elijahmeeks.bsky.social
Principal Engineer at Confluent. Ex-Noteable, Apple, Netflix, Stanford. I write sometimes and talk too much.
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I appreciate that you remind us of the seagull attack at just the right rate so it doesn't seem like you're milking it for laughs and that we can earnestly relive it and totally have sympathy and not at all amusement at your being maimed in such an absurd way.
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Growing up in the central valley, we would say "yo-se-MITE" as a fun way of referring to Yosemite and everyone I knew thought it was cute and fine. Just own it and be cooler than those pronunciation police.
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But that doesn't work so well when your color names include "ruby dust" or "seasoned green apple" in your available names...
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Gee, I wonder if this rule was coined during GB1's term...
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(I know I just shared this one internally: www.linkedin.com/pulse/dual-a...)
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Checks out: Cars sucked in the 90s.
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I couldn't find a write up of this chart anywhere. It's so good. Too bad he died in that connected scatterplot accident so we'll never know.
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Kill Mother Fucking Depeche Mode will never not be funny.
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Disney is just setting the table to create their own AI slop and they want monopoly control over anything they ever so much as glanced at throughout the history of the universe.
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I think it goes farther back, to the Enlightenment discarding hermeneutics as a religious activity and striving to create a world of pure reason, though death of the author is probably more visible to our modern fan-centric culture (probably because the quasi-religious we treat authors).
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Pretty sure that's a Paul Simon lyric.
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It's a weird fucking world, man.
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I wonder if we could use one of those online relationship success diagrams to map, like, clickstream data or something.
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Bar charts and line charts... Even in an alternate reality populated by aliens and vampires the best we can do is bar charts.
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Have you never seen several pickled banana slugs on a martini, SCOTT?
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I'm definitely not the first person to do it. Here's a version for the Mississippi.
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I started programmatically with the topojson using some old ORBIS code I wanted to revisit but then I did the finishing touches in Inkscape to make the spacing and some of the direction use the space better.
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That will be a sad and interesting 14 milliseconds.
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You're absolutely right, it's the "ritual object" of modern discourse. If you're not familiar, if any archaeologist says something is a "ritual object" that's their way of saying they don't really know what it's used for.
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Great list of examples!
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I ignored a siren in Oklahoma City once went into a Target to buy a coffee and the person asked me why I wasn't in a shelter and I said this kind of thing probably happened all the time and they looked at me like I was crazy and it was this E5 tornado whoops.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Mo...
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Kind of appropriate entry for a bucket list considering the possible effects.
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To be fair the one law he broke was to march on the Roman homeland with an army loyal personally to him, it's not like he didn't satisfy the Emoluments Clause or did insider trading.
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If could benefit from even the slightest thought about how to design the experience it's so weird that it's just this way when you know it was some ESRI engineer putting it in offhand without even asking anyone and everyone has copied it since then forever.
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Yes but they don't have to be random. It could walk through a list of colors rather than just pick any random RGB value.
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Especially in the beginning as I'm fiddling with new shapefiles I hate that sometimes it's purple and sometimes it's blue like seriously just be blue for the first one and orange for the second and tableau palette on through and stop rolling a die every time I load some data QGIS ffs.
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Needs more cowpie.