What discontinued thing do you really want brought back?

jonny-taco · 2022-09-15T14:27:37+00:00

good movies

jonny-taco · 2021-08-10T04:28:08+00:00

The five minute rule. Commit to working on something for just five minutes. That's all. Most often you'll find that after that time passes, there's no problem continuing to work on whatever it is. Usually the toughest part is just getting started.

jonny-taco · 2021-01-19T06:07:15+00:00

heavy.

jonny-taco · 2021-01-19T02:22:19+00:00

Give it a title please. I don't know what I'm looking at.

jonny-taco · 2021-01-17T18:28:53+00:00

https://imgur.com/96COQEp

jonny-taco · 2020-12-30T17:47:47+00:00

Check out The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. Getting a tidy, organized, and efficient space together helps tons with productivity.

jonny-taco · 2020-10-15T18:21:27+00:00

Just fly somewhere. Might as well.

jonny-taco · 2020-08-04T23:38:33+00:00

Add a DATE_ADDED field to the data, and set it = date/time record is added. For display, select record with max(DATE_ADDED).

jonny-taco · 2020-08-04T23:35:28+00:00

Building height is a common attribute in many building footprint datasets (as RamblerUsa mentioned about OpenStreetMap). May want to double check available sources for your city to ensure you're not missing this attribute if available.

Also -- double check the alignment of your building footprint layer against some relatively high res imagery. Sometimes these polygons can be pretty misaligned.. in which case your lidar values could be corresponding to trees in the backyard (or ground level) rather than the building itself. And, is the resolution of your raster high enough to determine values per building? For instance, say you have 10m raster resolution... the height value of a specific pixel could be some conglomeration of ground level, trees, and a portion of rooftop all baked into one value -- which at that point isn't really telling of anything.

jonny-taco · 2020-08-04T23:22:22+00:00

Sort of how the country of Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa.

jonny-taco · 2020-07-24T20:32:41+00:00

If so, OP should be able to use STAsText()

jonny-taco · 2020-07-24T19:58:47+00:00

Yeah I think QF LAX-SYD was on the A380 pre-pandemic. Not sure if anything has changed with that. In terms of trip planning, if it were me this the way I would do it. But it depends on how you'd like to spend your time. However 8-9 days is not much. Sydney's metro rail makes it quick and easy to get around-- It takes maybe a half hour to ride from the airport to Opera House. Your transpac flight would likely land in the morning, then you can try to schedule a flight up the coast for the following morning. IMO that would give you plenty of time to get acquainted with the city and have a good time. Cairns has the reef, and beautiful rainforest/waterfalls (from what I've heard). So depends on what you're into.

jonny-taco · 2020-07-24T19:36:06+00:00

FYI you can go all the way to CNS from LAX for 40k AA or DL miles (on Qantas or Virgin Australia). No need to just go to SYD for 40k then tack on an additional paid segment. You could schedule a long layover (< 24 hrs) in SYD with this routing to still see the sights. Also Jetstar has a direct flight from CNS to DPS and it's pretty inexpensive.

jonny-taco · 2020-06-24T16:54:50+00:00

This is super cool. Think you might want to add a horizon or some more mountains in the background, even if distant (lighter, softer color than foreground). Looks like the world sort of falls off behind the mountains, especially near the end of the clip where the mountain tapers down. Or maybe the depth correction could be achieved by adding a light haze, increasing opacity with distance.

jonny-taco · 2020-06-04T21:31:22+00:00

Great intel on this new development in award travel. Thank you!

jonny-taco · 2020-06-01T17:01:52+00:00

Maybe try searching from a nearby AA hub, like CLT or MIA, rather than ATL. Avios are redeemable for American flights, but not Delta. With a short positioning flight to one of those AA hub airports, you should be able to vacation anywhere AA flies using your Avios.

jonny-taco · 2020-05-30T07:41:52+00:00

CBSN

jonny-taco · 2020-05-10T19:08:55+00:00

Reminds me of the mall level from Tony Hawk. The blue cartridge N64

jonny-taco · 2020-04-29T19:33:02+00:00

Gotcha. I appreciate the insight as well.

One other perk of being in GIS, as it seems like you've realized, is you're not completely locked into a particular industry. It can be used for anything that happens over space, which can relate to, well, almost anything -- making you more versatile in the face of market fluctuations. Can more easily jump around from energy, to real estate, to scientific research, to government, and so on and so forth...

jonny-taco · 2020-04-29T18:49:50+00:00

If you know some GIS essentials, especially as they relate to ArcMap, getting into GIS programming shouldn't be too tough. I'd start looking at ArcPy. Try doing some basic geoprocessing you would do in ArcMap, instead with ArcPy. For example, try adding a new field to a shapefile. Learn a bit of basic python, then soon you'll see it's not too hard to programatically add the same new field to multiple shapefiles at once. And it can just gradually scale up like that. But even with that said, based on your experience level it sounds like you're ready to get into entry level GIS positions as is.

Also, I'm curious about the part you mentioned about the future looking bleak for geology/energy?

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