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by helaoban 4y ago
Well, First: I'm looking for something like this: "rename -r . s/foo/bar/g" to recurse into subdirs. It might seem trivial, but things like find's -exec (a find idiosyncrasy) and xargs (I don't alway
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by helaoban 4y ago
The best part of all that is that I would LOVE a UNIX command to quickly bulk replace filenames against a pattern instead of some multi-pipe bash loop incantation that I usually resort to (when banging out mv x y on 30+ files is really too
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by helaoban 4y ago
Is hiring support staff so expensive that it threatens your business model? Not having access to a human being is an unacceptable business risk for many. I have been suffering a six-month integration / certification process with Chase&
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by helaoban 4y ago
What's missing in that analysis is the sheer number of games Niemann has played recently, it's simply an enormous amount of OTB games - outside the norm. Furthermore, there's some consensus that a lot of the younger players a
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by helaoban 4y ago
Why does it matter? Lying is lying.
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by helaoban 4y ago
I've also mulled different iterations of this idea, specifically with some kind of "on-the-ground" verification of sellers / quality. I lived and worked in China for 8 years, with a small spell of that time in manufactur
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by helaoban 5y ago
The United States has been the biggest perpetrator of terrorism, destruction and death around the globe since at least the overthrow of the Iranian government in the 50s. Vietnam, Central America, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria. Never-endi
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by helaoban 5y ago
Here's another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVpjFdf5l8c
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by helaoban 5y ago
Interesting. It's still been removed from Youtube.
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Tell HN: NBC quietly removes coverage of Kamila Valieva from YouTube channel
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Tested: Where Does the Tone Come from in an Electric Guitar?(youtube.com)
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by helaoban 5y ago
>Shortly before 3 a.m. on July 19, 2016, American Special Operations forces bombed what they believed were three ISIS “staging areas” on the outskirts of Tokhar, a riverside hamlet in northern Syria. They reported 85 fighters killed. In
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by helaoban 5y ago
Would you be willing to to sell all of your vehicles and sign a time-charter contract with Uber to manage all of your ground transportation for the foreseeable future?
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by helaoban 5y ago
How much aeronautics/airworthiness/safety R/D is actually conducted by the FAA? My understanding is that they used to do a lot more cutting edge research, the kind that would attract engineering talent. Looking at the 2022 FA
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by helaoban 5y ago
>Whistleblowers like Mr. Kucera provided information indicating systemic problems continue to exist, including understaffed FAA offices charged with certification oversight responsibility for manufacturers and the continued risk of undue
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by helaoban 5y ago
Yes! I've also had similar experiences during episodes of sleep paralysis. Interesting. When I'm awake it happens during periods of deep day-dreaming.
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by helaoban 5y ago
I don't even have to close them, I can reproduce pictures of objects, people, scenery etc in my mind while my eyes are open and actively observing other things. As I type this comment I've got an image of a girl I saw yesterday fi
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by helaoban 5y ago
Sometimes when I'm lost in thought a sound, a voice or a piece of music that I heard recently is almost completely reproduced in my brain, like I'm actually hearing it again. It's a subconscious act, I don't think I&#x27
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by helaoban 5y ago
From the article: > https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/OrbOperato... Wowing the natives with shine and magic. Neo-colonialism alive and well in SV. They have to be self-aware, right? Ri
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by helaoban 5y ago
It's dishonest to offer that up as some kind of objective measure of public opinion on the law. An obvious partisan survey [1], just look at the questions: > Texas has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, and l
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by helaoban 5y ago
All US Presidents and military leaders since at least the 1953 Iranian coup, if still alive, need to be tried for war crimes. US conduct abroad over the last 70 years has been an epic ode to evil.
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by helaoban 5y ago
"Shouting fire in a a crowded theater" is the most consistently overused, misunderstood, and tiresome arguments levied by censorship apologists against the ideals of free speech. It's also completely incorrect, as the actual
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by helaoban 5y ago
When will people understand that what’s wrong with censorship isn’t what information is or isn’t being censored, it’s the act itself. It would just be better if people like you just admitted you don’t believe in free speech. It’s a philosop
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by helaoban 5y ago
> The fast-moving fire is officially the second-largest in state history and the biggest single fire on record. So which is it?
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by helaoban 5y ago
Just the casus belli for a war with Iran we were looking for! "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"
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by helaoban 5y ago
> While Apple didn’t challenge the idea that Files was unfairly ranked over Dropbox, the company says the reality was a simple mistake: the Files app had a Dropbox integration, so Apple put “Dropbox” into the app’s metadata, and it
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by helaoban 5y ago
Can we all take a moment and appreciate this headline.
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by helaoban 6y ago
You'll find that many projects include a "bootstrap" script that does just that.
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by helaoban 6y ago
You could also ask why California has the worst-maintained roads in the United States, has mountains of trash littering the center divide and shoulders of its freeways, has huge numbers of homeless people living in slums just blocks away fr
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by helaoban 6y ago
I disagree. I think your analogy is flawed: OP disparages people in my sister's line of work as "bottom-feeders", which is just a more euphemistic, if not cowardly, way of saying 'parasite', or 'scum'. My

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