Cost has nothing to do with it. This was all laid out in the project 2025 manifesto. Burn it all down with no regard to money previously invested. Makes it harder for future administrations to rebuild. Halting the collection of data is not enough. Maintenance is 5% or less of the cost to deploy new. If they destroy it, it makes the cost to rebuild (including having to re-seek congressional approval) that much harder and time consuming.
if (and a BIG if) you are california, you can get a library card to any in state library, regardless of where in the state you live. Between San Francisco, LA, and San Diego, I think I have pretty much the full suite of anything I can borrow from the eLibrary system.
I have a fondness for map making and I enjoy your style regardless of digital or physical media. Have you ever created an article on your process? I'd be interested in reading about your flow.
Appreciate it, and I’d almost rather tell you about my workflow on my latest project, because it was 400 hours of work…the art was totally physical art…(176 fruits)...but the workflow was very digital, and there were so many parts to it that it is almost laughable…My maps are really easy to create; they became a little more sophisticated when a Travel Channel pilot asked me to make maps for their show, and, thinking the show would last longer than the pilot, I invested all this time in working on different maps. Basically, I need rights to the source outline, and that’s usually pretty easy. Sometimes I have bought a stock art outline to make sure I had rights. There are 3 ways to get that on watercolor paper or bristol. I can trace it on a light table, I can copy it by hand, or I can do the outline in Fresco and print to watercolor paper (I have only been able to do this for the past 6 months and is the dream workflow for this). Then I usually try different things, but its basically about building blue outlines with a fine watercolor brush or a Copic pen for the water and earthtones or greens for the landmass. Then using bigger brushes to slowly build the interior colors. My goal is often to do something a bit weird or challenging the way people think of the colors of a certain place. In the case of the two Hawaii maps, I was traveling but had cancelled plans, so I had two days alone with my Tablet, and I just kept trying different things. It ended up being about 3 key layers: making those depth layers very transparent and light. At home, I had started creating physical watercolor and Copic to the islands, and integrated that as a very light transparent layer; I can never get Fresco watercolor to feel right (although there are also 4 layers of Fresco watercolor spatter on the islands.) My scanner is only 9x12, so the biggest challenge of any of these projects that involves larger physical artwork is stitching the parts together in Photoshop. I always thought that maps enhance travel or science writing…National Geo and Outside as examples…and so I try to create maps when it can help my story. For all this detail I gave you though, full handpainted maps (like Malta and Tunisia) were probably just an hour or two to completion.
I do not think there are any hand drawn maps. From what I can tell, its Adobe fresco with digital watercolor and digital copic pens. Still looks great, but there is a lot of confusion on the process.
That makes sense. The wording made it sound like it was hand drawn on a medium like paper, not a computer. To me, hand drawn implies using physical paper and marking tools. This is digital illustration which implies hand drawn input to a computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_illustration
I still return to O3 often. I enjoy metal detecting and O3 has been excellent at identifying unknown finds. It will spend 5-10 minutes in python adjusting the photo, zooming, cropping and manipulating it to get a better understanding of the object. And it's guesses, though not perfect, are often spot on. Newer models will never manipulate the photo and usually give a "guess" within 30 seconds. The guesses coming from the newer models rarely are even in the ballpark of the item.
Worse, I am repeatedly being accused nowadays of being an LLM. It probably doesn’t help that I riff-write with only a rough outline of what I want to say, not how to say it.
If the accusation is that I am an inference engine pumping out words based on a trailing context window then I am guilty as charged. It’s just that I run on Fe + C6H12O6 + O2 (a bloodstream charged with lunch and air) instead of y/C/N2 -> Si+e- (sunlight, coal, and wind turned into silicon electrons.)
> If the accusation is that I am an inference engine pumping out words based on a trailing context window then I am guilty as charged. It’s just that I run on Fe + C6H12O6 + O2 (a bloodstream charged with lunch and air) instead of y/C/N2 -> Si+e- (sunlight, coal, and wind turned into silicon electrons.)
This sort of tells me that you are pro-LLM, and most pro-LLM people mostly paste the contents of their ChatGPT output and try to pass it off as their own.
Given that you say you aren't, the most likely explanation might be that you are spending a lot of time reading LLM prose, and are starting to write like it now too.
I got a pretty interesting ai detection demo run through historic HN data, would love to see if HN could make use of this tech for HN. But i have no clue how to reach out or who might be a contact here.
Make it into a browser extension. Or, honestly, just a page with outputs and a tip jar. If there are interesting findings, highlight them-maybe blog about it and post that.
Thank you for this excellent idea. I tried this today. Plugged in my daughters favorite games, asked claude code to develop some web games based on her own preferences. Coded up 3 web games that she has now been playing for almost 45 minutes, practicing her multiplication tables. I refined them to allow server side stats, so I know which games she is playing, where she is in her practice, and utilizing spaced repetition. She has never been able to sit down and work on i-ready for more then 15-20 minutes at a time at home. Big win. I choose exactly what she is learning and practicing, she gets tailor made games that appeal to her.
they are likely going to try to take Kharg island. Trump suddenly started talking about this as a target in the hours preceding the announcement of the deployment. He gives away everything that the US is about to do if you pay attention to his truth social posts.
Funny how this pops up on hacker news today. I have been working on an off and on again project in the same vein. But instead of sanford maps, I have been ripping and downloading GLO surveys. I now have about 3TB worth of 200k+ mid 1800 surveys done by the USGS (GLO at the time). My next step was to create a method of presenting this data. Do you think that your OHMG would help me here?
Its a similar problem that you faced, stripping off the extra image data from the map, then overlaying them on a base map. I might have a slightly easier time, since these surveys mostly line up to existing township/ranges of the PLSS, not at individual house/street level like the sanborn maps. I've manually done the process many times, most in ArcGIS, but have used a few others (like oldmapsonline). Your site was new to me, and the presentation looks great.
Thanks! Frankly the presentation side of the site needs a lot of work, and it's more about doing the georeferencing work, which sounds like you've already done. But you should get in touch I'd love to discuss further! I've done demo projects with old plat maps like you are working with.
It seems more like the little-boy-o-sphere. Who over the age of 15 is following these performative preeners who spend all day at the gym? Tough men lift steel, not iron.
The bar is made of steel, the weights are made of cast iron. Steel is stronger, hence its use for the bar that must withstand deflection. Tools and equipment that are used to get things done are mostly made of steel, as the primary thing they need is strength.
I thought you were wrong, but it turns out a lot of cheaper plates are indeed iron. Bumper plates used in weightlifting, the kind I normally use, are steel though, which explains my confusion.
How do you know if I am left or right, and who is touchy? Its just ridiculous to assume they are paid to live there. It doesn't all revolve around the US.
If anything, the Greenlanders have fought for the right to be Greenlanders.
"The Left" (by which I presume you mean any American who still believes in the US Constitution, individual liberty, or limited government) understands that our position as world leader hinges upon the trust of our allies, and that we already had all of the access to Greenland that we needed.
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