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New comment by vitiral in "Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2000°C"

vitiral — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:39:12 +0000

> 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

New comment by vitiral in "Effects of Corporal Punishment on Children"

vitiral — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:35:34 +0000

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.

New comment by vitiral in "Effects of Corporal Punishment on Children"

vitiral — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:07:12 +0000

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

New comment by vitiral in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

vitiral — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:17:40 +0000

> 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.

New comment by vitiral in "Mars dust is toxic. How will future astronauts deal with it?"

vitiral — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:50:45 +0000

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?

New comment by vitiral in "Build Systems Discussion"

vitiral — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:28:44 +0000

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

New comment by vitiral in "Build Systems Discussion"

vitiral — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:25:16 +0000

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)

New comment by vitiral in "Build Systems Discussion"

vitiral — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:50:19 +0000

Hey, author here - thanks for posting!

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vitiral — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:29:42 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1v5i0c1/what_makes_a_good_build_system/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038988

Points: 2

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New comment by vitiral in "If you want to fight AI, build a Civboot"

vitiral — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:19:00 +0000

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.

If you want to fight AI, build a Civboot

vitiral — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:50:00 +0000

Article URL: https://civboot.github.io/blog/2026-07-21-fighting-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993939

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by vitiral in "Making ASCII Art in Vim"

vitiral — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:32:40 +0000

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!

New comment by vitiral in "Obituary for Cyc"

vitiral — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:25:17 +0000

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

New comment by vitiral in "Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)"

vitiral — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:54:11 +0000

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

New comment by vitiral in "Lua, a Misunderstood Language"

vitiral — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:09:38 +0000

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

New comment by vitiral in "US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted"

vitiral — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 02:06:20 +0000

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

New comment by vitiral in "Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This JWS Telescope discovery"

vitiral — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:19:33 +0000

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!

New comment by vitiral in "Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)"

vitiral — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 23:49:43 +0000

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

New comment by vitiral in "DiffRhythm: Fast End-to-End Full-Length Song Generation with Latent Diffusion"

vitiral — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:30:40 +0000

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

New comment by vitiral in "How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps"

vitiral — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 05:03:36 +0000

https://civboot.org

Join me my brother or sister