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Back in the days of Windows mobile (the old Windows phone, not the newer OS Microsoft made), Factor could run on some Windows phones: https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/02/17/factor-on…

Years ago I built a website in Factor for testing HTML 5 video in browsers using the Theora codec. It allowed uploading videos, playing them in the browser, converting to Theora, t…

What are the US territories it's in the thick of? Closest territories are French Polynesia and Rapa nui, a Chilean territory.

Saying "they hated it" when referring to their return from the migration to Tahiti is underselling things a bit. Over a third of them died from sickness having no immunity to thing…

Starlink is available there now and is probably the best option for high speed internet.

I met Tom on the island when I stayed there about 12 years ago. He's a cousin of mine - my grandmother was born there and I'm a descendent of Fletcher Christian too. I was there fo…

Like it or not, it's what current research - the science you appeal to -- appears to show. As stated here: "...the researchers determined that the island experienced steady populat…

The “Easter Islanders cut down all their trees and collapsed society” as posited by Jared Diamond has long been disproven https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rethinking-east…

ATS is great, I’ve used ATS1 and ATS2 quite a bit and it worked well. Unfortunately it suffers a bit from the “rewrite every few years” as research directions change.

Take a look at Carp https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp

I have a few ATS related posts, talking about the safety aspects of it https://bluishcoder.co.nz/tags/ats/index.html

> My agenda is to obviously raise awareness that an island that aids sexual abusers is bad This is another example of you using emotive phrases to imply a narrative that is not tru…

My understanding is the UK government cancelled the scheme after the contractors failed to meet their deliverable dates and the costs ballooned. Effort is now going into solar powe…

It's usually pretty warm, 20-ish celcius. It got cold when I was there when a storm was passing through, dropping to about 12 celcius. It can get stormy but for the month I was the…

Note that Pitcairn Island isn't 47 sq. km. That's the size of the combined islands in the Pitcairn area - Henderson, Ducie, Oeno and Pitcairn. Pitcairn Island itself is 3.2km long …

I've heard that there have been applications, but the problem seems to be that the people applying lack the understanding of what it's like to live there. Generally you want people…

There are children on the island, and a school there. When they get to high school age they leave the island to attend school in New Zealand and return afterwards - or stay in NZ. …

Taro grows, there's even an area called "Taro Ground". I'm a fan of kava and I know Tahiti has a kava tradition. I asked one of my cousins about kava on the island and they don't k…

Haha, thanks! I was surprised to see Pitcairn on HN.

There is one beach area, Down Rope. See this photo: http://cd.pn/pn2012/#289 Not the idyllic sandy beach of most tropical islands though.

Many smaller one-person yachts visit the island, they anchor offshore and get transport to the island via the islanders coming out on the longboat. Yachties stay overnight on their…

Here's one account of a legend involving Pitcairn: https://stranded.io/2020/05/24/a-tahitian-legend-of-hitiaure... Here's a great account of Tupaia's map: https://www.tandfonline.c…

I'm definitely biased, I agree. I don't respond to discussions about the trials for a number of reasons. It's a sensitive issue. It brings out the worst in people. Statements like …

A few years ago one of the islanders had appendicitis and the island doctor couldn't do anything. They put out a broadcast for ships in the area for help - eventually one was avail…