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by isityettime 4mo ago
Nah this kind of thing is pretty common for servers or little embedded computers. If you're always building the image on some other machine, there's no compelling reason to include that binary or it's dependency closure on th
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by isityettime 4mo ago
Packaging for Linux distros is about review, following standards and conventions, authority, and responsibility. (And maybe also sometimes patching for compatibility.) LLMs can sometimes help with some of the mechanical parts, but the curat
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by isityettime 4mo ago
openSUSE's OBS and Gentoo's overlays aren't a single shared repo either.
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by isityettime 4mo ago
The NUR was sort of convenient before flakes were a thing, but now that there's a really common convention for sharing Nix code few use it. I bet most people who came across Nix in the last 4 years have never even heard of it.
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by isityettime 4mo ago
"One namespace" is also technically true but doesn't work the same way with dnf or zypper as it does with pacman. dnf and zypper both make it easy to be explicit about the priorities of your repos and also to track which pack
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by isityettime 4mo ago
Zypper at least has a notion of "vendor", so you can arrange things so that only the handful of packages you care about will actually come from Packman. Ubuntu actually has first-party repositories with proprietary codecs. Nixpkgs
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by isityettime 4mo ago
What they mean is probably something like "generates without the presence of any direct analogue in the training data"
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by isityettime 4mo ago
> A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. This one stood out to me. I'd say it's a favorite. These others are interesting in the age of LLMs: > 93. When someone says &q
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by isityettime 4mo ago
> The problem with pull request is that they make it hard to review individual commits since they are geared towards reviewing the result of an entire branch at once. But the answer is not to share all the noise, it should be to encourag
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by isityettime 4mo ago
> Most of the cloud platforms are open source. Linux, container, k8s… Linux isn't a cloud platform and neither is Docker. Kubernetes was created specifically to create a way in against AWS' de facto public cloud monopoly. The C
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by isityettime 4mo ago
Automation generally goes along with a transition to more "self-service" approaches that require the user to model internal states and workflows of whatever they're dealing with. This is even true for things as seemingly non-
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by isityettime 4mo ago
Maybe also worth asking what he's doing along those lines as a father. Probably some interventions are in reach for the state, and there are some other things that parents are best positioned to do. He might have some insight into both
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by isityettime 4mo ago
Most of the internal docs I write are basically pointing people to canonical docs that already exist, and sometimes also summarizing docs that already exist. It seems to help, perhaps somewhat surprisingly.
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by isityettime 4mo ago
Yes and no. If people read the docs or performed good searches, the questions asked would primarily consist of underdocumented questions, or questions about relatively novel problems. You can still get a vibe for whether the docs are widely
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by isityettime 4mo ago
On this topic, "Open-Source Isn't About You": https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...
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by isityettime 4mo ago
Awesome! Maybe it's even a language you could enjoy contributing to. :D
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by isityettime 4mo ago
> homework is a chore that most people want to get done as fast as possible Worksheets certainly are. But good homework, even if it's challenging, is what makes a reasonably fast-paced course even possible . In a well-paced univers
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by isityettime 4mo ago
> I keep itching to design a compiled functional language for games Jank wants to be this, right? IIRC its author and chief maintainer was a game dev before he dedicated himself to the language. https://jank-lang.org/ Ma
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by isityettime 4mo ago
How did Elixir manage to attach static type checking to a language after the fact without drastically revising the type system or incurring runtime validation costs? I don't know Elixir, but I have some impression that the BEAM's
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by isityettime 4mo ago
> I love everything about Elixir, but Elixir constantly makes me doubt myself like no other language. My brain isnt made for functional stuff, but this makes me want to try again. I experienced this really painfully when I was in college
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by isityettime 4mo ago
Read the third sentence in the comment you're ostensibly replying to, friend.
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by isityettime 4mo ago
Yeah with RPM and dpkg you're trusting the distro, or maybe individual distro maintainers, depending on how you consider it. But there are norms in the distro about what those scripts are for and how to use them, and there's some
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by isityettime 4mo ago
Fair enough. I didn't know what was supposed to be objectionable about her personally until your last comment made me do some Googling. Bleh. To be honest, I feel like I still don't really know much about who she really is or what
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by isityettime 4mo ago
The article mentions the book that lays out this thesis. Here's a direct link: https://www.versobooks.com/products/636-the-people-s-republi...
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by isityettime 4mo ago
That's not relevant. If you have access to the Docker daemon running as root, whether it's over a Unix socket or a TCP socket, you effectively have root.
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by isityettime 4mo ago
That also means that any desktop Linux user who goes to play on OpenBSD or FreeBSD and runs a full-fat desktop environment that they like will probably discover similar battery life to what they're used to.
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by isityettime 4mo ago
Since I wrote that post I've learned a little more about other solutions being experimented with elsewhere, and I think offering remedial support is important but I have a clearer picture of the problems with traditional remedial cours
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by isityettime 4mo ago
She's excellent and her stuff has made it to the front page many times. I love seeing her work come up and I imagine many others here feel the same way.
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by isityettime 4mo ago
I dunno what you're talking about. Even the "creation" of MS-DOS wasn't like that. When was Microsoft making the best stuff? When they were selling their version of Basic, before MS-DOS?
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by isityettime 4mo ago
Most Microsoft purchases at a large organization are rational only because of how much the company has already sunk into Microsoft. Microsoft's strategy had never been centered on their software succeeding on its intrinsic merits. Cons

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