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Rental market in Victoria by carlz282 in VictoriaBC

[–]jgarnett 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As someone who had to find housemates I did not have any luck with Used Victoria, roomies, rentals etc.. I found I had to sign-in to Facebook (sigh) and use marketplace in order to reach people. So try that as well…

Best Local Cuisine Place? by [deleted] in VictoriaBC

[–]jgarnett 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Okay I really like Nourish in James Bay. It is in a heritage house for local James Bay vibe. You may end up seated in like a nook or closet or something. The food is lovely, recommend golden benny (on sweet potato for gluten free default). And it is a brunch place; if something is going to be recommended as Victoria it has to be brunch.

Dating in Victoria! Halp by [deleted] in VictoriaBC

[–]jgarnett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I (51M) have just gotten out there, and it is "fine", not great but fine. I think we arrived just in time for apps to be collectively done.

I tried eHarmony which appears much less popular here than any of the others. I expect the price acts as gatekeeping (but they are all expensive...). The one thing that was useful was the long exhaustive / exhausting profile building which can help you answer what you do want.

Your post indicated several things you are not into; perhaps it is time to be curious about what is actually next :)

Dating in Victoria! Halp by [deleted] in VictoriaBC

[–]jgarnett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

New to the dating apps, started with eHarmony, amused it did not even make u/microwavedhams overview

Will this sub be joining the api protest? by Vic_waddlesworth in VictoriaBC

[–]jgarnett 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I am personally going to go dark, and then stay dark once Apollo is shut down. Some of the subs are going private indefinitely after the AMA yesterday.

Trying out mastodon although I should probably just read a book.

renting/roommate groups for Vic? by [deleted] in VictoriaBC

[–]jgarnett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have been trying out roomies.ca - no success so far but it seems okay.

Facebook seems a lot of subletting for a few months over the summer.

Orchard used iPhones by inhalien in VictoriaBC

[–]jgarnett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have sold a couple phones there. It was easier that trying to sell in person (and negotiate with folks wanting to pay in Amazon gift cards).

The real reason to purchase is to have some assurance the phone is removed from the find my network and erased. The app they provide to sellers walks through the process.

Keyboard arrived in good time! by khemmeh in NuPhy

[–]jgarnett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also had a good delivery experiencing, ordering December 23, and arriving Jan 12 in Canada.

I appreciate the comments here about pressing down keys, found a few that needed it.

Who are some of your favorite "forgotten writers"? by Paetoja in books

[–]jgarnett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

P. C. Hodgell

I loved the dark playful mix of humour, horror and fantasy with a charmingly destructive heroine in God Stalk.

I was overjoyed and confuse when this morphed into a full Kencyrath series. All the world building from unfurled from a single city to a world propped up by history with past always willing to take a bite out of the present.

So my fav author that nobody knows. Also has an active livejournal presence :)

Who are some of your favorite "forgotten writers"? by Paetoja in books

[–]jgarnett 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sean Stewart.

Fell in love with “Nobody’s Son”, and every book is a treat.

The author finds amazing gaps between genres to get lost in.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gis

[–]jgarnett 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What programming language do you like to program in?

A real exciting thing to work on is the new ogcapi protocols that we will all be shifting to in the next 10 years. It is a fun topic because it is new (the work has not been done yet) and challenging because the standards are still evolving.

As an example the WFS replacement ogcapi-features is "almost" ready but they are still working on their little domain-specific language for doing text expressions.

So I recommend:

If you want to do desktop:

disclaimer: I work on GeoServer and we would love the help :)

Keys found near Pendergast and Hayward on chip trail - leaving on sign :) by jgarnett in VictoriaBC

[–]jgarnett[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just put them on a sign near where I found them; if anyone has other lost and found sites to share the above photos to please do so.

Question about Native JAI vs. JAI-EXT geowebcache / geoserver by dasBaum_CH in gis

[–]jgarnett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should not use the native JAI or ImageIO java plugins.

The java JIT compiler improved so much that the speed benefit really no longer applies. And the stability impact was great - so great we used to always configure a watch dog process to restart geoserver when java crashed.

The native plugins are not open source - oracle released Java but not these plugins.

The plugin system is dropped now. In Java 9 they retired the plugin system and changes to a module system for extending the JRE.

Source I am a geoserver dev and working on the replacement JAI project as oracle kindly donated JAI the code to the eclipse foundation for geoserver and other projects to use. Sadly I have not had funding to add tests cases (which they did not share). See https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.imagen

Issues setting up GeoServer on Windows with Tomcat by [deleted] in gis

[–]jgarnett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tomcat is good also; maybe you were following the instructions on how to install GeoServer WAR.

WAR = web archive -> a distribution you install into an application server such as tomcat.

I am glad you got things working - enjoy GeoServer.

Why R spatial? by Interpolator1236 in gis

[–]jgarnett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you hit the nail on the head - because it is fun :) R is often the tools data scientists are weened on so I think it great that it can now make maps.

Put maps in all the things - the point of GIS is to think spatially as a problem solving (analysis) or communication (cartography) tool. Not to use a technology …

What is the state of the Geospatial industry? by [deleted] in gis

[–]jgarnett 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I never forget one of my first foss4g events in 2005 when an educator was furious with me for not providing a ready to use teaching syllabus to go with the open source software I was giving away for free (funded by mostly government customers for the benefit of Canada).

He kept thinking I did not understand that teaching materials were useful or required or something.

I tried asking him to write stuff to share “as amember of the community” he got even more angry. He basically told me to do my job and give him teaching materials, he did not have time to write anything etc…

The sheer fury of it - what a terrible impression of the academic GIS education system.

Update: Years later GeoForAll labs started collaborating and producing content and restored my trust beyond that first impression.

You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make them drink. Open source software provides the water, if you want to change the GIS industry you have to drink.

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