Litterally a scientist working with NASA data and it's scientists and I'm not the intended audience?
I've been in the remote sensing game almost 25 years. And a good amount of that at the federal government. I've sat at the table and shared beers and dinner with the chief scientists behind the modis and gedi mission. There isn't a geospatial data type or format I haven't encountered, and half of them I've buried.
So please, spare this old hand any lectures.
The fact is geospatial has been able to explode because we finally got away from these kinds of anachronistic approaches to data. It's litterally never been a better time to be a geospatial data scientist. Praise be that the age of h5s and local processing is over.
Yeah. h5 is the typical industry shorthand and file extension.
The h5 saga was NASA saying "we're going to create a file format that does EVERTHING", and well.. it does.. poorly.
Everything that h5 is allegedly better for is better solved by just moving to either sql or postgres. And if the data aren't that complex, then just send me a geotiff.
If you send me an h5 the first thing I'm doing is moving it over to sqlite or postgres.
Because America isn't a nation, so much as an idea.
And Trump recognizes that he's in control of what that idea can become. Democrats have, at least in recent history, represented an utterly incapable and worthless challenge to that vision. The "centrists", if you can even call them that, capitulated entirely to Trump-ism in the period of 2020-2024. They aren't a challenge to Trumpism.
Mamdani is giving voters an alternative vision of what the future can be, and that is the most threatening thing to both Trump and the management class of the DNC.
This is about controlling the narrative, and Mamdani shows what we progressives have always been saying: Put the policies on the table and the voters will vote for them. The things Mamdani is running on are wildly popular; some of the most popular policies that exist. And they break corporate control over our politics, something that hasn't happens in the US in almost 60 years since the implementation of the southern strategy.
The war Trump is waging against the citizens of the US is no different that than why Putin invaded Ukraine: They are working to redefine the identity of a nation.
Mark my words, Trump will kidnap and murder Mamdani before he cedes control of the narrative which he believes is his own.
The steam deck controller addresses all of these issues. I was literally an anti-controller (wasd gang) zealot and the steam deck controller converted me because I can literally play city skylines in bed now..
Every year, your total assets are assessed and every red cent required to bring you to below 1 billion dollars is taken.
IF you ended up getting taxed at this rate, a bench gets installed in a public park with a small placard having your name on it. You get to pick the park.
there is only one joke we have to share it