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by urschrei 4y ago
I am not claiming otherwise, having been a Shapely user since…2012? I’m talking about the work done by Sean et al while they were at Mapbox.
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by urschrei 4y ago
Oh and I forgot to add that Vladimir Agafonkin and Morgan Herlocker’s JS libraries (earcut, rbush, delaunator, turf, polylabel) have dragged state of the art spatial analysis into the browser to an extent that won’t be equalled again in the
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by urschrei 4y ago
I can’t speak to the organizational problems you saw, but when you consider the quality of software that Mapbox was producing before the failed union drive – Mapbox GL JS, Rasterio, Shapely – what you’re saying is nonsensical. The latter tw
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by urschrei 4y ago
With the greatest respect, nothing about his comment is inflammatory in the least, and I say this as someone who is avowedly skeptical about the ability of the Julia creators to accept criticism.
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by urschrei 4y ago
Is it too late to rename the language to Ostrich?
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by urschrei 5y ago
I can imagine many reasons why attempting to create 17k items via the web API without some kind of batch processing and/or rate limiting may not have been a successful endeavour.
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by urschrei 5y ago
I’ve been using Zotero since it was in beta in 2007, and have a library with tens of thousands of items. As dstillman says that’s hardly unusual. It works perfectly (it’s just a SQLite db with a mature, well-designed schema after all), and
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by urschrei 5y ago
Nonsense. Landsat 8 bands 5, 6, and 7 are infrared bands (5 is NIR, and 6 & 7 are shortwave or SWIR), and bands 10 and 11 are lower-resolution thermal infrared (TIRS). Source: http://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-are-band-
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Event filtering lessons from inside AWS(tbray.org)
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by urschrei 5y ago
OK, I'll say it because nobody else seems to want to: the sensible approach would be to ask for some help on one of the several official avenues that are open to you: users.rust-lang.org to begin with, and then the Discord (if you&#x27
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by urschrei 5y ago
The deal explicitly states that the company doesn’t have to engage in collective bargaining about wages, so this seems like little more than PR at this stage, unless there’s a broader strategy.
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by urschrei 5y ago
Thanks – this is the more informed version of what I wrote.
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by urschrei 5y ago
> There is no problem at all interfacing Julia's C API to Rust Nobody claimed there was a problem? > As for the FUD about interfacing JIT code to C/C++ I don't know what you're talking about. Sorry!
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by urschrei 5y ago
Rust doesn’t need to copy the data. It’s trivial to pass e.g. Numpy arrays to Rust as slices via Cython (let alone originating in Cython!), modify them, and return them, or use them as input for a new returned struct. https://git
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by urschrei 6y ago
An entire industry – geospatial – and a variety of related industries depend on high-performance CH, Voronoi, and line simplification algorithms, among others. Not to mention their importance in medical imaging applications, tomography (so,
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by urschrei 6y ago
Here's the "report card" (PDF) on the app's data-gathering and privacy features, prepared by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties: https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ICCL-
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by urschrei 6y ago
It's absolutely not an alternative to RustEnhanced. Sublime-LSP + Rust-Analyzer complement RustEnhanced, adding Language Server functionality. They don't conflict in any way. Source: me, a contributor to both RustEnhanced and Subl
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by urschrei 7y ago
Are you sure? Wes McKinney rewrote the Pandas CSV parser way back in late 2012 because the batteries-included version was slow and memory-hungry. Did Python upstream his version later on, or replace it with something faster (I'd be sur
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by urschrei 7y ago
Jaguar's I-PACE has OTA updates.
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by urschrei 7y ago
Matplotlib is verbose, and has had an inconsistent API in the past (v3 has improved this a lot), but if you need to produce publication-quality figures using Python, taking the time to get comfortable with it pays off. I've been using
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by urschrei 7y ago
Particularly now that it's relatively straightforward to bake and serve your own MVT tiles, so you're not tied into the Mapbox service ecosystem if you don't need any of its other features (and you're happy with the scal
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by urschrei 7y ago
I'm by no means an expert, but yes, if you can use a modern realisation (e.g. ITRF2014) and have access to VLBI / DORIS / GNSS then sub-centimetre accuracy is possible, though not in real time.
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by urschrei 7y ago
Survey-grade GPS (using CORS and WAAS correction) using RTK will give you accuracy to ~10 cm within a few seconds. You can get that down to several millimetres if you can tolerate post-processing several hours worth of static data.
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by urschrei 7y ago
basemap (like matplotlib) has the contourf method. You can calculate your x, y, and z values using matplotlib.mlab.griddata (altho scipy's are faster), and pass the results to it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/268858
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by urschrei 8y ago
TfL is not fully self-funded, or even close to it. It derived 47% of its funding from fares in 2017/2018. https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/how-we-work/how-we-ar... . In fact, it's facing a larg
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by urschrei 8y ago
Resistance from a community is not a "restriction", and characterising this as NIMBYism would be intellectually dishonest if it weren't so ridiculous. Google is not a group, it's a vastly wealthy and powerful corporate e
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by urschrei 8y ago
Turf development is funded by Mapbox. If you need more Geo functionality than that provided by https://github.com/georust/rust-geo (I'm one of the developers), contributions are actively encouraged, and we're
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by urschrei 8y ago
Who, ever, anywhere, has claimed that "Rust fixes all possible problems"? This is a straw man. As for bad code leading to overflows and crashes: yes, bad code causes overflows and crashes, definitionally. Rust does not, and has ne
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by urschrei 9y ago
I don't think you can make SSL work on AWS without Route53, though. Which is (for better or worse) about to become a big problem when Google starts penalising non-SSL sites. You also can't make a AAAA record, so no IPv6.
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by urschrei 9y ago
You'll have to have a first in order to be able to skip the masters, and since entry to funded programs is competitive, you have to be an exceptional candidate for this to actually happen – it's quite rare. Then there's the p

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