I’m not sure that you’re describing the same thing, but this very experience you’re having with Lua is what drove me away from Ruby, and ultimately from all non-statically compiled PLs.

Instability in the VM, but more so in libraries, meant upgrades became projects to fix things that broke because libraries introduced regressions, API changes, and new bugs. For any non-trivial application, something would break. This was entirely unacceptable for services; entire suites would go down because of a regression in one popular library, and you get to find these things out at runtime.

Eventually, I went back to entirely statically compiled languages - I’d encountered the same usage with bytecode VM languages like Java, to a lesser degree. But with PLs like Go, once I have a binary, it’ll work until someone breaks libc. Not impossible, but that happens years or decades apart, not monthly like it did with Ruby.

Now I make do with zsh, or bash if I plan on sharing, with help from the usual ask/ser/grep crowd. If I start feeling cramped, I know my program is getting too big for scripting and switch to a reliable language. The short-term convenience is not worth the long term grief.

Interesting. I wouldn’t have thought it’d be limited to some nationalities, although maybe there’s some truth to it.

I worked with two Turks (both living in the US, but under what circumstances I don’t know; I believe one was nationalized, and the other on a work visa) at the same time in 2016; one was radically supportive of Erdoğan, and believed the coup was real; the other thought he was a dictator and that the coup was a false flag meant to allow him emergency powers and a crack-down.

I say “radically” in the first case because she’d get agitated and angry about any criticism of Erdoğan; the second would discuss it as if he were in a debate. I have no doubt his beliefs were just as passionate, but he’d argue his points, not just declare things.

ANYWAY, that’s the extent of my experience. I lived in Munich for two years and, as an American, was vaguely aware of the immigration tension, but this just after reunification and the West Germans were still coming to terms with the impacts of that. And my friend circle was urban college students, so I swam in the most liberal of waters.

I was surprised to see lions over there couch instead of a reclining nude.

I love my country; I love its culture, I love its language, I love its ecosystems… I just hate its repressive government?

It’s usually either that, or: I love my country, but I can work here in an entry-level job and still send enough money home to support my extended family.

Anon hasn’t yet heard a valid reason for this because they’ve never asked and, honestly, don’t want to know because then they couldn’t feel superior.

In this case, it’d have been the Borg who’d have been assimilated.

See, you can already talk the talk, and recite the secret magic incantations.

sigh. Now I’m going to have to see what I can get out of an LLM in terms of material. For science.

Yeah, I get it. But they’re still people, and probably generally not on high end of the intelligence bell curve; it feels like taking advantage of a handicap. I dunno; it’s about me, not them, and I don’t want to be a grifter.

If you steal my entirely original and patented idea, I ask only that you report back how much money you’re making.

Well, it’s different. On the one hand, you’re not getting flouride into your system; on the other, you’re not getting flouride into your system.

I really don’t know if flouride ingested makes its way to your teeth, or how much difference it makes if it does. But I’m not about to start self-medicating with the stuff, so rinse it is.

I want to start hanging in those forums and offering to sell “how-tos” that answer these questions. Just scrape all of the old posts and run it through ChatGPT for a summary, and sell it like an ebook.

There are only two things stopping me: first, I’m just barely held back by ethics; and second, I am entirely uninterested in learning enough about it, or in spending any time lurking in the forums reading posts.

I suspect it’d be a relatively easy income stream, tho.

I moved to Germany in my late 20’s and lived there for 2 years. I went with perfect teeth; I returned with several cavities. My brushing habits did not change, and while you could blame my cavities on several factors (the food was different; I drank way more beer; I got two years older), I’ve always attributed it to the fact that Germany does not fluoridate their municipal water - and everyone drinks bottled water anyway. At least, the crowd I ran with did. It’s been years, but as I remember, you didn’t get water at restaurants unless you asked, and then if you did, you got bottled water. In any case, I went from drinking fluoridated water regularly to zero flouride except what was in the toothpaste. And, honestly, I don’t remember paying much attention to which toothpaste I bought, and many don’t have flouride in them.

So, yeah. It’s just one anecdote, and there could have been many other factors, but it convinced me about the importance of flouride. Now we drink municipal water (US), but it’s going through a whole-house triple filtration system and I don’t know how much flouride we’re getting. So in addition to the usual tooth care (brushing, flossing) I also rinse with a flouride mouth rinse, and I’ve been doing OK dentally.

One of the early thought experiments in art history is this:

You’re walking through a forest and come open a beautiful arrangement of rocks evoking a sweeping movement, like a bird’s wing in motion. It look’s artificial, but you can see that the rocks could just be there by an accidental result of nature. The effect is captivating, but you can’t tell if it’s man-made or not. Is it art?

The argument Barthes makes is that the meaning of art is always more a function of the interpretation by the viewer than the intention of the artist.

I was referring to the concept from the essay, Death of the Author, not that the guy was the author.

I just saw another one in random(@kbin.social), so I jumped in and scrolled back; there were only a couple in the past two days, but three days ago there was a series of several posts in a row (6? 8? Something like that).

I an not subscribed to any kbin magazines, so I don’t see them in my curated feed; they mostly show up in the uncurated “World.”

FWIW; you expressed curiosity, so I followed up with an example.

This is the kind of hard-hitting science we need!

Yeeeeaah. His instructions are: indoctrinate yourself with standard brainwashing techniques. Read it, even though you don’t like it, and keep reading it, until you do.

Well-written essay, though.

I don’t know about “defending pedophilia,” but I would bring up “death of the author.” There’s no propaganda in the film, and horrible people can create incredible works of art. Art stands on its own own.

You noticed the boat building, but not the airplane building? Brains are so weird.

I wonder what department is housed in the building in the lower left.

Easy as Go, with Rust’s runtime, would be a dream.

Man, I don’t buy new hardware often, and only recently became familiar with M.2 NVMe. Which I thought was pretty spiffy.

I hate videos, so in I’m off to find an article; or maybe just have Ecosia’s AI explain it for me.

Edit: I’m aware one’s memory, the other’s persistent storage. This replaces SODIMM, yah? Anyway, new specs.

Most of the content being federated to my instance from kbin appears to be mostly adverts for websites selling pharmaceuticals - usually advertising controlled substances.

After a couple from the same magazine(? kbin’s term?) I just block the community. But it’s pretty non-stop. I guess it’s not yet considered to be worth defederating, but yowsa.