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@peterdrake @mkj @jitseniesen @apa

Well, I confirmed that the bizarro text at the top of the Y axis is not in fact part of the Y axis. If you set the style of the Y axis tick labels to plain, so it doesn't use scientific notation:

>>> plt.ticklabel_format(axis="y", style="plain")

... that one bizarro value is still shown in scientific format.

I don't recall if matplotlib supports multiple scales/sets of ticks on an axis, so I'm not sure where that value is coming from. I looked at the data generated by your code and didn't see anything weird.

I think you need either a matplotlib expert, or a user discussion group. Or at least someone who's used matplotlib more recently than the Clinton administration... 😉

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@ifixcoinops

So much this. I love Kodi half the time, and the other half of the time I'm glad it's just software that I can't be convicted of murdering with an axe to the face.

For one category of videos (TV shows), I have my own naming convention / directory hierarchy, and Kodi just Does Not Want to Know About It. I end up leaving that directory out of my library entirely, and just browse it under the raw files interface. If I add it to my library as a TV source, Kodi does seventeen kinds of wrong and it's just completely unusable.

#Kodi#UI#UX

Hey kids, did you know that in 2011 there was this dude who went by the name “Shingy”, who was VP of Marketing at AOL, who somehow morphed his persona to become the company’s “Digital Prophet”. His job was apparently to be weird and outrageous? Spout gibberish and look like he’s high on stimulants? Or something?

Anyway, AOL was bought out by Verizon and merged with other dying companies to become Oath and they paid Shingy money til 2019.

A conversation sparked this weird memory in my brain and now you too will remember a piece of Weird Tech history.