I'm a Java programmer and geocomputationalist, after a period in industry I am again an academic being employed at the University of Glasgow as a research software engineer. I'm a member of the PSC of GeoTools and GeoServer open source mapping tools and am a founding member of the OSGEO. I live near Glasgow, Scotland,
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Last Notes npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton @nprofile…zccm get a season ticket in if you get more than one prescription a month it saves you money. npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton @nprofile…59k6 I had a friend at university who wanted to write a compiler that mocked your code errors and for really bad ones would email the mockery to random contacts in your email. npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton Trying to resist binge watching Hannah Fry's Modern Devices show on BBC2 via iPlayer. I can highly recommend it if you are into taking things apart to see how they work. npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton Finished my first #Crochet square. Next step is to master triple crochet npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton Does anyone have tips for debugging a #python parallel program that's calling #Gdal processes and crashes so hard it kills the terminal window too? npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton My former employer, Astun, is recruiting a sys admin/dev ops person - remote or Epsom UK based. npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton @nprofile…fa4k not Edinburgh but the Geospatial Data Science group at the University of Glasgow have just appointed an ABM post doc. I'm not sure who actually got the job but I believe they start in January. Feel free to contact me again then npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton @nprofile…6r76 @nprofile…f2j3 - from a quick look at my pictures I can't see any sign of her, but boy do we all look young! npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton @npub1tws…rel8 @npub198t…hasj that's why you store your presentations and documents as plain text markup 🙂 npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton #RandomQuestion for the #Fediverse - why is the sergeant in the Dashing White Sergeant, white? npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton Finally decided to stand down as a gis stackexchange moderator today. They expected me to parse and understand a 4 page new moderator agreement that someone people suggested required me to indemnify SE's legal fees if someone sued them for something I moderated. Since there's nearly no good work answers being generated over there any longer I decided it was time to step away. npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton @npub1lwu…6w4j with the growth of using computer displays as advertising billboards just wearing polarised sunglasses act as ad blockers npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton @npub15zu…s7lx just the south of England really, all the other countries in the UK have mutual or state ownership of water. npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton @npub1g0t…tvm4 We've just been ordered to do 2.5 days in the office at University of Glasgow, and it's starting to cause hardship for more remote colleagues, and annoying all of us. npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton @npub19lt…qfjk when splitting bills it is usually somewhere abroad and I save a cash point fee in acquiring cash . npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton @npub1r4h…u0jf and is he now known as thumbs or lefty? npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton Interesting new dyslexic friendly font - https://www.oliviaking.com/inclusive-sans npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton One of my tutorial students said "Oh so big data is lots of data, I thought it was a conspiracy like Big Pharma" and I'm now completely rethinking the last 20 years of my career. npub1klef22ptn3q99dxgx9ldm9ws92gkwj4qff29fldnxkvmwuajdpeqnexq7z Ian Turton @npub198t…hasj @npub1z6l…wuqc - oh how did you do that? I've never really needed it but it would be nice to make it work. And now I need to go check if it has a NFC reader too
