PLenz

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by PLenz 1y ago
But it has to be _exactly_ a million to one
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The Frantic Push to Change Online Maps to Say 'Gulf of America'(notus.org)
5 points by PLenz 1y ago|0 comments
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by PLenz 1y ago
I mean yeah, it was kinda obvious that they busted an ad fraud sim farm but needed to pad that resume for the bosses. There's no glory in "just" fighting fraud right now.
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by PLenz 1y ago
The military postal code system is seperate from the US post office's zip code system. Often (and easily!) conflated but actually operating in parallel. Made even more confusing because many U.S. based entities can be reached in both s
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by PLenz 1y ago
Sometimes they're entire non geographic entities like the IRS
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by PLenz 1y ago
Harder to rent-seek with non-saas software
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Trump signs proclamation imposing $100K annual fee for H-1B visa applications(apnews.com)
8 points by PLenz 1y ago|5 comments
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by PLenz 1y ago
I've worked in 2 of those domains (I was a geographer at a web advertising company) and let me tell you, the data is only slightly better than the median industry and in the case of the geodata from apps I'd say it's far, far
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by PLenz 1y ago
Jersey is another term for knitwear in English
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by PLenz 1y ago
Time to reinvent the Interurban https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interurban
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by PLenz 1y ago
Repeating what working women have been saying for decades
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by PLenz 1y ago
LLMs are getting better at spatial but still are quite bad at geospatial
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by PLenz 1y ago
The Volkswagon emissions testing model
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by PLenz 1y ago
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&#x
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by PLenz 1y ago
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.allabo
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by PLenz 1y ago
This is the feature I dislike most about my outback. Some systems just need buttons so you can operate without looking
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by PLenz 1y ago
I think about this line a lot when I read about what Trump and Musk are doing
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by PLenz 1y ago
Carrington event?
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TVs at HUD hacked during meeting to show AI generated video of Trump and Musk(bsky.app)
11 points by PLenz 2y ago|1 comments
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by PLenz 2y ago
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.
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by PLenz 2y ago
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.
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by PLenz 2y ago
I gave a talk at DataEngConf many years ago: https://www.datacouncil.ai/talks/zip-codes-and-other-lies-yo...
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The British Museum says is part closed after fired employee shut down IT systems(apnews.com)
1 points by PLenz 2y ago|0 comments
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by PLenz 2y ago
You can see why this site in particular would not like that story. Network effect is major part of many pitches and valuations.
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by PLenz 2y ago
Everything an LLM returns is an hallucination, it's just that some of those hallucinations line up with reality
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk loses bid to get $56B pay package reinstated(cnbc.com)
22 points by PLenz 2y ago|4 comments
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by PLenz 2y ago
Languages are fungible at most scales
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by PLenz 2y ago
Dead internet theory is coming true
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Billionaire Gautam Adani charged in New York with fraud, bribery scheme(cnbc.com)
9 points by PLenz 2y ago|0 comments
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by PLenz 2y ago
Makes sense, Fark is diminished from its prime but it still hits way, way above it's weight for journalists

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