Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse
- charlie@planet.parts
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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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Roughly 15% of my free time is spent thinking about the paragraph in the Wikipedia article on surface plates that points out that they originate precision.
@marcpfister Good stuff. I don’t see this very often – great job by whoever found that cloud window and made it happen.
@marcpfister Thanks for doing it in the first place. I’m not involved with any response efforts myself these days, but I know this is crucial data. (Also, I’ll pedantically correct myself: I think this case sensitivity problem is actually in the official S3 tooling, not in the API itself.)
@marcpfister FYI, there seems to be a minor problem here – there are two path segments differing only by capitalization (ard and ARD), which causes problems in the S3 API, which has kind of weird case sensitivity semantics.
@chucklessmith It’s partly the fault of the lighting, and also being evil incarnate doesn’t help.
Charlie Loyd
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Wear thy masks, children. The scourge is upon us once more, and the clerics are fearsome silent. (Sent from my virus ridden bedroom)
@merrysky Do you consider these discontinuities (on late Tuesday, here) a bug, or a more or less acceptable artifact of merging models?
The craft mat I use as a mousepad is 8 inches or 20 cm wide. It’s a lot of rain in 48 hours. https://mastodon.social/@a_l/110928145714302435
Learning enough linear algebra to make ad-hoc fixes that I don’t really understand to problems I caused.
Just remembered the dream from a few nights ago where I got an antique scientific calculator with exquisite cassette futurism styling, like a high-end camera from 1981, and the only problem was it ran on six D batteries.
Charlie Loyd
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Jackson Butte 1, Amador County, CA
🗺38.3400, -120.7213 🧭236° ⛰2224 ft
https://alertca.live/cam-console/2037
Charlie Loyd
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There’s an unspoken feeling of dread in the meteorology community when reporting on natural disasters.
And once it happens, that feeling can turn to distress or even sorrow.
Give yourself the time to process those emotions and to mourn those we’ve lost.
Charlie Loyd
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Hey friends, @beep's exceptionally good, concise primer on unionizing your tech workplace, You Deserve a Tech Union, is ALMOST HERE.
I've read it and it's *excellent* and of course Ethan's the best.
You can pre-order it here, and there's even a link to email the publisher if you need a pricing accommodation. https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union
Or there are lots of other ways to support the book: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/street-team/
@a_l I saw this post, lest you think I didn’t favorite it because I didn’t see it.
Charlie Loyd
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HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS got an amazing (starred!) review from Publisher's Weekly, with a really wonderful summary of the main themes of the book and concluding with:
"Written in a distinctive style that is both conversational and erudite, this is an accessible and enjoyable account. Readers will be engrossed. " [!!!]
Charlie Loyd
boosted
2020: “It’s so beautiful to see the whole world united to prevent mass suffering and death.”
2021: “well maybe people don’t understand that the vaccines don’t block transmission but at least high vaccine uptake will reduce hospital load”
2022: “eventually the math will just work out that enough people will know someone personally with long covid that they’ll realize they need to act”
2023: “yeah there’s no upper limit to the amount of suffering and death people will tolerate.”
- 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
