i-use-nixos-btw

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by i-use-nixos-btw 1y ago
Computing devices hardware and operating systems should be treated as a consumer's choice. If a company offers some benefit at the cost of some restriction, then users should decide if that benefit is worth the cost. For most Android u
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by i-use-nixos-btw 1y ago
Honestly, I’m against this. As soon as that is added, people will start to try to optimise their profiles to place them high in the list on certain things, rendering the tool pretty much useless. The talent people want to find in the talent
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by i-use-nixos-btw 2y ago
This would introduce more problems than it solves 99% of the time. The 1% of the time, it could be very handy. I haven’t used UV, but it says that it manages python as well as packages - I’m guessing like conda, python-venv, and of course n
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by i-use-nixos-btw 2y ago
Ok, tried searching something incredibly niche, and it came up with results that no search I'd tried through conventional methods could. There's a 50/50 false positive rate, but I can deal with that. It means looking at 10 pa
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by i-use-nixos-btw 2y ago
The nice thing, at least, is that this particular kind of group always lose out in the end. They're divisive by nature and it always eventually turns in on itself. It's a matter of time. Until then, things are not looking great. W
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
- a tmux session persists on the remote machine, whereas with direct SSH a disconnect loses what you were doing - a tmux session can be used by multiple people - with tmux a single command “tmux attach -t someusefulname” restores the layout
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Oh I see! Yes, absolutely doable in Nix. Derivations are just a set of instructions combined with a set of inputs, and a unique hash is made from that. If you make a derivation whose result is the invocation of another, and you try and grab
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Yes and yes. These applications specifically because anything that looks at anything on the micro scale includes these as “possible applications”. They sound cool and exciting, and the urge for making them has been around since before Feynm
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Decentralised caching, absolutely - unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean there. You can build across many machines, merge stores, host caches online with cachix (or your own approach), etc. I make fairly heavy use of that, otherwise my
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Weirdly enough I came across a blog post last week that talked about exactly this. https://j.phd/nix-needs-a-native-build-system/ Nix can be used as a build system in the same way that bazel can. It already has all of
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
You sound like the perfect Nix cult memb… erm, user. It’s everything you describe and more (plus the language is incredibly powerful compared with starlark). But you speak from sufficient experience that I presume Nix is a “been there, done
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
If it were to be released publicly, I'd give it a week before NSFW models based on it were uploaded to Civitai.
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
> While no immediate practical applications exist, the researchers envision enhanced efficiency in micromotors, microscale cargo transport, and materials that can self-assemble or self-repair. Everyone who has ever written a grant applic
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Constructive criticism. I would like to see much, much more in a demo. Probably around 20-30 minutes. What was shown in the demo video was seemingly the functionality of Dropbox, shown working with one file manager and one OS. I know it is
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
police knock on the door “DAD, YOUR SPRINKLERS ARE HACKING THE RECYCLING COLLECTION TIMETABLES AGAIN” (spend enough time around places like this, though, and one could easily imagine this being a thing in 2032)
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
It frustrates me that the actual paper is well researched and very interesting, yet the title and even the concept of these 9 boundaries will make many immediately disregard it. There seems to be this notion that scary titles and overly-sim
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I agree that the person who made such a mistake will be the person who never makes that mistake again. That's why firing someone who has slipped up (in a technical way) and is clearly mortified is typically a bad move. However, I don&#
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
It’d be interesting to start with an image rather than a prompt, though I am afraid of what it’d do if I started with a selfie.
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I have to hand it to them, I’m impressed. And annoyed. Many years ago I made a bet that Windows as we knew it wouldn’t make it to 50. That they would decide to go the UNIX route and compete directly with Apple and Linux, but allowing the wi
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I use Nix to manage python environments, and it’s quite revealing. For instance, a few months ago I was working on an environment for playing around with some libraries that you’d think would commonly go together. But within the community t
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Loving the enthusiasm in which this is addressed on the issue thread.
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but wouldn’t the Omegle brand and domain name be worth a considerable amount - with the caveat that it be sold to a responsible buyer? It seems like the creator is in a rough patch and faced rising social and financial
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I'm not an LLM expert by any means but here is my take. It's Speech Recognition -> Llama -> Text to Speech, running on your own PC rather than that of a third party. The limitations on the context of the LLM are that of the
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
When I wrote a HA plugin for my heating system (which involved “reverse engineering” the JS on the front end login interface to break the extremely naive checksum generation that validates requests) I sent an email to that company asking fo
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Yeah, that’s part of the game though. You can’t get perfection from modelling a complex system with the (relatively) few variables that you can actually measure. Assumptions are always evolving, and are always going to be broken at some poi
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Look at the if statement again.
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
It’s called the “Dark Web” for a reason. Monitoring tools may exist but they do not and can not cover every avenue, or even a small fraction of them. There may be scanners etc but I think your best bet is to ask the security provider for re
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
This is the way landline phones are going in the UK (edit: I’m referring to the “phone over the internet” aspect, not the space aspect). I don’t see why the same doesn’t apply to mobile phones. However the notion that it makes phone numbers
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Excuse me sir, I believe you dropped your cape.
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Makes sense to me. When it comes to national security the last thing I’d want to do is start giving data to a third party, regardless of the terms and promises made about privacy etc. You just don’t mess around with that.

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