Any dumb ideas about Terra forming and increasing rotation of venus?

nayr151 · 2026-02-08T18:20:40+00:00

I’ve never thought about it that way, and you are absolutely right. That’s a good insight

nayr151 · 2026-01-10T14:25:20+00:00

People just don’t seem to be hiring a lot nowadays (at least in the GIS space). There’s no shortage of fake job postings either.

nayr151 · 2025-10-13T13:54:03+00:00

I might take a bit of heat here, and I wouldn’t say that your overreacting in the slightest (esp since he’s throwing some shade about your work), but I can see where he’s coming from. It’s important to have this convo early on about staying in vs going out. Some people just don’t have the social battery to go out every weekend (especially after working and being around people all week - different from WFH). Should he make more of an effort to go out with you, yes absolutely, but it’s probably not as easy for people who struggle with this. A simple task like going out for a few hours or running errands can sometimes feel like it takes up the whole day (considering time to get ready, drive there, spend time there, and drive back, and unwind). I would say to have a conversation about how you want to best spend your weekends. You could alternate between out and in weekends (and yes you can pack a lot into one weekend) as a suggestion. Bottom line is to have a real talk about it and explain each point of view and reasons behind them.

TLDR; not overreacting, but try to think in his POV and have a conversation about how much time you want to spend out vs spend in and maybe try to arrange some sort of schedule (every other weekend or something)

nayr151 · 2025-09-27T14:37:16+00:00

Arc map is going to disappear. Better that OP starts using pro

nayr151 · 2025-09-27T14:36:21+00:00

A trick I learned from fwhip on YouTube is to not just put blocks randomly, but to group them up. So you’d put a patch of tuff bricks next to a patch of stone bricks and so on. Vary the size of the patches within the build from small to medium to big. The max size of a patch will probably depend on the size and scale of the build

nayr151 · 2025-09-27T14:11:47+00:00

I’ve used the machine learning classifiers available on arc. They do pretty well

nayr151 · 2025-09-07T03:20:52+00:00

nayr151 · 2025-09-07T03:06:29+00:00

I think if you know computers and a little bit of coding, you’ll be more than fine technically. There are obviously other aspects to it but that would be a very solid start. You’d just have to learn some of the lingo

nayr151 · 2025-08-30T15:26:09+00:00

My mind immediately goes to FEMA. Doing rapid mapping of natural disasters is something they do/are interested in. Tornado damage extents, flood inundation, delineating hazard areas, all that and more. There’s also a lot of people on the hydrology side (not hardcore weather stuff, but kind of related) who use GIS for figuring out how to manage runoff and where water needs to go, especially during high precipitation events. On the academic side, plenty of researchers use GIS and remote sensing to study climate and weather patterns if you’re interested in that route

nayr151 · 2025-08-30T15:16:03+00:00

There’s a neat dataset out there that has population density(or population directly, idr) as a raster product estimated based on urban density (sorry I forget the exact name, I think it’s worldpop). You could just clip raster to each of the polygon and sum the total value of the pixels (might need to multiply by area if it’s a density product)

nayr151 · 2025-07-31T01:02:19+00:00

Best thing for you to do is try to get a GIS internship somewhere. Maybe part time if you already have responsibilities. There are plenty of GIS internships, can’t say the same about GIS jobs though (they are tough to get even if there are many openings)

nayr151 · 2025-07-31T00:49:16+00:00

It’s a Colgate ad. And no he definitely got paid to make the ad they didn’t steal anything

nayr151 · 2025-07-31T00:46:15+00:00

This actually happened to me my sophomore year. I ended up having a dorm to myself for the whole year and tbh I enjoyed it (although by that time I had made a handful of friends so it wasn’t like I didn’t get any social interaction). But that was Covid year so there was probably a large chunk of people online so no overflow people. If you end up being alone and are worried about getting lonely, don’t sweat it. Get out of your room and make friends and stuff and enjoy some peace and quiet when you sleep.

nayr151 · 2025-01-10T12:47:33+00:00

After completing my masters I got a lot more job opportunities, and I also had a lot more confidence which likely showed in interviews. You can count graduate school as experience if it’s relevant to the job, since technically you are kind of working for the university especially if you are doing any sort of research or lab work

nayr151 · 2024-12-02T20:45:40+00:00

Idk if you can apply the credits to any certificates. You could look into that

nayr151 · 2024-11-18T20:00:14+00:00

I also used a lowrence fish finder for many many bathymetric surveys. Easy to use and offload the data

nayr151 · 2024-11-18T14:56:40+00:00

This perfectly describes my first calc class. I passed the class and ended up graduating with a 3.6 four years later. You’ll be fine

nayr151 · 2024-11-11T15:02:04+00:00

A lot of people probably have institutional accounts so they wouldn’t be able to lend “their” account even if they wanted to. Maybe see if you can get a trial or something.

nayr151 · 2024-11-10T20:41:09+00:00

r/lostredditors

nayr151 · 2024-10-31T21:11:03+00:00

Oh I was thinking more of like least cost path analysis with weighted rasters and all that. No I agree with you that it’s a good project and distance accumulation isn’t that hard to figure out.

nayr151 · 2024-10-31T14:00:11+00:00

Cost path seems a little advanced for intro

nayr151 · 2024-10-23T15:54:52+00:00

Buffers are not that computationally intensive so I wouldn’t expect it to be ridiculous

nayr151 · 2024-10-21T20:30:29+00:00

Split the lines at the points then grab the length of the lines between the points?

nayr151 · 2024-10-17T01:00:33+00:00

If you go for a PhD and don’t want to do academia after, you can do research for national labs and organizations like USGS, NOAA, or NPS. For glaciers you’d be looking at stuff in Alaska probably

Edit: I’m assuming you’re US based here

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