amusable3539

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   by amusable3539 2y ago

   The community has built two LSPs, and https://search.nixos.org/options (or "man configuration.nix", if you prefer) shows what NixOS options are available
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   by amusable3539 2y ago

   NixOS and flakes are orthogonal. Flakes are not a replacement for NixOS, they are simply a _lockfile specification_, akin to your requirements.txt or Cargo.toml or such. NixOS is not legacy.
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   by amusable3539 2y ago

   It's more like 7 months of patches. Release (n-1) gets EOL'd 1 month after release (n), and releases are 6 months apart (in May and November). So 23.11 would've been EOL in July 2024. And since a release happens every 6 month
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   by amusable3539 3y ago

   > for something that manages packages nix is a build tool, not a package manager. Misunderstanding nix as a package manager (and the dumb marketing on its website) is what leads to frustration (along with, of course, docs).
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   by amusable3539 3y ago

   From the vendor side, it's more like the software equivalent of dropshipping. Slap your own label on something you didn't make and call it a day. If the original "manufacturer" goes under, you either pivot or fail too. F
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   by amusable3539 3y ago

   I see people usually use the term "premature optimisation" to mean "I wouldn't think about this thing, so no one should". Also people really take that one quote and consider it gospel, forgetting that "prematur