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What is Determinate Systems, the official group behind Nix? Not at all clear to me from the site: https://determinate.systems/ https://determinate.systems/ (Al
by OJFord 3y ago
What is Determinate Systems, the official group behind Nix? Not at all clear to me from the site: https://determinate.systems/ https://determinate.systems/
(Also, the support(?) phone number at the bottom seems pretty unusual!)
Just trying to get my head around, as a Nix-interested non-user (other than toying with it briefly years ago) what Flake is, who it's from, how important the controversy mentioned elsewhere is, if I should care, if I'm just starting whether I should use it or not, etc.
- deadbunny 3y ago> (Also, the support(?) phone number at the bottom seems pretty unusual!) Ok Zoomer. (Sorry couldn't resist) So, old phones had letters on the digits (1 = ABC, 2 = DEF etc.) so you could have the phone number 555-GET-BEEF (555-438-2333) or whatever. Christ I feel old.
- OJFord 3y agoNo that's not what I mean, ha, I am aware of that. (Though it was never much of a thing in my non-US country, fwiw.) I meant having a phone number there struck me as unusual (for this sort of company/organisation).
- SSLy 3y agoMy "old phones" had a rotary encoder with no letters in sight. Trrrrrrrak trak trrrak…