Thanks man

@John O - needs his electrician tag haha

@RevStench he has it!

Weird, I don't see it?

@RevStench on mobile hold your finger on his username, on computer hover the mouse on his username. You have the electrician role too by the way. You have a lot of roles.

Crazy, I can see everyone else's tags. But ok, you're the man @ThisIsChris, well not THE man😂

Anyone here have formal training in GIS? I am going to have some education grant money left over next semester after I get my bachelors and I think getting some kind of GIS cert or training would be my best bang for buck economically.

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN GIS?

Geographic Information Systems

Is that like surveyors? @Wood-Ape - OK/MN

Or like GPS?

Yes. GPS is one type of GIS software, afaik

Didn't know if anyone here had certifications or knee of the best method. My goal is to use it to fast track to grad school and/or get a higher paying job in the natural resources or recreation field

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN If it were a year from now, I could help you, haha. But for the time being, no cigar. I know Esri (the producer of ArcGIS, an industry standard,) offers some courses. Went through and wasn't impressed with their free 'demo' or broad introductory course though.

I mean I'll be taking a couple of courses for my major. And I know that a lot of federal agencies have a GIS department or personnel. It sounds like a good idea though, better than many other minors, particularly Comp.Sci IMO

I believe most all GIS software utilizes C++/Python Coding and terminal-type inputs as well

(as an alternative or supplement to the GUI)

Ah, I was wondering if there were any legit online and/or free courses

There's definitely some out there, get your hands dirty with open source alternatives, but yeah wish I knew the best one. At least you've got the grant money.

Good luck though!

Thanks... I really wanted to use July grant money on a Wilderness EMT class or maybe a two month bushcraft school, but maybe that isn't wise. I am always trying to learn more skills so I can eventually have a family and be undoxxable

Last thing I'll say; always remember that paying debts or saving for a down payment on a house/car etc. is an option!

Or even day trading stocks, an investment, etc.

The aforementioned money is AmeriCorps grant. Very restricted usage and a built in expiration date. Otherwise I definitely would have bought an acre or three

Udemy has some great courses for cheap. I don't know if they still do $10 sales, the floor seems to have moved up to 12. Still cheaper than college.

Microsoft Edge PDF reader question: you can type notes on PDF documents, but how do you print the notes?

Sorry not experienced with Edge as I don't use it, let alone for PDFs, but I'd expect it to be a near-barebones PDF reader at this point. Can you find any options directed at the PDF reading function of Edge? If not, what about the ability to export PDFs from Edge to say...PNG files? Maybe it will export the notes into the image too.

The most vulgar/inconvenient way to do it would be screenshots saved as images then printed out, without a lot of tweaking it will look bad but you will get those notes...

@wolfwood ty for reply. I can’t seem to find the function, but I don’t know why they would have a notes option if you can’t print the notes

@ThisIsChris Can I constantly ping an endpoint using a personal computer? Do I need some kind of server set up? Or do I just need a program running constantly in the background?

@Jacob yeah you can constantly ping an endpoint using a personal computer. Some endpoints have a rate limit (usually pings per minute or pings per hour) after which point they will tell you that they won't respond with useful information until you slowdown. But the first step is to try pinging it constantly and then only adjust things if you run into an issue

Okay this bot idea might actually be easier than I expected

Here's the concept:

> create a bot that crawls r/changemyview
> send my a notification every time someone makes a post or comment on immigration
> have a document with responses to all the pro-immigration arguments
> literally just copy paste

This could actually influence public opinion with minimal effort. I could make it impossible to be pro-immigration without being met with opposition.

If I want it to take it a step further, I could potentially not even read the comments myself, and just have the bot send an automated response based on key phrases. For example, if the bot finds "immigration grows the economy", it could send a canned response explaining the difference between GDP, per capita GDP, and per capita GDP adjusted for inequality.

@Jacob that's a good idea, though if you automatically post a canned response then they will probably ban your boy from posting in the subreddit. Btw if you want to *post* then you'll need a Dev account for your not, and you'll probably want to use PRAW though it's not strictly necessary. Checkout r/redditdev for more info. If you just want to scan comments though then you don't need the dev stuff. That's what I do, scan comments and then send an email to myself and whoever whenever keywords are found that O might want to respond to. Then I do have canned responses that I copy and paste but I usually edit the opening sentence to make it relevant to the post I'm responding to. I did that a lot to teach people about how what is usually seen as white privilege is actually just Jewish privilege

Ya using the bot to post canned response might be a bit much

It's probably not necessary to go that far anyway. It's not like it's a lot of work to go into my document, copy paste, and maybe switch out a few words.

@Jacob completely agree

You think this is something I should try doing myself after having taken 3 Java classes? Or should I use your white privilege bot and modify it?