped to 2.7C ,its January lowest temperature on record

‼️Extreme dangerous heat from tomorrow in SA,NSW and VIC with peaks of 46/49C until the end of the month