littleroot

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by littleroot 10d ago
>I don't want to change that sentence >but I have added a note to the top you know what's the least you could actually have done instead? no, you don't need to retract the blog post at all, keeping it up was the right c
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by littleroot 4mo ago
I grew up with these glasses (they're used for other street beverage too, the second most common behind beers in HN would be iced tea), and now I'm growing old with them. They're an integral part of who I am at this point, I
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by littleroot 5mo ago
Vietnamese here, no we add this to almost everything, especially things that don't contain fish in the first place. We have techniques to remove the fish smell where we don't desire it, but to be honest highest grade nước mắm wo
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by littleroot 1y ago
but can your models make slides as fancy as mckinsey's
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by littleroot 1y ago
>a single executable is both the package manager, LSP and the compiler oh my i just know you're going to love unison
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by littleroot 3y ago
Despite how the learning curve keeps the Nix community relatively small (it's grown a lot since 2021 actually) nixpkgs has assimilated like 90% of OSS. Learning Nix is hard, but once you know enough Nix to be productive it's a hug
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by littleroot 3y ago
This is literally the only reply that hit the core of the article's problem and of course no one on this site upvoted it lol. The only thing I dislike more than software development posts that use inappropriate analogy from nature to s
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by littleroot 3y ago
I found my neck and shoulder a lot less tense since I started using split keyboards, and my overall posture also improved. The downside is trying (and building!) new split keyboards starts to become an addicting hobby, and I keep finding my
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by littleroot 3y ago
> But the impression the community gives is very much that you can always rollback and everything is in its own sandbox I've never got that impression from the community, since day one I have the impression that it's rollbackab
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by littleroot 4y ago
Feels like type refinement via pattern matching on GADTs is more expressive than this
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by littleroot 4y ago
Modules = Lego bricks used to build bigger Lego artifacts Package = Lego bricks (probably share a theme and are meant to build something concrete together), shipped with instructions and media and whatnot, in a, well, whole package.
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by littleroot 4y ago
I'm the opposite: I'm writing Go for a living and I hate everything about the language itself, but I found the de-facto toolchain ok-ish and probably the least obtrusive thing about the whole thing. Imho, many languages would mass
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by littleroot 4y ago
Are you guys aware of Nix, both the language and the build system? Nix at its core is a build system, but the community pushed the boundary of what a "build" means so hard, now Nix could also be used as one definition language for