Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

To my great though trivial annoyance, their processing pipeline cuts off the limb. It does look great, though, as expected. This is from the 4/20 eclipse, which @dscovr_epic also got an excellent frame of. Link to a 30 megabyte 1 km/pixel version: https://xoc.s3.amazonaws.com/also/gk2a-2023-04-20-0400.jpeg

Next time I write a CV it’s going to have a line like “I relish learning new datasets and working to make sense of them” but it’s going to be a lie because here we see longitude stored in radians:

The cat loves to be skritched but hates to be touched, and so far the best solution is for me to “lick” her face with a paintbrush, but she has to sniff it suspiciously before each session, make it take its shoes off, remove all electronics from its bags, etc.

Found it.

Kind of humbling to hold something in your hand, even just a chunk of cheap tea, that might last longer into the future than the Marvel movie timeline itself.

Out-take from that last @salkinjorts:

I have a question about this, and the question is: WWWHHHHHHHAAAATTT?! https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acba86

If I ever finish this, it’s over for all my haters.

We used to have free speech in this country!

Can’t believe this absurdly puritanical interference with my artistic vision.

I mention this like once a week, but since she’s just died, let’s all go look at the ~20 cm Landsat image of Half Dome that Virginia Norwood made.

«Norwood had researchers load a breadboard version of the scanner onto the back of a truck. It amounted to “just a bunch of boxes,” she says. “We could use all the weight we wanted.” […] Having labored so long over the specs, Norwood wasn’t surprised by the high quality of the test images.»

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1025732/the-woman-who-brought-us-the-world/

For now, I need to work on developing more stretch without knocking it down too much. Next time I might roll them out. Or maybe I’m too worried about knocking it down.

Have given up on this “let’s find a moderate perspective on ‘AI’ and stop yelling” essay about a dozen times, then restarted it about a dozen times when I read something that got under my skin, and now it’s just 7,000 words of me pointing out that everyone other than me is wrong without a conclusion, so I guess I’m going to work on my baguette shaping technique some more.

Power’s out, so I guess I’ll just sit here and watch the barometer fall.

Come down to National Geodetic Survey marker AE5211 in the next 15 minutes if you want an ass kicking.

Happened to be learning about communication technology in the mid-fifties, and my goodness what a time to be reading the news.

Tired of feeling bad about what I’m paying for with my crossword subscription.

Last I played with consumer GNSS hardware much, the SiRFstarIII was considered very cool.

I just ran a new NEO-N9M overnight under a residential roof (no survey mode or anything) and got this wonderfully clean pattern.

All units are meters. I don’t know what pAcc actually is and neither does the official documentation.

This is like $50 for a USB-capable board with shipping and tax from a reputable seller. I’m delighted.

There’s what I would describe, in technical terms, as a “lazy fantasy map” vibe to the distribution of NGS survey markers.

Amazing that so many dreams fit in one mid-size cat.