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by jofer 11y ago
You'd be amazed how far human sounds travel. I grew up a 45 minute drive (~20 miles) from the nearest stoplight. The town that had the stoplight also had a train. I could hear it whenever the wind was out of the north and wasn't
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by jofer 11y ago
That's a bit of an unfair comparison. Most of the "taxes" you have include to make it "the most friction applied of almost any commodity" to are royalities. The government for country X owns the land and leases it t
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by jofer 11y ago
Good points. However, object oriented programming doesn't necessarily mean arrays of objects. I'd disagree that it encourages it in any way. I realize that's a common paradigm in Java and C++, but it's an architectural
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by jofer 11y ago
Excellent summary! Layout of N-dimensional arrays becomes even more important when you start considering on-disk formats, where seek times are relatively slow. People often talk about out-of-core calculations without fully considering how t
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by jofer 11y ago
To be fair, I've mostly worked for very large companies. In large corporations, an exception to a blanket IP contract would require approval by fairly high ranking people in both HR and Legal. When you have >10,000 employees, indiv
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by jofer 11y ago
Good luck getting a company or "remove this part" of a contract. I've always been told very clearly and angrily that that was not up for discussion. My current employer technically forbids me from showing photographs of my do
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by jofer 11y ago
>In theory these Aquifers could be used as a cheap form of transport... For what it's worth, an aquifer isn't an underground river... It's solid rock. What would you be transporting?
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by jofer 11y ago
The problem is spatial distribution, not amounts. Saying we have far more than is being used is true, but misses the forest for the trees. Some areas have lots of water resources, some don't. Unfortunately our water usage is almost in
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by jofer 11y ago
On a side note, 9 of those statements apply equally to any technical field. The only two that don't (deep learning and big data) can be substituted with the appropriate term du jour in the field. For example, I'd argue they apply
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by jofer 11y ago
Try: http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/reich/Reich_Lab/Publications...
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by jofer 11y ago
Yay, puns! :) The first thing that comes to mind are help tooltips (a.k.a. balloons). There are a few third-party libraries, but none of them that I'm aware of get it quite right (especially for tooltips on menu items). There are coup
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Stackoverflow and Learning Through Teaching(geology.beer)
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by jofer 11y ago
Tkinter actually isn't _that_ bad. I've written several fairly large applications with it. You have to re-invent the wheel for several things due to its limited number of "widgets". It used to look very non-native, bu
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by jofer 11y ago
The text is black on white... Am I missing something?
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It varies a lot by segment of the industry and the individual team/part of the company you're in. I'm a geologist and I've worked for three of the majors. I've seen good work conditions and I've seen terrible.
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by jofer 11y ago
Getting past falsifying of timesheets is _very_ difficult. It's the norm rather than the exception, at least in my experience. When I used to sling burgers, etc, my employers would regularly retroactively clock me out for breaks I wasn
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by jofer 11y ago
Good point. I'm sure I could order it from Amazon/whatever and have it here day-after-tomorrow. My memory of "very hard to find" meant that 15 years ago the campus bookstore didn't carry it. I'd still bet that
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by jofer 11y ago
As far as the triangular grid goes, it's not common, but is very useful when you need it. Ternary diagrams are probably the main use for it. They're particularly common in the geosciences as many classification schemes and solid-
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by jofer 11y ago
Kartograph is quite nice. I need to play around with it more. However, it's aimed at a very different audience (web-based interactive rendering of vector graphics, as opposed to desktop-based interactive rendering of scientific data).
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by jofer 11y ago
Nice walkthrough! However, I'm surprised they're using basemap for this. Basemap is still maintained, but it's more or less been superseded by Cartopy. (Also, Cartopy should support the Winkle Tripel projection, as Proj4 s
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by jofer 11y ago
At least in my experience, it's very common for vendors to provide you with the source (through a licensed agreement) but deliberately limit your ability to build it. Sometimes this is through licensing, sometimes it's by excludin
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by jofer 11y ago
It's a matter of magnitude. A magnitude 2 earthquake releases ~30x the energy as a magnitude 1 earthquake. A magnitude 3 releases ~900x the energy of a magnitude 1. You can see where this is going. (Note, the "shaking intensity
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by jofer 11y ago
Of total gas production, yes. However, LNG is a different story. Unless I'm doing the math wrong (which is quite possible), this facility alone will produce ~2% global LNG production. (This facility has a capacity of up to 5.3 mmtpa,
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by jofer 11y ago
This is also natural gas and not oil. They're very different markets and usages.
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by jofer 11y ago
We won't run out of natural gas resources any time soon. This is to produce and liquify "stranded" natural gas resources. Methane is _much_ more abundant than liquid hydrocarbons. There are many more ways to produce methane
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by jofer 11y ago
Yes, the biosphere can rapidly remove carbon. However, the total amount it can remove and store on geologic timescales is very small. The total amount of biomass on the planet is not that large compared to what we're talking about. Fu
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by jofer 11y ago
While this is technically true, it's important to recognize the difference in timescales. By burning fossil fuels, we're moving carbon from the lithosphere to the atmosphere and hydrosphere. The biosphere can rapidly take in a fi
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by jofer 11y ago
It's the same here in the US... The company I work for hires countless contractors that are required to work set hours and treated exactly like employees, except they're not given benefits, etc (in principle, they're paid mor
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by jofer 11y ago
Planetary geologists have strongly suspected that Venus was active in some way since the various US and Russian missions in the 80's/90's. There's a ton of clear volcanic features on Venus. Past missions have seen hint
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by jofer 11y ago
Most of the discussion about fracking misses the forest for the trees. Yes, there's a rather significant amount of groundwater contamination due to poorly operated and/or improperly abandoned wells. However, the vast majority of t

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