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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · 3d ago

I mean yeah there's still a slight problem with an exhaust port but yeah its mostly fine. (trans: now I've got the graphics working I've found some more bugs)

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · 3d ago

Two days trying to work out why the qgis-RConsole wasn't plotting things, comes down to the r2u build of unigd not linking to cairo (its flagged as "optional") and so not having raster output, file a bug and Dirk fixes it in ten minutes. Marvel at the power of this fully operational QGIS4-R system! #qgis #rstats

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · 3d ago

I've had this since the late 90s, it was the "ships computer" off-road in Morocco, linked to my Garmin GPS12 and logging fuel and milage, and went to Japan where I had an app that could understand Japanese letters I could scribble. Now, do I have a PC with a serial port...

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · 4d ago

Back from watching Matt Parker at The Dukes Playhouse in Lancaster and now I have a signed Palm Vx. #nerd

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · 5d ago

BlueSky appears to be down. Has "It Happened" happened? We wouldn't know here, it'll just be pictures of moss and Raspberry Pi projects as usual.

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · 5d ago

"Exposé". Fediverse, you have failed against the might of my sleeping subconscious.

Although it might be called Mission Control now. Anyway, that thing.

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · 5d ago

What's that window manager thing called where you see tiny versions of all open windows so you can pick one and is it implemented in xfce's wm and I'm going to sleep now so you have 7 hours to answer...

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · 5d ago

The verbosity of Qt6 makes me think I'm doing something wrong. Why is it now Qt.Key.Key_Delete and not Qt.Key.Delete? Oh I bet there's some fiery arguments in the Qt slack/discord/mailing list/wherever...

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · 5d ago

Well I seem to have Juan Mendoza's R-Console bridge plugin mostly working in Qt6 in QGIS4 by replacing a whole truckload of Qt.Foo with Qt.FooThings.Foo - graphics not working but I don't think they were working on my QGIS 3 system... Code here: https://codeberg.org/browlingson/rqgis/src/branch/qgis4

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · 6d ago

@sarahdalgulls Are they working on a "what3words" for the moon or something? What's the money *for*?

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · 6d ago

I found Linked In's head office.

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Apr 03, 2026

The denominator for this is corrected for the age of the population. I think its population between 15-20 or something, basically the age range you'd consider going to med school. Read the paper, or get ChatGPT to read it for you. After all, it wrote it. (NO IT DIDNT! WE WROTE *EVERY SINGLE WORD* and SEVERAL TIMES)

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Apr 03, 2026

This map of medical school students per local authority population will totally surprise you! [no it wont. its basically poverty]

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Apr 03, 2026

Ooh I can haz new publication https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0345301

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Where do they come from and where do they go: Understanding the relationship between deprivation and

Having enough doctors to provide healthcare services is a concern internationally. In the UK, significant resources for education and training have been devoted to medical workforce management. Nevert

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Mar 31, 2026

@wagtail I hear you can pay people called "artists" to do art for you, and it's very ethical and makes you feel good too.

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Mar 30, 2026

I saw two hares yesterday, or possibly three, because one magically turned itself into a brown molehill with a fluttering leaf for an ear when I got it in my binoculars. Hare next was boosting his magic powers by eating grass in a field, and hare last was the vanishing act.

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Mar 29, 2026

Just watched a hare running along the edge of a field and then vanish by jumping into an apparently solid wall. Hares are magic.

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Mar 28, 2026

@RMKrug What about all my "or" loops?

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Mar 28, 2026

My "f" key is a bit dodgy on this laptop, so my code is all about unctions.

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Mar 27, 2026

I don't know if they mark a boundary, a route, or who made them, but I've wanted to record and map them for years. So I did a bit of survey work today, but could only find three in twenty minutes. Pretty sure a lot have gone recently.

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Mar 27, 2026

A long time ago, maybe 15-20 years ago or more, someone stencilled hearts over this part of town. Mostly on street furniture and not private property (unless those were removed rapidly), they're gradually fading and being painted over, or the original street furniture gets replaced.

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Mar 26, 2026

@defuneste #defmacro? idk, I'm not doing this because its easy, I'm doing this because I thought it would be easy... (tbqhwy I'd settle for sqlite3 and duckdb)

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Mar 26, 2026

Is it possible to write an SQL script that runs on different DBs with different SQL dialects, or does one need a preprocessor and do stuff like "#ifdef postgres" and feed it through cpp (or wev) first?

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Mar 17, 2026

Oh don't threaten me with a good time, Slack

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

@qgis Why does the Deb/Ubuntu Quickstart page section say "Simply install the latest stable QGIS (4.0.x Norrköping) in your Debian or Ubuntu without having to edit config files." and then go on to discuss editing sources.list? Should that be a link to flatpak/appimage installs or something? I would like to try 4.0 without touching my 3.x in any way.

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Oct 20, 2025

@grumpygamer Surely "Acceptance" is "documenting the bug as a feature"?

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Oct 06, 2025

Is it okay to walk out of conference talks with AI images based on the idea that if they can't be bothered to make their own slides why should I be bothered to look at them?

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social · Sep 04, 2025

@stfn I like the idea of a solar-powered AI scraper sandpit, renewably messing up perhaps the second-worst computing-related climate offenders on the planet...

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