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Mick West put together what I found to be a pretty enlightening and convincing analysis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs

Ultimately, it remains an unidentified flying object, but between West’s conclusion and a physics defying anomaly, I’d lean squarely towards the former.

macOS as of Leopard is “certified UNIX” (Single Unix Specv3). Darwin is the “Unix core” that macOS is built on, but it hasn’t been certified by itself[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

I’ve been doing the same as far as reinstalling when an update goes awry. Not super convenient, but not too painful either. Overall I’ve found the LunarVim experience worth it. I think you’re right, it’s a quick moving package and bumpy updates are par for the course.

I’ll give SpaceVim a shot. LunarVim is great, but it’s good to see what else is out there. I love vim in general, but I’ve found myself killing too much time fine-tuning/breaking my config. LunarVim more or less works out of the box and gives me what I want. I’m curious to see what SpaceVim has to offer.

Regarding item 1, any recommendations for a good book? Manning has a couple titles that look good, but I’m curious to hear what others would suggest.

Build a Blockchain from scratch in Go [0] - don’t own it, haven’t read, looks interesting.

Distributed Services with Go [1] - build a logging service, get it on the network, modify for distributed access, make deployable. Loaded with tests. Have read most of it, haven’t completed, very impressed. Fun.

Build an Orchestrator in Go [2] - own it, started it, haven’t completed. Like it so far. Early access, so not finalized yet.

Would also second both Crafting Interpreters and Write an Interpreter in Go.

[0] https://web3coach.gumroad.com/l/build-a-blockchain-from-scra...

[1] https://pragprog.com/titles/tjgo/distributed-services-with-g...

[2] https://www.manning.com/books/build-an-orchestrator-in-go

The VS Code/normal car and emacs/F1 racer analogy seems weak. VS Code can bring most of the functionality of a relatively well tuned and customized vim or emacs setup to a much broader range of developers, and with very little investment. Less time spent gold-plating and polishing an editor's configuration is more time spent solving actual problems.

Spacemacs has holy-mode so it’s not just to make it emacs feel like vim. It’s curated and managed like a distribution, and in my opinion makes emacs much more accessible.

I’d say in both cases, once you have editor support for syntax highlighting, refactoring, autocomplete/intellisense, live/interactive error reporting, etc. you’ve stepped out of the realm of text editing and squarely into IDE territory.

A fully loaded Spacemacs install (and by the looks of it, LunarVim) is not Eclipse or VS with reSharper, but they compete and are well beyond a simple text editing.

Did you leverage the repl much in your process?

I hear a lot about “repl-driven” development with Clojure and CL, but anytime I get experimental with it I find myself neck-deep in editor configuration, or simply wrestling with emacs keybindings.

Can you elaborate a little on your dev environment? Emacs/Geiser?

Could you elaborate on how accepting it improved your career? Did it change the way you interview or the kinds of jobs you accept?

I recently started a keto-style (high fat low carb) diet after reading a book on fasting [0]. I also picked up a ketone/glucose meter out of curiosity. Much as the book describes, fast for about 24-36+ hours and there's a good chance you'll be in ketosis.

After about 36 hours I've consistently measured 1.3-6 mmol/L. Between 48-60 hours I've measured around 4.4-4.6. As I understand it, anything above 0.5 is essentially ketosis. I agree with you in that, at least to me, there is a feeling of when you are in ketosis.

Ketosis is the generation of ketone bodies in the absence of glucose, ketoacidosis it the generation of ketone bodies despite the fact that the bloodstream is flush with glucose. Ketoacidosis is clearly a real concern, however as I understand it it's primarily an issue for type-1 diabetics.

This article feels awfully superficial, but I find the final statement, "maybe not being in ketosis isn’t so bad after all—now just cut back on the saturated fats", to be very reasonable.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-A...

I've wondered about this myself and have found that the most common responses usually reference, "The Art of Electonics". Great book, sure, and very heavy on theory.

There are a few books out now that touch on the Arduino platform - the Make/O'Reilly site has a few. Additionally, there are a couple of folks using a Sanguino/Arduino for building a rep rap, so it might be a good start.

I've found "Electronics - Self Teaching Guide" by Harry Kybett to be a decent introduction to electronics in general. I also picked up "Embedded C Programming and the Atmel AVR" which is regularly recommended for the AVR platform.