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Miyawaki forests have become a huge hit in Kerala, India. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XfnDAEi4JY This location is as tropical as it gets - 8 degrees north of the equator. Now …

- Age, gender, sexual orientation etc apply to all human beings. But caste is applicable only to people from the Indian Subcontinent, and even though Indian Muslims, Christians and…

This video [1] explaining Clojure transducers is excellent. No terminology, no analogies with category theory - just code getting built up in a repl. [1] https://www.youtube.com/wa…

I have found practical.li [1] to be an excellent source of information. In particular cloning their clojure-deps-edn [2] as my ~/.clojure folder gives me ready made aliases for dif…

I had to disable Copilot for Clojure because of this. Structural editing relies on parens being always balanced, and gets confused when Copilot re-inserts already existing closing …

Jacek Schae's courses on reitit for the backend and reagent, reframe for the front end are very good https://www.jacekschae.com/

I was lost when I moved to deps from lein, but just forking and cloning https://github.com/practicalli/clojure-deps-edn as $HOME/.clojure solved the problem - this base deps.edn co…

Lack of air superiority for the eagles until the ring was destroyed and the Nazgul along it. If Frodo had tried to fly on one of the eagles, they would have been shot with "black d…

The idea that the Inuit had low cardiovascular disease on a high meat, high fat diet looks to be unfounded, and based on unreliable mortality data [2]. Several Inuit bodies mummifi…

"Alcohol consumption rose among adults over age 30 by 14% during the pandemic, with a 41% increase in women heavily drinking" - https://www.cedars-sinai.org/blog/pandemic-drinking.…

That person seemingly turned his health around from 456 lbs to 180 lbs. But he died at age 50. I am scared of fasting because I dont think there are enough studies on humans to und…

In 1967 Gopi Krishna wrote about the side effects of his meditation practice and how he ended up with mental health issues and suffering for decades - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07…

Shouldnt consider any of it seriously - it is all LARP all the way down...

This is derived from kriya yoga, not Vāmācāra. Another similar online tutorial is https://www.aypsite.org/10.html . Real Vāmācāra by definition involves breaking all taboos - see t…

Has anybody read this book? High expectations given that it is a new book written by Sussman, the author of SICP. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/software-design-flexibility

I like Golang's convention for names - names should get longer and more expressive the wider their use is across the code. Single letter names for loop variables, two or three lett…

Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgqfnKG_T4

"The mechanism, the method of functioning if you will, by which the dream operates, by which functioning occurs here in Consciousness, is the same whether it is realized or not. Th…

> Overqualified people working on a project can produce some heinous code > You can get a lot of important if boring work done by 'average' or 'below average' developers This is wh…

Once Zefram Cochrane hits warp 1 the Vulcans will reveal themselves