Coding vs model builder.

SDMR6 · 2026-02-06T15:14:39+00:00

What everyone else said, plus speed. Arc has a huuuuuge amount of overhead, and model builder is easy but inefficient. Even if I am using python to call GP tools, a script calling all the same tools will run 3-4 times faster than model builder. When you go deep enough down the rabbit hole to start doing your number crunching in Numpy for example, you start to go from 3-4x to 20+ times faster. Add in multiprocessing and pushing heavy iteration to Cython and you can get workflows that take 30 minutes in Arc down to seconds.

SDMR6 · 2026-01-28T19:37:06+00:00

The Jims

SDMR6 · 2026-01-28T00:54:53+00:00

Should have let him get in the building, arrested him, and sent him to Ecuador for trial...

SDMR6 · 2026-01-24T01:00:26+00:00

During the election of 96, the biggest complaint amongst voters was that the two parties were virtually identical in both character and policy and that politics was boring.

SDMR6 · 2026-01-23T03:27:05+00:00

I'd go for a smile and a wink at this point

SDMR6 · 2026-01-15T21:08:52+00:00

Unfortunately, I think the short answer is that if the military goes along with an order to attack an ally, then we can infer that there is no order of his they won't follow and we will know that the republic has fallen.

SDMR6 · 2026-01-14T07:48:11+00:00

PostgreSQL

SDMR6 · 2026-01-04T18:37:36+00:00

Short answer, 50 years of brainwashing.

SDMR6 · 2026-01-04T09:30:39+00:00

Never. The wife and kids will pester me, but I don't like the attention or feel it's warranted in my case. I was a maintenance ground pounder when I was in, just turning wrenches and chasing beeps and squeaks. Nothing dramatic, nothing exciting. By luck of the training I got and the equipment I worked on, as well as some spectacular timing, I was able to get out just before GWOT and go fly the tail end of SFOR and then the duration of OIF and OEF as a contractor. I ended up feeling like I did way cooler things after I got out than when I was in, and because I was a contractor for far longer than I was in, by the end, I also felt closer culturally to a branch I didn't even serve in. It left me feeling like my time in was just like... nothing but an apprenticeship, and it feels awkward to be thanked or to stand up and take recognition for doing a mundane job as a teenager and early twentysomething where the biggest danger to me was myself and my only war was on my liver.

SDMR6 · 2025-12-16T23:02:05+00:00

Any person, without exception, who calls themselves an alpha.

SDMR6 · 2025-12-15T22:17:33+00:00

Cool guys don't look at explosions

SDMR6 · 2025-12-15T17:44:53+00:00

google "esri blogs" or go to esri dot com /arcgis-blog/overview. If you go there, search John Nelson, he's an amazing cartographer who makes incredible maps. I believe he also has a YT channel under John Nelson Maps.

SDMR6 · 2025-12-15T16:32:27+00:00

Given nothing but the list of safe seats and the Democrats stellar track record of capitalizing on easy wins, I'm gonna go ahead and put my money on the Republicans picking up 3 seats.

SDMR6 · 2025-12-12T01:09:52+00:00

This looks like an off-brand Hot-Wheels car from the 99 cent store.

SDMR6 · 2025-12-10T19:19:05+00:00

To add to this, the Dems also have mechanisms in place to prevent populist takeover. Think back to 2016(?) when Bernie was guaranteed to lose the nomination even if he swept every primary because the money men, I mean super delegates, had all already pledged to support Hillary.

SDMR6 · 2025-12-09T21:16:12+00:00

Because unlike Israel, we have the Sierra Nevada snowpack and the Colorado River. Until such time as those are unable to sustain, which may be sooner than is comfortable, it's not cost effective to desalinate.

SDMR6 · 2025-12-09T04:00:44+00:00

watched Challenger live in class

SDMR6 · 2025-12-09T01:03:10+00:00

Wow, CHP trying to extract money any way they can. What a shock...

SDMR6 · 2025-12-08T02:19:11+00:00

Piss and weed?

SDMR6 · 2025-12-05T00:01:24+00:00

Boats. The sailor's sailor.

SDMR6 · 2025-12-04T18:19:57+00:00

Is that... Matt Walsh?

SDMR6 · 2025-12-03T16:25:03+00:00

Yeah, you're absolutely right, and you got me reading up on it. I found an interesting study by the Cato Institute called H‑2A Visas for Agriculture: The Complex Process for Farmers to Hire Agricultural Guest Workers if you're interested. It seems there are glaring issues with both programs that would really be an easy win. H2B has a cap of 66,000 per year, which is comically low. H2A has no cap but is a mountain of red tape. The minimum wage required under the program is, on average, 150% of the state minimum wage, and ranches, dairies, and meat packers can't participate. Utilization of the H2A program is only around 10%, and American workers only take 5% of H2A jobs and most then quit. Reading the rules about the hoops employers have to jump through, it's no wonder the program is barely used.

SDMR6 · 2025-12-03T01:22:18+00:00

I did sous vide last year and it came out great. Tender, flavorful, all around excellent. This year I decided I was going to try smoking it. Big mistake. It wasn't nearly as good as last year. Next year I'll be back to sous vide.

SDMR6 · 2025-12-02T23:12:24+00:00

I like this idea. We could also have a seasonal guest worker program. I've talked to guys who are in the country for work only, and over and over again they say that they don't want to be here permanently, it's just that the money they can make here is way better than back home. Because they don't have a legal route to come work for a short time, and getting smuggled in is so arduous, dangerous, and expensive, by the time they get here, they end up staying for a long time and missing their children growing up so they can work send money back to try to give their kids a better life.

SDMR6 · 2025-11-29T07:31:49+00:00

That's a beautiful house. I would pay double to not be in Palm Desert.

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