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by mbrock 8y ago
Here's a funny module I wrote that lets you very easily configure your NixOS server to serve simple CGI scripts over HTTP, useful for simple web hooks and such. https://github.com/lessrest/restless-cgi It's a
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by mbrock 8y ago
Just a note: with a normal installation, NixOS will basically never compile anything on your computer, unless you customize a package or use a very recent revision of the package tree that hasn't gone through the build server yet.
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by mbrock 8y ago
Oh no, laziness! Someone is doing something in an easy and convenient way that somehow doesn't match up with other people's ideals of conceptual purity! :'(
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by mbrock 8y ago
It's a bit of a downer. > A diaspora (/daɪˈæspərə/) is a scattered population whose origin lies in a separate geographic locale. In particular, diaspora has come to refer to involuntary mass dispersions of a population fro
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by mbrock 8y ago
There’s nothing other than reality. Drugs are part of reality. Have been for millenia.
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by mbrock 8y ago
Teens also have this horribly annoying tendency to go on the internet and find other points of views. Like, I remember finding that essay where Carl Sagan explains how sensible cannabis smoking helped him appreciate art and music, gave him
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by mbrock 8y ago
There might also be some risk of psychological damage when you use a criminalized substance that has anxiety as a common side effect. For example, it's easy to see how that could make you a bit reclusive. So anyone who's really co
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by mbrock 8y ago
Nope. Smalltalk objects aren't concurrent or asynchronous in any way. Smalltalk "messages" are good old method calls.
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by mbrock 8y ago
Secure proof-of-stake is a huge topic in blockchain research! It won’t have the same characteristics as PoW—worse in some ways, better in others—but it’s not like nobody’s thinking about it.
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by mbrock 8y ago
Coming up with a convincing argument for individuals to adopt locally subsignificant choices—a new, credible golden rule—might be something for an entrepreneuring philosopher. It’s the same problem as getting people to vote...
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by mbrock 8y ago
The author is using "free software" in the free software movement sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software Audacity is free software, but DaVinci Resolve is merely freeware.
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by mbrock 8y ago
Some months ago I got a kick scooter, non-electric. I use it every day, except occasionally the bike is more practical. It's a lot of fun.
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by mbrock 8y ago
A little alias that rewrites clone foo/bar into git clone --recursive https://github.com/foo/bar is one of my favorites.
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by mbrock 8y ago
Don’t forget Shannon’s 1937 master’s thesis, A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits .
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by mbrock 8y ago
You can visit specific subreddits.
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by mbrock 8y ago
What about MakerDAO?
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by mbrock 8y ago
How complex smart contracts are needed? I think we should keep them simple.
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by mbrock 8y ago
Just do a symbolic execution of the code and prove that your intended behavior holds. A multisig contract is an utterly trivial program. It is easy to prove correct.
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by mbrock 8y ago
The 2FA makes it secure as far as I'm concerned... I'm not all that paranoid. (If you hack my computer, you steal my first authentication factor anyway...)
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by mbrock 8y ago
I sometimes wonder if we should just totally embrace our onlineness instead of always treating it as a failure, an addiction, a horrible alienation. For example I remember when I was living at home, me and my brother and sometimes even my m
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by mbrock 8y ago
I used my bash WebDriver tool ( https://github.com/mbrock/wd ) to write a script that logs into my online bank in a browser window, prompting me in the terminal for the one-time code from the little gadget, because for s
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by mbrock 8y ago
People actually pay a lot of money for meditation retreats, which are basically just camps where you get to stop looking at Twitter for a while.
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by mbrock 8y ago
The internet is the most fascinating thing in the history of humanity. Of course you're "addicted" to it, why wouldn't you be? In the old days you would have been addicted to reading books, probably. Every second you&#x2
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by mbrock 8y ago
The root problem is just having been born.
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by mbrock 8y ago
On the other hand, in some way I think the Buddhist rhetoric—probably especially in the West—can tend to exaggerate in making it seem like the original sin. Which it probably is if you're striving for the kind of nirvana that Buddhist
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by mbrock 8y ago
The Buddhist perspective seems to be that we suffer from a general addiction ("craving"). Meditation is supposed to shine a light on that. Since few people ever just sit down without entertainment or work, the meditation posture
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by mbrock 8y ago
I for one find myself very curious about this shower-driven programming. It sounds similar to Rich Hickey's famous concept of hammock-driven development.
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by mbrock 8y ago
Nixpkgs does carry more than one version of some packages, but only when the maintainers deem it necessary. These are treated as separate packages with different names. In the case of OpenSSL, Nixpkgs currently has two packages named openss
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by mbrock 8y ago
Pinning in the Nix world means pinning an entire Nixpkgs. You pin a program and all its dependencies by pinning the whole root of the "ecosystem." If you want to deal with N separate programs that are each pinned independently, yo
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by mbrock 8y ago
I believe Christopher Alexander's architectural approach could also be considered a failure in terms of mainstream adoption and impact on urban architecture. The vision of a "timeless way of building" based on participatory d

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