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jimbob

@jimbob@aus.social

In unceeded lutruwita (ex. croweater) somewhere north of nipaluna. Angry scientist (fire, forest and spatial ecology, gis and #rstats). Weird music maker, proud NTEU

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Today playing with OpenLayers and VectorTiles and colours and Javascript and against all odds it's actually doing what I want.

Red/yellow/green coloured map of southern Australia, zooming around and swapping colours.

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Thinking about this; about 18 months ago I made the VectorTile map and didn't quite get to colouring the polygons by some data value drawn from a separate data source. This is because it appeared very awkward - what I would consider the most basic possible map-making GIS task, colouring polygons depending on the value of a field in the data was not a built-in thing in OpenLayers. For context, it's a two-click operation in QGIS. It's a single parameter in an R plotting function. But in OpenLayers, you have to define a custom styling function that runs on each feature, makes decisions about its style and returns that style to the renderer. Incredibly powerful; massive ugly overkill.

Today I finally got back to this, and I made it work, it wasn't too bad (I'm much better at JavaScript than I was 18 months ago), but still, would it kill OpenLayers to have some "apply colour palette X based on field Y" helper?

jimbob,
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I will say this for OpenLayers / JavaScript, the speed does make up for the ridiculous amount of silly boilerplate low-level code you have to write. That map is fast as hell and extremely efficient with the amount of data it has to transfer over the network as you move it around and zoom.

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@Dan I think (has been a long time since I started building this!) it seemed to give more options to use VectorTile layers, Leaflet hadn't really implemented that specific data type, although possibly it has now.

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It's great that we are returning to the Window$ Is Evil vibe, it's like putting on a nice comfy old pair of slippers. :linux:

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Me when I can't find a parking space near the school: park half a kilometre away, walk through sleet and snow

Everyone else apparently: park across driveways, park across school crossing, double park, who gives a shit, nothing is real.

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@jpm looks at map got 7 hours free?

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@jpm we parked an artificially long distance from school and walked from there!

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I've just added the R programming language to Fedidevs! You can now find 194 programmers on fedidevs!

Thank you @smach for the suggestion! 💙

https://fedidevs.com/rstats

jimbob,
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@adamhsparks @TimTeaFan @anze3db @smach seems like a serious omission!

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Advocating for the closure of internal email and force everyone to use Teams. Email is where your team's knowledge goes to die.

jimbob,
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@liamvhogan @geordie @ausfestivus my org is going through a "avoid email, everyone has to use Teams now" phase and I have so many opinions - "but I communicate and share files more with external collaborators than internal colleagues" is about #6 on the list.

#1 is when I contact the people telling me I have to use Teams on Teams, and they don't reply to me until I email them telling them to go check Teams.

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Fucksake SMH, I want to see!

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Write code for my own purposes, put it on GitHub, more or less forget about it.

12 years later

Person comes up to me at conference, congratulates me on my code library they use in a multi-agency mission-critical live product every day.

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About 0.1% of the #aurora photos from the big camera, taken from Dunalley. I have not turned up the saturation on any of these, in some I've turned it down...

Multi-coloured aurora over water
Red and green aurora over water
Purple, pink and green aurora over water

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Full-night time-lapse of from Southern Tasmania, unedited, straight off the camera https://youtu.be/l1zll4hq3FU?si=6rfNh5uSK7FEwIot

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Medicine in Tasmania.

Must see doctor every x days to get new prescription. Minimum days in which it is possible to book an appointment to see a doctor =x+5

jimbob,
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@Ooze building a stadium will fix this

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Thing is, they can’t. Australian privacy law forbids Google hitting back. This is why A Current Affair features a squillion people saying the bank did them wrong and the bank “declines to comment.” It’s not because they’re embarrassed, they’re literally banned from defending themselves publicly. The debanked on ACA are meth hoovers and banks can’t do shit. Google can’t say “Unisuper typed terraform destroy”, even though that’s what happened.

From: @GossiTheDog
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112398849195395148

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@geordie @GossiTheDog an update, of sorts, has just arrived

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X 4.5 solar flare, that's a big 'un

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Conferences that insist you use their Powerpoint slide template for your talk :binfire:

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Encampment for Palestine at UTAS

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I remember when I first saw a CPC464 in a shop I was working in, in 1984.

It was a very neat answer to what the market needed in 1982. But by 1984, cassette storage and Z80s were clearly long in the tooth—it came out the same year as the Macintosh, and 12 months late Atari STs and Amigas were showing up.
https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/112351091848131466

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@cstross yeah but the CPC 6128 though, wooah

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Right. It has happened. My institution now wants to develop teaching materials for a course by literally just running my papers through an LLM to "simplify" them. Have told the person requesting this my opinions on this idea.

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@Ooze more polite and verbose, but yep that's pretty much it.

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@Ooze yeah the NTEU are kinda interested in this issue, they have working groups on it, making a policy etc. but it's all a bit slow and behind the ball, compared to how fast the bullshit is coming down on us.

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Happy biscuit day everyone, when we celebrate the biscuit.

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