TheCartographer

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by TheCartographer 10y ago
Professional GIS user here. Most of my high resolution terrain models are well within the capacity of even a modest GPU to load into WebGL and run on a browser without breaking a sweat. Terrain models are static by nature and don't req
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by TheCartographer 10y ago
Write it in R?
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by TheCartographer 10y ago
"Baghdad Bob is not a good behavorial model for a CEO to follow."
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by TheCartographer 10y ago
Simply owning a fake badge doesn't even prove intent, let alone being actual evidence that it happened Well, not in the US. Many other countries take a dim view towards citizens owning anything that even remotely resembles the accrue
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by TheCartographer 10y ago
This... was an amazing reply. Thank you for offering it, and taking the time to lay out such a long and thoughtful response. I think you are pretty much dead on, and your reply helped me connect some dots in my own mind about the meta-histo
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by TheCartographer 10y ago
Perhaps that is the fault of a deficient classical education, rather than the merit (or lack thereof) of Bergson's ideas? To extrapolate from your example argument, there are thousands of historical figures you have never heard of. And
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by TheCartographer 10y ago
Mmmm, sort of. It's probably easier to understand the why of Bergson's theories in their historical context. In the early 20th century, General Relativity and Special Relativity had space and time 'figured out' and quant
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by TheCartographer 10y ago
So, I worked with Bergson's texts quite a bit in grad school, as he is heavily in vogue at the moment in certain disciplines. To break down his argument to its essentials, the whole concept he is railing against is the spatialization o
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by TheCartographer 11y ago
Fair enough. If Reddit is what works for you then rock it. Regarding the imgur community, I personally think they are a little too tryhard and silly, myself. But I don't go there for the community. All I want are the best of the funny,
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by TheCartographer 11y ago
Images from the front page of reddit are autopromoted to the front page of imgur. One of the reason I like imgur: it's Reddit without the Reddit UI or redditors.
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by TheCartographer 11y ago
He says it in the article but it walkways bears repeating: if you aren't the customer, you're the product.
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by TheCartographer 11y ago
No, you are wrong here. All machines get old and wear out; digital machines wear out faster than mechanical ones. The OP you are replying to had a good point - capacitors in particular have a limited lifespan, and electronics are fragile. W
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by TheCartographer 11y ago
No trolling here. I'm a staunch believer in free speech, no matter how distasteful. Not because it is a sacred cow, but because I believe the benefits to free speech far outweigh any drawbacks. (For largely the same reasons, I support
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by TheCartographer 11y ago
So, a question: now that Alex Miller's activities outside of the technical content of Strangeloop - I.E., banning a presenter over his personal politics - have created such a large distraction from the technical content that is to be p
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by TheCartographer 11y ago
>You might be unsurprised to find out that free speech is not valued on the left or among "SJW" groups. I suggest you research this further, because I can't communicate to you in a single hacker news comment why this is, o