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New comment by junofan in "Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time"

junofan — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:53:29 +0000

It’s a noble thought but the reality is this: https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Chi...

and this: https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/His...

New comment by junofan in "One in ten people are older than 65. Three in four live under a leader who is"

junofan — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:04:04 +0000

They were pretty much what we’d now call fraternity brothers recently out of William and Mary plus whomever else they could rope in.

You’re not really supposed to just vote in your self-interest. It’s a proxy for violence.

New comment by junofan in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

junofan — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:20:54 +0000

> I know people get emotional on this matter but they don’t understand the process.

This kind of “logic”—the process is broken, therefore it’s okay to cheat—isn’t very popular with Americans.

New comment by junofan in "Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague"

junofan — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:04:25 +0000

The US can just declare extraterritorial jurisdiction. We do it for bioweapons. Uncle Sam doesn’t need an invite.

IIRC one of the FBI guys who investigated anthrax was like “yeah, it’s pretty obvious looking at what that lab was up to.”

New comment by junofan in "Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch"

junofan — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:28:57 +0000

The teams use a single homologated ECU to prevent driver aids. I would assume it doesn’t have a downlink on-track to prevent tampering, but presumably with umbilical cord connected in the garage during red flag they can make changes, which the FIA probably sent over. Who knows.

New comment by junofan in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

junofan — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:28:55 +0000

It’s already permitted and operating. Presumably they want the $XX million tax rebates, which haven’t yet been paid out according to this article. Maybe that’s the case in other places too.

Why not get people riled up over water under the bridge and not unpaid rebates? What can anybody do about it? Send the sheriff to lock out the facility?

New comment by junofan in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

junofan — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:56:06 +0000

The cult aspect is more salient. Ultimately the Atlantic piece comes down to controlling people, which is a little cult-like.

New comment by junofan in "Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'"

junofan — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 22:43:38 +0000

A gram a day is more typical [1].

Still, that’s a lot to be tailgating like this lady was as shown in the court filing. Also, “[the arresting officer] told another officer that he ‘could see her carotid artery in my car. That thing was about to pop out of her neck.’”

Sounds like some wild decisions were being made.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40385390/

New comment by junofan in "Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS"

junofan — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:38:20 +0000

Personally I’m switching to Omarchy the minute they’ve got an Apple silicon image. Been on macOS since the 90s. I just want to be able to tell the papercuts to go away. Not confident in Apple’s ability to scratch that itch anymore.

New comment by junofan in "Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city"

junofan — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:39:30 +0000

There’s always Universal Basic Capital (owning stuff that makes more stuff) and you turn it up or down by allocating or deallocating stuff to making more stuff that makes stuff.

New comment by junofan in "Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe"

junofan — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:26:11 +0000

Feels like a hobbyhorse. The article discusses issues between the educator and the child, like:

> An even bigger problem, though, is muddle-headed thinking among educators. Some have fallen for the leftist canard that tests are harmful and grades are racist. Some have allowed reasonable worries about children’s mental health to warp into an excuse for low expectations. Some unhelpful habits acquired during the pandemic have stuck: children are still missing more lessons than before, and many teachers who relaxed their grading standards have failed to tighten up again.

I think we should look there and focus on what’s actually happening between the educator and the child.

New comment by junofan in "Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special"

junofan — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:36:28 +0000

I asked muse. It’s for codex-cli, and it routes through “OpenAI inference proxy”

New comment by junofan in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

junofan — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:59:56 +0000

That’s not even the end of the story. Anthropic has sued. They really want to sell their rifles to the government and retain control.

New comment by junofan in "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead"

junofan — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:03:37 +0000

> China stole design information regarding advanced thermonuclear weapons

Sounds like they blew it. What a shame.

New comment by junofan in "Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug"

junofan — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:21:00 +0000

Hah, our new ones are $1.3 million. https://www.sfmta.com/media/44081

Perhaps driven by restrictions on federal grants? https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/Briefing_Book_-_Muni_Fund...

Some cool tech. Wonder if we optioned the inductive charging system. https://www.gillig.com/buses/battery-electric/#1731934845437...

New comment by junofan in "Executive order on H-1B nonimmigrant visa administration"

junofan — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 05:00:37 +0000

A big problem is these political spectrums are not really coherent moral philosophies yet fulfill an individual’s need for that kind of structure. I think anyone would find that “a person in America has a larger carbon footprint than a person almost anywhere else; therefore it’s an ecological imperative to expel whomever we can“ is odious. So we just don’t think about it.

New comment by junofan in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

junofan — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:54:44 +0000

Yes, and here towards the bottom the author gets to the reason he didn’t sign with the other medalists:

> I felt that there was nothing to be gained from criticizing AI companies for generating too many solutions too quickly.

> Under the circumstances, I think the best we can do is recognise the changes that are coming and try to work out the least unsatisfactory way of dealing with them.

Basically let’s make it a short-term problem and deal with it. Groups of people can deal with short term emergencies. Don’t turn it into a structural issue.

And in my view what’s the alternative in the letter exactly? The tools exist. Is there going to be drama every time somebody decides to use them?

New comment by junofan in "The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

junofan — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:40:10 +0000

Their privacy policy for normie subscribers says in plain English they use your Personal Data for research. I think it’s pretty unreasonable to use the service and expect otherwise.

New comment by junofan in "Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration"

junofan — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:15:29 +0000

You could probably train this out. I don’t think you need to develop elaborate filters. It doesn’t seem like that big a hill to climb if it’s important to people.

New comment by junofan in "Flights cancelled at UK airports due to ATC issue"

junofan — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:06:13 +0000

Eh, I tried in 2017 with BA when their system went down and received nothing. There was magically a Black Lives Matter protest at Gatwick (or maybe LCY, can’t remember) on the same day, which isn’t covered apparently.