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by oneplane 3y ago
We have used reproducible builds for many years, and we haven't had issues with it. Of course you're going to get random results when you issue random commands (like apt-get install), which is why you don't do that if you wan
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by oneplane 3y ago
You can do all of that with any programming language, that is not a special trait of Nix. Your lack of insight into what people actually want betrays your need to promote nix. You can also use nix to automatically make sure that you install
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by oneplane 3y ago
Nix also gives you (not me, just in case you are going to assume that) a headache, which is why it's not getting the adoption that everything else does get. Nix is the betamax of state managers.
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by oneplane 3y ago
The hash of the image. So you cannot get the same hash if you change something in the image. This is also why you have reproducible builds, the source should always result in the same hash, otherwise the build would not be reproducible. So
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by oneplane 3y ago
SHA256, generally. So for example, you might use 5c15a6e5c0bf02e6c0eaa939cb543c41d7725453064c920b9a4faeea7c357506. (This is a digest hash you'd use in Docker, as an example) You can both consume that specific one, but also reproduce it
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by oneplane 3y ago
Not in this case. In this case we want a general computer user to perform an action to have a 'computer in a box' that they can break with no consequences with a very low barrier to entry. And we want that action to be easy to sha
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by oneplane 3y ago
The point is, and always was: someone wants a box to experiment in. Nix is not that box. It was never the box. It will never be the box. That is the point I am making and reflects the point the author was making. And just in case there is a
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by oneplane 3y ago
I wasn't referring to Nix, how Nix uses hashing, what specific hash, or source implementation it is using, or that it might be using an artefact hash. I was referring to the referencing method: a hash. This is the same method in the th
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by oneplane 3y ago
In docker and vagrant you do it the same way, the hash of the specific artefact. That can be a commit ID, but you can also do this without Git and the likes and use a content hash. Those are guaranteed to always refer to the same thing. &gt
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by oneplane 3y ago
You can pass X as much as you like, but Nix, like anything else, can be configured with dynamic references. Nix is also not related to Docker (neither superior nor inferior), and the learning curve makes it unsuitable for everything where D
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by oneplane 3y ago
"effectiveness of VMs" is probably not what really mattered, but rather "disposable environments". A VM can be a type of re-creatable and disposable environment, if you also include an OS and configuration. But if all yo
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by oneplane 3y ago
It depends. Depends on a whole lot of things, and Nix isn't special in this: Do you re-use an existing artefact or do you build a new one? You can put Nix in Docker and in Vagrant and get the same result every time. You an also not use
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by oneplane 3y ago
50 pages in I still haven't found how they propose this helps with WAN traffic or with mTLS. All of this seems to assume you always own the server side, which you pretty much don't. Even on page 5 with the summary of the solution
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by oneplane 3y ago
Apple has been adding a lot of virt and SPICE things IIRC. Some of it isn't supported in VMware (it lacks a bunch of standard virt support), but the facilities are growing instead of shrinking which is a good sign. On Proxmox you can d
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by oneplane 3y ago
All of those points would also assume: * You are big enough to need that and actually implement it * You have the budget to do so * You actually have the need to do that in-house If you are at that scale but you don't have the internal
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by oneplane 3y ago
NSX-T and what hyperscalers do is essentially orchestration of things that already exist anyway. The load balancing in NSX is mostly just some openresty and Lua which as been around for quite a while. Classic Q-in-Q and bridging also does p
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by oneplane 3y ago
The VMWare APIs are indeed pretty bad, even the ones on their modern products for some reason (i.e. NSX etc.) where they did adopt more modern methods but still managed to pull a Microsoft with 'one API for you, a different API for us&
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by oneplane 3y ago
Until one of these advertisements also comes with a provider ecosystem and a universal three-way diff every run, it's a bit pointless to me. The only thing that does what terraform does is OpenTofu, and that's because it's a
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by oneplane 3y ago
On the other hand, launching anything at all at that cadence is something others aren't doing either.
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by oneplane 3y ago
RFID and NFC are the new Magstripe and Barcodes. People think that they are mysterious things that are secure because they aren't able to see what they mean. But in reality, they are all still just a machine-readable number. (even if a
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by oneplane 3y ago
I suppose that really depends on where you are in the world and how phones are used. Sending video works over WhatsApp here, and nobody uses anything telco or native for that (so no iMessage, MMS or RCS). Next one down would be FaceBook Mes
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by oneplane 3y ago
Google's RCS isn't the standard-RCS. You can't use Google's RCS without using Google's RCS servers and you can't run your own. You can run your own standard RCS, but it's not compatible and does not do the
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by oneplane 3y ago
Sigh. > No-code technologies are rapidly changing the way we approach software development, making it possible for people with little to no programming experience to create functional and useful websites and applications in a matter of d
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by oneplane 3y ago
I think that long-term included manufacturer support is always neat. If you have a machine that is supported for 7 years or 9 years (or 5 years) that is all a factor that a general user might be interested in.
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by oneplane 3y ago
Performance in a vacuum doesn't mean much. How something performs depends on the task. If you take all the laptops in the world and ask them to dive to the bottom of the ocean, they all perform badly (because they will not reach the bo
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by oneplane 3y ago
That is what we have been rolling out to cloud-native developers as well, they get to choose etc, but when you don't need to run a local Kubernetes cluster with heavy tools, but instead can do something with a container, some FaaS simu
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by oneplane 3y ago
If you look closely, you might have noticed that I wrote that you might get this type of device when you want something in the ecosystem but don't need much. To pre-empt people who want to qualify "much" as something else, I
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by oneplane 3y ago
It seems like everything must be modified to make it news. The Air (like all the previous Airs including that Intel era short-lived Core M3 model) was always designed with burst capacity in mind, and midrange performance overall. Edit: midr
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by oneplane 3y ago
Does the warranty in Australia deal with the manufacturer, or is it related to the reseller/point of sale? There are similar laws in the EU in various implementations, but most of them make the party that sold it the one to warrant the
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by oneplane 3y ago
To be honest, a lot of end-user problems would go away if they were restricted to a child-proofed version of computers. In a sense they have been doing that to themselves by not knowing how it works, or how to write code, which already rest

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