brandon

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The Biden administration eventually lost in court. A major campaign promise was to forgive $10k in student loan debt (for those making less than X dollars in income, iirc). Congress couldn't get a bill for that through, so he tried to use an executive action to order the Department of Education to do it, but a number of (red) states fought it and won in the Supreme Court.

Most NYC residents rent, they don't purchase the homes they live in.

$1.3M is actually lower than I would have guessed for this neighborhood considering the amount of homes here that are probably worth more than $10M (maybe it's a median, not a mean?).

A quick search does show a bunch of listings for studios less than $500K.

on funny how that works · c/memes · 14 pts · 22d

I think the amount of funding is kind of irrelevant. Our government has lost (or perhaps given away) the ability to actually build anything without an infinite array of subcontractors all trying to fleece the taxpayer for as much money as possible. If the budget was higher, the expenses would simply grow proportionally to absorb it.

on Linux source code leaked · c/linuxmemes · 22 pts · 38d

The potential for copyright infringement (or at least the appearance of copyright infringement) would be too high. Better to keep a "clean room" approach in the wine project to avoid attracting Microsoft's ire.

One real issue is that the Saudi government is really just a bunch of minor princes and royal family members in a trenchcoat.

So yes, it may be the case that the King and senior officials don't want to enable the proliferation of nuclear materials, but that doesn't mean the Saudi government isn't a leaky seive.

To expand on the other reply a bit, niri and sway do just the window management. So if you want things like notifications, media keys, panels, docks, bluetooth/wifi widgets, screenlocking, wallpapers, etc, you need to provide those separately.

Traditionally, those would be separate utilities, but Noctalia provides most of what you'd need in one package. Pretty convenient.

Assuming you mean a preprinted ballet which folks mark by hand; when the ballets with your selections are printed by a machine they will all be consistent and you have fewer issues with people leaving ambiguous marks on the ballet. It also makes the optical scanning used for tabulations more reliable.

Edit to add: there was a scandal here in the US during the 2000 presidential election that you may recall involving "hanging chads" in Florida. Some ballets were deemed ambiguous because the mechanical voting machines used at the time did not fully punch out the holes they were supposed on the ballet sheet.

By default bash will only expand an alias if it's the first argument of the command (that is, the command itself).

It's probably not intended to use aliases this way, and there are probably better options for you.

However, there is a little trick you can do. If the alias command ends in a space, then bash will also check the next argument:

alias cd='cd '

Notice the trailing space after 'cd' in the alias definition.

alias docs='/media/docs'

then, cd docs should work the way you expect.

Another method would be to:

alias docs='echo /media/docs'

Then you can do

cd `docs`  

The backticks will cause the shell to replace that portion with the output of the docs shell command, which will be expanded via the alias.

All that said, it's probably easiest just to use a link, like another commenter suggested.