you don’t have to have a silicon valley

the Millie Vanillie of vibe coding if you will…

i wouldn’t confuse Nikola with canoo.

Canoo actually got to having a vehicle, and it was at a very reasonable price point and was a very compelling vehicle.

I think the real issue they hit was that they didn’t look like a 100:1 return in investment, and for predatory capitol, thats all they’ll fund. I think they found themselves needing funds exactly when inflation was going nuts.

I mean at the end of the day these are car manufacturers. it’s a shit ton of work to design and engineer and the produce a car. And they can’t be that expensive or people just don’t buy them. So the margins are kinda crap.

So I lived out of something like this for a bit:

and what I love about that era of micro vans is the visibility. I feel like cannoo reall’got’ what it was that made those vans so special, and it’s that when you are travelling, you can see everything and it feels like you are really on tour.

I was really bummed they went out of business.

I can too.

This is the van I had a reserve down on before they went bust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgAghyLo4os

I want visibility. I want to be able to see whats happening in front of me in a vehicle. I don’t want a dash sitting on my lap.

Growth narratives on the fediverse:

I want an electric micro van so bad 😔 but I hate the look of the the buzz. And I’ve lived out of a VW before.

Just put me more forward in the cockpit plz

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.

geotiff

fucking fight me.

and if any one posts h5 as their favorite I’ll rip your fingernails off with a pliers.

it’s super weird.

I was there a couple years before. I expected with all the limestone it would… well… it would be limestone.

No. it’s cast poured concrete.

Dental pick, like the kind that your hygienist uses to give you PTSD should do the trick.

This is true but less interesting to me because…

Soo… how many blueberries would you say you can boof?

could prob boof some blueberries without issue

grind it up fine enough and you could rail or boof it

jam.

but if not jam you can go to any local big box store that does home appliances and almost always find a chest freezer for under 100 dollars. Throw the berries into 1 gallon bags and figure the rest out later. I promise you will find more uses for additional freezer space.