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by biggestlou 2y ago
Unfortunately, it's really hard to generalize. If the evaluation involves Nixpkgs, for example, Nix needs to copy Nixpkgs into the Nix store, which is many MB. And of course this needs to happen for all flake inputs. I've seen thi
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by biggestlou 2y ago
Blog post author here! Please feel free to ask me any questions directly in this forum :)
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Improved evaluation times with pre-resolved Nix store paths(determinate.systems)
41 points by biggestlou 2y ago|48 comments
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by biggestlou 2y ago
That sounds like a recipe for a social media platform that never has enough people on it to be even remotely interesting.
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by biggestlou 2y ago
As a co-author of the book of the same name, I’m disappointed that you didn’t see fit to provide any kind of attribution
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The future of software is Nix(determinate.systems)
42 points by biggestlou 2y ago|61 comments
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by biggestlou 2y ago
Ah! You asked about flakes as well. Just saw that. Basically flakes are a construct in Nix that enable you to (a) ensure that your Nix code is always "pinned" to specific revisions of your inputs (for example Nixpkgs but other inp
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by biggestlou 2y ago
I've been meaning to write something pithy on this and this is a great spur to action. Basically Nix is something you use to build software reproducibly, that is, where you can take the same inputs and get the exact same bytes on disk
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by biggestlou 2y ago
I’m still loooking for intelligent life on this planet!
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by biggestlou 2y ago
I'm still looking for intelligent life on this planet!
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by biggestlou 2y ago
No
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Adding Parallel Evaluation to Nix(determinate.systems)
2 points by biggestlou 2y ago|0 comments
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Nix as a WebAssembly Build Tool(determinate.systems)
2 points by biggestlou 2y ago|0 comments
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by biggestlou 2y ago
*Indices
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by biggestlou 2y ago
Oil shell requires osh to run. That means that you can't run Oil scripts on systems that only have Bash installed.
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by biggestlou 2y ago
Amazing band. Still heartbroken by the loss of Mimi. Their version of Little Drummer Boy is my favorite ever Christmas song and it’s not even close.
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by biggestlou 3y ago
It sounds like this isn’t something you need or want. So why shit on it?
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by biggestlou 3y ago
I would recommend seeking out other people in your same situation to talk to. Non-native speakers who are eager to learn but aren't yet fully fluent. You feel more emboldened to correct each other, you feel much more comfortable asking
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by biggestlou 3y ago
To be clear, I would not expect it to be as fast! But I do wonder what the percentage drop-off would be and, if small enough, if that would make staying on Actions more compelling than a bespoke solution.
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by biggestlou 3y ago
I'd be quite curious to see how using the Magic Nix Cache Action compares to your setup in terms of performance: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/magic-nix-cache-action (full disclosure: Determinate Systems e
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by biggestlou 3y ago
OPA is much more wide ranging. You can use it for permissions, sure, but also just about anything else you can imagine. I think that makes it much more compelling as a technological investment.
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by biggestlou 3y ago
https://github.com/ElMassimo/iles
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by biggestlou 3y ago
I’m still looking for intelligent life on this planet
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by biggestlou 3y ago
I’m still looking for intelligent life on this planet!
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by biggestlou 3y ago
Please do be aware that this is an openly white-supremacist Twitter account
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by biggestlou 3y ago
You sure are doom and gloom about something that was released today
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by biggestlou 3y ago
Well, the key difference is that using all those things together is very quickly going to ensnare you in a big pile of goo. That you can forgo all of that and just write functions without having to build them into Wasm or any other format w
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by biggestlou 3y ago
Can we please put the term "learnings" to rest?
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by biggestlou 3y ago
No
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by biggestlou 3y ago
I'm still looking for intelligent life on this planet

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