pmarreck

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   by pmarreck 2y ago

   Heroku reboots servers every night no matter what stack is running on them. Same idea. The problem is that you merely borrowed yourself some time. As time goes on, more inefficiencies/bugs of this nature will creep in unnoticed, some w
2. 1082.▲
   by pmarreck 2y ago

   Hah, hinted at that in my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42126301 It really is a fundamental advantage against the worst kinds of this category of bug
3. 1083.▲
   by pmarreck 2y ago

   I had to deal with a concurrency bug in Ruby once and it was so bad* that it pushed me into Elixir, which makes the vast majority of concurrency bugs impossible at the language-design level, thus enabling more sanity. Ingeniously simple sol
4. 1084.▲
   by pmarreck 2y ago

   Props for using Nix.
5. 1085.▲
   by pmarreck 2y ago

   i have "no purple prose" in my custom instructions
6. 1086.▲
   by pmarreck 2y ago

   Nix is a possible solution to stack rot (at least in the realm of "things breaking against each other", not "things that had critical bugs or security holes discovered later")
7. 1087.▲
   by pmarreck 2y ago

   re: bhavagad gita- Exactly. So I'm not trying to bias or give you preconceived notions, my observations are my own personal opinion. You should definitely keep your wits about you, though. One of my favorite classes in college was actu
8. 1088.▲
   by pmarreck 2y ago

   The Islamic holy books have many (actually very many) passages that would not line up with Western values at all. The crazy thing is that if I cite both the good ones and the bad ones, and the list of bad ones is much longer, I would get in
9. 1089.▲
   by pmarreck 2y ago

   > They wouldn’t make the same mistakes they made 600 or 4000 years previous. You would think that, except that an "extremist" Christian who only interpreted the New Testament literally would be a forgiving, loving, peaceful asc
10. 1090.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    Have you actually read the Quran and Hadiths?
11. 1091.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    Try Surahs 2:191, 3:28, 3:85, 5:33, 8:12, 8:60, 8:65, 9:5, 9:30, 9:123, 22:19, 47:4. You can use Google or ChatGPT to cite them.
12. 1092.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    For people who chafe at anything remotely looking like "religion" or "spirituality," this is a valid way to try to get past the closed-mindedness
13. 1093.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    So basically, you were an opinionated functional-language developer and now you can throw down Python or PHP (ok, let's at least be realistic... JavaScript) with a straight face of eternal calm? (I mean this partly in jest of course) Y
14. 1094.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    I have a 3.3 year old toddler who cannot sit still and I feel like I have zero time to myself anymore, we don't have familial assistance and my partner has a stressful job and frankly I can't remember the last time we were intimat
15. 1095.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    Anyone use Garnix? https://garnix.io/
16. 1096.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    Highly educated ≠ intelligent. You can be quite highly educated and still sit inside an ideological bubble and have no clue that anything is wrong... until it is. "Heavily blue" is definitely an ideological bubble, because, as it
17. 1097.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    Reddit is finding out that if you block everyone not inside your echo chamber, but are still in the smaller echo chamber, every election will shock you It unfortunately sits on the shoulders of progressives seeking change to convince the co
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    by pmarreck 2y ago

    since I switch between linux and macos a lot I wrote a dotfile function called "clip" that will work the same on both. nice thing is it will automatically paste if nothing is piped to it to copy so there's no need to use sepa
19. 1099.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    The Determinate Nix installer flavor is supposedly more resilient to this. Have survived at least 1 OS update unscathed with it.
20. 1100.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    ha, haven’t been much of a TV show watcher in years (I play games for entertainment) and never heard of this show (nor did I know that Meghan Markle was a TV actress before now, LOL… also, damn she was fine in 2011!) but this one looks ente
21. 1101.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    When I looked at it, I encountered some problem that unfortunately slips my mind now.
22. 1102.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    this is such an awful truth to even say aloud lol but... yeah. which is why you gotta find your peeps that believe in the better world and are thus believing it into existence. (OT: reminds me of this song title: https://soundclo
23. 1103.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    Literally every Docker image you've ever downloaded comes from a build that only worked (essentially) "by accident." If Docker builds were as deterministic as Nix, then all that would need to be distributed would be Dockerfil
24. 1104.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    The daemon and the users are only to run a build when that is necessary. It might seem invasive but it works out pretty well.
25. 1105.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    > installing Nix seems pretty invasive I'm writing a test to check whether a tool I'm writing can work without Nix (it works with it perfectly, but I want it to also work without it because there are a lot of folks like you, an
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    by pmarreck 2y ago

    > Having a kid has drastically altered my ability to learn new things outside of work, simply due to lack of time. I never could have imagined how big of an impact having a kid would be, its crazy! yeah, I could have written this verbati
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    by pmarreck 2y ago

    In my last role as a director of engineering at a startup, I found that a project `flake.nix` file (coupled with simply asking people to use https://determinate.systems/posts/determinate-nix-installer/ to install
28. 1108.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    I learned this in my very first corporate job at Factset and it made me sick of them; it's the main reason why I've worked at a bunch of startups. If the manager likes you, they will see the things you do in a positive light. If t
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    by pmarreck 2y ago

    > Yes, but then you have to write (and debug and maintain) each part 3 times. could you not use a test suite structure (not saying it would be simple) that would run the suite across 3 different virtualized chip implementations? (The vir
30. 1110.▲
    by pmarreck 2y ago

    I own a Framework NixOS laptop (the newest one), a System76 Thelio NixOS beast (ryzen threadripper), and various Apple stuff. (And a Prometheus XVII Windows gaming laptop and an M1 MBP that I'm selling on eBay right now.) So I complete