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vitiralon Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2000°C

> 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

vitiralon Effects of Corporal Punishment on Children

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.

vitiralon Effects of Corporal Punishment on Children

I wonder if you could publish the opposite result without your career being corporally punished.

vitiralon Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

> 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.

vitiralon Mars dust is toxic. How will future astronauts deal with it?

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?

vitiralon Build Systems Discussion

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

vitiralon Build Systems Discussion

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)

vitiralon Build Systems Discussion

Hey, author here - thanks for posting!

vitiralon If you want to fight AI, build a Civboot

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.

vitiralon Making ASCII Art in Vim

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!

vitiralon Obituary for Cyc

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

vitiralon Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)

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

vitiralon Lua, a Misunderstood Language

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

vitiralon US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted

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

vitiralon Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This JWS Telescope discovery

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!

vitiralon Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)

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

vitiralon DiffRhythm: Fast End-to-End Full-Length Song Generation with Latent Diffusion

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

vitiralon How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps

https://civboot.org

Join me my brother or sister

vitiralon Humanity's Last Exam

None of those are easily verifiable

vitiralon Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig

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.

vitiralon Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig

It's not just the lang but the std lib too

https://www.roc-lang.org/faq#rust-and-zig

vitiralon Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig

From what I understand that language is Zig, no?

Also, there's FORTH!

vitiralon It's not a crime if we do it with an app

> 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

vitiralon It's not a crime if we do it with an app

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?

vitiralon Building a Medieval Castle from Scratch

https://civboot.org

vitiralon Principles of Educational Programming Language Design

https://lua.civboot.org

vitiralon Principles of Educational Programming Language Design

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)

vitiralon Always go to the funeral (2005)

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"??

vitiralon Unexpected Keyboard

I don't mean the App, I mean the action

vitiralon Unexpected Keyboard

Some of us don't use swipe, this is great for me