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by vitiral 4d ago
> under preposterous pressures up to 2.3 million atmospheres, and tremendous temperatures up to 2,630 kelvins (2,357 degrees Celsius, or 4,274 degrees Fahrenheit). Whew, so not Ice-nine
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by vitiral 29d ago
You could wonder that, but if you're a proper skeptic you also have to wonder the opposite. Vaccines and autism isn't a "moral" question, so it's not really comparable IMO.
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by vitiral 29d ago
I wonder if you could publish the opposite result without your career being corporally punished.
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by vitiral 1mo ago
> These findings stopped me in my tracks because those two jobs rely on the same thing as my own work: maps. Those jobs rely on navigation, not maps. Reading maps and navigating the real world are very, very different things. The later p
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by vitiral 1mo ago
Well, Mars has 1/3 of earth gravity so that helps. So for spinning the capsule, you only need say 1/5 earth gravity to be reasonably capable of walking on Mars. Does that help?
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by vitiral 2mo ago
Lua is a very small language though and sandboxing it to specific global functions is trivial
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by vitiral 2mo ago
Author here, what question do you have? I'll eventually be writing my own Lua interpreter but the whole stack is designed to (and currently does) bootstrap from standard Lua 5.4 (or 5.5)
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by vitiral 2mo ago
Hey, author here - thanks for posting!
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2 points by vitiral 2mo ago|0 comments
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by vitiral 2mo ago
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.
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If you want to fight AI, build a Civboot(civboot.github.io)
6 points by vitiral 2mo ago|2 comments
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by vitiral 2mo ago
Awesome! I added your blog to the docs for an ascii art color syntax I wrote for my vim-like editor, I'd love if you checked it out https://civboot.github.io/lua/asciigame.html Note: right now the editor crashes i
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by vitiral 1y ago
Maybe Cyc was a success and Lenat lives on as it's consciousness?
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by vitiral 1y ago
How can you know what you want if the hedonic treadmill prevents one from appreciating what they already have?
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by vitiral 1y ago
Indeed. I'm writing a full tech stack at https://lua.civboot.org -- the language is incredible to work with.
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by vitiral 1y ago
It's amazing when laws make complete and consistent sense, +100 to this great answer
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by vitiral 2y ago
Some confusion in this thread. I think it would help folks to know that in addition to conservation of energy, our universe has conservation of angular momentum, aka mass spin. Hope that helps!
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by vitiral 2y ago
Have you tried it? It takes only a minute or so, what's the worst that could happen?
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by vitiral 2y ago
There are like 6 core activities that bind humans together: shared creation of food, myth and music; co habitation, protection, child rearing. We've done these things ourselves for hundreds of thousands of years. As we are increasingly
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by vitiral 2y ago
https://civboot.org Join me my brother or sister
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by vitiral 2y ago
None of those are easily verifiable
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by vitiral 2y ago
I was replying to this bit > difference between C++ and C is that the former is a large multi-paradigm language, while the latter is a minimalist language. These are completely different axes. > There is no corresponding popular repla
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by vitiral 2y ago
It's not just the lang but the std lib too https://www.roc-lang.org/faq#rust-and-zig
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by vitiral 2y ago
From what I understand that language is Zig, no? Also, there's FORTH!
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by vitiral 2y ago
> owns several Senators This is the regulations I'm talking about. > just go "start a frozen potato company" No thanks, I bet the regulatory burden is absurd
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by vitiral 2y ago
Why are there not local competitors to checks notes cook, bag and freeze potatoes at a 10x markup? Might it be an overly large regulatory burden on starting said competitor?
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by vitiral 2y ago
https://civboot.org
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by vitiral 2y ago
https://lua.civboot.org
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by vitiral 2y ago
Computers should be controlled (primarily) via a programming language (aka the shell). That way you are "learning" every time you want to do anything on your computer, and anything you do can be programmed. I prefer Lua for this p
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by vitiral 2y ago
Funerals are an "odd custom"? What an entirely odd thing to say, I cannot imagine what you mean. Why is meditating on the passing of a friend, remembering their life and being present with the grief of their family "odd"

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