Keith Jenkins

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Geospatial Librarian, Ithaca NY
6502 assembly. Roman numerals. Norwegian-Bulgarian jazz.
Keith Jenkins2d ago

@sgillies I've been working on a project where we have been linking to Pleiades places, and I think I've finally learned how to spell "pleiades" without thinking about it too hard.

(Also, someone had inadvertently listed you as an author on one of our articles because they must have seen your name on the linked Pleiades page...)

Keith Jenkins2d ago
Ugh, it's bad enough with it being 80F in the house, but now the ants have started their summer offensive on the 3rd floor.
Keith Jenkins3d ago
This quiz shows why every schoolkid should be learning to always write dates as YYYY-MM-DD. (I'm resigned to the fact that it is too late to convert some adults, so our hope lies with the next generation.)
https://jsdate.wtf/
new Date("wtf")

How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

jsdate.wtf
Show threadKeith Jenkins4d ago
first correct guess gets a scan from the catalog!
Show threadKeith Jenkins4d ago
Or better, yet, I found these geojson files of Roman Provinces. I might need to edit for the reign of Trajan, but these are a good start.
Show threadKeith Jenkins4d ago
Good guesses, but think of what non-computer merchandise you would like to have emblazoned with the Apple Computer logo...
Show threadKeith Jenkins4d ago
So I'll just do what I can with this public domain .svg file I found.
Keith Jenkins4d ago
I guess it is no surprise that ancient civilizations don't maintain websites with boundaries of their administrative regions.
Keith Jenkins5d ago

I'm planning to post, in the near future, an Apple Computer catalog from ~1983.

Please let me know what kinds of products do you think it will contain.

Keith Jenkins6d ago

If you have any documents or bookmarks using goo.gl links, follow them now so you can get the full URL.

Google is turning off the redirection next month. https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/

Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available- Google Developers Blog

Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.

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Show threadKeith JenkinsJun 26
Although the TSP order is generally pretty good for numbering points, I'm still not completely happy with it. I'm sure it would make more sense, to someone walking around to these trees with the map, if trees 1,2,3 were grouped with 153,154,etc and trees 4,5,6,7 were inserted into the sequence with other trees in the circle.
Show threadKeith JenkinsJun 26
Ideally, there would be variant of the TSP solver where additional costs could be assigned to network lines going through buildings. (The TSP tools we used don't actually accept any network input, and simply use the point coordinates.)
Show threadKeith JenkinsJun 26
I spent about 5 minutes starting to see if I could improve it with just a few manual modifications, but quickly realized there is no obvious end to such a process, and that is not how I want to spend my time today.