Darrell Fuhriman

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You may know me as @nixzusehen on twitter.

Geographer, Rower, Geek. I mostly tweet Geography with a touch of Soccer. Infrastructure Eng Mgr at Descartes Labs.

Wait wait WAIT this just occurred to me, how did it take all the way until now for this to occur to me—

BitTorrent: Software Pirate

Bitcoin: Software Pyrite

“Is a read replica like a horcrux?” <- overheard at work. 😂

Maps in the Wild: Panama Canal on a century old plate: Darrel Furhiman sent me this lovely pic of an old decorative plate with a map of the Panama Canal that he spotted on the wall at Dan and Louis’ Oyster House in Portland, OR

More on Mappery. https://mappery.org/panama-canal-on-a-century-old-plate/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=panama-canal-on-a-century-old-plate

Panama Canal on a century old plate - Mappery

Darrel Furhiman sent me this lovely pic of an old decorative plate with a map of the Panama Canal that he spotted on the wall at Dan and Louis’ Oyster House in Portland, OR

Mappery - For the love of maps

Bigger is better, right?

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13:28 up 1 day, 21:36, 5 users, load averages: 783.58 683.63 437.79

Seems like a universal rule that the "magic" behind "AI" is always just low paid humans

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/openai-chatgpt-ai-jobs-contractors-talk-shadow-workforce-powers-rcna81892

OpenAI contractors make $15 to train ChatGPT

OpenAI's contractor workforce helps power ChatGPT through simple interactions. They don't get benefits, but some say the work is rewarding.

NBC News

Descartes Labs is looking for a #Geospatial Engineer - full-time remote!

anyone interested?

https://mapscaping.com/job/ddescartes-labs-full-time-geospatial-engineer/

Geospatial Engineer - Mapscaping.com

The Company

mapscaping.com

So I'm trying to get one of my SOs off Twitter, and he says he's only still there because that's where the #soccer people are.

So. Anybody here getting excited about US professional soccer? Edit: Particularly #Rapids96

Boosts welcome.

“Using vintage gas station maps as a base, I add 66 meters of sea level rise, the highest predicted by the IPCC if all the ice sheets melt” – Jeffrey Linn
https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/petrofuture-gallery/

https://migurski.tumblr.com/post/714066522239336448

Petrofuture Gallery – Conspiracy of Cartographers

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