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by jofer 7y ago
I completely agree! Words really, really, really can be triggering and devastating. Perhaps a better way to phrase the argument in favor to discussing divisive topics is that it helps us develop empathy for people who don't share our
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by jofer 7y ago
Very true! You don't need a datum unless you're measuring angles on the surface and elevations. My point was more that the standard mapping tools allow non-Earth bodies just fine. E.g. here's a UTM-like projection for Mars u
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by jofer 7y ago
I'm unclear how that's relevant in this case... Yes projections need to be specified... The datum and ellipsoid are part of the projection. No, you won't be able to pass your custom datum along to an external service and have
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by jofer 7y ago
Tiling and hosting is the straightforward part, FWIW. For the reprojection, tile cutting, and overview building in gdal, see https://gdal.org/programs/gdal2tiles.html You can also implement it yourself fairly easily i
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by jofer 7y ago
That has nothing to do with these types of frontend tools and everything to do with projection libraries. In your case, all of the full libraries like proj4 already support it. What you're describing is a custom ellipsoid and datum.
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by jofer 7y ago
If you're interested in this topic, "Cadillac Desert" is well worth a read. Much of our society and a surprising portion of our agriculture is heavily dependent on non-renewable groundwater resources in arid regions.
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by jofer 7y ago
Oil and gas generally doesn't follow that even in Texas, for what it's worth. In most places, if the reservoir compartment you're producing from extends beyond the boundaries of your lease, you have to pay whoever owns the m
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by jofer 7y ago
Don't wish for it too much... Getting approval for any decision is like pulling teeth. As a project manager in the oil industry you still aren't the final decision maker in most cases, and even when you are, there are decision re
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by jofer 7y ago
One thing to point out: Oil is still _huge_ when it comes to investment and sheer amount of financing available. Anything involving large-scale finance will have oil money involved in it in some way. Frankly, even at the height of the t
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by jofer 7y ago
Yeah, I grew up in a very rural area with a major natural gas pipeline running through it. I know a lot of folks who work on pipelines. Welders who have all of the certifications/etc needed for that job do quite well. ~$100k is pretty
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by jofer 7y ago
> How do you deal with arbitrary objects being passed around and not know what's potentially coming from where? Honestly, by trusting that those objects conform to what things are documented to expect and using operations that will
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by jofer 7y ago
Just my $0.02: I've maintained and/or written more than a few large desktop apps in both python and C++. The python ones are a hell of a lot easier to maintain, i.m.o. Python _is_ strongly typed unlike JS, and I don't feel
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by jofer 7y ago
At least at the companies I've worked at and had offers from, the signing bonus is essentially to make up for the annual bonus you don't get the first year. E.g. in the oil industry, a significant chunk of your compensation is usu
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by jofer 7y ago
It's not quite as crazy as it sounds. It was a case of laziness and a belief that he was smarter than the compiler, rather than a lack of knowledge of basic flow control. For context, the "ten-item-only data transfer tool" wa
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by jofer 7y ago
I've seen this first-hand both in interviewing and on the job. I expect it in interviews, but I never thought I'd see it from a colleague. I once worked with someone who refused to use loops. He would write everything out... Thou
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by jofer 7y ago
That's a really good point that I think a lot of folks are overlooking. Spiderweb games has been around for a long time and has a dedicated following. I actually felt pretty alienated when things like Geneforge came out -- It seemed
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by jofer 7y ago
Yeah, using non-parametric methods to approximate PDEs is really what this article is about, and it is a recent and very fruitful trend. I got a bit unnecessarily up-in-arms about phrasing. (edit: And I just realized you're the author
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by jofer 7y ago
This is an aside to the main point of the article, but I have to take issue with a couple of quotes: > For a long time scientific computing has kept machine learning at an arm's length because its lack of interpretability and struct
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by jofer 7y ago
I know it seems crazy, but I've been in several offices that had this. It most cases it worked well and I never noticed it until it would occasionally quit working. The offices where it's worked best were not open, though. They
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by jofer 7y ago
It really does have a lot do do with field of view. High res satellites fundamentally can't image a very large area (that's how a telescope works). They also usually can't image continuously. (High res means you can't i
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by jofer 7y ago
Planet global imagery is 4 band sampled at ~4m (oversampled to 3.0m). Skysats (Planet's high-res satellites) are 0.8m, but image only small areas. (Numbers are based on https://assets.planet.com/docs/combined-ima
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by jofer 7y ago
Most cubesats have small solar panels and can't image all the time (i.e. they need to charge and then image). Mostly likely there no imaging at all over the oceans so the satellites can charge.
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by jofer 7y ago
It's also the nicest time to hike in that area, i.m.o. Thru hikers probably do contribute to the spike, but I'd bet a lot of it is just that April and May are the best weather.
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by jofer 7y ago
This "stop and think" warning is very good, but let's be honest, in many roles you can't say "no" anymore. Most companies require a significant subset of employees to use their personal device for work and have
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by jofer 7y ago
Spend some time in Birmingham sometime. It's a fun city. As a whole, AL isn't what you probably think it is.
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by jofer 7y ago
I'm guessing you were on the Broadway strip? Avoid Broadway/etc at all costs (that's always been the case). There aren't any actual music venues on Broadway. Those don't count. First off, a caveat... I haven&#x27
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by jofer 7y ago
My apologies, I should have left "front end" out entirely. Front end has nothing to do with it, I was just using it as an example of a role that is frequently somewhat standardized, interchangeable, and often does not require know
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by jofer 7y ago
I'd argue six months is about average for the jobs I've seen and had over the years. Not every role needs an off-the-shelf front end dev. A lot of things really do require significant domain and industry specific knowledge. For
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by jofer 7y ago
Yep! You can think of the bands as contour lines of deformation.
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by jofer 7y ago
An earthquake is rocks sliding past each other. What you're looking at here is a measure of how much they moved. (It doesn't "slide back" afterwards -- the motion is permanent.) For an earthquake of this size, the motio

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