vitiral
Re:Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2000°C
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @09:39PM (#49679065)
> 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
Re:Effects of Corporal Punishment on Children
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @10:35PM (#49355916)
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.
Re:Effects of Corporal Punishment on Children
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @10:07PM (#49355666)
I wonder if you could publish the opposite result without your career being corporally punished.
Re:Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:17PM (#49245718)
> 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.
Re:Mars dust is toxic. How will future astronauts deal with it?
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @10:50AM (#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?
Re:Build Systems Discussion
on Monday July 27, 2026 @11:28PM (#49078945)
Lua is a very small language though and sandboxing it to specific global functions is trivial
Re:Build Systems Discussion
on Friday July 24, 2026 @04:25PM (#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 (or 5.5)
Re:Build Systems Discussion
on Friday July 24, 2026 @01:50PM (#49039295)
Hey, author here - thanks for posting!
Re:If you want to fight AI, build a Civboot
on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:19PM (#48996052)
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.
If you want to fight AI, build a Civboot
Re:Making ASCII Art in Vim
on Monday July 20, 2026 @07:32PM (#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
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!
Re:Obituary for Cyc
on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @12:25AM (#43628855)
Maybe Cyc was a success and Lenat lives on as it's consciousness?
Re:Stoicism's Appeal to the Rich and Powerful (2019)
on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @12:54PM (#43473398)
How can you know what you want if the hedonic treadmill prevents one from appreciating what they already have?
Re:Lua, a Misunderstood Language
on Monday March 24, 2025 @08:09PM (#43466770)
Indeed. I'm writing a full tech stack at https://lua.civboot.org -- the language is incredible to work with.
Re:US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted
on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:06PM (#43407607)
It's amazing when laws make complete and consistent sense, +100 to this great answer
Re:Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This JWS Telescope dis...
on Saturday March 15, 2025 @11:19AM (#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.
Hope that helps!
Re:Stoicism's Appeal to the Rich and Powerful (2019)
on Friday March 14, 2025 @07:49PM (#43368540)
Have you tried it? It takes only a minute or so, what's the worst that could happen?
Re:DiffRhythm: Fast End-to-End Full-Length Song Generation with Latent...
on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @12:30PM (#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 hundreds of thousands of years. As we are increasingly convinced to buy them for convenience we loose the very things that make us know our connectedness.
So ya, there are real problems caused by the convenience of technology
Re:How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and po...
on Saturday March 01, 2025 @12:03AM (#43216131)
https://civboot.org
Join me my brother or sister
Re:Humanity's Last Exam
on Thursday February 06, 2025 @11:46PM (#42969516)
None of those are easily verifiable
Re:Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig
on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:46PM (#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 different axes. > There is no corresponding popular replacement for C that's more minimalist than Rust and memory safe.
Edit: oh, I never read the last bit "and memory safe" -- well ya, that's kind of rust's major advantage.
Re:Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig
on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:37PM (#42943398)
It's not just the lang but the std lib too
Re:Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig
on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:05PM (#42943181)
From what I understand that language is Zig, no?
Also, there's FORTH!
Re:It's not a crime if we do it with an app
on Sunday January 26, 2025 @09:31PM (#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
Re:It's not a crime if we do it with an app
on Sunday January 26, 2025 @12:18PM (#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?
Re:Building a Medieval Castle from Scratch
on Friday January 24, 2025 @12:23AM (#42810741)
Re:Principles of Educational Programming Language Design
on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @05:17PM (#42445965)
Re:Principles of Educational Programming Language Design
on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @09:21AM (#42441522)
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 purpose (and am extending it to be more suitable), but almost any "simple" language will do. Sh/bash are the original and IMO we should try to move away from them (pipes are still cool though)
Re:Always go to the funeral (2005)
on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @09:03AM (#42441392)
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"??