Ocean currents + cost-effectiveness, according to Ian Morris.
By his telling, Chinese bureaucrats buried the knowledge of large fleets because it was a more expensive way to project power than simply going over land.
Looks like Flix is in a galaxy of languages implementing Datalog, a variant of (or somehow related to) Prolog. I guess Flix is Turing-complete while Datalog is not?
My technique so far has been to join interesting-looking instances and read the local stream. People who say smart things I follow. At some point I'll coalesce my follows into one account, I guess. I think continuing to do that, along with following boosted toot authors if they look smart/interesting, will eventually generate a good list of follows.
"Looked the temp gradients up, after 50ft, temp of the earth is 50F, and raises one degree F every 60ft." (So, at 300 feet, 54 degrees; at 500, 57.5 degrees.)
«The temperature on average is in the 50s, but you still sweat an enormous amount when you start laboring.“ - Alan Bates, working in the coal mines of Letcher County, Kentucky.»