Darren O'Shaughnessy

The number of people who hear this positively is surely tiny now.
"Billionaires are getting richer at an unprecedented rate! We've tilted taxes to extract more shareholder value from capital than a labourer ever dreamed of!"

What benefits could Python have over R, when you're already an R expert? It's like you have mastered your beautiful coffee machine, but now hired a clumsy barista and his machine with an extra milk spout, to replicate the taste. And you only wanted a short black, really

Presuming you mean 189 minutes across 15 cores = about 13 mins elapsed, this still makes me sweat. What percentage is spent generating individual matches (thinking 90%+) and could you delegate that logic to compiled code like C?

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

SUSSAN LEY BET COOLING ...
... ANGUS BYELECTION LOSS

This is such a beautiful interactive visualisation of where teams are ranked in the Winter Olympics
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Norway, population 5.6 million, has won as many Winter Olympics gold medals in four days as Australia has in 90 years of competing. Our 2026 squad (54) is only 32% smaller than theirs (80)

On this very day I landed the Japanese 'r' and cannot stop saying onigiri with the sides of my tongue vibrating

The immigrants are taking your jobs!
Also, the immigrants refuse to take your jobs.

Wow! Very nice

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Just created this Shiny app from scratch using only ChatGPT

All of the inputs are on the left and the choices ChatGPT has made are all well-explained by it, with suggestions for next steps

Trump vs new Hate Speech law, if he said this in Australia:
• Influential leader of like-minded armed group
• Identifies a racial group as innately subhuman
• Calls for them and their descendants to be forcibly rounded up and expelled

It is fond of gaslighting. For me, it revised its own code and deleted a class. When I pointed this out, it insisted it was still there in the new version. I had to reconstruct it from the earlier chat

A whole bunch of artists and cultural workers have lost work because of the implosion of Adelaide Writers week — writers, producers, stage crew, front of house. None of this was their fault. Something for the Labor premier to think about

Funny I misheard the exact same thing at 7am

Most Test runs versus an opponent:
5028 Bradman vs ENG
3644* Smith vs ENG
3636 Hobbs vs AUS
3630 Tendulkar vs AUS
3548 Border vs ENG (3222 in #TheAshes Tests)
3383 Root vs IND

varṇamālā
e.g. Devanagari

World Cup winners table

When we explored the data, based on World Cup wins, there is no question Australia have dominated the last 5 decades of international cricket.

The English get off very lightly here, especially considering how we refer to the Dutch: courage, treat, uncle, oven, tilt, etc. I haven't heard anything uniquely cruel about the English in nederlandse taal. What am I missing?

6. english
U.S. English: 'English'
This term for sidespin in cue sports is old enough to be used by Mark Twain, and appears to have originated in the U.S. after the English imported the games. However, the most likely etymology is via the French term 'anglé' (angled), a homophone for anglais

Cor Anglais

5. cor anglais
French: 'English horn'
Not a horn; not English. Basicallly an oversized oboe.
In turn, the English are alone in calling the true horn French, even though the orchestral 'French horn' was mostly developed in Germany (Waldhorn = forest horn)

4. filer à l'anglaise
French: 'to depart like the English'
Left a party without saying goodbye? Bloody English.
Walked out on your job without notice? Well that's French Leave. This one is fun, as Europe seems split into countries which use 'French Leave' and those who blame fleeing Englishmen

3. llave inglesa
Spanish: 'English key'
An adjustable wrench. I like to think of this as a pejorative, with English criminals roaming Europe opening doors by undoing the hinges or just whacking locks with a monkey wrench. Most European languages have their own version of 'English key' for this tool

2. zuppa inglese
Italian: 'English soup'
Layers of thick custard and sponge soaked in the bright red liqueur alchermes. Similar composition to actual English trifle, and very much not a soup

A team scores zero for a home win, minus one for a home draw, and minus two for a home loss. Playing away, a win earns a precious MI point, a draw zero (par), a loss -1. Under the old 2-1-0 system, the final order would exactly match total points, but it served as a handy standard for elite teams

1. media inglese
Italian: 'English average'
Following Serie A in the 90s, it was fun to see an extra column in the standings labelled 'MI'. The very top teams had a small positive number, while most were deep below zero.
The media inglese reflects the expectation that you win at home, and draw away.

Some of my favourite baffling 'English' phrases. More detail in this thread
1. media inglese (English average)
2. zuppa inglese (English soup)
3. llave inglesa (English key)
4. filer à l'anglaise (scram like the English)
5. cor anglais (English horn)
6. english (sidespin, especially in cue sports)

There is no good reason for frute and sute to be spelt that way

🏈 TB 17 - 20 MIA
FINAL

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