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PLenz··on Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom
Jersey is another term for knitwear in English
PLenz··on Tram Trains
Time to reinvent the Interurban https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interurban
PLenz··on Work Life balance slows careers
Repeating what working women have been saying for decades
PLenz··on FOSS4G Europe 2025 live streaming [video]
LLMs are getting better at spatial but still are quite bad at geospatial
PLenz··on FP8 is ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it
The Volkswagon emissions testing model
PLenz··on Coventry Very Light Rail
Everything old is new again: The Light Railways Act of 1896 also propsed rail lines built to less then mainline standards (often narrow gauge) to get transport links to otherwise unconnected locations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Railways_Act_1896 comment edited because I fat finger editing the submit button
PLenz··on Merlin Bird ID
My favorite part of the app is the spectrogram - I'm not sure exactly why but seeing the songs has made learning which bird goes with which song so much easier.

Also a shout out here to Bird Song Hero: https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/bird-song-hero/

PLenz··on Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war
This is the feature I dislike most about my outback. Some systems just need buttons so you can operate without looking
PLenz··on U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter
I think about this line a lot when I read about what Trump and Musk are doing
PLenz··on Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal
Carrington event?
PLenz··on Bosch's brake-by-wire system may be the next big leap in automotive tech
Translated from corporate: we're going to a proprietary system that you'll need to have serviced only by us at insane markups in order to gain recurring revenue.
PLenz··on An Upstate Town Took Back Its Power (2023)
NYPA is the state owned electric utility in NY. So yes, it is a triumph of socialism. A state owned entity supporting a local one.
PLenz··on Stop Using Zip Codes for Geospatial Analysis (2019)
I gave a talk at DataEngConf many years ago: https://www.datacouncil.ai/talks/zip-codes-and-other-lies-yo...
PLenz··on Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
You can see why this site in particular would not like that story. Network effect is major part of many pitches and valuations.
PLenz··on AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it)
Everything an LLM returns is an hallucination, it's just that some of those hallucinations line up with reality
PLenz··on Goodbye, Rust. I wish you success but I'm back to C++ (sorry, it is a rant)
Languages are fungible at most scales
PLenz··on Over half of long posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated
Dead internet theory is coming true
PLenz··on USFS decision to halt prescribed burns in California is history repeating
Makes sense, Fark is diminished from its prime but it still hits way, way above it's weight for journalists
PLenz··on Big Data for the Leviathan
In a similar vein I recommend Empire of the Sum by Keith Houston, an excellent history of calculators that also spends a lot of time on how we humans calculated before we had them
PLenz··on The useful use of cat
I honestly use tac more then cat
PLenz··on Internet Archive: Security breach alert
But was that code placed there by IA or by the malicious party?
PLenz··on Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?
It's a cycle. The internet started with usenet and specific interest newsgroups and niche forums a la phpbb. Then the wide open of social media. Now back to specific again. A generation from now it will shift again.
PLenz··on A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily
I think most of these would be better off as files
PLenz··on A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD
Most significant for being the home of Dr. McNinja
PLenz··on ChatGPT Citing Plagiarized Versions of NYT Articles on an Armenian Content Mill
Solving the wrong problem. The big LLM builders need to switch to opt-in (paid licensing deals) instead of opt-out (lawsuits). Exclusive deals if possible for the moat building.
PLenz··on Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf]
I definately talk to think. Even in my head I'm talking to myself.
PLenz··on With congestion pricing stop, New York City enters new era of economic gridlock
Title IX includes a "state interest" clause which the courts have interpreted to mean that state can stick it's nose into any local issue it wants to.
PLenz··on With congestion pricing stop, New York City enters new era of economic gridlock
A distinction without a difference. Corporations and authorities owned but the state are state agencies, the confusion on this point is a feature by their investor, Robert Moses, to give himself maximum power and minimum oversight. As to state control over the city- it's in Title IX of the NYS Constitution
PLenz··on With congestion pricing stop, New York City enters new era of economic gridlock
1)The MTA is a state agency under the governor and not the mayor 2) The state has had special powers over the budget of the city since the state bailed out the city financially during the 70s
PLenz··on More Itertools
This library is my python productivity secret weapon. So many things I've needed to impliment in the past is now just chaining functions in itertools, functions, and this
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