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arunix··on Split Brain Psychology
That sounds similar in some ways to (non-dual) awakening.
arunix··on Vifm: A Vim-like file manager
What makes Ranger better?
arunix··on Git In Two Minutes (updated after 8 years)
Git itself seems to recommend these commands e.g. if I do "git status", and there are changed files, git says:

    Changes not staged for commit:
      (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
      (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
      ...
Another example where it recommends "switch"

    git checkout f9b45dd
    Note: switching to 'f9b45dd'.

    You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental
    changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this
    state without impacting any branches by switching back to a branch.

    If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
    do so (now or later) by using -c with the switch command. Example:

      git switch -c <new-branch-name>

    Or undo this operation with:

      git switch -
arunix··on Foods That Fight Inflammation
Can you say more about the dietary change itself?
arunix··on Clojure Scripting on Node.js
What's the difference between this and Clojurescript?
arunix··on Code doesn’t have to be a mess
Are those code samples formatted correctly? (they are difficult to read as is)
arunix··on Lisp.py
Common Lisp does not guarantee it, but a few implementations do provide it

https://0branch.com/notes/tco-cl.html

arunix··on Life cycles of a hornet colony (2003)
It depends on the bee species, e.g. Bumblebee queens only live for one season.
arunix··on Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore (2018)
"Adjustment Team" -> The Adjustment Bureau
arunix··on What I miss in Java, the perspective of a Kotlin developer
Groovy has an optional compile time checking feature on a per-class basis via an annotation (this has been around for a long time)

https://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/api/groovy/transfor...

https://livebook.manning.com/book/groovy-in-action-second-ed...

arunix··on What I miss in Java, the perspective of a Kotlin developer
Some comments in a previous thread suggested that the refactoring support for Kotlin is not on par with those for Java. Has there been any change in that area?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27183571

arunix··on What did Earth look like X million years ago?
Would it be possible to show the Earth at X million years in the future?
arunix··on Ten years of trying to meditate
What is the recommended way to learn this?
arunix··on Give me back my monolith (2019)
That seems to be equating it with message passing, but messaging is already the first item mentioned by Alan (messaging, local retention ...) so I thought it might mean something else.
arunix··on Give me back my monolith (2019)
What did he mean by "extreme late-binding of all things"?
arunix··on Ask HN: The Crystal programming language – what are your impressions?
It's unfortunate that Ruby's import semantics hasn't been improved upon by Crystal, i.e. you can only import all definitions from a file - no selective imports like with Python and many other languages (even Perl gets this right).
arunix··on A fresh take on why Octavian won the war against Antony and Cleopatra
Ptolemy of Mauretania was killed by Caligula, not Claudius.
arunix··on GNU Parallel
> signatures got broken

Subroutine signatures are an experimental feature in Perl. Or are you referring to something else?

arunix··on Vim Reference Guide
I used to use this method until I tried out easymotion, which really does live up to its name.

https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion

arunix··on Scripting with Go
Is fish style autosuggestion possible or planned in murex? Thanks!
arunix··on Did HAL Commit Murder?
You've got Poole and Bowman reversed (Poole was killed, Bowman survived and disconnected Hal).
arunix··on A Lonely Universe
What are those two systems?
arunix··on Features of a dream programming language
In what way?
arunix··on The Star – Arthur C. Clarke (1967) [pdf]
I had to look that one up. To be fair, the text says that the two bears attacked 42 boys after Elisha cursed the boys, and doesn't mention if the attack was fatal.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=...

(2 Kings 2, 24)

arunix··on Great Auk
> The last pair, found incubating an egg, was killed there on 3 June 1844, on request from a merchant who wanted specimens, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot.

So saddening.

arunix··on Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?
I skipped breakfast (and lunch) for two years. I learned that I could push back against the hunger pain, but I was hungry, and my appetite did not decrease (I was hoping it would).
arunix··on Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging (2019)
Are you on a particular type of diet, e.g. low-carb ?
arunix··on The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated
What does stateless Go mean?
arunix··on What the Wall Street Journal Got Wrong (by FB VP of Global Affairs)
But it did. John Prescott was Deputy Prime Minister under Blair. And Michael Heseltine was Deputy Prime Minister in the previous Tory government.
arunix··on Hell Is Other REPLs
Can you say more about the latter i.e. lack of monad composition ("why can't I use monads for everything") ?
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