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by eeh 6y ago
I agree with OP's first point that Nix language being new may hurt its success. I was replying to OP's second point about Nix language not being machine-editable. Even if Nix was written in Python rather than Nix language, it stil
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by eeh 6y ago
As an example, I have a program for regularly backing up directories to cloud storage (with deduplication, encryption, key management, etc. it's just a wrapper around Restic), which it does regularly via cron. I manage this in NixOS: d
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by eeh 6y ago
> My second issue is that the files clearly aren't machine-editable. There's no sensible way to make a GUI that can edit your hostname if the hostname is defined in some Turing complete functional program. For the times I need
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by eeh 6y ago
I can see why the blog post gives the impression that packaging is involved, because the author is creating packages! However, what's novel is that the author is packaging their own software (a blog). A Debian and Ubuntu maintainer isn
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by eeh 6y ago
I agree Nix being new/odd is a barrier, and that NixOS be more popular if the language was more popular. Guix System partly answers this by using Scheme, but ultimately Scheme is unpopular too. A NixOS built on a no-side-effects JS&#x2
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by eeh 6y ago
Sure, but Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora all provide great experiences for "I just want some packages installed". Fedora nowadays has btrfs-level rollbacks, which although this doesn't interact well with cfgmgmt (unlike NixOS
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by eeh 6y ago
The steps in that blog post aren't difficult, but it doesn't include all the steps and assumptions: * how do you roll that dpkg out to your fleet? Now you need a deb archive? * "For Debian the tool is called reportbug".
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by eeh 6y ago
As a keen NixOS user/contributor, if your only needs are i3 and Firefox, then I do not recommend NixOS to you. ~Any distribution can meet your needs. NixOS is great for: * shortening the divide between the user and upstream: not just r
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by eeh 6y ago
As a user of NixOS I have not been bitten by any such hacks. As a contributor to NixOS, I have barely noticed this. That said, I mostly apply contributions to applications, not to toolchains.
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by eeh 6y ago
To clarify, I never consciously make this conclusion. Over the years I've just removed more config than added, until the point I have ~nothing.
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by eeh 6y ago
I use: * personal laptop * work laptop * work desktop * work remote desktops * a bunch of servers Those machines are on different versions of different distros, and thus have different software available, and when the same package name is a
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by eeh 6y ago
For reference, I spend a lot of time at the shell, and despite having previously tuned zsh dotfiles, I now just use default bash. The only change I make is to source fzf's setup file.
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by eeh 6y ago
I'm a fan of the systemd umbrella project, and systemd PID 1. However, it's great to see innovation in this space, and with a clean design. For example, systemd bundles service management (Type=, Restart=) and containers (DynamicU
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by eeh 6y ago
Is it common for Shepherd users to do dangerous things in Shepherd, or do they mostly just use existing safe functions to define their services?
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by eeh 6y ago
Great! Over the past 2 years I've found it worth migrating more and more of my infra to NixOS. Now my laptop, media server, router, and VPSs all run NixOS. From Debian+cfgmgmt to NixOS I've gone from a feeling of dread that my mac
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by eeh 6y ago
> Emacs is amazing. I stopped using it a few years ago because I became lazy to keep my configuration and extensions up-to-date. > But I would love to go back to it, to be honest. What helps me not get bogged down in versioning, is to
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by eeh 7y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/12388215155... is a UK modeller explaining that there has been a misreporting of UK's plan: UK aims to flatten the curve and reduce deaths. Herd immunity &quot
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by eeh 7y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/12388215155... is a UK modeller explaining that there has been a misreporting of UK's plan: UK aims to flatten the curve. Herd immunity "is a tragic conse
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by eeh 7y ago
I'm +1 on the UK's model for the UK. Different apporaches can be right for different countries: different health systems, different seasons, different levels of connectedness, ... The UK's Chief Medical Officer is the right p
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by eeh 7y ago
The UK model also happens to be the Germany model: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51835856 . The UK are focused on minimising deaths, by avoiding COVID-19 striking during next winter, when the NHS is at peak
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by eeh 7y ago
I think many countries could benefit from home testing. The US is perhaps just easier to trial this technology for the Gates foundation, for whatever reason. Perhaps the plan is to trial/roll this out elsewhere if it succeeds.
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by eeh 7y ago
Also London -> Sydney. 2 bedroom, $450/week, water view, 30 minute cycle to city. That said, I'm not sure I recommend moving to Sydney either. London has an energy that Sydney lacks. :)
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by eeh 7y ago
I believe the following assumption was the one simonh disagreed could be made: "I certainly assumed they were claiming the same/similar risk for both red and processed meat" I agree. Headlines should be suggestive of content,
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by eeh 7y ago
I used to read this blog, until I realised every article was: "This study is limited and warrants further research. This alone does not warrant a change to dietary advice. We encourage people eat per the Eat Well plate, as we've d
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by eeh 7y ago
This articles refers only to CVD risk, not total morbidity which is influenced by multiple risk factors.
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by eeh 7y ago
The NHS Choices blog's purpose is to critique the news's coverage of health research. It uses excerpts of other newspaper's articles to refer to those articles.
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by eeh 7y ago
Did you read the article? The analysis and results treats then separately: "processed meat: you would increase your risk by 0.4% over 10 years, 1.02% over 20 years and 1.74% over 30 years red meat: 0.17% over 10 years, 0.41% over 20 ye
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by eeh 7y ago
The countries with high per-capita emissions (AU/NZ/US/CA) have built cities and societies on cars, meat, flying, and polluting sources of electricity. Reducing those to sustainable levels is not popular: it will cost jobs, i
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by eeh 7y ago
> also 1 billion people to our 26 million Do you understand the notion of per-capita emissions? Australia has higher per capita emissions than China, and thus must act accordingly. NSW has a hosepipe ban. Is my household exempt from this
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by eeh 7y ago
I interpret climate inaction not as science ineptitude, but as defecting in a prisoners dilemma sense. The high capita emitters (AU/US/CA/NZ) are refusing to slow down economic growth (each country has to slow down to differe

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