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by medstrom 5y ago
https://www.exherbo.org/ That does sound nice. I'd like to know how it differs from Guix.
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It is known what the SHA hash of the built artifact should be. https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-chall...
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The Guix way moves more contribution upstream (it's very easy to get your PR accepted) and less people having their own untested "PPAs" everywhere. People have this image that having a private channel is simpler/faster
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by medstrom 5y ago
If you wanted one based on Scheme, I'd actually just point straight at Guix. In our communities we often consider Nix/Guix an improvement on Gentoo in most possible ways, so wanting a Gentoo sounds odd like wanting to downgrade fr
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by medstrom 5y ago
OpenBSD is another goodie. Answer a number of prompts and then it installs and configs stuff in one go (no more prompts midway through or afterwards). Plus you can "preload" your answers by referring to a file, good if you admin m
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by medstrom 5y ago
(Offtopic) C2 has a really good <noscript>.
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Added an example. Also the dev communities care about slightly different things. They match my tastes, we find the same kinds of things cool, so I've found nothing but joy in Guix. One matter of practical impact is how they prioritize
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Many design decisions are different. Nix and Guix are each other's Bizarro. It's a common misconception that Guix is just "Nix with Scheme" or "Nix without systemd" but those are frankly the least interesting d
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by medstrom 5y ago
Guix installer was the first time I experienced the info documentation available "side-by-side" with the CLI (that is, `info` was already open on a separate tty). So obvious in retrospect. Gentoo is another nice installer but much
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If it happens at night, you'll get a great lightshow to start off the apocalypse. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_event >Auroras were seen around the world, those in the northern hemisphere as far
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And nuclear physics got us the nuclear disarmament program.
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What's interesting is that cow prions only turned up when cows were fed cows...
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For anyone not in the know, the ecliptic is the plane of the Earth's and most planets' orbit.
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Does cannibalism have an inherent propensity to create/spread prions or is it just incidental?
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Temporary Containers is a pretty amazing sandbox already, as it uses a builtin Firefox feature.
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This would be easy to do in active voice. I could write "I did this, and I was wondering why that anomaly turned up, so I did yadda yadda" without ever involving a "you".
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Okay, but "surprisingly" has more possible meanings than "to our surprise", imo. How come you disagree?
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>An author’s intent doesn’t change what an author actually said This is an odd view of communication. It works for whole stories, e.g. you can decouple Heinlein from his books and claim that The Moon is a Harsh Mistress primarily says
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by medstrom 5y ago
The full Trusting Trust attack would be if you'd use XcodeGhost to compile Xcode and it actually makes another XcodeGhost that just looks like Xcode, right? Preferably you do this to the developer responsible for uploading the compiled
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Yes, you and people like you would read it as that they are expressing their own surprise, because you have a firm mental model that surprise resides only in the mind of the observer. But quite a few people also allow for a pseudo-objective
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This discussion boils down to if consent must be continually given or if you can give it ahead of time. And I'm not up to date, but I believe it's not a settled discussion even in academia. The problem of continual consent is that
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That fact would not affect DOAJ.
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In the spirit of open, https://pubpeer.com/ lets anyone do peer review (in modern terms known as posting a comment). And https://scite.ai tells you the number of replications and citations. As end user you can a
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While not as efficient as if we'd eat that grain directly, it doesn't seem terribly inefficient, and it may reduce the number of individuals that need to be born & die. (Of course under a stark analysis of whether to have catt
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>and the majority of the feed for those animals comes from... traditional crop farming. I don't know how to find data but I thought that "grain-fed" cattle largely don't exist outside the USA (chicken/pork are di
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It still prompts you to install an update when one is available. In Firefox you still have to accept a prompt about restarting the browser after that, so it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. But fair point about "extreme&quo
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For any organism to hold together and be viable, it's critical for all its cells to obey their programming perfectly. If individual cells went off and did their own thing, it would not be viable. Our bodies line up such rebel cells and
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Yes, it's a terrible idea to label them that way, so let's not. Still, we all bear some responsibility in keeping society sane, which might mean just declining to talk about evidence like this until it's solid.
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Writing love letters and other notes to my girlfriend prompted me to look up videos on handwriting. It honestly doesn't take long -- in preschool it was torture, but as an adult you can achieve big gains in an hour.
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I haven't noticed, but I admit my Firefox setup has been subtly broken for a decade (by choice). In any case, you can always unconform where it matters for you, but why not start from sane defaults?

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