https://observablehq.com/@lifewinning/cleaned-up-hillshade-generator sort of a hack but here is the cross-hatched hillshade map visualizations with cross-hatch bodies of water--because of the particular complexity of the river I'm using as an example I tesselate the water polygons but in theory you might not have to for a basic shoreline or something. Also yes, it loads super-slow sorry
Maybe it's a good time to mention that the grant I got for my PhD research is a project collecting documents and oral histories of GIS software development. Materials collected will eventually be accessioned to the Computer History Museum. If you work/have worked on GIS tools (web mapping is part of it!!) I would love to talk to you!!
How do I phrase this for the gram? Like "some personal news instead of dying later this year from burnout and economic precariousness I will die later this year from burnout but I might leave like $500 in a savings account"
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we're live at Local Tech Ecologies today, organized by @ntnsndr and @medlab - we'll be talking about the lab, and we've brought some of our One Laptop Per Child XO-1 laptops as an interactive exploration of hyper-local networking (and of reclaiming technologies with Complicated History for humanistic purposes)
https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2023/06/26/conference-local-tech-ecologies
in addition to killing Toys R Us and generally being vultures feel like it's also fun to note that David Petraeus has some nonsense job title at KKR that probably pays him some obscene amount of money https://www.kkr.com/our-firm/leadership/david-h-petraeus
https://www.axios.com/2023/08/08/openai-journalism-ethics-nyu this is an embarrassingly small amount of money relative to OpenAI's resources and the asset that they're allegedly trying to support
Whenever news breaks of bad decisions a popular product, there's a flurry of recommendations of various alternatives, and in that mix there's always folks extolling the virtues of hosting your own.
As a person who works on security for an open source project, my spicy take is this: unless you enjoy being your own sysadmin (some folks do!), any hosted solution from a vendor that is currently reputable and currently has acceptable terms is a better, safer option than self-hosting.
The thing is there is actually a really good critical book on commodity trading by an extremely posh British journalist (guy literally named RUPERT who went to HARVARD) but he used his posh credentials to basically get industry assholes to tell on themselves?? It can be done!!
To be clear it doesn't seem as though Corbyn actually outed this guy as "posh" or uh, personally judged him, feel like the defensiveness here is saying a lot