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by geenew 4y ago
Good news Edit: This is objectively good news, given the creativity demonstrated throughout the game's history.
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by geenew 4y ago
I once encountered a situation with a very expensive field laser. At one point, measurements started showing an increasing amount of offset. Over a period of days, the error became increasingly, comically bad, until finally the system refus
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by geenew 4y ago
> You get redirected to a page with allegations of "suspicious activity" and are presented with endless CAPTCHAs. I always took a bit of pride when that happened. Having google think that the searches are as systematic as what
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by geenew 4y ago
Additional: It's worth noting that it preserves the correct starting numeral in each case
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by geenew 4y ago
> I did call out GDAL I see that now, sorry! Excellent article, by the way, it's very useful to have this kind of writeup. I suspect it's something to do with the distributed installation, and the amount of the required behavio
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by geenew 4y ago
The numbers used as examples are too large. I've had the same wrong-answer behavior when multiplying smaller numbers, down to 3 x 3 digits: 98372 * 72934 = 716,949,168,428 9837 * 7293 = 71,927,121 983 * 729 = 7,168,717 98 * 72 = 7,056
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by geenew 4y ago
You'd probably be well-served by exporting to some format with a spatial index. GeoJson is just a textfile, not much better than reading in a CSV. The current recommended format is Geopackage (gpkg), which is based on SQLite. Edit: agr
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by geenew 4y ago
Don't forget, QGIS is one of several projects of OSGeo. A significant part of the fundamentals come from GDAL, another OSGeo project, which is very excellent if you ever need to do some command-line processing of or need a library for
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by geenew 4y ago
> reading books Not sure how much currency this has lately, but back at the dawn of Web 2.0, this was well-known comedy. Relates 'books' to 'tech'. Medieval helpdesk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ
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by geenew 4y ago
There's also the antecedent called the Mozilla Suite, that Firefox branched off from. It still lives on, somewhat zombie-like, as the Seamonkey Suite.
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by geenew 4y ago
"The worst kind of emergency is a geological emergency" -Unknown
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by geenew 4y ago
If there are T's & C's I need to read before being permitted to talk to someone, I'll probably just skip the whole thing. Which I guess lines up with the title of the article.
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by geenew 4y ago
Elements was a school textbook for 2000 years, up until ~100 years ago. It's a fine book to use for self-study. Edit: Also, to state the obvious, it's been translated into English
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by geenew 4y ago
Not sure how commonly known it is, but TIFF's extended cousin, GeoTIFF, is a standard for GIS data because of the flexibility you describe, especially the (almost) limitless number of channels and the different data format in channels.
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by geenew 4y ago
I thought the same thing. A couple of things that might account for that - From other shots in the video later in the process, it looks like the majority of the manholes produced don't have colouring applied -- The volume of manholes r
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by geenew 4y ago
To be fair, you have to say 'hey' before any of those. There aren't many times in normal conversation when one would say 'Hey serious', or 'Hey series'.
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by geenew 4y ago
With DNS-over-HTTPS, after the DNS query is performed, does the client machine then connect directly to the IP address that was resolved by the DNS query? If so, would it be possible to do a reverse DNS search on all IP addresses that clien
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by geenew 4y ago
That doesn't factor in the social pressure to take at least as much vacation as your immediate supervisor. Not doing so can reasonably be assumed to be seen as a problem by the supervisor, since they demonstrably think that that level
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by geenew 4y ago
Are there any books you could recommend that give a good description of what typical daily middle-class life was like in the Soviet Union? Preferably nonfiction, but fiction would be good too.
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by geenew 4y ago
Is there a structured data exchange format that's not currently widely-disliked? yaml, json, xml all seem to be disliked. ini works, but is pretty limited. It's also likely disliked, but just (at this point) obscure.
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by geenew 4y ago
There's an episode of Columbo with a similar problem, expressed as: there are a number of bags. Each bag contains many gold coins. The gold coins weigh 1 ounce each. However, one bag contains fake coins, which appear the same as the re
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by geenew 4y ago
Reminds me of some early Bungie games, which would have files called 'DONT_EVER_READ_THIS_FILE.txt", or something to that effect. The files, of course, were the readme files, named that way to trick people into reading them.
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by geenew 4y ago
Probably worth mentioning that, at a place I worked at in the XP era, we used net send in the way it was probably intended: to send short messages to other people on the same network. The same type of day-to-day stuff that is sent over Team
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by geenew 4y ago
Your definition is fine. Trevelyan was not a colonial administrator at the time, he was a civil servant in the treasury. He was a colonial administrator in other parts of his career. The definition you cite doesn't match the conclusion
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by geenew 4y ago
Most of the Penal Laws were repealed before the Act of Union, and the passage of the Act itself was predicated on the enfranchisement of the remaining disenfranchised Roman Catholics, which did happen. Did oppression and abuse of a group ha
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by geenew 4y ago
It's hard to call it a 'colony' if its citizens were as much citizens of the mother country as any other citizen.
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by geenew 4y ago
If Webb's crime is working in a homophobic system without actively fighting against it, then all people working at NASA* during the moon landings should not have things named after them. Nor, presumably, should they be held up as examp
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by geenew 4y ago
CEC (the HDMI Consumer Electronics Control interface) is satisfying, in a similar way. An ethernet for, more-or-less, video-based consumer electronics. Exploring it is a joy, if only because of its constraints and simplicity when compared w
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by geenew 4y ago
Not only that, those are (presumably) the hours when traffic is lowest, and the need to get places quickly is lowest.
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by geenew 4y ago
How do people usually pronounce numpy? num-pee or num-pie?

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