RhysU

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by RhysU 10d ago
Abbreviate moving up in the directory hierarchy: alias ..="cd .." alias ...="cd ../.." alias ....="cd ../../.." Just keep typing period and hitting enter until you get where you want a
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by RhysU 10d ago
"America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still." -- e.e. cummings
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by RhysU 18d ago
I keep looking for a technical article to appear on HN discussing literally anything about the mathematical result--- Not fluff, not marketing, actual content. Instead, all I read on HN about N.-S. is human soap opera, told from every possi
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by RhysU 24d ago
Before reading, I expected this article to discuss, e.g., transforming "save the whales" into a finite set of of actionable steps suitable for one individual.
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by RhysU 25d ago
> I'm not sure what the rest of your comment is about... You said I live where I live to arb rent. I said, no I simply prefer where I live. > Would you pay more to have the same house, land, surroundings, and also have immediate
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by RhysU 25d ago
Why stop your argument at rent? The cost of living is higher for everything in the city! Food, concerts, clothes all higher! That doesn't make free-riders out of everyone not paying NYC prices for a hot dog. Even if I could afford my h
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by RhysU 25d ago
> People should not expect to free-ride on an adjacent city's economy while inflicting severe negative externalities on the local community and its infrastructure. Are you kidding me? Free riding? I pay the same taxes on my NY incom
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by RhysU 27d ago
A buddy and I have been joking about when there will be a Western American Ocean and an Eastern American Ocean.
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by RhysU 28d ago
Lila's language model tics load-bearing lingo, etc.
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by RhysU 1mo ago
Wasn't Leopold's line voluntarily offered the throne? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_I_of_Belgium
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by RhysU 2mo ago
Seconded on having a distro pick it up if the package becomes sufficiently popular. Until then, the ./configure dance is delightfully universal and it makes the downstream packaging folks' jobs simpler.
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by RhysU 2mo ago
The point of buying term life insurance isn't because you want it to pay out. If you buy term life insurance that lasts while your dependents are minors, either you live the term and provide for them or you die early and provide for th
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by RhysU 2mo ago
The neighbor I mentioned was in his 40s.
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by RhysU 2mo ago
> The lifetime odds of dying as a motorcyclist are roughly 1 in 726. The relative danger of motorcycling was not my point. My point was: Everyone's lifetime odds of dying are 1 in 1. You don't know what will get you but rest a
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by RhysU 2mo ago
"Donorcycles" in the US. Carry term life insurance and long term disability so you can support your dependents if killed or injured, which you should be doing regardless of the motorcycle if you have dependents. A former neighbor
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by RhysU 2mo ago
Co-op every chance you get, ideally every summer. Start ASAP. Do not be afraid of off-summer co-ops.
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by RhysU 2mo ago
From the book "Sex, Drugs, & Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto" by Chuck Klosterman > Certainly, there is a formula to being relentlessly dynamic. There's a shockingly simple equation to being uber-interesting, it w
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by RhysU 2mo ago
In the US they are. The public programs are SSI and SSDI with both administered by Social Security. For anything more, this private insurance market works just fine for those who opt into it.
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by RhysU 2mo ago
Done
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by RhysU 2mo ago
> The creation (or even the pursuit) of novel mathematics is one way that humans have historically accessed the ineffable and encountered the divine and mystical. Would a mathematician please unpack this for me? A theorem is the opposite
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by RhysU 2mo ago
Which hand dominant are you? My guess is you're a lefty so being offhanded with coffee in the right, which you don't have to look at, is no biggie. Righties tend to fiddle (not shift) with the shifter or have the right hand on the
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by RhysU 2mo ago
Except that original sin thing is pure Genesis. It's what introduces the entire need for salvation throughout all Nicene Christianity. The Gnostic Christians who rejected the Old Testament entirety had to insert some other reason to re
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by RhysU 2mo ago
The Manual Gearbox Preservation Society ( https://tmgps.org/ ) is a notable counterexample. I look forward to teaching my kids to drive stick. Stick makes driving more engaging then automatic's point-and-go. Engagement b
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Simple filter to gather numbers in repeated text(github.com)
2 points by RhysU 2mo ago|0 comments
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Screen Time extensions are Intermittent Reinforcement(agentzlerich.blogspot.com)
3 points by RhysU 3mo ago|0 comments
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by RhysU 3mo ago
I want someone to start a monthly subscription service that mails HEB tortillas within the continental US using UT Austin students as the smurfs. The ad copy writes itself.
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by RhysU 3mo ago
Loved that Ranger my father owned. Rolled it onto the driver's side, totalling it. Still have road rash on my left forearm from when the window broke mid-accident and my left arm dragged a touch.
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by RhysU 4mo ago
Suppose we did exactly what you suggest, preventing amassing incredible wealth. The only substitute for wealth is power and for power is wealth (with a hefty conversion fee). Amassing power would be the alternative action taken by the drive
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by RhysU 4mo ago
What does "democratizing the expenditure" mean?
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by RhysU 4mo ago
You might enjoy reading the concept of the demiurge [1]: A lesser creating-but-not-creator deity than the ultimate benevolent god, usually portrayed as something of a deceptive character. Great rabbit hole to go down. [1] https:/&#x2F

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