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The Prince Hotel opened in 1927, and was converted to an SRO in the 1940s to house soldiers being processed out of the military after being brought to New York City in troopships. It remained as an SRO until 2011, when it was renovated and reopened as the Bowery House. A handful of permanent residents from the 1970s remained. The COVID-19 pandemic closed it down in 2020 or 2021,...

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An untold number of essays and even theses have been written about the purported meaning of "2001: A Space Odyssey". However, the answer is simple and obvious. It's a movie about eating. Hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional extraterrestrial beings visit Earth, leaving large black monoliths that guide the development of humanity as driven by, and shown in the movie by, humanity's me...

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Brian Muraresku's "The Immortality Key" is about ancient rituals centered on hallucinogens and other psychedelic substances infused into beer and wine. These rituals were carried out across the Mediterranean world from Iberia to Mesopotamia in prehistoric times, continuing into historic times as secret rituals. It was apotheosis, an encounter with the divine, reached by means of...

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How to find broken symbolic links, a.k.a. soft links or symlinks. This is very easy to do on Linux, or actually on any operating system providing the GNU version of the 'find' command. If you're stuck with a Posix version of 'find', as is the case with FreeBSD, you can still do it. The solution is a little more complex, and it requires some caution. But then the overly complicat...

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This page now contains several minor updates describing details of the latest major releases of RHEL, Oracle Linux, and FreeBSD. It explains how to start a shell within an ssh-agent session while preserving all environment variables. It also provides guidance on taking advantage of current trends of configuration file architecture, making maintenance through package updates easier.

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