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by patrec 6y ago
I think if you're setting up a personal machine, your reasoning completely applies and a fairly superficial difference, like scheme being a more familiar language can indeed make a big difference. But I think NixOS or Guix-SD vs Ubuntu
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by patrec 6y ago
If you'd like the platform to be more open, it's pretty easy to do something about it, just contribute missing bits to existing open source implementations like https://github.com/picolove/picolove . The overa
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by patrec 6y ago
Awesome, dig was long due for a sane replacement. It's output and commandline syntax are about the most obtuse of any mainstream unix CLI tool; it even beats ifconfig and find, which is quite the achievement.
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by patrec 6y ago
I'd be curious to hear your perspective as someone who is quite familiar with both Guix and Nix. What sort of companies do you know that are using Guix for Real Work (in some significant capacity)? What would be a rational reason for u
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by patrec 6y ago
Only ~800 likes :(
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by patrec 6y ago
> I think nix isn't as useful for developers using it to setup their workstation Trust me, if your development setup is non-trivial (bunch of services maybe in different languages maybe written by different teams) it absolutely is,
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by patrec 6y ago
Actually, unlike most DSLs, the nix language itself is pretty great and can be learned in an afternoon by any competent programmer, no Haskell background needed. The problem absolutely is complexity, and there is a lot of stuff you need to
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by patrec 6y ago
Lovely article. The clear superiority of the C64 experience in some respects as well as the popularity of Pico-8 (including amongst longtime games industry veterans) both indicate that something is seriously amiss with current computing; it
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by patrec 6y ago
I thought their point was that Linux shouldn't poorly copy Apple because they have a different, more power-user centric client base. But copying Apple isn't the problem here, Apple is strictly superior on all metrics, including po
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by patrec 6y ago
Yes but my point was that the Apple direction, in this case, is both far more easy to use and more suitable for power users. You can efficiently navigate the apple file dialogue with the keyboard (e.g. press '~' for tab-comple
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by patrec 6y ago
> a mismatch for arguably more poweruser-centric Linux user base. Uhm, to the best of my knowledge the macOS file dialogue is far more powerful than anything the various linux toolkits offer.
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by patrec 6y ago
Actually, I think it might be possible to implement gron in jq (you can produce "plaintext" not just json, and the processing facilities jq offers might be powerful enough to escape everything appropriately, but it's not so
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by patrec 6y ago
Technically no, because it offers no comparable way to interface to the line-based world of unix tools for interop. Practically, most things you'd do with gron and grep, sed, awk, ... you could do using only jq as well. Jq comes with m
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by patrec 6y ago
> I've been testing out both the 8GB Pi 4 and the new Pi 400 overclocked to 2.2 GHz. For many things, both are perfectly adequate. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong. I have a 4GiB pi 4B and have found it laggy enough to be
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by patrec 6y ago
> I know tim cook is a nice guy I'm very curious to hear how you learnt that.
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by patrec 6y ago
Hah, look at the author's user profile!
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by patrec 6y ago
I'd be love to hear more about how you did it! I found streaming (and restreaming) RTP fairly straightforward but annoying to setup with gst-launch (there seems to be no simple option to get an SDP file out, apparently you are meant to
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by patrec 6y ago
Since you probably spent hundreds of hours on this, and they are apparently in violation of the license under which you contributed this work, maybe get a lawyer and send them a letter asking for your attribution to be re-instated or remova
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by patrec 6y ago
Of course we could also get rid of the Makefile and simply add a buildPhase like this: buildPhase = "find -maxdepth 1 -name '*.svg' -print0 | xargs --null -I'{}' -n1 inkscape '{}' --export-text-to-
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by patrec 6y ago
> What you wrote is true, but it also seems to me unlikely that the OP is going to set up a sandboxed hermetic build to process a handful of pngs for her zine. But it's trivial! Assuming you fix the OP's Makefile (so much for M
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by patrec 6y ago
Well, just because make is faulty, doesn't mean linux isn't too ;) Spaces -- ok. But there is absolutely no use case for allowing near arbitrary byte sequences in filenames, it causes no end of trouble, and it would have been triv
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by patrec 6y ago
> Even with tracing it can be really subtle The correct way of doing this is not tracing but a hermetic build. If you do a sandboxed build with nix, you will get a specific version of inkscape with a specific hash, which includes will in
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by patrec 6y ago
> I’m curious: would Ninja rebuild on a new version of Inkscape? I’d be pleasantly surprised and view it much more favourably if it does. I haven't used ninja, but nix and (unless memory fails me) bazel derived build systems will. N
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by patrec 6y ago
You are not wrong, but if the world where not full with even worse build systems it'd be a bit saying I prefer to drink from puddles because I find them wherever I go. Make is everywhere, but apart from UX issues such as the dumb synta
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by patrec 6y ago
There is something to extinguish: Apple. Microsoft had a significant problem that all the best (non-game) developers used macOS (and a few even linux), which severely damaged their ecosystem. They fixed that. Apple might be in for a rude aw
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by patrec 6y ago
The only reason companies care about open source is because a) it's cheaper b) avoids lock-in and other dependencies I don't see either of these being much of an advantage for linux on the desktop, although they will continue to b
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by patrec 6y ago
There is a non-zero chance WSL will make desktop Linux completely irrelevant even for developers.
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by patrec 6y ago
Can you give some examples of what sets it apart?
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by patrec 6y ago
In common-lisp you could do something equivalent, but you'd have to wrap the definitions you want to be able at both compile and and run time in eval-when.
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by patrec 6y ago
I could write a concrete example that will work in zig and fail in common lisp, but maybe this link is enough? https://ziglang.org/#Order-independent-top-level-declaration...

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