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Just so you know, this wage gap is real, and the companies are pitching it. This needs to be addressed immediately.
🚨 $130,160 VS. $9,400.
That’s the annual salary comparison an Indian outsourcing company is now putting in front of American employers.
Their numbers:
Software Engineer:
🇺🇸 $130,160
🇮🇳 $9,400
DevOps Engineer:
🇺🇸 $144,629
🇮🇳 $8,700
Financial Analyst:
🇺🇸 $99,890
🇮🇳 $6,900
Customer Service:
🇺🇸 $46,100
🇮🇳 $3,900
That’s roughly a 12x to 17x wage difference.
And here’s their pitch to American CFOs:
A company can hire a mid-to-senior engineer in India, including salary, EOR fees and employer contributions, for roughly what it costs to legally clear ONE H-1B petition in 2026, before paying the U.S. salary.
This is the other half of the labor debate Washington cannot ignore.
If we close the door on moving cheap labor to the job, companies have an enormous financial incentive to move the job to cheap labor instead.
We watched this happen to American manufacturing.
Are we going to let it happen to America’s white-collar jobs too?
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GISing!!! Love it!!!!
A few days ago I started an experiment.
The question was pretty simple:
Could I build a useful, functional website that solved a real problem — without actually having a web server?
The problem I picked was one I've run into repeatedly: finding useful GIS API endpoints.
So I started building TocsinData.io.
No traditional web hosting. No Apache or Nginx server sitting somewhere serving the site. No VPS behind it.
The site and API gateway run at the edge using Cloudflare Workers, with the project maintained through GitHub.
And then the experiment got a little out of hand.
It stopped being just a directory of GIS APIs.
TocsinData.io is becoming a gateway to useful public data from multiple sources, organized behind predictable endpoints.
Right now that includes data and services covering things like:
• USGS earthquake data
• Canadian geographic names
• FCC Census and geographic lookups
• NOAA coastal and ocean station metadata
• NASA natural-event categories
• National Weather Service weather and alert data
• World Bank country and reference data
• NHTSA vehicle recalls
• GBIF species and taxonomy matching
• FEMA disaster declarations
• OpenAlex research/publication metadata
• UK police force and crime-category reference data
• USAspending government reference data
• Federal Register agency information
• UK bank holidays
And that's only the beginning.
GIS data now has its own namespace, while non-GIS public APIs have their own home as well.
The goal isn't to blindly proxy every free API on the Internet. Each source has to be reviewed, bounded and handled according to its own technical and usage requirements.
What started as:
"Can I make a useful GIS API website without buying hosting?"
has turned into:
"How much useful public data can I make easier for humans, software and AI systems to discover and use — while still not having a conventional web server?"
Apparently quite a lot.
TocsinData.io
The experiment is still running.
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Drones Part 107
Aviation GISing: Domain Knowledge
KORD 141856Z 31018G25KT 6SM BKN012 OVC025 09/07 A2986
What is the visibility and ceiling?
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Drones Part 107
Aviation GISing: Domain Knowledge
KSEA 141753Z 21010KT 10SM FEW030 SCT200 16/08 A3012
From the METAR above, what is the ceiling?
If you cannot answer, you might not be ready to pass the Unmanned Aircraft General – Small (UAG)
Keep GISing and Studying!!!!
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Beginning Computer Science Majors: Math Classes
In computer science, the math you need depends on the road you travel. For instance, a BA in Computer Science generally does not require as much math as a regular BS in Computer Science.
Example:
Florida State: BA skips Calc II, Discrete Math II, and a required stats course that the BS includes.
On top of that, you minor and the path you choose determine what math classes you need.
For instance, I did not do a minor, but I did a dual degree. My degree was a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics, which I had to take real analysis etc.
Why I did a dual degree? I did a dual degree because I only had to do two more semesters to get a BS in Mathematics so since I like math, why not😀
On that note, if you are decent at mathematic, I recommend going the BS route. If mathematics is not your jam, go the BA route.
Keep GISing, Mathing and building my friends!!!
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Drones Part 107
Aviation GISing: Domain Knowledge
What frequency would you use to obtain automated weather at Pierre Regional?🤔
A. 122.8
B. 119.025
C. 122.7
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Drones Part 107
Aviation GISing: Domain Knowledge
What does the “R” inside a circle next to Olier and Valburg indicate?🤔
A. Restricted / private-use airport
B. Rotating beacon
C. Radar approach control
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Aviation GISing: Domain Knowledge
What is the field elevation of Pierre Regional Airport (PIR)?
A. 1,225 feet MSL
B. 1,744 feet MSL
C. 2,065 feet MSL
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Any War of Warcraft fans / gamers out there? Anyone watching Blizzcon?🤔
nitter.net/Warcraft?s=20
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Some people are very perplexing to me.
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣
A gallon of milk weighs about 9 lbs. A gallon of gas weighs about 6 lbs. Therefore, gas will not fill a milk gallon. This isn't that hard, people. It's simple math really.
Community note
A gallon is a unit of volume, not weight. Milk jugs and gas pumps both use volume, so 1 gallon of gas occupies the same space as 1 gallon of milk.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon
nist.gov/how-do-you-mea…
measurementstuff.com/how-much-does-…
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Well, I have decided to start my aviation education so I can start Aviation GISing.😄
OMG what did I get myself into🤣🤣🤣
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I do not agree. In many areas, Certs > Master Degree.
Matter of fact, there are a lot of Government jobs that will not even look at you unless you have a DoD approved Cert. For instance, CompTIA Network+ is a DoD approved certification under DoDM 8140.03 (the current cyber workforce qualification program that replaced DoD 8570).
It is a vendor neutral CompTIA certification that the DoD accepts as a qualification option for specific DCWF work roles, which are primarily:
(1) Technical Support Specialist (411)
(2) Network Operations Specialist (441)
(3) System Administrator (451)
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