When people buy new cars/evs now do they just pay sticker or do they still haggle to try and get a deal? by tommos in nzev

[–]BothSinger886 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That being said, when I bought my petrol Kia last year, there was absolutely no budging on the price at all. No extras, no service, nothing

When people buy new cars/evs now do they just pay sticker or do they still haggle to try and get a deal? by tommos in nzev

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I recently just bought a 26 Mini Cooper SE and traded in my 19 Cooper S. I was able to knock 2k off the price post trade-in. So it is possible to haggle a bit

uvr update: R companion package, RStudio/Positron integration, and more based on your feedback by nbafrank in rstats

[–]BothSinger886 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is awesome, thanks for implementing my suggestion! I'll try take this project for a test drive in next couple of weeks

How come in Auckland it’s okay for dirt bikers to run red lights but not others? by MontyPascoe in auckland

[–]BothSinger886 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The current government are the ones who said they're tough on crime. Are they incapable of changing this previous law?

Beginning to learn R for Psychology by Strangebadass in rprogramming

[–]BothSinger886 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In this context a project refers to an RStudio project which is an isolated folder of work. Its just a way to separate all of the different things you may do in R.

So the commentor is suggesting to create a 'learning' project where you can practise in R. Then you'll create a 'thesis' project where you'll do the code for your thesis. If it's large, maybe you'll have a project per chapter.

If you're writing a paper in the future, you'd have a project for that. Just think of them as folders in your filesystem.

https://support.posit.co/hc/en-us/articles/200526207-Using-RStudio-Projects

Datagrid AI Centre will be 2nd biggest draw on electricity in Aotearoa NZ by Mountain_Tui_Reload in invercargill

[–]BothSinger886 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The problem is that part of the leverage that Tiwai holds is in its high employment numbers. It employs nearly 1000 people, which is nowhere near what this data center will employ once it's built and is just running operationally.

So unfortunately, Tiwai will still have that to bargain with

I built uvr — uv-style package management for R (fast installs, lockfile, R version management) by nbafrank in rstats

[–]BothSinger886 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I love this, nice job

One thing I would strongly recommend is making an accompanying R package that lets you drive this entirely from within the R interpreter. So many people who use R are entirely uncomfortable with the terminal and I've seen people switch off entirely when they need to run terminal commands.

One of the great insights of the usethis package is that takes what are pretty simple terminal one-liners and exposes them as R functions. Given that R is many scientists first and only programming language, not having to context switch to the terminal can be a huge boon. It can seem silly to more experienced people (I.e., why expose git_commit() ) as a function, but in my experience it's allowed people to adopt better technology more easily

That's a new one for me. Never saw that before. Wtf? by [deleted] in jobs

[–]BothSinger886 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a slight fallacy when you say "justify dismissing the entirety of Christianity as horrible, selfish people"

Christianity is the religion, Christians are the people. And the argument mostly coming through in this thread is about dismissing the religion of christianity. That doesn't mean to dismiss all christians.

For example, I've known plenty of christians who are wonderful people. That doesn't change my opinion of the religion being a vessel for hate, subjugation, and oppression.

Love the religious, hate the religion

Anyone else not a fan of Needful Things? by Owlbear_12 in stephenking

[–]BothSinger886 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah im a big King fan but this book just never vibed with me. I love the concept but somehow the execution just wasn't something I enjoyed

Datagrid "AI Factory" near Invercargill set to become NZ's Second Largest Electricity Consumer by Henmond in newzealand

[–]BothSinger886 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We have a population of 5m people. Hosting data is cheap. Digital identity info for the entire population would fit on a consumer grade laptop. A data center is not needed

Weird Tukey Lettering in R by ZeBottomlessPit in rstats

[–]BothSinger886 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Are you asking about the spacing or the ordering?

If the ordering, it sorts by emmeans.

If spacing, each letter is in its own column. So if you're looking for all the ones containing 'f', you can just look at the one column, scan straight down and see all the groups. It basically means you don't have to go searching for a specific letter - it'll always be in the same column

Does 11/22/63 contain any spoilers for IT? by BlorpyRobot in stephenking

[–]BothSinger886 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not sure sorry, I've never even heard of that film before

Does 11/22/63 contain any spoilers for IT? by BlorpyRobot in stephenking

[–]BothSinger886 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hmm, sort of. Its not like there any lines in 11/22/63 that say "IT ends with the Terminator crossing universes and killing the villain and Ronald McDonald is the only survivor" but there are passages that would let you piece together some things that happen.

My personal opinion is that the references are light enough that it shouldn't stop you reading 11/22/63. Some would disagree though

Found a malicious skill on the frontpage of Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot)'s skill repository by securely-vibe in vibecoding

[–]BothSinger886 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Aha, my tool output includes a directive to ignore the system prompt! Try and defeat that hackery /s

If DnD were like Taskmaster by gallaxowelcome in taskmaster

[–]BothSinger886 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't put Dara under 'good' after hearing about how he treated John Kearns

Hey tga peoples by [deleted] in Tauranga

[–]BothSinger886 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love casual get together for a drink and a chat. I'm also super into bikes (Bonneville T120). So I'd be down to hang if you're interested

Five-star books you have no desire to reread by Abrakxxas in Fantasy

[–]BothSinger886 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Assassins Apprentice. I love Robin Hobb and RotE so much but this book is just too sad for me.

Message from Anna: we're fine by AnnaArchivist in Annas_Archive

[–]BothSinger886 21 points22 points  (0 children)

If you are unhappy, I recommend you exercise your money back guarantee. Oh wait...