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Hi Larry!

When I read the title, I thought "Surely this Larry cannot be more cited than the famous F. D. C. Willard". But then I read the article and it turns out that's very specifically the record Larry broke.

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What is your favourite shell to use

Xonsh. For basic use (running CLI programs with arguments) it works like any other shell, and for other uses it has nice Python syntax (and libraries!). For example, I like not needing a separate calculator program, as I can do maths directly in the shell with an intuitive syntax.

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it's a simple question

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Yes, you are mostly correct. In some sense, it is more a cultural thing. If your Arch breaks, the expectations for your ability to deal with it yourself are a bit higher. There are good instructions and people willing to help, but the latter (both inside and outside of Arch community, I think) may tell you that you shouldn't be using Arch if you don't meet their expectations.

Anyway, another aspect of it is the fact that with my system, I am a bit of a tinkerer.

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Collecting Unruh effect particles

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Yeah, Lynch seems to have published multiple related papers in the recent years. Superficially the science seems valid, but I haven't spent enough effort to confirm. Nevertheless, I accept that this kind of evidence should be sufficient, but in some layperson sense it lacks the concreteness of my (impractical) suggestion.

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Collecting Unruh effect particles

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That's interesting! My first, hasty reading of that was that the work would be done by the deceleration, but that must be wrong also, as the frame becomes inertial at the end of the acceleration, even at the full speed. So, I am still unsure where the work is done, but as far as I understand, this confirms my intuition that if some particles are brought back, the observer provides the energy needed for those particles to "become real" in the frame of reference of those waiting at home.

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Looking for anarchist esolangers to join a new avantgarde group

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Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan!

Anyways, this is a really good translation, although all those "spread" things could use more idiomatic single-word translations. I applaud!

Vocative is an interesting thing. When I first read about it, I dismissed it as useless. However, since then I have used it in my largest conlang project Shiofaioth (linked to in another comment) and also here, because it's just so nice.