JuniperMesos

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by JuniperMesos 3d ago
I'm sympathetic to hostility towards many members of the Rust development community, many of whom are left-progressives who think it's politically and morally important to exclude and socially-punish people who they view as being
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by JuniperMesos 4d ago
> Elon Musk, Paul Graham, Steve Yegge and now, sadly John Carmack. Your average hacker scoffs at the idea of religion or faith, but somehow is comfortable with complete unquestioning fealty to whichever person who did something interesti
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by JuniperMesos 4d ago
The story of the discovery of heliocentricism is a lot more complex than this; the people who didn't immediately accept heliocentric theories (including the ancient Greeks - look up Aristarchus) often had good, scientific reasons for d
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by JuniperMesos 4d ago
In general I'd rather interact with a machine than with the kind of person who can get hired as a cashier where I live - likely someone cognitively disadvantaged or who is an immigrant from a poor part of the world with limited English
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Interview: Terence Tao on AI(teorth.github.io)
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by JuniperMesos 5d ago
Yeah Starlink is clearly so much better than the satellite internet that came before it that I think it's reasonable to want to expand it, even at the cost of making radio astronomy on Earth's surface harder. Fast, reliable intern
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by JuniperMesos 5d ago
There's a lot fewer than 8 billion people who have access to the resource of "radio astronomy". I suspect it is in fact less than the 10 million figure of people who might want to use satellite-provided internet.
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by JuniperMesos 7d ago
I never had the impression that the Mercator projection, or indeed any particular world map projection out of the dozens in common use, had any kind of official status that needed to be removed. It seems obvious to me that different map pro
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by JuniperMesos 7d ago
The location of the 0 longitude line has less to do with the British colonial empire as such, and more to do with the fact that the British were the first people on Earth to invent a way of measuring longitude at sea accurately (John Harris
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by JuniperMesos 9d ago
It would be pretty wild if this will turn out to be what had actually happened.
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by JuniperMesos 9d ago
Free and open-source software licenses never promised that any given project would absolutely accept code contributions from the general public. You're as free to exercise the Four Freedoms with Ladybird as you are with Firefox or Chro
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by JuniperMesos 9d ago
If that court had ruled differently, people would absolutely be using that precedent to sue towns and police departments for not delivering illegal immigrants who came to the attention of the police department to ICE for deportation, if tha
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by JuniperMesos 9d ago
Drew DeVault has weird public politics, as evidenced by among other things putting this website together, which is taking a set of public political stances; he has some amount of social influence, and he's involved in free and open sou
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by JuniperMesos 9d ago
They don't hate others for stuff they can't control; they have moral or conceptual views that differ from progressive orthodoxy, and progressives are claiming that holding these moral and conceptual views constitutes hating others
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by JuniperMesos 9d ago
No one thinks that the number of males participating in business is too low, and that it is socially-beneficial and morally-important to promote male-run businesses.
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by JuniperMesos 10d ago
> Another user attracted more than 800 likes for suggesting that strict etiquette could perhaps be forsaken at such times: “It’s an emergency. I would just tell them: ‘Please step inside with your shoes on!’” This seems like the best pol
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by JuniperMesos 10d ago
Yeah, what A/I is experiencing is nothing different than what they themselves would seek to do to anyone they consider to be a Nazi.
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by JuniperMesos 10d ago
> And if in your small town everybody is obese, before to blame everybody for eating too much, or being lazy couch potatos, look for chemicals in the drinking water, leading to a broken satiety system, causing people to eat huge amounts
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by JuniperMesos 10d ago
By this logic, state employees and elected officials, who are themselves US citizens, have the right to say anything at all to the public, including blatant lies about public health issues, because there's no specific legal exception b
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by JuniperMesos 10d ago
But not Mississippi evidently, or the court probably would've mentioned that and Mother Jones reporter Sophie Hurwitz would've mentioned that in the article. Maybe Mississippi should enact some kind of state constitutional provisi
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by JuniperMesos 10d ago
Is it just me, or is every radio station broken except Wave 103?
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by JuniperMesos 11d ago
Seems inaccurate to claim that "America" broke the Nazi's Enigma code - most of that work was done at Bletchley Park by British codebreakers, was it not? Of course Britian is still an Anglophone country and certainly lots of
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by JuniperMesos 13d ago
Perhaps the judge in this case thought the same thing you did - that being a lawyer in a law firm that at one point took a public, pro-immigration-enforcement political stance makes you a "clearly unreliable and outrage-seeking" p
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by JuniperMesos 13d ago
Maybe right-wing agitators should make a point of trying to get Judge Brian J. Smalls of the 9th Judicial District Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court of Virginia under formal legal scrutiny for abusing his authority as a judge
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by JuniperMesos 14d ago
It also reduces the number of Indian people who physically reside in the US and can influence the American political system.
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by JuniperMesos 15d ago
Why is it bad to make a codebase better for agentic development?
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by JuniperMesos 15d ago
Several of the claims of on-site water pollution that I've looked into were clearly bullshit, basically unrelated to a building being a data center at all; and I have no reason to think that the claims of people being impacted by exces
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by JuniperMesos 17d ago
This specific argument will move some people who weren't in favor of the rename in the direction of supporting it.
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by JuniperMesos 17d ago
I would say that the traditional notion of Unix root and normal user accounts is outdated, no longer useful for how people use computers today. On my personal laptop, malicious code having access to my user files is as bad as having root ac
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by JuniperMesos 17d ago
And the word "pine" is kinda close to "penis", what of it? Words in languages sometimes sound kinda like rude or sexual vocabulary, especially in a language like Japanese with a relatively small phoneme inventory.

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