Going to start exploring aerial #photogrammetry using a #UAV in the #melange zone of a glacier in #Greenland- probably processing using @OpenDroneMap - would love to hear tutorial, expert help, literature suggestions on this...
Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) on capitalism merely being an interruption between feudalism and feudalism, with a reminder that cyberpunk was meant to be a warning, not a how-to.
The second decade of the 21st century is truly a bounteous time. My backyard has produced a bumper crop of an invasive species of mosquito that is genuinely innovative: rather than confining itself to biting in the dusk and dawn golden hours, these stinging clouds of flying vampires bite at every hour that God sends:
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I haven't been live-tooting #ICFP, mostly because I'm already live-{Discord,Slack,Notion,Telegram,Signal}'ing, and I can only multi-task so much while also trying to understand the talks …
but holy shit the Wasm talk by Andreas Rossberg1 was SO COOL
anyway, the last bit from my notes, is a bit more personal:
I’ve always been harping, for years, on how #OCaml and #JavaScript VMs are just such a surprisingly-fantastic, low-impedance match (see the whole #Melange, #BuckleScript, #ReScript, category — they're fantastic to use in practice); …
but now i’m learning that Wasm is … basically OCaml’s semantics, EVEN MORE DIRECTLY, in a bunch of cases, lmao.