Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

@arossp I most often see this pop up in Reason/Cato-aligned knee-jerk defense of resource extraction industries ("oez noez, the pipeline is blocked, think of the jobs") when there are serious libertarian reasons to oppose (aren't we happy that a bunch of people aren't about to get eminent-domained out of their land?)

@cwebber I love that the proof-of-concept implementation is in #RacketLang.

@lzg if you were in Providence I’d say the odds of it being a front were pretty good

The uh, *checks notes*, “POV-RAY source code” for that emoji dates to 2010 if anyone was wondering

Definitely not going to abuse admin privileges on my personal instance to create gratuitous custom emoji, no sir.

@shelldozer @TheNerdyMel @onceitwas @jerrylevine @pluralistic @framework My wife's 2009 13" Macbook is still running smoothly with an SSD + 16GB of RAM (nevermind that that old 1280x800 display looks like a potato now)

@Clundoff do you count Lessa in the later Pern books (e.g. All The Weyrs of Pern / The Skies of Pern)?

@oliphant *fist-bump* fellow nerd with a good domain name.

@AKMA oops apparently forgot to post the link. “here” in context of previous post is http://vis.cs.brown.edu/areas/themes/vr.html

@RikerGoogling “asking for a friend”

@AKMA I had friends in grad school who worked here and the archaeology / ancient history applications were frequently discussed

@AKMA at the scale of a few buildings that’s the sort of thing where you could probably hire a 3D artist to do quite a good job

@paulmelis Coverage area is the whole city (~1000km²), you must select the specific area(s) you want to download.

An account will keep track of the areas you've downloaded and allow us to notify you when we release improved versions of the models that you might want to then re-download.

Also raises the technical threshold somewhat for script kiddies using bots to run up a massive bill on our CDN.