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Very cute language .. match x { is table { print(indent_this + "{") for pair in pairs(x) { write(indent + " " + to_string(pair.key) + ": ") pretty_print_internal(pair.value, indent…

>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…

Lua can be quite performant, so this isn't really a thing, imho. Perhaps its just a matter of using familiar tooling.

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 entit…

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 …

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…

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…

>programmer discipline that cannot be relied upon This is the crux of all computerization and will never be eradicated.

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, re…

Your Grok and my Grok should meet.

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 mec…

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 bottl…

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 in…

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.

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…

Your superficial dismissal of this situation is highly offensive. Please inform yourself. Yes, white children were stolen and officially trafficked by their governments, as officia…

>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 …

>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…

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 foste…

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 unde…

>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)

Seems to me that the better solution is to give parents the ability to observe their kids' activities, and for Of course many will say this can be abused, but all technology can be…

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 firs…

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 lapt…