JuniperMesos

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by JuniperMesos 5d ago
Indeed! My question was (mostly) rhetorical - I happen to be of the right age to have organically played some real 8 and 16-bit console video games on real CRT ; and also organically played a lot more 8 and 16-bit console video games emulat
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by JuniperMesos 5d ago
My family had a real SNES hooked up to a real (and real shitty) CRT TV, and I played games on it. But I also had a desktop PC and then eventually a laptop computer where I played a lot more games than we actually owned via ZSNES. We also ha
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by JuniperMesos 10d ago
Some Mitchell and Webb sketches are posted on youtube.
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by JuniperMesos 11d ago
I was disappointed to learn that the article from 404 media about a "Proposed Nuclear AI Data Center" in Ypsilanti, Michigan wasn't actually a data center with an on-site nuclear power generator, just one that Los Alamos is
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by JuniperMesos 11d ago
The New Guinea highlanders were equally ignorant of the existence of the Australians, or most of the other peoples outside of the New Guinea highlands. But it wasn't one of the New Guinea highlanders who took the initiative to make the
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by JuniperMesos 11d ago
Does it benefit the average person in England for Welsh, Scottish, or Northern Irish people to be in the same country as them?
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by JuniperMesos 12d ago
Torrents can be used to spread information that is in the public domain or licensed freely, just as much as they can be used to spread copyrighted information. Obviously most of what people actually use torrents for is pirating copyrighted
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by JuniperMesos 12d ago
I don't think that John Carmack or any of the other people you mentioned are categorically not worth listening to because in some cases the accomplishments that originally made them famous are decades old. If you think that Carmack is
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by JuniperMesos 13d 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 13d 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 13d 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 14d 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 14d 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 14d 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 16d 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 16d 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 18d ago
It would be pretty wild if this will turn out to be what had actually happened.
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by JuniperMesos 18d 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 19d 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 19d 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 19d 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 19d 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 19d 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 20d 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 20d 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 20d 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 20d 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 20d ago
Is it just me, or is every radio station broken except Wave 103?
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by JuniperMesos 21d 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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