Starship works across shells, so the customised prompt will apply across applications like Warp, Visual Studio Code and builtin Terminal app. 1. Install Fira Code Nerd Font code Fira Code Nerd Font enables us to show symbols in the prompt. It is also highly recommended for programming. Download link: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v2.3.3/FiraCode.zip 2. Change the font to…
Rust has a unique place among programming languages. Apart from being the most loved programming language as often cited in popular surveys, Rust has a distinctive set of features. It is first and foremost a systems programming language. As one would expect, it is statically typed. In this regard, it is different from dynamic scripting…
Install from AUR (Method # 1) 1- Acquire build files from Arch Linux user repository. $ curl -L -O https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/visual-studio-code-bin.tar.gz 2- Extract the downloaded package $ tar -xvf visual-studio-code-bin.tar.gz 3- Change directory to the extracted package $ cd visual-studio-code-bin 4- Build and install the package $ makepkg -si Install using Yaourt (Method # 2) It…
Here I am putting together a list of articles / resources on ‘Philosophy of Mind’ which I found worth reading: Title Minding Matter Subtitle The closer you look, the more the materialist position in physics appears to rest on shaky metaphysical ground. Author Adam Frank (Professor of Astronomy at the University of Rochester in New…
Consciousness is one of the top puzzles of modern science and philosophy. Everything we study in science is objective and has physical properties, but consciousness seems to be an exception. It is subjective, it feels like something to be conscious. Each conscious agent has private, privileged access to his own inner experience which is not available…
Connecting Hyper-V virtual machines to the wireless network adapter can be a painful experience. I was wondering why it is so hard and poorly documented. As explained here, probably the reason is that the product is primarily targeted for servers where we always have wired networks. To connect the VM to the wireless network, we…
Rick Roderick in his overbearing sarcastic style thrashes popular culture and modernity with the aid of Nietzsche’s writings. He describes Nietzsche as a ‘Master of Suspicion’, a phrase taken from Paul Ricœur. Nietzsche’s definition of truth, the coin worn out by constant use losing its real value and leaving just the metal behind, is epitomical…
The series of lectures is a passionate critique of modern mass culture with frequent references to contemporary politics and Hollywood films. Blade Runner, 1982 science fiction, get mentioned quite a few times in particular. Do not expect a systematic, structured exposition of the topic, rather it’s an engaging series of lectures, more concerned with making…
Completed ‘Søren Kierkegaard – Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity‘ course taught by Associate Professor Jon Stewart from University of Copenhagen. The course is offered through Coursera platform and ran for 8 weeks from 6st October 2014 through 1st December 2014. Course consisted of weekly reading assignments from the works of Kierkegaard, followed by video lectures where Professor Jon provided…
I wrote the following piece as part of an assignment for online course on Kierkegaard from Coursera. ….. Kierkegaard believes from his study that Socrates has a distinct methodology for teaching his audiences through his dialogues. This method of Socrates has a profound wisdom where it focuses on preparing his interlocutor for accepting and realizing…