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New comment by benboughton1 in "U.S. workers say banned weed killer in 50 countries is giving them Parkinson's"

benboughton1 — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 08:28:36 +0000

We use paraquat quite a bit in a way that we never actually exposed to the chemical. I imagine our procedures are quite different to how it was handled even 10 or 20 years ago.

New comment by benboughton1 in "Turning satellite imagery into wall art"

benboughton1 — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 22:22:20 +0000

I had an idea to sort of automate this process or even a user aided wizard as a product but never to round to the mvp. Still an ok idea I think as satellite imagery on wall is great talking point. It can be beautiful, dramatic, always changing so makes for sets of images showing changes etc

New comment by benboughton1 in "Tell HN: Consider listing your contact details"

benboughton1 — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 07:27:44 +0000

Good idea. I'm in.

New comment by benboughton1 in "Organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies"

benboughton1 — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 21:05:05 +0000

No till farming is widespread especially in Australia for decades. Nearly all dryland farms take this approach. It just means controlling fallow weeds without tillage, usually with herbicide. Then plant straight through the previous crop residue. This preserves moisture in the soil and the soil structure. Planters mostly do this fine. I'm not sure what has not yet been invented elsewhere.

New comment by benboughton1 in "GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model"

benboughton1 — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 09:10:39 +0000

I love the enthusiasm, but is this another Google thing that is for researchers only? Yes fantastic technology etc, but say you develop something on the infrastructure then go to commercialise, what do you do?

I don't know much about the ML space, but is this a bit like Google Earth Engine, amazing tech, very generous resources free for researchers and development but cannot be ported elsewhere so to commercialise you then are limited to this very environment which is not cheap. I recently reached out to Google for pricing on GEE, 3 weeks later I got a response. 3 weeks.

New comment by benboughton1 in "Kats: One stop shop for time series analysis in Python"

benboughton1 — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:36:27 +0000

Great, thanks I'll check it out.

New comment by benboughton1 in "Kats: One stop shop for time series analysis in Python"

benboughton1 — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 05:23:48 +0000

What are suggested online courses to learn about multi variable time series forecasting? My skill level is - ok with university level Biometrics but that was 10+ years ago, and I am web/self-taught python for web apps and automating GIS tasks.

New comment by benboughton1 in "Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources"

benboughton1 — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 11:32:30 +0000

Also I'd like to be able to read the reddit comment without having to leave the site if possible. Am liking it though, already been down a few rabbit holes. Good stuff.

New comment by benboughton1 in "Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources"

benboughton1 — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 11:24:30 +0000

Hey nice idea- I am looking at building a dashboard style web app like yours. Have you used any frameworks here or rolled your own? - I am on mobile or id take a closer look myself.

New comment by benboughton1 in "PostGIS at 20, the Beginning"

benboughton1 — Mon, 31 May 2021 19:46:31 +0000

PostGIS can write to GeoJSON so you can have a simple flask or bottlepy webserver to query the db. Then use leaflet GeoJSON layer to pull down the data and render it on map.

There is of course the newer vector tiles which is a better solution in many situations but a bit more complicated to get going. Crunchy Data have made some good examples and a nice tile server for this.

New comment by benboughton1 in "PostGIS at 20, the Beginning"

benboughton1 — Mon, 31 May 2021 19:22:15 +0000

I just realised you are the author, so thankyou!

New comment by benboughton1 in "PostGIS at 20, the Beginning"

benboughton1 — Mon, 31 May 2021 19:21:42 +0000

I read that blog post. Such a good example. But there is even a comment in there warning about raster via database. I am going to try it out as well with some MODIS data. I wonder what needs to be done to make raster more performant in POSTGIS?

New comment by benboughton1 in "PostGIS at 20, the Beginning"

benboughton1 — Mon, 31 May 2021 18:57:57 +0000

I love PostGIS. I have used it in many projects.

PostGIS raster is really interesting to me but the general sentiment is that it's a bit slow and only use it if you need to. It just seems so powerful to combine raster and vector with SQL. What would the alternative be for raster query vertical and horizontal combined with vector? GRASSGIS Timeseries tools look interesting but I've not tried those. Any other ideas?

New comment by benboughton1 in "Text editing hates you too (2019)"

benboughton1 — Fri, 21 May 2021 21:40:01 +0000

For someone not overly ear to the ground culturally this is a rabbit hole. The Youtube one fascinates me. I've not heard of most but imagine there are hundreds of interesting stories behind every item. Interesting work and concept. Well done.

New comment by benboughton1 in "OVH sees it's object store as public traffic from VPS and Public Cloud?"

benboughton1 — Wed, 12 May 2021 13:40:11 +0000

Thanks. I wrongly assumed OVH would as you describe AWS, especially when setting up an 'instance' in their 'public cloud'. I just a quick look at their Vrack product to see if it links instances to object storage. Doesn't look like it.

New comment by benboughton1 in "OVH sees it's object store as public traffic from VPS and Public Cloud?"

benboughton1 — Wed, 12 May 2021 13:19:26 +0000

Does this seem odd to others? Does AWS give 'local' access speed to s3 from EC2 on same locations?

OVH sees it's object store as public traffic from VPS and Public Cloud?

benboughton1 — Wed, 12 May 2021 12:59:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ovh/comments/nanxzc/ovh_sees_its_object_store_as_public_traffic_from/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27129790

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New comment by benboughton1 in "WinBox: Window manager in a web browser"

benboughton1 — Fri, 07 May 2021 04:58:48 +0000

Very cool. I'd like to tile vertically/horizontal. Also snap to edge takes up half screen like on Windows OS.

New comment by benboughton1 in "Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio]"

benboughton1 — Thu, 06 May 2021 04:35:57 +0000

If Excel is as popular as everyone says it is, why don't we see more of the javascript addins? Excel as a platform makes sense to me. If I'm in Excel where all my data is, I want to import more external data or publish data externally etc.

Makes sense to do it from inside Excel no?

New comment by benboughton1 in "Show HN: _hyperscript – an async-transparent scripting langauge for the web"

benboughton1 — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:58:55 +0000

I've just started testing this on a side project as I got a bit excited about htmx.

I like the idea of forming HTML templates in Flask/Jinja2 so the hyperscript/htmx toolset should be a good fit.

I don't really have much comment or advice yet except writing in hyperscript is a bit back to front but the documentation really helped. I think once I get my head around it, it will be super productive. And just inject pure JS when needed. Sounds great!

No IDE clues or error checking makes it a little harder too for the minute :)

I'll keep working away at it.