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by endgame 3y ago
Wait until you discover `nix run`. If I want to one-shot a command and not even worry about dropping into and out of a shell: `nix run nixpkgs#file some_mystery_file.xyz` will do the trick.
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by endgame 3y ago
That's been around since at least Python 2.6, and I think I remember seeing it before then: $ LC_ALL=C NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/release-13.10.tar.gz nix-shell -p pyth
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by endgame 3y ago
How does a language ecosystem that bakes "there should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it" into the interpreter* as a statement of values end up with such a convoluted packaging story? * Try running `python -c
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by endgame 3y ago
Do you care about bootstrappability? I have a side project that I am writing in a very old-fashioned way (C99, autotools) specifically because it needs to participate in a bootstrap chain. Rust doesn't have a good story for that.
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Word for OpenBSD(marc.info)
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by endgame 3y ago
It drives me up the wall! Permit me a digression: so much has been written about the early FPS era, but discussions of rocket jumping often skip straight to Quake and omit Rise of the Triad, despite rocket jumping being necessary to complet
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by endgame 3y ago
And as with electronic voting, the contract will go to the lowest bidder with the worst security, not the company that's got the CS chops to do it right.
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by endgame 3y ago
Doing research on the user, instead of for the user.
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by endgame 3y ago
You've got to be careful of the automation charge with Intelligent Tiering. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixos-foundations-call-to-...
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by endgame 3y ago
This is basically how I feel about true first-class functions when I have to wrangle ruby and care about blocks, procs, and lambdas.
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by endgame 3y ago
Funny. I want less invisible tech doing strange things in subtle ways, and I want things to do what I tell them, on my orders, and do so rapidly. I'm sick of invisible updates, invisible data collection, etc.
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by endgame 3y ago
The lecture on CPS made things "click" for me in a way that they hadn't before. Thank you.
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by endgame 3y ago
I keep saying that Linux is now the best of the three major desktop OSes, and it's not because it's improved that much. We have regressed so far in UI and user abuse.
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by endgame 3y ago
Isn't this exactly what Nix does?
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by endgame 3y ago
That does not require dunking on those who got sucked in.
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by endgame 3y ago
I can't stand the mixing at many concerts unless I wear earpro, but thanks for the reminder.
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by endgame 3y ago
> That's why I think the cryptobro angle is relevant to the story That's an interesting perspective, and reminds me a bit of the "libertarian paradise" at the end of http://bitsim.beepboopbitcoin.com/
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by endgame 3y ago
There's no reason the party with unsafe UV lights had to be a crypto-party. While I'm no NFT bagholder, it bothers me that the article is mostly about dunking on cryptobros than talking about the dangers of hazardous lighting rigs
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by endgame 3y ago
The news page indicates a new release on 2023-10-26, which is impressive diligence.
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by endgame 3y ago
Why does this article claim that attestation is unlikely? We know Google loves the idea - see Web Environment Integrity (WEI). Also, what's stopping us from falling into the passkey version of the world we got with OpenID, where many s
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by endgame 3y ago
As great as Nix is, a security update to something like glibc will necessitate a rebuild of the entire universe as a necessary consequence of its "immutable, hashed inputs" model. Guix has a feature called "grafts" that
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by endgame 3y ago
Chin up, cobber.
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by endgame 3y ago
I can't believe that all happened over ten years ago. MIT hung him out to dry, and who knows what he could've achieved if that hadn't happened?
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by endgame 3y ago
I disagree. I have a friend who is into steno, and it was really fun to pass the article along without the spoiler.
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by endgame 3y ago
> I'm not totally convinced that these types of project-based instructional books are as relevant in the 2023 world I got a lot out of Crafting Interpreters, typing in the bytecode VM by hand and working slowly through the book. Sti
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by endgame 3y ago
If both parties are offline, exchanging cash trivially solves this problem.
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by endgame 3y ago
I disagree: Python seems to have a zillion build tools and multiple competing type-checkers.
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by endgame 3y ago
AEDs are present in a lot of public-space first aid supplied these days: supermarkets, shopping centres, etc. When you turn them on, an automated voice guides you through every step. They're not idiot-proof, but they're pretty clo
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by endgame 3y ago
> Dutch census records I'm pretty sure I saw this spelled out years ago in a groups.google.com post, but the amnesiac search engines of today are not yielding it up to me. I did find these articles: https://jacquesmatthei
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by endgame 3y ago
I was utterly flabbergasted by this move. If some unrelated entity had done some bold move in the digital lending space, that would be one thing, but IA is a single point of failure for large amounts of internet history. Frankly, it was com

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