mikepurvis

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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
Maintaining and providing a deb is pretty easy too; the real killer for a nix flake I think it's how dirt simple it is to provide infinite testing builds for different branches.
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
I enjoy that they supply a nix install/environment, similar to the main tailscale/tailscale repo. Is nix widespread or the standard dev environment at tailscale, or is it like a 10% option and most people just use Docker or whatev
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
I switched back to a desktop tower a few years ago as well. Notably, I don't use external displays with the work-issued laptop, but rather set up the laptop on a stand alongside the dual 1440p displays and have synergy for mouse and ke
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
Unrelated to disk, I've definitely been thinking about this more on the network side recently. I upgraded to 1.4/900 home fibre a while back and then got a modern Unifi UCG/U6 wifi setup, and while I do get 1.4GB down from my
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
I bet this is a lot of what is driving it on the DC side, and just in general bringing disk closer to RAM as far more conventional database type workloads.
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
uCLinux was a real thing for a good long while, though I think at this point real microprocessors are cheap, simple, and widely available enough that there hasn't been much need.
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
Parenting philosophy rooted in growth mindset advocates less for "I am smart and therefore I can do this" but rather "the hard work that it will take to do this is worth investing, and failures along the way are opportunities
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
Fridge magnets are this for me, but having a way to display a whole collection of smashed pennies would be pretty great too.
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
Exactly the right amount of chaos, particular given that the Brimnes "series" encompasses a pretty wide range of configurations and form factors: https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/cat/brimnes-series-700496&
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
Interestingly the "dark ages" subpage is not linked from the parent page: https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
I've noticed similar things with off-road biking as well. Hydrocut generally does an okay job of snapping to the trails there since Google knows about them, but I was at Rondeau this weekend, and Google kept insisting I was on the adja
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
I think that's actually a separate issue. What I specifically want from a Google Maps share URL is for it to be something I can send over text that will reproduce for my recipient exactly what I see. A lat/lon/zoom/sta
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
I would happily use the Google Maps "share" feature, but I've yet to encounter any but the simplest of scenarios where it actually preserves the entire context of what I'm trying to share: the viewport, the start and d
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
I'm very interested in this too. I feel like when my Claude session compacts I immediately have to re-alert it to critical aspects of the task, but it should be possible even to have a secondary low-skill agent crawl over the whole con
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
I'm curious how much people are manually curating context these days; I'm increasingly feeling for myself that it being auto-managed inside a front-end like claude code is not ideal, and I'd rather have more control over what
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
The truly wild situation for me is when I have something self contained enough that I can let the bot manage the entire loop unsupervised. Like, here's the patches from the old version, here's the new version, here's the test
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
I think as an existing expert in my field (robot devops) what I feel most strongly is not that I'm losing my skills but rather than I'm losing my nerve . Like, problems that I would previously dig into on my own, poking at this a
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
Might have been an overeager packaging designer that printed that and then filed a ticket for someone to set up the redirect and that ticket is still in the person's queue. Or it's something about your own connection. Maybe an ad
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
Sadly, though: $ curl -I https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9814/nsf9814.htm HTTP/2 404 content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 content-length: 54737 date: Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:58:4
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
I like my little jonsbo N2 case, and really I haven't hit actual perf limits yet, so I'm fine for it to chug along as-is for as long as I can get it to.
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
This is my situation exactly. Got an i5-4570 with 16GB, no GPU, running Unraid with a bunch of containers for Jellyfin, qBittorrent, Crafty Controller (minecraft), HomeAssistant, etc. I'm using a PCIe expansion card to get double NVMe
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
I mean... a big part of that with conventional Linux distros is the idea that you can security-update a low level library and all the stuff linking to it gets the fixes "for free", a dream abandoned both by Nix and also the moveme
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
At the time I was there we hadn't made it all the way to NixOS on the targets, so it was an Ubuntu "base" + Nix managing the app workspace as a kind of pseudo container, though able to bring more of its own system configurati
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
This was a talk geared specifically at a ROS audience so it's lighter from a general infra point of view but there may still be something useful: https://vimeo.com/767139940 At the time of that talk we threw up a light
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
In my personal life, I also like Nix for small projects, especially where you're crossing multiple ecosystems so that any one system's tooling/lockfiles aren't really enough to "enclose" the whole thing. For th
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
The way I set it up at my shop was that everything would build on your PR, and so by the time it merged, everything was already cached and no one should see a rebuild... at most a download.
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
I was lead on a Nix adoption effort for a few years that was kind of like that: it solved real problems, unlocked far faster, smaller, and cheaper builds than would have been possible any other way, and let us ship delta updates over crappy
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by mikepurvis 2mo ago
I think games that are heavily reliant on online pvp are just always going to struggle with being more niche appeal. Matchmaking is hard to do well and consistently, and managing the skill/progression curve is hard— there's gotta
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
Indeed. Owning the streaming box lets you loose on whatever network it's on, but it doesn't actually get you inside the content gardens; those are separately managed by teams of people much more motivated to protect their IP.
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
I mostly got it to play Arc Raiders tbh, but I did kind of have in mind that it was worth stretching for 16GB so that local models would be on the table.

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