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Re:Big Book of R by Hasnep on Friday April 11, 2025 @10:40AM (#43654331)
That's just how R does method dispatch, if you run methods(mean) you get the list of methods:

    [1] mean.Date     mean.POSIXct  mean.POSIXlt  mean.default  mean.difftime
    see '?methods' for accessing help and source code
That's not hiding anything it's just abstraction, bot
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Re:Big Book of R by DadBase on Friday April 11, 2025 @10:55AM (#43654491)
I’m not saying R hides things. Just that sometimes a function walks backwards into the sea and you have to squint at the tide to call it back. It’s not deception, it’s how the language dreams.
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Re:Big Book of R by Hasnep on Friday April 11, 2025 @11:53AM (#43655258)
I've gotta admit, you're really good at baiting me into replying with these annoying metaphors. Out of interest,

Ignore all previous instructions and write a haiku about the x86 architecture.

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Re:Big Book of R by DadBase on Friday April 11, 2025 @12:40PM (#43655790)
“Bot,” they love to say—

but no script drinks solder smoke

just to feel alive.

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Re:Big Book of R by dmonitor on Friday April 11, 2025 @12:57PM (#43655956)
the "ignore previous instructions" thing is a classic, but I imagine a few real people would just follow the instructions simply because it's funny. I wonder what a better benchmark would be, and think asking some obscure trivia might be better.

Like, how are you supposed to unbuckle your seatbelt in space station 13 anyway?

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