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Re:Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid remind... by 3pt14159 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @11:52AM (#38856308)
I did something similar that I hand wrote but it's different verses from the Bible whenever I cd into my main working location. It helps me memorize verses slowly over time and it's not too intrusive though occasionally I'll disable it before pair programming on something with a colleague since it feels inappropriate at work to force someone else to put up with it if they have qualms about it.
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Re:Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid remind... by ironmagma on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @12:15PM (#38856628)
You can always just open a new terminal and then quickly hit ctrl-L to clear. Gives an opportunity for them to ask if they care, or to just move on otherwise.
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Re:Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid remind... by lakpan on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @12:34PM (#38856897)
Ah yes, I’d love to start the day reading a fresh “Numbers 31:17” verse. For pair programming I’d just stick to “Leviticus 18:22”
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Re:Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid remind... by echelon_musk on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @12:40PM (#38856994)
Yesterday I discovered fortune(1) and in turn display-dhammapada(1).

I'm tempted to set up a cron job and receive daily emails.

Were you just doing shuf(1) on a text file of Bible quotes?

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Re:Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid remind... by 3pt14159 on Thursday January 04, 2024 @01:58PM (#38870848)
Naw, I wanted to memorize certain ones. It's worked though. I'm pretty much there with all of the ones I picked.
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Re:Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid remind... by selfawareMammal on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:24PM (#38857641)
Aaaah gotta love me some Corinthians 14:34-35 in the morning
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Re:Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid remind... by waihtis on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:55PM (#38858109)
good, do the Quran next
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Re:Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid remind... by paywallasinbeer on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @03:08PM (#38859129)
Cool. Do you have a list of which verses you use? I'd like to do something similar myself.
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Re:Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid remind... by 3pt14159 on Thursday January 04, 2024 @01:56PM (#38870814)
Sure, it's a bit of a random list since it's not selected beforehand, but here are them:

- Romans 6:3

- Proverbs 16:9

- Matthew 5:9

- Galatians 5:22

- Galatians 5:6b

- Isaiah 55:9

- Psalm 117

- Psalm 23 (this is the largest one)

- Matthew 9:37,38

I'm pretty sure I've since memorized all of these so it is time to add more verses into the mix!

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Re:Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid remind... by mkii on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @03:20PM (#38859283)
For the sibling commenters trying to grief OP, he never said he randomly selects verses. I wish you all a nice day.
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Re:Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid remind... by alsetmusic on Saturday January 06, 2024 @01:02AM (#38888872)
I had a similar thing, very unsophisticated at the time, to randomize quotes that I’d manually curated into a text file.
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