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by boffinAudio 1y ago
Very cute language .. match x { is table { print(indent_this + "{") for pair in pairs(x) { write(indent + " " + to_string(pair.key) + ": ")
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by boffinAudio 1y ago
>You find growing tomatoes in a closet to cause great suffering and injustice? (that's what dystopian means) As a gardener, I would for sure suffer if all I could do is grow plants in a closet. Gardens are a truly valuable treasure.
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by boffinAudio 1y ago
Lua can be quite performant, so this isn't really a thing, imho. Perhaps its just a matter of using familiar tooling.
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by boffinAudio 1y ago
I'm a parent, I have researched it, and found it not great because it still involves third parties and doesn't promote local control/anonymity without involving some external entity - i.e. Apple requires accounts, Google stil
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by boffinAudio 1y ago
I dunno, I think I would've preferred Lua bytecode as a deliverable executable target, rather than WebAssembly. The tooling would be simpler, more efficient, and would allow a far wider ranger of interoperability with other engines.
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by boffinAudio 1y ago
I'm unsure about the Weeping Figs' inclusion in the list, although I do expect NASA has considered this - but, don't Weeping Figs contain lactose, which becomes air born when dried into a dust, and isn't anaphylactic sho
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by boffinAudio 1y ago
This is a failure of Operating System Vendors, in my opinion. If Operating Systems had a way for parents to adequately monitor/administer the machines of their children, this would not be such a huge, massive hole, in which to pour (ye
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by boffinAudio 1y ago
>programmer discipline that cannot be relied upon This is the crux of all computerization and will never be eradicated.
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by boffinAudio 1y ago
Nice project! I have a couple of the Transcend SD-WIFI cards in my studio - one thing that I really like about them, is the Lua-based interface that allows programmatic control, remotely, of the filesystem. This has been quite useful. Do
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by boffinAudio 1y ago
Your Grok and my Grok should meet.
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by boffinAudio 1y ago
Its appropriate, inasmuch as they are an apex predator, and spend a majority of their lives hunting for food - as opposed to many other whales which filter-feed as a harvesting mechanism ..
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by boffinAudio 1y ago
In the context of ocean plastic recovery/harvesting, I don't know that the purity is all that important - the more important factor is, collection. Being able to take plastic bottles and turn them into a kind of string, for examp
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by boffinAudio 1y ago
This is a great idea .. I wonder if it can be adapted to using recycled plastic threads, so that a fleet of these could be deployed into the ocean to recover plastics, turn them into nets, and use those nets to .. recover more plastic? If I
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Yeah, I think this factoid has changed significantly in the decades since I learned it during a visit to Pinjarra. ;) Still, bauxite is pretty weird business.
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Whats crazy is that a significant portion of the aluminium minerals comes from a single source of bauxite in the world, near Pinjarra Western Australia .. something like 90% of the worlds aluminium is sourced from that one mine.
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Your superficial dismissal of this situation is highly offensive. Please inform yourself. Yes, white children were stolen and officially trafficked by their governments, as official policy. From around the Commonwealth, in fact. And some
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
>an unfortunate typo No, it was not an unfortunate typo. You have merely not bothered to take anything more than a superficial glance at the details. Please, before you rush to be right about something you know nothing about, try a simp
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
>mass misinformation The White Stolen Generation is a real thing. If you don't know about it, you're not qualified to dismiss it: https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/... (EDIT
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Censorship is fascism. If you want bad ideas to die, let them be examined and discussion to proceed. When you censor ideas you don't like, you give them a safe environment to foster.
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
5-eyes and then 9-eyes and then 12-eyes say "whaaaa?" I think the kinetic testing is done all over the middle east. The mind-control stuff is pretty successfully deployed down under, though.
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
>It remains a rare gem, though. I still have dreams of battles I once, long ago, played in Tanarus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanarus_(video_game)
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Seems to me that the better solution is to give parents the ability to observe their kids' activities, and for <16 accounts to be able to operate only when tied with an adult account, which can observe activity... Of course many wil
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Australia has been a petri dish for the testing of totalitarian-authoritarian policies and populist dogma since its inception as a nation. Never forget that the Western worlds first, most successful racist genocide occurred in Australia, an
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
I cut my teeth on a MIPS Magnum pizzabox (kind of like an SGI Indy without the cool bits) in the 80's, 'upgraded' to an Indy as soon as I could, and would've killed for an SGI laptop. So sad they didn't make one.
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
If only there were a universally recognized icon that represented the Universal Declaration of Human Rights... seems to me, that would be a good logo to use for an operating system dedicated to freedom and collective competence.
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
There is/was plenty of anti-Zionist material available in the IA.
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Or, equally valid, pro-zionist activists who want something that is normally easily accessible in the IA to be censored.
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
>2. homebrew often wants to install things I already have, like python. I think its important to understand why this is the case. The python you think you have already, out of the box in MacOS, is the system python. Its not the pytho
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
I did, and I hope you will promote that fact a bit more overtly, because its kind of important for some .. especially in Europe ..
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Thanks for the info. Of course, "its all open source" is a fair answer, but its also a dangerous one, since it shifts culpability for verification to anyone who has the time/resources to audit the open source components that

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