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This is patronizing. Especially since the response was tautological. You should not assume that I know nothing.

I was interested in a little more detail. Is the home directory on another USB, or maybe a laptop's built-in SSD? To add new software, is he creating a new custom image every time?…

> personally I use a custom alpine live-usb that is immutable and I fully shutdown and start-up all the time. openrc doesn't give me any grief, the bulk of my startup time is copyi…

Perhaps the Tao of Pooh is better than the original Taoism, or is an improvement. If you like TOP better, or think it's more correct, or more wise, that's fine. (I don't think so, …

I am impressed with the clarity of your thinking on this. Since you value epistemological hygiene, you might like Ayn Rand's work in metaphysics and epistemology.

I would highly recommend "The Parent's Tao Te Ching" by William Martin. It's a retelling of the Tao Te Ching into plain English, using parent/child relationships to make the points…

I don't understand what part of this (if any) I cannot do at home. Couldn't I just run me_cleaner myself and then install the desired OS?

According to the article, a foreign ship can stop at multiple US ports, as long as it only offloads. A ship can go from DR to Jacksonville and stop in San Juan on the way.

People say PR is a second class entity, but I think almost any US state would be far better off with Puerto Rico's deal. PR gets to harvest its own taxes, whereas the other states …

A non-US ship can go to PR and then another US port. From the article: "The concrete results are that a foreign ship can enter a U.S. port to drop off its foreign cargo, it can eve…

I live in Puerto Rico. I'm curious about the actual mechanics of how the Jones Act affects PR. For context, I'm against the Jones Act regardless of the exact effects it may or may …

Most people here enjoy that sort of story. I certainly do. Your comment wasn't tacky and didn't deserve a snide response.

This comment really stood out to me as being particularly nasty. Most people here like hearing the sort of stories that your comment serves to actively discourage.

The paper refers to citation 53, which is this paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04277 I'm still digesting this one and would appreciate input from anyone else who …

Does this mean it isn't safe to live right next to the ocean? I'm referring to the following sentence in the abstract: > Levels of PFAAs in atmospheric deposition are especially po…

Here is the actual paper (it's linked in the article): https://cryptoeconomicsystems.pubpub.org/pub/murialdo-physic... It's a little bit hard to figure out if this work is: a) a fa…

> Our dependency tree has steadily grown to almost four hundred third-party crates, and we have thus far lacked a mechanism to efficiently audit this code and ensure that we do so …