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
The famous red shadows of Kem County. https://botsin.space/@CALandscapeBot/112040322388846819
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As a PhD student, I was fascinated to see how many bright peers were developing price-fixing algorithms, under the rationale of market optimization and helping businesses.
This month, the FTC reminded everyone that this is still illegal.
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🚨 http://fjord.style site refresh, including a ~portfolio?! It's a very weird feeling seeing so much of my stuff in one place
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#Antarctic update... ship has wedged itself into pack ice in order to damp out waves as we prepare to ride out next storm. The angle of this one leaves us with nowhere to hide. The sky is so dark partly because there is open water a little distance away #oceanography #polar #icebreaker
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so happy to see @CALandscapeBot back up! thanks @obtusatum and @hunterowens, and sorry for the nagging. https://botsin.space/@CALandscapeBot/111886729350073217
I note that a major commercial map (left, compared to OSM on the right) isn’t showing the massive new reservoir behind the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam™. It started filling in 2020.
Californians, the forecast for tomorrow has moved from very rainy to dangerously rainy; please plan accordingly. https://weatherwest.com/archives/35471
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periodic reminder that "no, I'm in the control group" is a wonderfully versatile response that works in many situations
"did you catch the Seahawks game last night?" / "no, I'm in the control group"
"do you have any plans for Christmas?" / "no, I'm in the control group"
"do you know how fast you were going back there?" / "no, I'm in the control group"
"can I get you something to drink?" / "no, I'm in the control group"
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i don't know who needs to hear this, but ..
The printer you need to get is a brother laser. They work forever. They aren't evil. They can be found it thrift stores.
I also like mergesort. Where’s its thinkpieces?
I guess the weird thing about LLMs for me is that I am used to favoring derpy, weird, fundamentally old technology, and it’s unpleasant that in this case it’s also favored by the VC hype machine and its army of orcs.
Was about the type the year in a filename and thought “don’t forget one of the digits changed” and my fingers came up with 2014.
Freeform asynchronous text. I’m not saying it’s better than anything else in particular, but it’s very good.
I still like e-mail as a medium for friendships. I may be the only one, but I do.
As a programmer I try not to be a Big Opinions Guy but I’ll tell you this much: for personal projects, I would rather gnaw my own kneecaps off than write SQL keywords in capital letters like it’s 1805.
There’s an RDA of irony in these poisoning techniques that can’t credibly do what they’re advertised as doing because they’re surface-level technological fixes to more fundamental problems. [Edit: fixed typo.] https://mastodon.social/@urschrei/111794083320504980
I think this phrase is, situationally, sometimes more true than false. But if you hear someone say it, odds are really good they want to measure instead of managing. https://indieweb.social/@dandean/111784409154249713
Rot in hell, you smug monster, and may the people you killed in Chile, Cambodia, Palestine, Bangladesh, East Timor, Argentina … I’m sorry, I’m reading the wrong eulogy. I’m so sorry. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/17/peter-schickele-p-d-q-bach-dead/
- 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
