Huh That's odd. The MSN bullshit is what I see in bing. DDG always is great. I wonder if it's because I'm mostly comparing Edge+Bing vs Firefox+DDG and Firefox is the magic?
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DDG is really good for my English searches. I was shocked yo learn that it relies on Bing because Bing searches are always trash for me.
Huh. That's odd because bing search sucks and DDG does not. Work IT forces Edge+Bing as default at each Citrix login so force of habit url bar searches wind up there first somewhat often. So then I immediately go to DDG and search and find what I want... that's a poser. On my own machines/phone I use Firefox with DDG as default search engine.
Have you heard of the Dead Internet Theory? When I heard that it put a name to how Reddit has felt for a while. Mostly I'm on the "avoid main subreddits" camp and a I'm in a few small communities. Wierdo communities but the wierdo feels genuine.
A long time ago Reddit used to have a rule against self-promotion. It got tricky though to get definitions. Selfposts were fine if the didn't link out with obvious "buy my shit" type things. With selftext it sort of made sense. But then you had artists showing something they had painted... Is that self-promotion? And then there were the wars over whether theoatmeal should be banned and admin took theoatmeal's side and pissed everyone off. So then people started to aggressively promote their content and only feared moderators. Nowadays a lot of it is "I wrote this" and "I made this video" etc. And it's a really difficult hair to split. Some people I don't mind doing that. But other times it's just missing the filter of any third-party evaluating it as interesting enough to be submitted. Dunno. Lately reddit just feels like a room full of salesmen and bots a lot of places on Reddit. Even the smaller subreddits are full of people pushing YouTubers or other celebrities.
Just about everything is modifiable in matplotlib... It may not be easy, but all plotting libraries are designed to make some things easy at the expense of making other tasks more difficult. For matplotlib you just have to think about things the way matlab thinks about things... which is more computer graphics based. It can get ugly until you understand it. But if you understand how any plotting library actually works it's not that bad. All plotting libraries ultimately are built on graphical primitives like lines and fonts and triangles and patches computing where things belong by transforming coordinates and feeding them to a layout engine. It's not as magical as the APIs make them seem. So if you're willing to dig into their bowels (as OP mentions) there really aren't any many limits. Sometimes it's actually easiest to just declare a canvas in memory and draw it all by hand. Ultimately, things are either vector or raster formats (or some abstraction that supports both) and fed into some computer graphics engine (like postscript or some OS's or GPU canvas).
Anyway, sometimes the easiest answer is you export and edit the labels in the final figure. One really nasty way if you don't have PS or PDF tools is to sidetrack through Windows EMF and mess with fonts and positioning of text in PowerPoint.
FWIW Google's Play Store segments star ratings by your own device and software level. So everyone is probably going to see something different.
I think they use the unauthenticated .rss and .json routes (which is why they are read-only). The reddit website itself currently relies on these. It's unclear whether reddit may lock them down in the future but it would likely require frontend updates on their end and massively break mod tools even more than what they're already doing.
For the types of visualizations you're describing, the choice probably won't matter. I view matplotlib as "matlab flavor" and ggplot2 as "R flavor". For R-type work (a certain type of table-based stats) I just use R.
For matlab type work (image processing, simulations, etc) I now use matplotlib. This is mostly numpy/scipy things rather than... pandas things. Python is interesting because it has things that are beyond matplotlib (VTK, etc) and beyond matlab. Typically when you're prototyping in matlab you're assuming you will have to rewrite in a different system eventually, but with python you can move the prototype further down to more polished prototype easily.
I do a lot of image processing and am too familiar with matlab, so matplotlib generally came naturally for translating that prior knowledge. So really it depends on what sorts of things you are familiar with, languages you use, and would want to do in the future. I think with either choice you will eventually hit some wall of difficulty.
There are also more visualization and plot focused things (TeX family or PostScript and PDF) as well as the "processing" language.
I use R for... not-image-type analysis stats and generate plots in R using R's plotting. I mostly use python for matlab-type things and matplotlib seems more natural for that.
Julia is on my todo-list and I have heard good things about their plotting ecosystem but I have not looked into it.
Incidentally VTK is extremely well designed for the type of language it's based on and the problems its solving... but that's not really 2D plotting.
Messages is understandable since as far as I know Google is keeping tight control over RCS. It's similar to why Signal abandoned SMS in my mind. Apple doesn't allow 3rd party access to SMS and Google seems to be playing the same game with RCS (which requires doing the same to SMS). Supposedly this is meant to be temporary but with all the reliance on SMS for 2FA I dunno if Google may have decided it's a security risk to allow 3rd party access. Dunno if dialer decisions cascade from there somehow.
Frankly I'm fine with it. SMS and RCS (and all carrier-controlled messaging) should be considered obsolete and privacy risks.
Infinity (Android) is making a go at a paid subscription.
I'm dating myself but I used to run qmail on FreeBSD and loved it. When I switched to Linux postfix config and documentation confused me forever and I gave up. FreeBSD docs were so much better at the time. 😬
Are there? Must be a bigsub/shill thing.