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vitiral

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About vitiral

https://civboot.github.io

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    > 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 th…

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    Comment #49197522

    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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    Comment #49078945

    Lua is a very small language though and sandboxing it to specific global functions is trivial

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    Comment #49041167

    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 (o…

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    Comment #49039295

    Hey, author here - thanks for posting!

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    Comment #48996052

    Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.

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    Comment #48986248

    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 Not…

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    Comment #43628855

    Maybe Cyc was a success and Lenat lives on as it's consciousness?

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    Comment #43473398

    How can you know what you want if the hedonic treadmill prevents one from appreciating what they already have?

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    Comment #43466770

    Indeed. I'm writing a full tech stack at https://lua.civboot.org -- the language is incredible to work with.

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    Comment #43407607

    It's amazing when laws make complete and consistent sense, +100 to this great answer

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    Comment #43373081

    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. Hop…

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    Comment #43368540

    Have you tried it? It takes only a minute or so, what's the worst that could happen?

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    Comment #43257645

    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…

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    Comment #43216131

    https://civboot.org Join me my brother or sister

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    Comment #42969516

    None of those are easily verifiable

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    Comment #42943464

    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 dif…

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    Comment #42943398

    It's not just the lang but the std lib too https://www.roc-lang.org/faq#rust-and-zig

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    Comment #42943181

    From what I understand that language is Zig, no? Also, there's FORTH!

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    Comment #42836776

    > 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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    Comment #42831713

    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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    Comment #42810741

    https://civboot.org

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    Comment #42445965

    https://lua.civboot.org