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New comment by laptopdev in "Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health"

laptopdev — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:25:30 +0000

second this

New comment by laptopdev in "Show HN: Aliasme – A shell script to memorize your commands"

laptopdev — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:38:41 +0000

showdef () { local file= if [[ $1 == -f ]] then file=$2 shift 2 fi if [[ -n $file ]] then ( shopt -s expand_aliases source "$file" 2> /dev/null showdef "$1" ) return fi if alias "$1" &> /dev/null then alias "$1" elif declare -f "$1" &> /dev/null then declare -f "$1" elif [[ -n ${!1} ]] then echo "${!1}" else echo "No alias, function, or environment variable found for '$1'" fi }

This looks up the definition of a shell name — alias, function, or environment variable — and prints it. with -f [.bashrc (for example)] it sources the given file in a subshell before running the lookup in that subshell.

New comment by laptopdev in "Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain"

laptopdev — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 03:58:25 +0000

Carnivore

New comment by laptopdev in "Artificial Writing and Automated Detection [pdf]"

laptopdev — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:57:26 +0000

If computer usage hampers a child's socialization with the group he's learning with, maybe the simplest and most meaningful solution would be preventing children enrolled in language comprehension classes from having access to computers at home particularly at core language and reasoning stages in development.

New comment by laptopdev in "How sober should a writer be?"

laptopdev — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 04:28:54 +0000

Well, I know how sober a driver should be...

New comment by laptopdev in "How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)"

laptopdev — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 19:33:04 +0000

Grammar nasi but isn't it "It looks right — completely right, to me — to have the dash standing on its own"...

New comment by laptopdev in "A cretaceous fly trap? Remarkable abdominal modification in a fossil wasp"

laptopdev — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 19:26:42 +0000

Ants are vegetables

New comment by laptopdev in "The Lost Art of Research as Leisure"

laptopdev — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:14:37 +0000

Everytime I hear ebook my brain pictures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewok#/media/File%3AWicket_W_Wa...

New comment by laptopdev in "The Einstein AI Model"

laptopdev — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 01:22:45 +0000

Can confirm, had exchange student brother

New comment by laptopdev in "Putting Bounties on My Goals"

laptopdev — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 02:12:54 +0000

I was using the land mine method, but it didn't trigger reliably. Now I use SmartBomb™.

New comment by laptopdev in "DeepSeek: Mathematics"

laptopdev — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:02:13 +0000

Solving like humans using tools

New comment by laptopdev in "Ask HN: Can we just admit we want to replace jobs with AI?"

laptopdev — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:12:18 +0000

We dont align our current actions with AGI. Rather, we align our actions with a presumption of what we think AGI is to become (assuming some inevitability).

Some people believe AGI is imminent, others believe AGI is here now. Observe their behavior, calm your anticipation, and satisfy your curiosoty rather than seeking to confirm a bias on the matter.

The tech is new in my experience and accepting claims beyond my capacity to validate such a grand assertion would require me to take on faith the word of someone I don't know or have never seen, who likely generated such a query in the first place outside the context length of Chatgpt mini.

New comment by laptopdev in "Philosophy Eats AI"

laptopdev — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:17:30 +0000

Is this available in full text anywhere without sign up?

New comment by laptopdev in "Windows BitLocker – Screwed Without a Screwdriver"

laptopdev — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 20:56:42 +0000

What are the analogies here? If you can find the door in the book you just need the key.

New comment by laptopdev in "Updates to H-1B"

laptopdev — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 01:47:45 +0000

Shoe horn-y

New comment by laptopdev in "Devin is now generally available"

laptopdev — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:04:49 +0000

When I was 7, my family's Japanese foreign exchange student was being introduced to me. She bursted out laughing saying my nick name Dev Dev sounded like "fart fart" or "fat fart".

Had the nickname fart fart until my sister moved out of the house.

Maybe you could confirm, but ChatGPT tells me in Japanese Debu colloquially and offensively means "fat" or "chubby", and Bu is an onomotapoeia for a fart noise, like "prrt" in English.

New comment by laptopdev in "A skeleton made from the bones of at least eight people thousands of years apart"

laptopdev — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:27:54 +0000

I would describe it as savage more than unusual.

New comment by laptopdev in "Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough"

laptopdev — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 06:06:36 +0000

A lot of people apparently have similar self-beliefs. Recognize these are beliefs. Identify and map out your current belief system so that you can analyze it for what it is. That's what you have to do when you are uncertain, is map things out. When you develop more self awareness you can choose different belief systems, like in the matrix.

New comment by laptopdev in "Telecoms Bankroll More Misleading Attacks on Community Broadband Networks"

laptopdev — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 09:50:15 +0000

I feel like with cancel culture there should be some relationship with local telecoms and local credit unions.

New comment by laptopdev in "A Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch US$1.5M at Auction"

laptopdev — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 03:07:10 +0000

Whats bananas now? Not this one.