 Wasn't Amazon rated as one if the most toxic places to work in America
 Like they seem to run on a burn & churn schedule
 I think you're right about the pay and you can do way better!
 Yeah. They didn't want to talk about it.  But, working for Amazon would be like working for Microsoft or something.  There's some prestige there.
 Are you moving away from us? :(
 I have to say after starting at jails documentation for a while it's starting to click, I had to cover a lot of basic ground I wasn't familiar with though, like CIDR notation
 *staring
 But it's kind of genius how simple it is. It's not a packaged up tool. It's assembled from other parts of the operating system, so it's actually a composite of very simple concepts.
 @RazPi, CIDR notation for ipv4?
 Yes, I suck at networking
 I finally came across some good docs that explained historically what classless even meant
 oh eh - I saw CIDR but no mention of anything network located. like "Am I thinking of the right CIDR?" lol
 Yep!
 classful as a concept needs to die
 I didn't even know it was a thing so the history lesson helped
 It's like Subnet 0
 just, 'go away' with these old ideas lol
 That's cool tho
 the only use I had for classful was for fleshing out a subnet calculator
 if you're anywhere near network design tho, you'll probably hear/talk about it daily
 because it's easier to say a private class c instead of 192.x.x.x or other mouth drudgery
 So 'R' is hard
 If you go in with a 'imma programmer' mindset it's a pita
 it feels like excel on a console window
 thinking about it as 'text excel' makes me feel better
 Aaaahhh CIDR
 you don't have arrays, they're 'vectors'
 no strings, ints, doubles, floars, chars
 no no --- 'numerics' 'somethingelsedumbforstrings'
 Speaking of, I need to go and do CCNP
 @gillymomo, git r dun m8
 how far in?
 I have time
 Is it anything like Matlab?
 I have CCNA
 And Net+
 I want Linux+
 @RazPi, Me and a Matlab guy were complaining about these 'ism's last week
 ah certs =\
 My lfcs just expired
 ccna just renewed
 ccnp in prog - but then job things happened and I'm rolled off my backbone
 I don't know if R is matrix oriented but Matlab certainly is and it shows
 the bit I've played with makes me thing it's very heavy on vectors and matrices
 like, you have data
 and you do stuff with it
 Do you get conditionals?
 but you're gonna almost always present in via vector/matrix
 You probably have sums and standard deviations built in then?
 @RazPi, I'm not sure tbh. I've gone as far as basic <, >, <= like tests
 there are built-ins like sum and c
 like I'm used to something like my_list = ['a', 'b', 'c']
 R equiv: my_list <- c('a', 'b', 'c')
 if my_list were ints (or w/e R calls em) ---- my_sums = sum(my_list)
 but if you have a vector like that, and you're gonna make humans look at it
 you can literally name the indices of the vector
 ^ basically 'headers' for an excel sheet
 name(my_list) <- c("alpha", "bravo", "charlie")
 it's good for statisitics, should say a lot I suppose. R -> statistics as Matlab -> academia/numbers
 it's all foreign to me, so ya
 But I'm porting a matlab application over to R as an Rshiny dashboard in the next few weeks - so I'll uh, figure it out I guess
 @AdamOutler, Be frank about pay, get da mark on da resume, go elsewhere after ~2 years :D
 ^I apologize for the stream of conciousness
 Work has me wired
 @Abrerr Are you sure you want to go R? I thought Octave was supposed to be the MatLab clone
 I actually just installed Octave too
 I want to all Python. But work is turning into an R shop. I'm not sure of the benefit - but it wasn't my decision :\
 Do they have a lot of statistics people there or is it a buzzword for them?
 Instead of just crunching numbers, I feel like with Python I can get stuff done on top of crunching the numbers
 I think in statistics your underlying number representation may matter, I'm not sure if python suffers from rounding errors or not
 @RazPi, One of our 'higher ups' likes R -- so kinda makes it a done deal I guess. lol
 .. do they use it?
 I like common lisp but I can't reasonably convert anyone yet XD
 depending on accuracy, numpy is probably accurate enough for most cases
 @RazPi, software team is redoing an entire database/delivery system to work in R
 I do admit, matplot lib can be -really nice-
 holy cow
 I've heard R suffers in large datasets
 and ours are pretty sizeable
 R is supposed to have tons of visualization support
 another reason for R
 I'll just keep doing my personal tools in python
 #rebel
 XD
 I'm going to trudge along with octave
 'largely' compatible
 drop-in ready compat?
 ?iiiiiiiii just bricked my work phone?
 wha?
 It just stopped working. Doesn't power on - plugging in the charger makes no difference
 I'm lost.
 D:
 It has my 'secure token' for work vpn.
 I still have a few more hours of work to do
 guesssssssssssssss I'm going back to work. ugh
 Wrapping up a work meeting
 So weird thing
 My laptop seems to be able to surf networks before accepting the guest login page
 I don't know if that's just me or something that usually happens
 I'm just using the basic ifconfig wlan0 with wpa_supplicant.conf
 you're bypassing a captive portal on a guest wifi?
 weird is subjective
 Not on purpose?
 I just didn't notice I was surfing without it
 then I accepted it and suddenly I could use pkg install again
 yeah, i went there
 @Ivoriesablaze I want to call my window manager "Y2K"
 why?
 He must like 5k's
 Because my UI nostalgia heralds back to 2000
 The gimp 2.10 splash screen looks very nice and professional
 Octave looks nice @RazPi
 It's used in Andrew Ng's machine learning course
 VScode huehuehue
 @RazPi, I need to get in on that
 R strsplit returns a nested vector
 much derp, I r feeling
 There should be some syntax sugar for that?
 https://www.iecc.com/linker/
 Found another nice page
 dbl bracket to specify the indice of the returned vector :\
 subvector **
 I'm trying to suffer through a dice roller
 I'll link you a gist or pastebin after if you want
 Sure!
 https://pastebin.com/0wWHHttB
 take input: 6d12 - and sum all rolls
 no for loops to populate a list to sum later
 sample() does that all on it's own, returning a vector or ints/numerics. you provide a range and number of elements you want
 ^ just weird stuff like that.
 It looks simple enough, but stumbling through R :\
 soo manyy examples! https://matplotlib.org/gallery/index.html
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6L8Q61N4fM
 @Abrerr I don't know whether to be horrify or amazed that you did string manipulation with that xD
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 @SivaMachina, She is being kept safe and being wrapped in buddle wrap before being put back in cold storage
 God the Florida DMV is shit...
 They have no digital forms.
 You are in Florida?
 Nope.
 It's for my motorcycle.
 Is the cycle still registered in Florida?
 Yes I need the title but there is a loan on it.
 Btw, make sure you don't tell them the cycle has been in Colorado for over a year. They make you pay back taxes on registration
 That's bull crap.
 @govatent thanks for the heads up though.
 I might never get the bike a CO plate with the madness.
 Tell them your folks just got it to you
 Bank says I need to talk to the Florida DMV for a copy of the title and Florida DMV says to talk to the Bank.
 Just stupid.
 The bike is covered by State Farm that's all I should need.