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by danieldk 5y ago
If you try to make a Go package, for example, you end up having to provide a hash. To generate the hash `vendorSha256`, you have to run `nix-prefetch`, but that program is broken on MacOS. You can also stub the hash (e.g. with lib.fakeSh
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by danieldk 5y ago
This is not true and no hacks are needed. Since nix only depends on /nix it can be used in combination with ANY linux OS. Just so that noone runs into issues. This is not completely true. E.g. you cannot use Nix on Fedora Silverblue,
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by danieldk 5y ago
https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-declarative-pac...
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by danieldk 5y ago
the recommended way to install packages rather than imperatively doing it with nix-env The problem is: recommended by whom? The Nix Manual presents nix-env as the main way to install Nix packages. So, as long as the manual centers aroun
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by danieldk 5y ago
Those counts seem to be wrong. Looking at the code, they seem to count the number of merge commits (commits with >1 parent). However, some nixpkgs committers also use GitHub's rebase merge option. This means the change went through
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by danieldk 5y ago
The gotcha I have with Nix is it's too much abstraction. I have to look at the upstream documentation, then try and map it to Nix's config syntax, then hope everything works. For me, the big benefit is that even though I have to
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by danieldk 5y ago
Works fine with me with amdgpu. It's included in Firefox by default and it works great after enabling it. My current papercut is that 4k@60hz does not work with an Lenovo Gen 2 USB-C dock, while it works fine in Windows: https:/&
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by danieldk 5y ago
Here, the trackpad is broken after fastboot 1/2 times (basically registers button presses all the time, making it unusable). Without fastboot no such issues, plus modern machines boot fast even without fastboot ;).
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by danieldk 6y ago
Yeah. And then you connect two monitors with different scaling factor. Turns out X11 can't handle this and Wayland is still broken Actually, this works fine in Wayland. I have used Wayland without any issues with amdgpu , including
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by danieldk 6y ago
I get the point of flatpak and I see its value. Personally I just don't need yet another channel through which I need to get stuff. IMO Flatpak solves several real problems: 1.) allowing third parties distribute applications in a dis
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by danieldk 6y ago
Keep in mind that their storage boxes only use RAID and do not provide any other kind of redundancy by default. If the machine goes up in flames, your data is gone.
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by danieldk 6y ago
I agree, but nobody seems to be really working on (user-friendly) sandboxing of applications distributed through traditional package managers. You can use Firejail or bubblewrap, but they are not exactly user-friendly solutions.
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by danieldk 6y ago
which is to say, trusted sources over technical solutions This does not solve the problem where your a PDF reader from a trusted repository happens to have a zero day exploit. When it is exploited, the attacker could have access to all yo
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by danieldk 6y ago
There is some overlap and there are a lot of differences. One point of overlap is that Nix makes it easy to install packages that are newer than your os. For example, you could run NixOS 20.09 or Ubuntu 16.04 and have the latest Handbrake o
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by danieldk 6y ago
Somebody wrote a response to this: https://theevilskeleton.frama.io/2021/02/11/response-to-flat...
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by danieldk 6y ago
I meant that they just shouldn't sell the Pro with 8GB. I know that the meaning of 'Pro' is somewhat debated, but if they want to address professional developers and creatives, 8GB is just too little. Also, 8GB additional mem
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by danieldk 6y ago
There is no reason for Docker when all OS just have native containers support. Indeed. On Fedora Docker has already been replaced by rootless Podman containers, which are great for development. I wouldn't be surprised if Podman will
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by danieldk 6y ago
I have a Ryzen 3700X desktop and have literally zero hardware issues with NixOS and Fedora. The Intel NUC8i5 I had before that also worked flawlessly. I also purchased a ThinkPad T14 AMD. It works fine with Linux and all the hardware works
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by danieldk 6y ago
If you are using a MacBook for work, get it with 16GB. 200 Euro is at most a few hours of salary for a developer in a western country and it will improve heavy workflows (JetBrains IDEs, Docker, etc.) a lot. If it is a personal Mac, I would
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by danieldk 6y ago
> or simply you're not root. Maybe I misremember, but didn't X11 require the SUID bit set before systemd-logind if you wanted to use a GPU? (Of course, if you want to run remote X11 clients, then you don't need elevated pr
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by danieldk 6y ago
I have used vim and later Emacs + evil for years. Recently, I subscribed to the whole JetBrains suite. I had a license for IntelliJ 7-8 years ago when I needed to write Java for work. But these days it's hard to beat CLion, PyCharm et
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by danieldk 6y ago
Why would you recompile X11? Back in the 90ies, early 00s, I did compile kernels to make them lean and enable some functionality that was not in the default kernels. But I never saw anyone recompiling X11 outside Gentoo and other source-bas
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by danieldk 6y ago
20 miles is doable with an eBike or speed pedelec. Probably not as environment-friendly as a normal bike, but probably beats a car. And it’s healthier.
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by danieldk 6y ago
I have found that over time org documents tend to become coupled somewhat to your Emacs configuration and are not generally portable. I guess this is the reason why many org example snippets on the net do not really work exactly the same.
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by danieldk 6y ago
On what platform are you using these IDEs? I use CLion daily and it is very fast on my Linux machine with a Ryzen 3700X CPU. (I have heard complaints that the JetBrains IDEs are much slower on Macs, which also corresponds with my limited ex
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by danieldk 6y ago
Debugging is also available in PyCharm starting with the 2021.1 EAPs: https://intellij-rust.github.io/2021/03/01/changelog-142.htm...
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by danieldk 6y ago
1. Test your code with super low batch size. Bad for convergence, good for sanity check before submitting your job to a super computer. Or you can buy a desktop machine for the same price as an M1 MacBook with 32GB or 64GB RAM and an RTX2
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by danieldk 6y ago
At my previous employer, we bought two Radeon VIIs (in addition to NVIDIA GPUs). The last time I tried it (just over ~6 months ago), there were still many bugs. Things would just crash and burn very frequently (odd shape errors, random cr
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by danieldk 6y ago
What I like about PyTorch is that most of the functionality is actually available through the C++ API as well, which has 'beta API stability' as they call it. So, there are good bindings for some other languages as well. E.g., I h
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by danieldk 6y ago
At one of my employers, we did this with backups. Every now and then one of the team was asked to claim to have accidentally removed some files, asking the sysadmins to recover them. This was a regular sanity check that to confirm that incr

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