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I did a job for a customer today that was kinda funny. The guy is an engineer with a ton of initials after his name. He wanted to pay me to make him a file that is 90% BS. The government provides topographical data to anyone for free. It is 100 foot resolution so a hill that is 101 feet tall will just show up but if it is 90 feet tall does not show up. He wanted a 2 foot resolution file. I told him to make a valid accurate file would be mega thousand dollars over the many square miles he wanted. We would LOVE to have the job! He did not have a budget for that. His budget was about 100 bucks. He wanted a new 918 & the 911 Turbo that matches for 100 bucks.

I told him all I could do was interpolate the government data and it would be just junk accuracy but it would look pretty! He said to do it.

It was like taking a photo of the 918 from a video taken from 100 feet away and making a print at actual size. And he was happy to pay for it.

I told him over and over it was just junk, but that was "good enough" for his project.
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