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The comparison to a WW2 tank in the Black Forest isn't great though, because the environments live on different timescales.

A forest can regrow and thrive after a few decades. The same is _not_ true for the deep sea[1].

'Life on the ocean floor moves at a glacial pace. Sediment accumulates at a rate of 1 millimeter every millennium. With such a slow rate of growth, areas disturbed by deep-sea mining would be unlikely to recover on a reasonable timescale.'

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2019/understanding-impact-deep-sea-mini...

I had a blast with TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O when they came out, but for some reason I never picked up Infinifactory until yesterday. I'm so glad I did.

Zachtronics games give me that feeling of zen that is increasingly harder to find in games nowadays - the "Oh dang it is 2am already, I thought it was like 9pm!".

I'd recommend checking out the aforementioned titles, as well as some of the 'other games' on the website[1], like Ruckingenur-II.

[1] http://www.zachtronics.com/ruckingenur-ii/

Although I don't see eye tracking in games as 'the next big thing' in any sense (the few I've tried were severely lacking in the fun department), I would be interested to try playing Soma with this.

Soma had some flaws to be sure, but damn did it do some things really well. I'd highly recommend it - eye tracking or no.

Lego Saturn V 9 years ago

Dang I'm excited for this. After not being able to get a lego curiosity rover for a reasonable price, I'm hoping these won't sell out instantly...

For what it is worth, numbers are not necessarily a 'universal concept'.

One of the most talked about examples is Piraha[0], a language which doesn't really represent numbers. This is interesting because a study done by Everett and Frank[1] shows that this can actually have effects on cognition, providing some evidence for the Sapir-Wharf hypothesis[3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027708...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

Yeah, I'd also be curious as to how this library could be improved. Also, I could be wrong, but isn't this only in Cloudflare's fork of the language?