Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse
- charlie@planet.parts
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- geographical pixels
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- Xučyun/Oakland, Ohlone land, western Laurentian accretions
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You know him on the internet. Eucalypt-adjacent; very occasional writer. Consulting and passively looking for work in geospatial, image processing, and related fields.
Joined Apr 2022
Charlie Loyd
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NEW Vantor Open Data for Cyclone Gezani impacts in Madagascar
@Tim_Eagon @marimo The ones I’ve watched so far seem to understand the genre fiction spirit of the originals better than most adaptations do, and have some very enjoyable touches. If I wanted to pick them apart, I could, but I don’t want to.
Allow me to recommend the Soviet production of Sherlock Holmes on YouTube. As an index of its vibe, this is how it depicts a man who has just arrived from Canada.
food (veg)
@brennen What’s the vegetarian protein of choice?
I am still a novice at Rust but it’s hard to emphasize enough how non-annoying it is in general.
I’m not a big PL nerd, but rarely do I think “oh, the people who put this together actually thought carefully about it” – Scheme, Postscript, HyperCard, Haskell maybe (I don’t know it well enough), and precious few others.
Rust feels like a low-level language designed by people who understand and sincerely appreciate current-millennium high-level languages instead of feeling insecure about them.
@urschrei I feel like one of my only semi-useful skills in geospatial is having some slight intuition around what’s going to be fast or not, and now I guess I just don’t.
@ceejbot And rob myself of the joy of writing a custom sorting function and yelling at people who don’t use it? Don’t be naïve.
Charlie Loyd
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The documentation for this image processing library is one of the most interesting things I've read in weeks:
https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/personal.md
https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/README.md
https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/concepts.md
Philosophical discussion of the nature of seeing and what am image is vs a map, fascinating technical details about how satellite imaging works and why it looks as bad as it often does, a lot of really thoughtful conversation about engineering and aesthetic process, and even an amusing unit of measurement — grams per terrapixel.
@nasser Also one named Hemnry V.
@kyle I really appreciate that. I wrote the kind of thing I would want to read, is the short version. And although I spent a reasonable number of hours on it, I think the secret is really that it was slow – the hours were spread over years. Unfortunately I think the organization suffers from my lack of outsider perspective.
@martinfleis Following up: I lean on your concept in https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/concepts.md and https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/personal.md
Charlie Loyd
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You know when someone says something like “My therapist let me know a really interesting trick:” and then they say something that’s an obvious solution to a problem you cannot imagine having? You’ve seen a little too deeply into their worldview? This is how a lot of year-end lists come across.
Charlie Loyd
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Happy holidays, fediverse!
I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
- charlie@planet.parts
- work
- geographical pixels
- where
- Xučyun/Oakland, Ohlone land, western Laurentian accretions
- who
- him
You know him on the internet. Eucalypt-adjacent; very occasional writer. Consulting and passively looking for work in geospatial, image processing, and related fields.
Joined Apr 2022
