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Hands-On Windows, featuring Paul Thurrott, will help you adapt to the changes made in Windows 11. From visual tweaks to performance boosts Hands-On Windows will show you how to get the most out of your Windows 11 PC. You can join Club TWiT for $7 a month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast ad-free for $2.99 a month. New episodes every Thursday.
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This is the Official Podcast for Dj Sammy https://djaysammy.com/ Meet Dj SamD, a talented and versatile open-genre DJ hailing from Lebanon, now based in the vibrant city of Dubai. With a deep passion for music and years of experience under his belt, this DJ has built a reputation for delivering electrifying performances that keep the crowd moving and grooving all night long. With a diverse range of musical influences, this DJ is equally comfortable spinning everything from classic rock and p ...
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Welcome to the exhilarating world of my Weekend Drivetime Show! Get ready for a captivating radio experience filled with an irresistible blend of House, Pop, and Retro Remixes, all seamlessly fused together with remixes that will take your musical journey to new heights. As you embark on your weekend adventures, let the pulsating beats and infectio…
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Microsoft Edge is the default web browser and PDF reader in Windows 11, and a modern and capable successor to the Internet Explorer browser of yesteryear. It's built on the same Chromium web platform that Google uses for Chrome, and it integrates more deeply with Windows and Microsoft online services–most notably Copilot–than other browsers. But Mi…
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An aesthetically-pleasing journey through the history of R, another demonstration of DuckDB's power with analytics, and how webR with shinylive brings new learning life to the Pharmaverse TLG gallery. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter) The Aesthetics Wiki - an R Addendum R Dplyr…
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Welcome to the exhilarating world of my Weekend Drivetime Show! Get ready for a captivating radio experience filled with an irresistible blend of House, Pop, and Retro Remixes, all seamlessly fused together with remixes that will take your musical journey to new heights. As you embark on your weekend adventures, let the pulsating beats and infectio…
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Those unhappy with Windows 11 have good alternatives in ChromeOS, Linux, and macOS. But what about Windows 10? Host: Paul Thurrott Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.…
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Welcome to the exhilarating world of my Weekend Drivetime Show! Get ready for a captivating radio experience filled with an irresistible blend of House, Pop, and Retro Remixes, all seamlessly fused together with remixes that will take your musical journey to new heights. As you embark on your weekend adventures, let the pulsating beats and infectio…
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Our initial fantasy football ranks for 2024 are now complete! You can find the full list of rankings for quarterback, running back, wide receiver and tight end at HarrisFootball.com! And on today's show, we'll follow up last week with a discussion of some of the key names on the QB and WR lists.... Is Kyler Murray right back in the fantasy top 5? S…
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Our take on the important conversations spurred by the recent R deserialization CVE, how simulations may save you from cracking open that probability textbook, and recapping the exciting 2024 Shiny Conference. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @colinfay@fosstodon.org & [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay) (X/Twitter) Everything y…
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Welcome to the exhilarating world of my Weekend Drivetime Show! Get ready for a captivating radio experience filled with an irresistible blend of House, Pop, and Retro Remixes, all seamlessly fused together with remixes that will take your musical journey to new heights. As you embark on your weekend adventures, let the pulsating beats and infectio…
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AI is complicated, with lots of new technology and terminology to learn. This week, Paul shows us some ways to take advantage of Microsoft's generative AI tool. Host: Paul Thurrott Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leav…
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It's time for fantasy football rankings for 2024! With the NFL Draft behind us, we know the basic roster structures of all 32 NFL teams, and that means we can start thinking about how we're going to draft the skill position players for fantasy in '24. That process begins today as we evaluate our initial re-draft ranks for running backs and tight en…
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Why R 4.4.0 may reduce your trips to a certain kind of stack overflow, a call to update your favorite Shiny application code snippets, and how the steller ASTHOS Profile Shiny dashboard has your hosts blown away and fighting the urge to refactor their applications UIs! Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Ma…
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Windows has never been without its controversies. There have been dark years of doubt and uncertainty, of Microsoft putting its corporate interests ahead of the needs of its customers. But it's fair to say that this type of behavior, which we now call enshittification, has escalated dramatically in recent years. And that Windows 11, in particular, …
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The NFL Draft is finally here! We'll have plenty of time to react to the new NFL landing spots and what they mean for your fantasy football squad...today we're looking back a year, and discussing the genius picks and huge mistakes NFL teams -- and fantasy owners -- made with the Class of 2023. We will re-rank the running backs, wideouts, quarterbac…
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Bringing interactivity to a staple graphical display in the genomics space, how one team is taking the box approach to sharing and developing modular R code, and a set of intriguing benchmarks with the newly-releaed duckplyr that have your hosts thinking of many possibilities. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.…
