We need a BadDataViz community…

Really? Nearly everyone I met there spoke excellent English…

It’s a standard e14 socket - I guess it’s AC? Not actually sure. I think the bulb should work for both though, 'cause it has a rectifier, I think?

Yes. This is excellent framing.

Interesting! Thanks! I’ll see if I can find a similar bulb and try it.

I guess the fact that it worked for a second the first time and then stopped working entirely (but the bulb still works elsewhere) indicates I probably borked part of the fridge. Oh well, it wasn’t working for years anyway…

Edit: Also, it’s at least 10 years old, and doesn’t look like a super swanky fridge, so I’d guess not much in the way of fancy electronics

I tried the bulb in a lamp and it’s fine, and other LEDs also failed.

Also it’s building on top of existing fragility (the thin pillar below), and only making it worse

It’s a log scale with linearly spaced gridlines.

Why on earth is this animated?

I don’t think the focus should be on the average current Linux user. Guaranteed that if Linux gained substantial market share, the fraction of tinkerers would dwindle substantially

I guess enshittification has been moved off the backlog then…

On par for Microsoft software in general. Seems like every week I discover new bugs in outlook.com…

The developer who was there when I started my last job believed that libraries should be avoided at all costs. He wrote a CSV reader from scratch in python. It didn’t work in many edge cases. He didn’t like it when I pointed that out. Nor when I showed him that his “better way” in another case was more than 10x slower using a profiler… At least he was using git, but the git history was full of long series of identical commit messages unrelated to code changes, because PyCharm has an option to reuse the previous commit message on a new commit…

He eventually quit and I spent 3 years refactoring his garbage before we finally had a tech team who could take over (I’m a scientist, with self taught coding skills). Pretty sure even after we had a tech team of 7 if was still a better coder than most, purely because I was interested in how coding works, and trying to understand underlying concepts.

Oh yeah, I saw that a while back. Hilarious! Also kind of unusual (though lots of people have used smaller samples from toys and instruments)

All good, was just wondering.

I do DJ (non-professionally). I generally think there are two skills with DJing:

• Taste, library management and music choice, which is not a technical skill, but does take a bit of effort in preparing for a set
• Actual technical mixing skills, which many DJs (including me) barely have, but some take to a level that is on basically a form of musicianship.

I don’t think AI can really help you do either… but I guess it could make a mixed set and you could pretend to play it, like a Casio keyboard

Are you speaking from experience? 'Cause that’s not even vaguely related to how any of the DJs I know (including a couple of professionals) got started. The prime motive for most DJs is sharing cool music, and Casio keyboards don’t do that…

Vision is a strong word. I think it’s a vague idea in most cases

Is the red line the average, and the green line the difference?

So, uh, you reckon you could fit eight of those on one person?

Multi-million dollar advertising budgets from apple and Microsoft. Coordinated campaigns to embed those systems in education institutions and workplaces.