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by jofer 1y ago
That's a common request for manually-created mosaics. Those are often used in flight simulation software. They want all planes manually photoshopped out of airports because they don't want you to look like you're running in
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by jofer 1y ago
More likely, the date attribution in the imagery is incorrect. As someone who works in that exact field (literally - I produce seamless mosaicked global maps and work for a satellite company), I can assure you that we don't and can&#x2
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by jofer 1y ago
In addition to disease, a key issue in many climates is toilet paper. Your average deer isn't leaving around white paper that takes a decade (in dry climates) to go away. That's a non issue in wet areas, but a large one in deserts
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by jofer 1y ago
If it helps, here's some recent coverage: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/26/indonesia-prot...
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by jofer 1y ago
As much as X11 is an overly complex and dated protocol, this article hits its mark well. My current desktop is actually running Wayland, but I still need X11 for a variety of reasons. I see the development advantages of Wayland, but not the
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by jofer 1y ago
To be fair, it's the higher level folks who are too far removed from things to have any actual authority. I've never heard a direct single-team engineering manager something like that. But yeah, CEOs say crazy crap. And we'
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by jofer 1y ago
I appreciate this writeup. I live in the terminal and work primarily in vim, so I always appreciate folks talking about tooling from that perspective. Little of the article is that, but it's still interesting to see the workflow outli
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by jofer 1y ago
It's always been active. The Sagaing fault is a plate boundary. You're seeing the "side" of the Indian subcontinent slamming northward into the Eurasian plate.
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by jofer 1y ago
These same things apply to satellite images of the Earth as well. Even when you have optical bands that roughly correspond to human eye sensitivity, they're a quite different response pattern. You're also often not working with t
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by jofer 1y ago
The moon itself already is one. Moonshots are widely used in calibration, at least for earth observation satellites. The brightness of the full moon at each wavelength at each day of the year is predictable and well-known, so it makes a g
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by jofer 1y ago
In case you weren't already aware, that last bit basically describes most optical scientific imaging (e.g. satellite imaging or spectroscopy in general).
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by jofer 1y ago
Similar tests have been standard for over 20 years. When I worked at McDonald's (late 90's), they didn't do the personality test, but when I applied across the street at Arby's a few years later, they did. The one that
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by jofer 1y ago
Mud isn't just to flush out cuttings. It's also to support the borehole. At large depths, you can't keep an open borehole and the "high energy" methods can't work because the borehole will collapse in on itsel
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by jofer 1y ago
I also learned from that book + tape about 30 years ago. I also have to strongly agree with this. It's quite different from learning stringed instruments. I'm sure it has a lot in common with some brass instruments, but either
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by jofer 1y ago
We received a two knife set as a wedding gift many years ago. This was well before they were common, and it was quite a nice gift. I strongly agree with the "don't buy a knife you can't sharpen" point that folks often ma
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by jofer 1y ago
Regular cameras respond to a wide range of wavelenghts, and they do actually reasonably mimic the response of the human eye. Either way, it's the "range" vs "single wavelength" that's key here. The green band
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by jofer 1y ago
You can model polygons on a sphere, but the issue is that the data you're starting with is already in a cartesian representation. You actually can't easily convert between the two for complex geometries in cases where they cross
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by jofer 1y ago
For what it's worth, you _can't_ use spherical approaches for most data. They're only used for points, in practice. Your spatial data is inherently stored/generated in ways that don't allow spherical approaches as
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by jofer 1y ago
>"I'd like to look like the guy on the right, but I'd rather be friends with the guy on the left" This exactly. But I think the photo itself plays into that as well. It's not just a "safety" thing. (I
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by jofer 1y ago
I'm really struggling to understand it as well. I mean, sure if what you're doing is a website, then maybe you can get something that functions out of an LLM. I don't really do web development, so maybe they're better
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by jofer 2y ago
It's called "mantle drip" or "lithospheric drip" in the technical literature. "Lithospheric mantle delamination" is a more descriptive variant. We're fond of fun terms in geology. E.g. the "jel
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by jofer 2y ago
Just moved to Utah (wife's job was relocated here) a couple of years ago after many decades in the southeast and midwest. Some stuff grows like crazy here, some stuff doesn't. Nothing in the continental US competes with the gulf c
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by jofer 2y ago
It might help to think of it less as "Indian subcontinent slamming in" and more as the "Tethys ocean basin closing". India being pulled away from Africa/Madagascar and eventually beneath the Eurasian continental cru
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by jofer 2y ago
That's a very personality and culture related phenomenon. A lot of folks will, but also a lot of folks won't. Pointedly not playing the game when you have the political power to do so is often the most effective way to point out i
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by jofer 2y ago
CSV is _way_ hairier than folks think it is!! And for anyone who's not convinced by CSV, consider parsing XML with a regex. "I don't need a full XML parser, I just need this little piece of data! Let's keep things light
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by jofer 2y ago
The big caveat is a big one. Choose your battles wisely! There are plenty of things that look simpler than an established library at first glance (I/O of specialized formats comes to mind quickly). However, a lot of the complexity of
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by jofer 2y ago
^ This x1000. Everyone should read those! And the world needs more murderbot. "As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure." “I was having an emotion, and I hate that.” “I liked the imaginary people on the entertainm
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by jofer 2y ago
And with that said, while I'm relatively pro deep sea mining, we simply don't know enough about deep marine ecosystems to balance risks. Every societal action has environmental impacts. You can't avoid them, and your existen
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by jofer 2y ago
I'm a marine geophysicist by background, just to give some context on why I'm starting this by griping about journals. Before I start trashing Nature Geoscience, I'd like to point out that this is an open access article and I
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by jofer 2y ago
Even if it's homogenous, you have steadily increasing stresses with depth. This occurs for perfectly uniform materials as well. If you can't offset these to keep the hole open, it collapses. Rocks are very weak in tension, despit

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