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Welcome to the exhilarating world of my Weekend Drivetime Show! Get ready for a captivating radio experience filled with an irresistible blend of House, Pop, and Retro Remixes, all seamlessly fused together with remixes that will take your musical journey to new heights. As you embark on your weekend adventures, let the pulsating beats and infectio…
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Winbdows 11 comes with a lot of Microsoft apps. This week, Paul runs through the 5 apps you should think about replacing or uninstalling completely. Host: Paul Thurrott Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback i…
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This year's NFL Draft may not contain any obviously elite running backs, but it's got some good players at the position...and we all know that RB is the most *important* position in fantasy football. So we'll discuss the talents and shortcomings of the leading candidates to be drafted highest in the 2024 NFL Draft, so we can be familiar with them b…
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Another way to hop on LLM train with the chattr package, a clever use of defensive programming to get to those warnings in your tests faster, and a major milestone for the R-Hub project. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter) Chat with AI in RStudio Test warnings faster R-hub …
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With the arrival of the Moment 5 Update to Windows 11, Microsoft has added some multitasking features to help boost your productivity. Host: Paul Thurrott Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWi…
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Caleb Williams will certainly be the Bears' pick at #1 in the upcoming NFL Draft, but after that? It's anyone's guess! A whole lot of teams are in the market for a franchise quarterback, which means trades and controversial selections are almost certainly ahead. For fantasy football: which of the rising rookies could be usable right away? Which guy…
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The Nix and R train rolls on with automated caching, a collection of big improvements landing in webR, and how hand-crafted visualizations bring fundamental dplyr grouping operations to life. Episode Links This week’s curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (X/Twitter) Reproducible data science with Nix, part 11 – build and cache binaries with Github Act…
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With Windows 11 24H2 build 26080, Microsoft is once again flighting the same bits to Insiders on both channels, and the biggest changes include a unified Teams client and a new undocked mode for Copilot. The new built-in Copilot capabilities let you use the assistant to turn on accessibility features such as Narrator or Live Captions, enable batter…
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Does the upcoming NFL draft really feature a historic wide receiver class? Where should the best WRs among the 2024 rookies be drafted in your dynasty league? We will crack open film on the likes of Marvin Harrison, Malik Nabers, Rome Odunze and dozens more WRs to discuss what they do well, and what they do not-so-well. Who are the sleepers in this…
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Taking the tradition of spring cleaning your R session to a nefarious direction, how a little R and automation crafted together helps with bill payments, and the tried-and-true method of simulation in action to investigate time-to-event inference statistics. Episode Links This week’s curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (X/Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstd…
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In keeping with its Week D preview release cadence, Microsoft today issued Moment 5 for Windows 11 versions 22H2 and 23H2. Of course, Moment 5 is an internal name. To the outside world, today's release is named KB5035942, and it's described as a Cumulative Update Preview. Those with who install this update on Windows 11 version 22H2 will see the sy…
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How a recent pivot in one of the most popular testing frameworks in R unlocks mocking once again, bringing robust grammar checks to your R development environment with rspell, and flex your Shiny and HTML design muscles with flexbox. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter) Update on mocking for testing R package…
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DJ Sammy's radio show on Fortitude Radio is a high-energy, electrifying experience that is sure to get listeners dancing and feeling energized. With a passion for music that spans across genres, DJ Sammy brings a unique and exciting blend of dance, electronic, and pop music to the airwaves. Throughout the show, listeners can expect to hear a range …
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Welcome to the exhilarating world of my Weekend Drivetime Show! Get ready for a captivating radio experience filled with an irresistible blend of House, Pop, and Retro Remixes, all seamlessly fused together with remixes that will take your musical journey to new heights. As you embark on your weekend adventures, let the pulsating beats and infectio…
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Windows 11 includes a Widgets feature that consists of a Widgets button on the left end of the Taskbar and a pop-up widget board that displays notifications for important news and events, widgets, and a Microsoft Start news and general interests feed. This feature can be annoying in its default configuration, depending on your needs. But it's also …
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An honest take on common patterns and anti-patterns for re-use of data analyses that hit a bit too close to home for your hosts, a cautionary tale of garbage online references pretending to be authentic material, and a new (human-created) cheat sheet with terrific best practices taking front and center. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar…
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Wow, did the NFL have a great week or what? The opening of the 2024 NFL season saw *dozens* of skill-position players change teams and set up completely new dynamics for fantasy football in 2024. We will run through *all* the major (and some minor) moves that happened this week, discuss what we think of new landing spots for quarterbacks, running b…
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The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold 16 improves on its predecessor and undercuts the price of the HP Spectre Foldable PC dramatically, depending on the configuration. That latter fact alone helps bring us one step closer to a future in which foldable PCs rule the premium portable PC market. But the X1 Fold also brings a few design compromises of its own th…
