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Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.

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!

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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Join me my brother or sister

None of those are easily verifiable

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.

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

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

From what I understand that language is Zig, no?

Also, there's FORTH!

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

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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https://lua.civboot.org

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)

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"??

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

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

Huh, I wasn't aware that Java was initially open source

It's not a dick move if you are making legitimate improvements -- especially if you still reference the origin. That's literally the idea behind public domain

So three orders of magnitude more tests than code. Yikes, if that is what 100% branch coverage looks like then count me out!

SQLite’s test suite is proprietary

This is literally the first time I've ever heard of this, for any project anywhere. I suppose Android is built a bit in this way, but that's a whole other can of worms.

The bulk parser only needs to read a single character and only needs to care about two characters (brackets). The sub parser then looks for either {...} or a single character.

Markdown requires all sorts of complexity and it's nearly undecideable. Before CommonMark there wasn't even a spec and many things were largely ambiguous.

Also, tables and other structured data in markdown are almost entirely hacks

IIRC starlink might try

I think markdown is poorly designed, especially in terms of ease of parsing (human AND machine!)

I've written my own markup language, I'd love ANYONE'S feedback, either good or bad

https://lua.civboot.org#Package_cxt

Of the frogs? Sure!