vitiral

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https://civboot.github.io
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Comment · 1 month 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

Comment · 2 months 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.

Comment · 2 months ago
I wonder if you could publish the opposite result without your career being corporally punished.
Comment · 2 months 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 point about zip codes with higher complexity is the same - these residents have to _navigate_ in more complex situations. How the author seems to be conflating that their personal job of staring at maps therefore protects them from Alheimers is very wishful thinking IMO.

Based on this data, I wouldn't be surprised if Google Maps has lead to a rise of Alzheimers.

Comment · 2 months 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?

Comment · 3 months ago
Lua is a very small language though and sandboxing it to specific global functions is trivial
Comment · 3 months 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)
Comment · 3 months ago
Hey, author here - thanks for posting!
Comment · 3 months ago
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.
Comment · 3 months 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 if you mis-type any of the syntax... it's not really fully launched, going to fix that soon hopefully but you can see a [screenshot](https://civboot.github.io/img/asciigame.png) of what it looks like

Also, if you know any other good references for getting into asciiart I'd love to reference them as well.

Note: the Ele editor isn't _quite_ ready for all the asciiart features in your blog post, notably virtualedit and macros are not implemented yet - but I just added basic visual mode so it's getting close!

Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe Cyc was a success and Lenat lives on as it's consciousness?
Comment · 1 year ago
How can you know what you want if the hedonic treadmill prevents one from appreciating what they already have?
Comment · 1 year 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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