cmm

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31.
by cmm 4y ago
yes. other possible arguments are overlays and package selection modifiers (like whether to include non-free stuff or stuff that is marked as broken).
32.
by cmm 4y ago
well, let's see: bog-standard cgi, overbearing music that sounds like music in any other big recent(ish) "fantasy" production, stilted dialogue laced with awkward exposition, nobody among the cast seems to know how to fucking
33.
by cmm 4y ago
who addressed to? who's pestering you?
34.
by cmm 4y ago
I just briefly skimmed the docs, so my observations may be inaccurate, but I got the impression that "stackful coroutines" are basically green threads (not C++20 coroutines, as the name might hint). Green threads need a dedicated
35.
by cmm 5y ago
> In fact, I believe overlays are also commutative. No. But "nice" overlays probably should have this property, since commutativity means orthogonality.
36.
by cmm 5y ago
1. home-manager is perfectly usable on any linux distro, that's in fact how the eventual transition to nixos started for me -- by porting my home config (on ubuntu, at the time) to home-manager. in fact I still keep my os-config and h
37.
by cmm 5y ago
regardless of the specifics here, stuff like this is liable to pop up a lot in the coming several years while NixOS is gaining more popularity but casual (as in "not willing to put in the effort of supporting off-beat distributions&quo
38.
by cmm 5y ago
when have you last tried to create a statically-linked binary that used glibc, and how did that go for you? or how about statically relinking a dynamically-linked binary you don't have sources for? (but hey, I also felt cheated when I
39.
by cmm 5y ago
Yes. Someone decided that having one process be the display server (which in the x11 world is separate) and the desktop shell, and have said desktop shell be able to run basically arbitrary js code, is going to work well. And it mostly do
40.
by cmm 6y ago
uh, you could do the "add site to home screen" thing in the old version too. and in the new version, enabling the (very cool, by itself) "Open links in a private tab" setting does guess what to PWA's (but only if a
41.
by cmm 6y ago
it seems that the web has for at least a decade already been at the point where a search engine that is built to be useful by humans should (ideally, but apparently impossible with the current skewed incentives due to ad business considerat
42.
by cmm 7y ago
with laptops, it really pays to make sure your kernel as recent as possible
43.
by cmm 7y ago
arbitrary mouse (or "mouse") button remapping in libinput (my understanding is that libinput itself supports it, but due to some security-related reasons it has to be configured on behalf of the logged-in user and the UI is just n
44.
by cmm 7y ago
yes, but have you tried writing macros in the GNU Make extension language and reading them the next day? dude.
45.
by cmm 7y ago
(I guess what I'm trying to say here is that the 80% solution is not nearly as hard as that linked page makes it seem).
46.
by cmm 7y ago
the horrible contortions listed on the linked page are required for the pathological "some of the targets that are built together got deleted, but the primary one did not" case, which in my experience Does Not Happen (or when it d
47.
by cmm 7y ago
it's not the parsing per se that takes time on modern computers, it's opening and reading in all the scattered included makefiles. also what specifically Android build system is doing behind the scenes is, it runs a python script
48.
by cmm 7y ago
firstly, the upcoming version of GNU Make will indeed support multiple outputs in non-pattern rules (pattern rules always supported this, but pattern rules, uhh, have their own problems), using &: instead of :, resolving a bug from 2004
49.
by cmm 7y ago
I see that at this point in time Smalltalk and Lisp machines have become completely memory-holed (oh wait, Smalltalk & Lisp are interactive, thus "interpreted", thus obviously not compiled! I'll show myself out)
50.
by cmm 9y ago
where, except for Windows, is requiring GNU Make a problem?
51.
by cmm 9y ago
There's .ONESHELL for that (as long as we are talking about GNU Make)