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A collection of tips for spreading the good word about your awesome R package, how spring cleaning a package codebase doesn't have to be a dreadful experience thanks to usethis, and the culmination of a learning journey to bootstrap node JS projects powered by webR. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_C…
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Welcome to the exhilarating world of my Weekend Drivetime Show! Get ready for a captivating radio experience filled with an irresistible blend of House, Pop, and Retro Remixes, all seamlessly fused together with remixes that will take your musical journey to new heights. As you embark on your weekend adventures, let the pulsating beats and infectio…
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We are back, and so is the NFL! We're about to get a whole bunch of exciting skill-position moves in NFL free agency, and that's going to mean a big change in the fantasy football landscape. Could Saquon Barkley, Derrick Henry, Josh Jacobs and Austin Ekeler all change teams in the same offseason? You betcha! We will get ready for next week's free-a…
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How an attempt to solve a clever programming exercise led to a new patch to the R language itself, a review of the enlightening results for the recent data.table community survey, and creating a Doom map in R, because why not? Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) I Patched R …
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Welcome to the exhilarating world of my Weekend Drivetime Show! Get ready for a captivating radio experience filled with an irresistible blend of House, Pop, and Retro Remixes, all seamlessly fused together with remixes that will take your musical journey to new heights. As you embark on your weekend adventures, let the pulsating beats and infectio…
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Flipping a Hello World function on its head, assorted improvements landing in ggplot2 3.5.0, and why authoring beautiful code is so worth it. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) HelloWorld(“print”) ggplot2 3.5.0 Beautiful Code, Because We’re Worth It! Entire issue availabl…
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It's our annual tradition! Harris and Cousin Josh will count down their favorite movies of 2023 and talk about why they work (and sometimes why they don't). Maybe you'll enjoy our opinions, or maybe we'll just put a few different movies on your radar screen. Thanks for listening! Josh's Top 10 Movies Of 2023: 10. Bottoms 9. You Hurt My Feelings 8. …
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Putting those bike pedals to work with a comprehensive exploratory data analysis, navigating through a near-inferno of namespace and dependency issues in package development, and how you can ensure bragging rights during your next play of Guess My Name using decision trees. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @t…
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Welcome to the exhilarating world of my Weekend Drivetime Show! Get ready for a captivating radio experience filled with an irresistible blend of House, Pop, and Retro Remixes, all seamlessly fused together with remixes that will take your musical journey to new heights. As you embark on your weekend adventures, let the pulsating beats and infectio…
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A few great tips for ensuring your R package doesn't "talk too much" (within reason), shrinking down the size of your images with a new API directly available in a new package, and the first opportunity in 2024 for submitting your proposals for R Consortium projects is on the horizon. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twi…
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We've got a Super Bowl preview for you, but first: let's dig into the game tape of one of 2023's most surprising players: Rams RB Kyren Williams. The guy only played 12 games and still won a *ton* of fantasy leagues -- is he more special than we originally believed, or was this *all* about scheme? We'll dive into the tape! And then let's discuss ho…
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Key learnings from learners in recent R workshops, advice on navigating thorny package installation issues within renv, and a showdown of how the parquet and RDS formats perform with large data sets. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) Teaching you - teaching me Things that ca…
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And then there were two! The Chiefs and 49ers will square off on Sunday -- and we might have a wee bit of fatigue with these specific teams, but that doesn't mean they're unworthy. Harris and Jim McCormick will preview the game, discuss which players and units hold the keys to victory, and make picks both against the spread and among a myriad of av…
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Welcome to the exhilarating world of my Weekend Drivetime Show! Get ready for a captivating radio experience filled with an irresistible blend of House, Pop, and Retro Remixes, all seamlessly fused together with remixes that will take your musical journey to new heights. As you embark on your weekend adventures, let the pulsating beats and infectio…
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In this week's bonus episode, Harris and Jim McCormick discuss initial thoughts on another Niners/Chiefs Super Bowl while looking back at the blown performances from the conference championship games. Did John Harbaugh lose his mind? Is it *ever* fair to question an "analytics-based" football decision? SPONSOR - www.DraftKings.com code HARRISTUBE t…
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Our tradition for the rest week before the Super Bowl is: We turn the show over to you! This is our LISTENER REQUEST EPISODE, where you pick the topics, and we chat about 'em. Today we'll have thoughts on the future roster decisions of the Bills and Chiefs and Chargers, we'll discuss some NFL coaching changes, we'll talk about our podcast equipment…
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The R-Weekly Highlights podcast has crossed another milestone with episode 150! In this episode we cover a terrific collection of development nuggets of wisdom revealed in a recent package review livestream, and how a feature flying under the radar from Git can facilitate investigations of multiple package versions. Episode Links This week's curato…
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