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by pxc 11mo ago
The Nixpkgs community is internally diverse, but broadly values both "purity" and pragmatism. You can see debates and compromises play out in PRs all the time, or read traces of such careful weighing in the source code of Nixpkgs
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by pxc 11mo ago
Can you just "pronounce" it (even in your head) S-pack, as in "source package"?
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by pxc 11mo ago
They mean on a handheld controller. The Astro C40 has something like this, for example.
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by pxc 11mo ago
Brew-Nix might be able to cover some of those gaps, but probably not all of them. But almost certainly SoftwareC, at least! https://github.com/BatteredBunny/brew-nix
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by pxc 11mo ago
Or a system of rails like the Switch. Or even, tbh, just more than one controller design. An option that forgoes analog sticks altogether and is designed that way from the start could also place buttons differently, have a different grip de
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by pxc 11mo ago
Also Pkgsrc if you're good with tools that don't support global installs there are also Spack, Mise, and pkgx none of those are quite suitable for managing macOS app bundles, though.
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by pxc 11mo ago
> Most people I know are not installing too many casks Casks are the only things Homebrew does that some other package manager available on macOS doesn't reliably do better. Nix, Pkgsrc, MacPorts, and (and now Spack) all have better
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by pxc 11mo ago
It's a regression from the original in all the same ways that the Deck is, and it has less to offer over and above what conventional controllers like the DualSense do. I'm willing to give it a try, but the smaller and less central
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by pxc 11mo ago
RIP Steam Controller. This headless Steam Deck is no substitute. The only halfway decent FPS controller has no substitute.
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by pxc 11mo ago
Crush is notably and disappointingly proprietary, being a fork (by the original author, who was hired by Charm) of the open-source OpenCode¹. Despite the indications in that old repo, OpenCode is still F/OSS and still under active deve
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by pxc 11mo ago
> The concept of copy/paste/save for arbitrary data lives on for the non-tech masses only in the form of screenshots and screen recording features. When it's not impeded by DRM, that is
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by pxc 11mo ago
> But the thing is, these are professional designers that have put out a product. Can't you say that about basically anything?
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by pxc 11mo ago
Not very. Try touch typing on a touchscreen keyboard with haptic feedback
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by pxc 11mo ago
For use with contemporary programs, that's how I think of it. But for "living" software archival purposes, I think it's a direct and concrete contribution to solving a hard problem. (As is DOSBox)
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by pxc 11mo ago
I love GNU coreutils, and although it's far from my favorite shell, Bash is great for what it is. I also love GNU grep and GNU findutils. Modern GNU Emacs feels like a wondrous relic transported back in time from an alternate future, f
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by pxc 11mo ago
They said "almost". But it seems to me that a rabbit could definitely take a finger or sever an Achilles tendon, maybe badly fuck up a wrist. Plus amputation could be due to an out of control infection or something like that. Woun
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by pxc 11mo ago
It probably wasn't even the first bite. Most victims of dog bites are friends of a biting dog's owner, with implicit (and sometimes explicit) pressure not to report. I've met people whose dogs have bit as many as seven people
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by pxc 11mo ago
GNU Guix has a good blog, but I don't feel like they are very "marketing" focused. It's hard to describe precisely, but a lot of free software projects do a good job of putting themselves out there in an unfussy way. The
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by pxc 11mo ago
They make the app that stores the plaintext at each end... they don't need to decrypt your messages across the wire to read them.
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by pxc 11mo ago
> I'm worried LLMs will make people ignore what's already there and auto generate useless functions instead of using what's there in Ruby/Rails. I think you're probably right. But fwiw, as a non-Rubyist who value
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by pxc 11mo ago
Scala also draws on many other sources, but syntactically it clearly takes inspiration from Ruby in a lot of nice ways!
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by pxc 11mo ago
What is the reason for such optimism? My experience is that most people don't really attempt to write good code, and most employers even discourage it most of the time. And I'm just t as talking about basic correctness here— makin
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by pxc 11mo ago
It's just like with primary news sources: the "unbiased" journalistic source is a myth. What you want is actually to consult sources with a range of distinct biases that you understand well, and to consider their biased in ev
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by pxc 11mo ago
I thought your comment was too dismissive at first, but then I read the whole article, and I fully agree with it. The article gives useful theoretical tools for understanding and critiquing such shallow games, actually. Its examples are dra
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by pxc 11mo ago
Wow. So they even lied about the details of how the sandwich hit them.
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by pxc 11mo ago
This reads so much like The Onion, it's uncanny.
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by pxc 11mo ago
That's really interesting, because the Disney comparison could only be considered positive, and the death penalty thing is strictly speaking a fact and public knowledge.
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by pxc 11mo ago
Sure it is¹ (kinda): --no-upgrade Do not upgrade packages; when used in conjunction with install, no-upgrade will prevent packages on the command line from being upgraded if they are already installed. Configuration Item: APT::Get
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by pxc 11mo ago
I used Sailfish ten years ago or more, and loved it. But I gave up hope on getting it to run on many devices, as well as access to a good Android emulation layer that I could use for "utility" apps like Uber or whatever. My impres
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by pxc 1y ago
You might also think of it a bit like poetry: creativity emerging from the process of working within formal constraints. By asking how you can represent something familiar in a specially structured way, you can learn both about that structu

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