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by azeirah 2y ago
Haven't run into that yet, but can imagine that it gets worse if your devenv is large. I'm sure it's something that can be engineered away and optimized in the Nix core though. Because yeah it isn't a hyperspecialized to
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by azeirah 2y ago
I don't know if this is well-known or not, but nix flakes are _amazing_ for managing and configuring cross-platform hooks. In less than 40 lines of nix, most of which is boilerplate, you have fully cross-platform automatically installe
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by azeirah 2y ago
It becomes a problem when precision errors accumulate in a system, right? The issue isn't so much that a single calculation is slightly off, it's that many calculations together will be off by a lot at the end. Is this stupid or..
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by azeirah 2y ago
AI is genuinely just a rebranding of "algorithms". Like I get it, it's faster and it works by feeding data instead of feeding code... but code is data, data is code etcetc... Jim Keller said it best, about every 10 orders of
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by azeirah 2y ago
It's odd. I really like the Moloch post. It's a super interesting story that clearly exemplifies a problem in the real world. Well-intended people often end up acting against what's best because they only invest in the self,
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by azeirah 2y ago
I've always understood it as by using principled rationalism, you will become _less wrong_ over time.
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by azeirah 2y ago
Yep. That's why I'm openly talking about moderation and why I'm very much in favor of an NSFW filter.
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by azeirah 2y ago
I completely agree.
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by azeirah 2y ago
Extremely correct.
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by azeirah 2y ago
Hmm.. I dunno. Not implicating anything in particular, other than that biology is ridiculously complex. I can only speak from personal experience. Before I transitioned, I noticed there was a pattern in my life where cis lesbians were inter
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by azeirah 2y ago
Sexual attraction is fundamentally based in biology. Trans people are part of biology. It's what happens when you are exposed to cross-sex hormones. Personally, I tend to view (my own) transition as embracing an intersex condition with
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by azeirah 2y ago
Trust me, there are many sufferable trans people. They're everywhere. The ones that are sufferable are the ones you don't notice :) Disclaimer: what I wrote here is explicitly aimed at the post I replied to. Not to anybody else.
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by azeirah 2y ago
As a little bit of context, a lot of trans people (rightfully) view HN as a (white)-male dominated place, and feel misunderstood and misheard by the people here. A common defense tactic is to become _more_ sexually overt and grotesque than
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by azeirah 2y ago
My personal experience as a trans woman? The space is full of men who want to have sex with trans women, while most of these trans women are interested only in people similar to themselves. IE, queer, non binary, trans. And you get spammed
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by azeirah 2y ago
VPNs? Or children?
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by azeirah 2y ago
Nix is the best. If you're reading this and wondering how you can use this for yourself? You don't need nixos at all. You can install nix on any linux-like system, including on MacOS
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by azeirah 2y ago
I think this is aimed at a slightly older audience than the "regular" switch. This is more like a switch "pro", and I assume a switch 2 lite and such will follow. This is like the 3ds XL, which in terms of hardware was a
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by azeirah 2y ago
I left impressions where it matters. The young engineering talent is not interested in working there.
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by azeirah 2y ago
I was working so hard to change the internal culture for this. I did not succeed. It's ran by business people who want to make money. Not by philosophers.
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by azeirah 2y ago
Well.. I did implement most of the framework. The good thing is that I'm waaaayyyyy detail oriented, and I made an extremely sophisticated system for it. Maybe a little bit TOO sophisticated Not my proudest _engineering_ achievement, b
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Looking for volunteers, creating a nixvim distribution for Nix development(old.reddit.com)
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by azeirah 2y ago
> The McDonald's touch-screen self-order kiosk takes 27 clicks to get a meal. They try to up-sell you 3 times. Just let me pay for my fucking burger, Jesus Christ. The product manager, the programmer, the executives. None of these p
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by azeirah 2y ago
I suggest he open a patreon and say "I need this much money to survive for one year because of this this and that reason" and send the mail to .. everyone I can assure you he'll have his finances covered in less than a month
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by azeirah 2y ago
We'll be ok lol, while it is a significant transition, it IS just a transition in the media landscape. AI is big and significant, but we'll be ok. There is also no such "one" thing as "our civilisation". We&#x2
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by azeirah 2y ago
Nix works extremely well _with_ Docker! That's what makes it so interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uixRE8xlbY
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by azeirah 2y ago
I agree. This _is_ a huge problem.
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by azeirah 2y ago
Huh? I use Nix to create containers. Nix is a programming language, a build tool, a package manager and an entire ecosystem of extremely powerful tools. The entire reason why I use Nix in the first place is because it allows me to container
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by azeirah 2y ago
The more I use nix, the more I understand it's both. Nix is genuinely so fucking great, but the ecosystem and docs and language are a mess. It needs to be cleaned up, and things _are_ getting better. The core philosophy of Nix is so da
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by azeirah 2y ago
If you want a category theoretically-informed configuration language that has real-world use, then use nix. It's precisely this, and there's a reason it has the largest package repo on the planet
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by azeirah 2y ago
> No way you could run Linux binaries or MacOS classic binaries from '98 Can you give me a few examples of linux binaries from 98? I would like to give this a go, I think I have a pretty reasonable way to go about achieving this.

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