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by dottedmag 3y ago
I tried NixOS and dropped it after spending several hours trying to make an experimental FPGA compiler work. The instructions were reasonable, but they expected to have a classic Linux distro: Fedora or Debian-like. I don't remember th
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by dottedmag 3y ago
It is answered at the end of my blog post: > I don’t care about anything that’s not packaged by the distribution > This is totally fine. Just note that you are using a niche OS with a limited set of applications available. Even though
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by dottedmag 3y ago
It is answered at the end of my blog post: > I don’t care about anything that’s not packaged by the distribution > This is totally fine. Just note that you are using a niche OS with a limited set of applications available. Yes, Nixpkg
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by dottedmag 3y ago
FHS makes it more similar, but not compatible. I'll quote from my blog post linked above: > Different distributions make different choices, and therefore they are closely related operating systems, but not a single OS. Even Linux sy
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by dottedmag 3y ago
Yes, that's what I meant.
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by dottedmag 3y ago
> Using VS Code Remote SSH on NixOS systems This is the main of issue with Nix and other niche distributions: they are new operating systems, with their set of file layouts, package managers, and even syscall variations. Linux ecosystem
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by dottedmag 3y ago
This expedition gives us a peek at the future life of habitats outside of Earth. It makes one very thankful for the planetary environment we live in.
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by dottedmag 3y ago
Рапира was provided (IIRC in ROM) with «Агат» computer, and then seems to have died the death of other Soviet programming languages, being replaced by Western imports.
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by dottedmag 3y ago
Here's the scanned copy of ПП-БЭСМ book, in Russian: http://ershov-arc.iis.nsk.su/archive/eaindex.asp?lang=1&did=... From the ToC it seems to be a complete description of the language.
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by dottedmag 3y ago
Originally it was ПП-БЭСМ, «программирующая программа». Ershov's archive: http://ershov-arc.iis.nsk.su/archive/eaindex.asp?lang=1&gid=...
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by dottedmag 4y ago
I have one complaint about Ignition: its builtin file download functionality is too limited: - there is a limited amount of retries (5?), so a network hiccup can easily cause the download to fail - no control over which responses are fatal,
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by dottedmag 4y ago
To the fellow ADHDers out there: the Pomodoro timer is not what you think it is! Until I got diagnosed, I thought Pomodoro to be "keep focused for 30 minutes, do not context-switch, do not get distracted" timer. After I got diagno
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by dottedmag 4y ago
Have you got the precision of the regular mouse with this trackball? I have tried a number of trackballs, and haven't been able to reach the precision of a regular mouse from any — after a week of usage of each of several trackballs I
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by dottedmag 4y ago
This comes with its own set of problems though: I've done something similar and the mechanical stress from difference of temperatures caused the motherboard to crack.
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by dottedmag 4y ago
How to find these boring problems? Every time I look at a boring problem in tech there is a pretty okayish solution, so I'm discouraged to even try to make something, as I know that okayish solution will be even better when I get mine
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by dottedmag 4y ago
There is one issue not mentioned in the article: authors of "old" tech quite often abandon it while developing a fancy new version, so the choice is not the imaginary one between old and new, the choice is real between abandoned a
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by dottedmag 4y ago
> It's just that somehow techies seem to have gotten this meme into their heads that an unpatched life isn't worth living. Do you wish to hear the endless stream of CVE numbers that allow remote exploitation, including Wi-Fi an
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by dottedmag 4y ago
Very nice piece of software, unfortunately Microsoft didn't port it to Mac.
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by dottedmag 4y ago
I'm not affiliated with Bun either, however the my advice would be to freeze the Zig dependency, and treat Zig upgrade like you would treat any library update: do it explicitly.
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by dottedmag 4y ago
The general gist of "yes, but" comments in this thread and in the post itself is that not every application works. This is true and real, and we as a community should stop saying "yeah, it's a weird distro". We shou
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by dottedmag 4y ago
It took 2 years to find out that a potential vulnerability actually exists. There's a lot of potential vulnerabilities that may or may not actually be exploitable.
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by dottedmag 4y ago
For static binaries "crane append" + "crane push" eliminate the need for "docker build". crane: https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/blob/main/cmd...
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Ask HN: Changes in software that genuinely require more memory
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by dottedmag 4y ago
This is so similar to BASIC on 8-bit microcomputers: easy to understand, immediate, without fluff.
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by dottedmag 4y ago
Looks like it depends on the local regulatory agency. I have never had a spam SMS or call in Norway, while on Malta it's a regular occurrence, thought not as bad as described by US folks.
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by dottedmag 4y ago
It looks like an additional tool and a new remote service to talk to. Are there any CIs that don't support editable variables on scopes larger than a build? The article talks about GH Actions, they have org/repo/env variables
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by dottedmag 4y ago
Static binaries. Cosmopolitan libc for poly-OS static binaries.
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by dottedmag 4y ago
Amuzingly, this 80286-powered website is still up despite being on a front page of HN.
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by dottedmag 4y ago
It requires discipline and good review practices to consistently use either marketing or technical identifiers in any given layer, including UI and API.
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by dottedmag 4y ago
I do. In my current project there is a rule: if marketing touches it, it's not a name, it's a label. Starting from the code repository and down to the variables names, only technical identifiers are treated as stable.

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