alduin32

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   by alduin32 5y ago

   This is a really well written article, one of the best summaries of NAT traversal I have ever read. I started to laugh mid-way, because it's amusing (and a bit sad) the lengths we have to go to establish communications using the IPv4 a
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   by alduin32 5y ago

   Nix allows to have a "declarative" approach to configuration management, whereas Ansible uses a more "imperative" approach. For example, applying a Nix configuration is more-or-less guaranteed to be an idempotent operati
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   by alduin32 5y ago

   I've found the Nix language to be a really useful configuration language, even "outside" of the NixOS ecosystem. I reuse nixpkgs's module system, but to describe things that are used outside of the NixOS system (for exam
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   by alduin32 5y ago

   A good example scenario for setdefault/defaultdict is grouping a list of tuples : grouped = {} for (key, value) in ungrouped: group = new.setdefault(key, []) group.append(value) defaultdict(list) would make
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   by alduin32 5y ago

   The advent of declarative package management (poetry et al.) is a significant change. Not that hard to get working with, but definitely a big departure from previous practices.
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   by alduin32 5y ago

   Wouldn't absorbing 0.06% of the incoming solar energy have a significant impact on the planet's ecosystems, either by the absorbed energy by the massive production of PV and storage required for that end ? I think that your statem