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by jbboehr 5y ago
> For all the BS surrounding the "systemd vs. whatever-else-the-other-thing-was", I found the former made my life as a mid-tier Linux user and home-grown server admin much easier, too. Yeah, I'm sympathetic to some of the
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by jbboehr 5y ago
They stopped supporting interoperability a while ago [0]. [0]: https://hhvm.com/blog/2018/09/12/end-of-php-support-future-o...
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by jbboehr 5y ago
> NixOS could be used to build reproducible containers You absolutely can build docker images using Nix via dockerTools.buildImage [0]. [0]: https://nix.dev/tutorials/building-and-running-docker-images
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by jbboehr 5y ago
TBH, when I saw the term "myriad" in the title, I was expecting the term "八百万" (yaoyorozu, 8 million) [0]. [0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%85%AB%E7%99%BE%E4%B8%87
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by jbboehr 5y ago
"I told you so" never felt so good.
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by jbboehr 5y ago
> you need it to work together with some network based package manager Well, you can disable sandboxing if you want, although it's not recommended. This lets you run a package manager that requires networking in a derivation.
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by jbboehr 5y ago
I may be wrong, but I believe one caveat here is apt may not always have some version of packages available. I believe only the latest one in each `deb-src` is available. This is not an issue with nix as nix has the ability to build the ent
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by jbboehr 5y ago
I did this once. It was a terrible idea. Nix solves the same problem of wanting better control of system-level dependencies but without all the manual packaging.
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by jbboehr 5y ago
> Hunting down every commit hash of every package to pin down the exact version is neither maintainable nor scalable I believe flakes will make this a lot easier, but it's not quite here yet.
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by jbboehr 5y ago
> To truly make the claim that nix allows reproducible builds, it needs to provide: - a way to specify versions that don't depend on the commit hash of a "nixpck channel" whatever that is I don't see why a commit hash
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by jbboehr 5y ago
> Lower-class workers will see their incomes increase much more on a proportional basis and end up with a net benefit. Except their goods are going to cost more too now. Unless you're going to start proposing price controls. I can&#
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by jbboehr 5y ago
Kind of amazing how little the interface has changed over the last 70(!) years.
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by jbboehr 5y ago
> At the time in California, you were able to select a community college as your high school. I mean, at this point why not just take the GED or CHSPE and go straight to community college?
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by jbboehr 5y ago
> And of course we have bit packing when we need to pack more efficiently than reasonable; bit-packing with *int_fast8_t* allows you to represent "I need this to take exactly 8 bits of memory, whatever it costs compute-wise, because
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by jbboehr 5y ago
> Up next: sedentary lifestyle enablers We can start with the internet! :)
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by jbboehr 5y ago
> bit-packing with int_fast8_t allows you to represent I assume you meant `int_least8_t`?
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by jbboehr 5y ago
My SQL is a bit rusty, but, to reduce the queries even further, I think you can do: > SELECT user_id, COUNT(*) FROM comments WHERE user_id IN $1 GROUP BY user_id
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by jbboehr 5y ago
> It defaults to being dependent on a closed-source proprietary backend coordination server Isn't its source[0] available? > This is our reference controller implementation and is the same one we use to power our own hosted servi
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by jbboehr 5y ago
If you use consul, you can use `consul lock` [0]. Allows you to have the cron configured on multiple servers too. [0]: https://www.consul.io/commands/lock
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by jbboehr 5y ago
On debian derivatives, you can use `apt-get build-dep` to install all the compile-time dependencies of a package.
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by jbboehr 6y ago
I've seen a few people recommend "The True Believer" [0] although I haven't read it myself. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer
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by jbboehr 6y ago
> not very novel either David Skirbina addresses this is his forward to Technological Slavery[0]. Ted isn't a PhD student doing research; the lack of originality to his arguments is a feature, not a bug. [0]: https://www.
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by jbboehr 6y ago
I don't mean to necessarily imply you are doing this, but I suspect "toxic masculinity" is a motte-and-bailey[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
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by jbboehr 6y ago
This [0] article on prepping got some decent discussion [1] recently. For something a little more "out there" perhaps check out JWR and his books [2]. [0]: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/ [1]: https:/
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by jbboehr 6y ago
You can say "the wrong side of history" because your ideas happen to be in alignment with the current zeitgeist, but there's no guarantee this will hold true. In other words, it's a poor argument for anything and only in
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by jbboehr 6y ago
> Lots of steam doesn't work out of the box compared to Ubuntu. Make sure you're using Proton 5.0 until this [0] is fixed. [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/100655
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by jbboehr 6y ago
Ever heard the term "anarcho-tyranny" ?
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by jbboehr 6y ago
> you are on the wrong side of history here And, probably, you were "on the wrong side of history" in 1930s Germany.
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by jbboehr 6y ago
> Actions HAVE consequences. That is a fascinatingly passive synonym for "struggle session."
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by jbboehr 6y ago
“Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.”

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