There is No Antimimetics Division by qntm is a great read

Really neat. I've often wondered about what the unexposed part of trees and plants are.

Like: am I walking on them? Are they tapping down somewhere deep or are they shallow.

The examples on a hill were interesting; I would have thought the extent would be skewed but it was fairly even

For plants, and trees too I guess, you can just grow your own, dig it up after a while, and inspect for yourself.

Today I finished picking tomatoes from my tomato plants and pulled them up to avoid them rotting in the field as the temperature goes down. It was curious to see how the root systems varied both between the two tomato varieties I had planted, the location of the plant in relation to surrounding grass, and the type of soil they ended up in.

... Was likely written by AI

This was written by the Sedona team. And I asked AI to put some colors to the blog post.

Sooo... Have you made that LinkedIn yet so fellow Canadians might see what you worked on in the past and can get in touch?

Even if i did i would never post it publicly. And yes i understand that it means i won't be getting thousands of strangers looking at my personal experience, one of whom might want to hire me. I wouldn't post my resume either. I'm just not comfortable giving my data to a company i don't trust and to share it openly on the public web. And yes i'm ok with the consequences.

+1

So weird to see this comment. QGIS powering government GIS groups and used by major geoscience and mining companies.. working with national sized vector and raster data.

Have you tried loading 500k features into QGIS? Well, try it and we talk again.

Govs used QGIS as alternative to pricey ESRI subscriptions, but come to realize that it is struggling even as a viewer. Happily latest versions allow simplification of features on the server side, but these are very new QGISs

also take a look here

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Ao...

Arcmap is sooo janky. Looks like a refugee from Win 3.1 era with minor cosmetic updates (although I know the engine received big updates 2010-2020).

If people want QGIS to be pretty, just become a member and sponsor that initiative.

I totally disagree. I switched off this license, and also ALSO saved additional because Spatial Analyst costs extra (all included by default in QGIS)

If companies that use ESRI cancelled one license a year and instead sponsored qgis development with the money... https://qgis.org/funding/

YES. I made the switch 10 years ago and my professional life improved overnight