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by jblindsay 2y ago
I love this, although I do wonder how accurate it is, given the likely limited underlying elevation data source. It reminds me a lot of an application for creating shadow animations based on digital elevation models that I wrote some time b
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by jblindsay 3y ago
Caffe2-rs is a Rust crate that provides an operator network library for the Rust ecosystem. The library is based on the flexible and robust Caffe2 C++ library and aims to provide high performance, high modularity, and ease of integration in
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Caffe2-Rs(github.com)
2 points by jblindsay 3y ago|1 comments
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by jblindsay 4y ago
Our Fake History is so good. http://ourfakehistory.com/
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by jblindsay 4y ago
What about the interrobang!? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang
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by jblindsay 4y ago
The geospatial industry is massive, which includes jobs in geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing. All that imagery that is being collected by satellites and drones, it's geospatial software that is processing it, de
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by jblindsay 4y ago
Well thank you for saying that! I'm the developer of WhiteboxTools and have been using Rust to develop it for years now. I love the language. I think Rust and geospatial are really well suited. Anyhow, as a daily reader of HackerNews,
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by jblindsay 4y ago
I have the exact same experience. Both Maturin and PyO3 have been a game changer for the work that I have been doing lately. It works so seamlessly.
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by jblindsay 4y ago
To be clear, I'm not saying that the draining of Lake Erie necessarily means that Lake Huron/Michigan or Superior would drain too. If that were to happen, the two events would be quite separate and likely separated by millennia. L
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by jblindsay 4y ago
Yes, that's correct, it would increase its capacity by orders of magnitude, if not temporarily. The capacity of Lake Erie to hold water is set by the elevation of its outlet, which is currently about 174 m above sea level. Niagara Fall
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by jblindsay 5y ago
@xemoka Thanks for the kind words. I will respectfully disagree about the level of complication involved though. In this case, you simply open the ShadowImage tool, specify your input DEM, choose a palette, name the output and press run. I
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by jblindsay 5y ago
Here are some more examples of the dynamic shadow models, that you may enjoy: https://whiteboxgeo.com/Shadow_Animation/small_farm_shadows_... https://www.whiteboxgeo.com/Shadow_Animation/Kitchener_
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by jblindsay 5y ago
These blender-based shaded relief images have been popping up a fair bit in the geomatics space recently. I really love them, but they are fairly complicated to make. I developed the open-source geospatial platform WhiteboxTools (developed
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by jblindsay 5y ago
I built an extensive open-source Rust-based spatial analysis platform called WhiteboxTools with the intention of serving as a plugable spatial analysis back-end for various GIS front-ends. So far people have created front ends for it in QGI
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The end for Intel-compatible x86 apps on M1 Macs?(notebookcheck.net)
4 points by jblindsay 6y ago|3 comments
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by jblindsay 6y ago
Congratulations to the Nim development team for another solid release. I'm really enjoying working with Nim.
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Ray Tracing in One Weekend in the Nim Programming Language(github.com)
2 points by jblindsay 6y ago|0 comments
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Nim Community Survey 2020 Results(nim-lang.org)
2 points by jblindsay 6y ago|0 comments
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by jblindsay 6y ago
This was a wonderful read. I learned a fair bit that I didn't know about Nim before and there are a few very useful tips in there.
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by jblindsay 6y ago
This is truly a big deal for Nim and is a major milestone for the language. Thanks to Araq and all others on the development team that made this possible.
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Nim for Python Programmers(github.com)
1 points by jblindsay 6y ago|0 comments
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by jblindsay 6y ago
You can re-order functions by using the {.experimental: "codeReordering".} pragma now.
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by jblindsay 6y ago
Crystal perhaps? Crystal Language: https://crystal-lang.org/reference/
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by jblindsay 6y ago
This was an excellent read! I'm looking forward to the additional discussions (e.g. Nim's new runtime) described in the conclusions.
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Programming language ray tracing benchmarks project(github.com)
80 points by jblindsay 7y ago|86 comments
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D Programming by Derek Banas(youtube.com)
2 points by jblindsay 8y ago|0 comments
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New Channels for Rust(stjepang.github.io)
3 points by jblindsay 8y ago|0 comments
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Nim GDB(youtube.com)
2 points by jblindsay 8y ago|0 comments
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by jblindsay 8y ago
This was an excellent read. I'll have to take a deeper look at the NimPy project that was mentioned in the article. Thanks for sharing.
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by jblindsay 8y ago
Tobler's first 'law' of geography: All things are related but nearer things are more related than distant things. This is the concept that describes regularity and order to all spatially variable phenomenon. It is essentially

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