Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

Another day, another long phone call about EPSG codes.

Good month to be an aerosol. https://botsin.space/@dscovr_epic/110341110053167051

I kid, but if you broke down how we do it now at a similar level of detail (which is subjective, granted), I think the diagram would be about as complex.

They don’t want you to know, but this is how it still works most of the time. https://vis.social/@maarten/110033143162477225

Nodding every time the loss goes down, frowning every time it goes up, pursing my lips and making a note if it’s the same for two batches in a row.

@sgillies @nelson Lemon beebalm for lemongrass.

@nelson @sgillies This is all sounding surprisingly plausible.

@sgillies The more I think about it, the more I want to try this.

Hard to believe it’s elk rendang season again.

I appreciate a discussion among a bunch of people who are all, so to speak, capable of flying space shuttles, yet understand why not every interface should look like the space shuttle cockpit. https://mstdn.social/@kissane/110300512767913104

This paper is 5 years old but I just happened across it and have been talking it up to like four different friend groups because it’s so fun. I particularly enjoyed the retrograde klimarübe (you know, the rutabaga that represents an idealized continent for climate delineation purposes … you know).

Mikolajewicz et al. (2018): “The climate of a retrograde rotating Earth” – https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/9/1191/2018/

I work in the field of remote sensing but the only thing the name “remote sensing” has going for it is that it sounds like something that a gutta-percha magnate established an as-yet–unclaimed £5,000 prize to prove the existence of in 1926.

@stephenjudkins Hah, got it: it was Food Fight!

@stephenjudkins Not knowing is going to bug me all day.