It means to pointlessly take something to a place that already has it in abundance.

This is poetry.

My favourite part is that he uses the modulo operator in his Python script to generate the C code.

The new Dune film.

This... sounds kinda awesome.

As someone who's spent a lot of time working in a lab, the ability to control static electricity would be a godsend! There's really nothing like spending weeks preparing a new material as a fine powder, carrying it over to the weighing scales, placing a glass sample vial onto the scales, taring it, then a scooping up some of your powder with a spatula, careful not to lose a single particle, then carefully, CAREFULLY carrying the scoop of power to the sample vial -- then seeing the static blast your powder out of the spatula to coat the OUTSIDE of the sample vial, plus the scales, plus your nitrile glove...

I have trauma.

Christopher Walker confirmed to be playing the Emperor, while Sting will have a surprise cameo role playing himself.

Excession, by Iain M Banks.

Genar-Hofoen felt the Diplomatic Force officer's kiss through the few millimetres' thickness of the gelfield suit as a moderately sharp impact on his jaw followed by a powerful sucking that might have led someone less experienced in the diverse and robust manifestations of Affronter friendliness to conclude that the being was either trying to suck his teeth out through his cheek or had determined to test whether a Culture Gelfield Contact/Protection Suit, Mk 12, could be ripped off its wearer by a localised partial vacuum.  What the crushingly powerful four-limbed hug would have done to a human unprotected by a suit designed to withstand pressures comparable to those found at the bottom of an ocean probably did not bear thinking about, but then a human exposed without protection to the conditions required to support Affronter life would be dying in at least three excitingly different and painful ways anyway without having to worry about being crushed by a cage of leg-thick tentacles.

Gorgeous.

At last, something achievable.

What I enjoyed doing on The Other Place was going to a random community and seeing its top posts, its hot posts. It gave a sense of how vibrant or interesting it was.

This made my day.

A fancy fineliner. I use a Rotting Isograph with a 0.1 mm nib. It has a refillable ink reservoir which I really like, making it quite cheap to run. Plus you can order just the nib if you break one in a fit of frustrated scribbling-over.

I've just got to 11kyu. If you're on online-go long enough, it turns out you can advance pretty far just by opponents timing out on games.

Interesting! I'm on Jerboa now, but I'll check it out. Thanks!

It's an idea from Lean management. Everything you need to keep, prevents you from keeping something else; requires you to remember where it is, where you could be remembering something else; takes longer to move when you have to move it; takes longer to organise than having less would. It poses fire hazards that having nothing wouldn't pose. Blocks light that having nothing wouldn't block. Keeping stuff is inherently wasteful.

None of this is to say that keeping stuff is bad. It may be very useful to keep it. But you should always recognise that doing so incurs a cost that you need to trade off against its usefulness.

While we're on it, inventory is one of the eight kinds of waste identified in Lean. They are:

• Transportation
• Inventory
• Motion
• Waiting
• Overproduction
• Overprocessing
• Defects
• Skills (misuse of)

Remember TIM WOODS.

All of this is meant for running a factory, but I've found a lot of them useful in other bits of life, especially the idea that Inventory is a form of waste.

Reading these comments, there sure aren't a lot of R programmers out there.

RStudio for R, Spyder for Python, Emacs for either of the above when I want to be cool.

Thanks! It turns out my happy place is spending endless hours drawing closely spaced parallel lines.

This was a fascinating watch! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you! More to follow...

Thanks, I'll have a look!

Not exactly managing a team -- it's more a question of best practices around pull requests, version control, testing, code reviews, pair programming etc. I'm not interested in management, but I do I want to know what a well managed team ought to be doing!

This looks really interesting! I'll give it a go. Thanks!

I like that! Oddly, the name "daddy longlegs" applies to craneflies like this in the UK, and to a kind of spider in the US.

Thanks! I'm actually not that happy with it to be honest. The windows don't line up, the balcony isn't really anywhere... the more I look at it the more it annoys me. Still, it took a good few hours to draw, so it's staying up!

Thanks!

Thanks!

But I was hoping to be done with all that...

Thanks! It was fun to do.

Hi all! I'm a scientist and R programmer based in the UK. I like data, and history, and thrillers. I draw pictures. I play board games, especially chess and Go. I'm learning Chinese. Nice to be here!

Ooh! Does this include, when you want to join a road but can't get out because nobody gives you way, the ability to telekinetically push the button on a nearby pedestrian crossing?

Look to Windward is my favourite. The Ways of Dying monologue is hauntingly beautiful.

No disagreements here! What you're doing here is recognising that the waste incurred from storage is less of a problem than the waste incurred through Transportation, or Waiting for resupply. In this case, inventory is waste worth doing. Any workshop needs to keep SOME spare parts, every house needs to have SOME food in the freezer. But that doesn't mean it's not a kind of waste to store stuff -- a fact people acknowledge when they choose not to rent a warehouse to store even more.

What I'm saying is that it's a trade-off. In fact it's a pretty bland statement, obvious when you think about it, but putting it into words like this can be helpful when making processes more efficient.

Thank you!

Inventory is waste.