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by jofer 3y ago
I can't read minds, so it's impossible to know intent of lawmakers. It's the language of any law that should be evaluated. The language of these is problematic.
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by jofer 3y ago
The issue is that "purient interests" and "performance" is really not something that's well defined. Walking down the street whistling a classic rock tune like "fat bottom girls"? Arguably fits that descri
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by jofer 3y ago
The issue is the way it's defined and the language in the law. What defines "drag"? As that legislation is currently written, it can be interpreted to be someone simply appearing in public. That aside, though, I don't se
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by jofer 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Senate_Bill_3 is a good example.
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by jofer 3y ago
At the risk of starting a flame war, many of the current bills have absurdly broad language which makes it a crime to simply be in public dressed differently than your gender assigned at birth (i.e. somewhere where a minor _might_ be presen
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by jofer 3y ago
Phenomenal quote from the article above: > She reportedly had no issue with the “the mother of Landsat” moniker her peers gave her. “Yes, I like it, and it’s apt,” she said. “I created it, I birthed it, and I fought for it.” As someone i
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by jofer 3y ago
The vegetation there (varieties types of spinifex, among other things) tends to have thorns that are much harder and sharper than anything in the US or Europe. Even though modern off-road tires are way way way tougher than they used to be,
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by jofer 4y ago
The standard procedure for fixing similar issues with well water is standard household bleach + time to sit + a lot of running water to move everything through, FWIW. Look up instructions for "chlorine shocking well water". You
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by jofer 4y ago
Gotta watch out for those amethyst geodes the mantle!
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by jofer 4y ago
It's more or less the same way putting salt on ice causes it to melt. Diffusion still occurs with solids, just at a lower rate than with liquids. As for whether it's liquid or gaseous, I probably shouldn't have called it &qu
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by jofer 4y ago
That's a surprisingly complex question. The best answer is probably "sometimes". The chemistry of volcanic rocks gives a lot of clues as to the origin of the melt. The athenosphere is actually a bit poorly defined in this se
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by jofer 4y ago
Yes, there's a chemical component as well. I was simplifying. Regardless, though, they're not core material rising up. They're still basically olivine+pyroxenes+etc, same as what's around them. They're not the exa
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by jofer 4y ago
Yeah, it's far from settled in detail, and for a long time there was a camp that maintained that mantle plumes did not really exist in the normal sense. However, further imaging work seems to show that 1) they actually do seem to be a
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by jofer 4y ago
Mantle plumes don't significantly change the shape of the core or mantle, though. They're convection within the mantle. They rise from the core mantle boundary, but they're basically temperature features, not structural featu
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by jofer 4y ago
It's because it's a frequent source of confusion in the actual industry. I _constantly_ hear people claim that this method really does add information. My own company constantly makes similar claims, and internally, even for peop
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by jofer 4y ago
That's exactly true. It worries me a lot that ESRI (who really should know better) is using the term "resolution" for this. This sort of superresolution is just interpolation. By definition, you're not adding more infor
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by jofer 4y ago
ASCII diagram comments are surprisingly common in scientific computing, FWIW. It's not so much that it's always hairy code, more that it helps to add some visualizations of what's going on. Math vs intuitive understanding a
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by jofer 4y ago
It's honestly not so much that set. It's the sheer amount of new supplemental sets that they're throwing out, many of which are cards that you basically _have_ to but to remain competitive. Formats like legacy and vintage are
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by jofer 4y ago
It's pretty industry specific, but at least in mine, 2 pages is a more or less immediate disqualification. You're expected to have a substantial publication history, but including that on a resume will get it thrown in the trash i
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by jofer 4y ago
I completely agree in general, and my resume is in latex along with my papers/etc. However, I'd argue that industry-focused resumes are often a poor fit for latex. For an academic CV where going an extra page when you add a new de
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by jofer 4y ago
Oh, agreed! There's definitely a market there. A lot of my friends are archaeologists (I'm a geologist), and I've heard many stories of "if only I could get your company to sell me imagery instead of blowing me off becau
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by jofer 4y ago
Good luck recognizing that level of detail! This isn't that type of imagery. You can tell just barely tell a truck from a car and can definitely tell the color of the vehicle, but that's about it. You're describing 1cm imager
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by jofer 4y ago
With that said, I'm still very skeptical that there's enough revenue in the "long tail" of small customers to make a viable satellite imaging company. Please prove me wrong there!
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by jofer 4y ago
What's interesting to me is that the pricing isn't that unique. That's pretty normal for a list price. $7 sq km + 25 sq km min (basically the size of the image). That's probably because they're (I think?) buying tas
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by jofer 4y ago
At least on recent Android versions, it blocks you from screenshotting it, FWIW.
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by jofer 4y ago
Good luck trying to save those QR codes, though. I had to resort to pulling out my DSLR to take a photo of my phone with them. All screenshot/print/save functionality is disabled when you have the codes up on your phone. You need
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by jofer 4y ago
The article is actually talking about volcanic activity building things up. I.e. active volcanoes building up relative to the seafloor immediately around them. Isostatic rebound is also occurring for the overall area, though. It's ju
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by jofer 4y ago
The portable ones used in geochemistry are usually imaging spectrometers, not mass-spec, unless I'm missing something. I.e. they're measuring something entirely different. Sure, there are portable mass spectrometers, in the sense
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by jofer 4y ago
Unfortunately, this will make things even more confusing due to the amount of existing data in various state plane projections (almost all of which use us feet). Then again, feet vs US feet is something you get very aware of very quickly as
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by jofer 4y ago
> "Statistically speaking, most of the time spent doing science is spent being wrong. As soon as you figure a system out your work is essentially done and you move on to being wrong about a different problem." That's a rem

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