Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse
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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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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.
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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.
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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. " [!!!]
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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 Loyd
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I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened
Charlie Loyd
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Watching the scramble to figure out if LK-99 is an Actual Thing™ is fun, but I'm hearing comments like "If it's real it'll mean high-speed trains everywhere!"
My dude, we could ALREADY have high-speed trains everywhere. The resistance in the wires isn't the thing that's blocking it from happening.
Big week for federal news, which means that as a person raised in Washington I have a continual headache from beaming powerful hate rays out of my forehead at people who refer to DC as Washington.
@midendian Ah good, trucks.
@midendian It’s very first-mover disadvantage stuff, right? But the saving grace is that if you can fly x/ton out of OAK or x minus a bit/ton out of SMF, it catches up reasonably quickly. (Redrafted because of confusing typo.)
@midendian I think the realistic best case is: force OAK to have high standards, thereby force SFO/SCJ/SMF standards to lower, then let the rising bar of public expectations catch them.
OAK, my local airport, wants to expand. I encourage other East Bay people to submit comments: https://www.oaklandairport.com/terminaldevelopment/
Here’s my draft (open to phrasing advice until I send it): https://gist.github.com/celoyd/e0d6fd9cd43d5b18517e8a62cea0f19f
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My FYP was pretty rancid so I reset it and it turns out it could have been much worse all along.
Is Allosyncarpia a eucalypt, the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,
This is the third draft and I will never post it: https://gist.github.com/celoyd/2f32a5a7e177f9935e130e5cb5f82ad0
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@migurski No technically expired but still good tinned fish?
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@migurski Yep!
Charlie Loyd
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So one of my volunteer projects is preservation of a specific type of Malay textile, and the team is launching a suite of socmed accounts. I want to help set up and run a fedi account for them... Anyone has a good instance to rec on that theme? Or else I'll simply pick one. Probably either history or art or handicraft-related. (Too bad we don't quite have a generalist SEA one yet. XD) #fedihelp
- 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
