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Re:Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:25AM (#49653875)
second this
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.

Carnivore
Re:Artificial Writing and Automated Detection [pdf] on Monday October 27, 2025 @02:57PM (#45724905)
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.
Re:How Sober Should a Writer Be? on Sunday October 19, 2025 @12:28AM (#45632056)
Well, I know how sober a driver should be...
Grammar nasi but isn't it "It looks right — completely right, to me — to have the dash standing on its own"...
Ants are vegetables
Re:The Lost Art of Research as Leisure on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @08:14PM (#43418660)
Re:AI is becoming 'yes-men on servers' on Monday March 10, 2025 @09:22PM (#43328199)
Can confirm, had exchange student brother
Re:Putting Bounties on My Goals on Thursday March 06, 2025 @09:12PM (#43286906)
I was using the land mine method, but it didn't trigger reliably. Now I use SmartBomb™.
Re:DeepSeek: Mathematics on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @12:02PM (#42854721)
Solving like humans using tools
Re:Ask HN: Can we just admit we want to replace jobs with AI? on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @03:12AM (#42777642)
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.

Re:Philosophy Eats AI on Sunday January 19, 2025 @04:17PM (#42761946)
Is this available in full text anywhere without sign up?
Re:Windows BitLocker – Screwed Without a Screwdriver on Saturday January 18, 2025 @03:56PM (#42751364)
What are the analogies here? If you can find the door in the book you just need the key.
Re:Updates to H-1B on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @08:47PM (#42457520)
Shoe horn-y
Re:Devin is now generally available on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @04:04PM (#42381457)
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.

I would describe it as savage more than unusual.
Re:Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough on Monday November 11, 2024 @01:06AM (#42104864)
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.
I feel like with cancel culture there should be some relationship with local telecoms and local credit unions.
Re:A Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch US$1.5M at Auction on Thursday October 31, 2024 @11:07PM (#42013694)
Whats bananas now? Not this one.
Re:Do not kill your ego on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @04:10AM (#41980758)
Nah, im good
Re:What's My Vote Worth? on Sunday October 27, 2024 @09:29AM (#41962489)
Purple is not on the chart. Suspicious.
Theres an app for that
Re:Show HN: Create Waitlist Pages on Saturday October 26, 2024 @05:57PM (#41958031)
Selling buckets to sell buckets
"The last will be first, and the first will be last"
Re:CheatSheet++ – 600 Dev Cheat Sheets to Learn Faster on Monday October 21, 2024 @08:10PM (#41909884)
Great structure for the website. intuitive in the browser.

I would Like to be able to access entries using curl like I can with cheat.sh/ from terminal with curl

Also, I would appreciate fleshed out tutorials for ssh.

How do you choose what entries and tutorials for commands to include?