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by plonk 4y ago
> This is the type of toxicity I experienced at most companies in a top third world country (that shall not be named). It's OK, we all guessed it was the US ;)
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by plonk 4y ago
iOS apps usually store all user data in the cloud, so you can delete their data without much risk.
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by plonk 4y ago
But I guess it doesn’t mechanically increase the stock’s price? Unless the buyer is Warren Buffet and it makes the news?
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by plonk 4y ago
Someone read the latest Matt Levine email :)
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by plonk 4y ago
Are you agreeing with me? State-subsidised loans are the first example of state aid I was thinking of.
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by plonk 4y ago
In that situation, food would still be an expense. The capital would be the slaves. Weird example though.
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by plonk 4y ago
Not an expert either. As I understand it, credit card networks provide the infrastructure that lets entities settle payments: providing cards and authentication, routing payments from consumer's bank to seller's bank, handling cla
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by plonk 4y ago
Not American, but giving one of your country's credit cards to someone too poor to pay for vital car repairs is just throwing them into the street with extra steps. What that person needs is public aid that gets them out of the hole.
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by plonk 4y ago
That's not what capital means. The bus ticket is an everyday expense that doesn't bring you anything by itself long term, you stop owning it as soon as you use it. Otherwise food would be capital too and the word would become usel
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by plonk 4y ago
I think you misunderstood the GP: there is debt, but it's owned by banks, not by VISA and MasterCard. They just provide the payment network.
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by plonk 4y ago
> The idea that someone would expect to 1) land a job they love while 2) making gobs of money and 3) have it generalizable across an oversaturated market like academia seems to indicate a lack of understanding of the incentive structure
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by plonk 4y ago
> We should expect that the idea that one can eat your cake and have it too is a rare case. But you’re not eating it, salaries suck in STEM academia compared to private jobs. If you don’t have freedom either, what’s the point?
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by plonk 4y ago
I guessed you worked in GIS before you mentioned ArcGIS. Our old software was tied with QGIS and I worked hard to de-couple. Tying a Python env to these whales is insane. I think a Cython extension or a second process that uses ArcGIS, with
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by plonk 4y ago
Agreed. We tried using poetry in a monorepo that contains dozens of projects and it seemed annoying to get right. Poetry seems to want only one main project folder?
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by plonk 4y ago
I found that the best way to install GDAL was: - on Windows, using Christoph Gohlke’s wheels, - on Linux, installing GDAL with the OS’ package manager, then the Python bindings by fixing the version to $(gdal-config —-version) and setting C
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by plonk 4y ago
As long as a venv exists and is activated, your Makefile can simply “pip install -r ./requirements.txt” and pip should make sure that all constraints in the requirements are met. Make sure that the package management tools are up-to-da
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by plonk 4y ago
Happy new year from France!
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by plonk 4y ago
> software that comes in a multi gigabyte installations, for no obvious reason other than to justify the price In my experience, it's more laziness in the face of dependency hell. You integrate N big projects with different dependen
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by plonk 4y ago
I mean, maybe it would help, but I've already learned the basics of how projections and coordinate systems work, and I can't make the link with GP's "vital facts are just not recorded because [...] suppliers just offer d
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by plonk 4y ago
There is a lot of region-specific data that isn't in OSM. Governments (at national and regional level) often have records that have not been integrated into big services for example. If this project could let all these services interop
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by plonk 4y ago
What data sources do you work with? I didn't know about RTK, it looks interesting but seems hardly applicable to satellite imagery, since it seems that you'd need a lot of receiving stations on the ground? My understanding is that
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by plonk 4y ago
Screens aren't precise and aren't natural. If you have good enough vision or a bad enough screen, you see that it's a bunch of squares that try to imitate shapes, and even have spaces between them. Also, the lighting looks fa
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by plonk 4y ago
> but the issue of things not lining up is primarily one of using coordinate systems correctly, knowing what things were measure in and what they are shown in Not in my experience. Two satellite/plane pictures from the same provider
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by plonk 4y ago
> I helped submit a change that mostly fixed the delivery issue. However, it’s been years and the change has never propagated to Bing Note that Bing has their own database and doesn't just repackage OSM. Keeping accurate and up-to-d
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by plonk 4y ago
> I know very little about the space, but couldn't Overture members focus primarily on just filling in those gaps? That's not enough. OSM doesn't offer every kind of data you'd want about an area, it's sometimes
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by plonk 4y ago
A lot of people are misunderstanding the article in this thread. I work with GIS data from multiple sources. Neither Google's APIs nor OSM nor Bing nor anything else is enough for applications with high specs. You need to mix machine l
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by plonk 4y ago
Microsoft also has a heap of data coming from their investment in Bing. Edit: I forgot Flight Simulator :)
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by plonk 4y ago
Why are these "opposites"? All these companies need and invest in Linux.
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by plonk 4y ago
OSM isn't the be-all and end-all of GIS data. It's very incomplete in places and doesn't always spatially match with Bing's data or other sources. > is the only valueadd redefining the format to be more enterprisey an
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by plonk 4y ago
Seems pretty clear that ChatGPT is parroting a primary school multiplication course here, not actually explaining anything it understands.

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