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by pxc 1y ago
> I don't mind stable base systems, I don't mind slow and well tested updates, I actively like holding stable ABIs, but if you haven't updated anything in 4 years, then you are missing bug and security fixes. I'm not
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by pxc 1y ago
> Many people disagree with that claim and think that TheLinuxModel is good actually. However I point that these people almost definitely make extensive use of Docker You've got the wrong audience here. Nix people are neither big fa
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by pxc 1y ago
Are there any anti-AI religions yet? Maybe that'd provide an easy way to push back on such extreme mandates.
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by pxc 1y ago
and that's reasonable! but it's not a given. It's different from other kinds of cheating and some of its motivations are unusual when it comes to cheating restrictions (e.g., long-term health of players)
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by pxc 1y ago
I think most of the people like this in the ML world are extreme specialists (e.g.: bioinformaticians, statisticians, linguists, data scientists) who are "technical" in some ways but aren't really "computer people".
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by pxc 1y ago
> Steam does not have this problem. Download game, play game. Software is not that complicated. Steam on Linux essentially has its own "package manager" which uses containerized runtimes: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud
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by pxc 1y ago
Is cyborg doping even cheating? At least at this stage it's still high effort and DIY. That almost makes it legitimate to me
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by pxc 1y ago
> you should only use kernel anticheat on a dedicated machine that's kept 100% separate from any of your personal data. Correct. Unfortunately, what you've just described is a gaming console rather than a PC. This problem funda
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by pxc 1y ago
tl;dr: no. This commenter is just wrong. denenv.nix pretty much is flake.nix + services. It has since grown more features, but this kind of use case is exactly its niche. Devenv isn't a Nix fork and doesn't compete with Nix. Its
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by pxc 1y ago
I have been doing this aspect manually, sometimes adding a flake.nix or using Devenv with flake.nix instead of devenv.nix. If this can work well generally, it's a really slick integration. I'm really impressed with Devenv's v
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by pxc 1y ago
For programming, at least, there are also problems with overall output quality, instruction following, and the scopes of changes. LLMs don't do well at following style instructions, and existing memory systems aren't adequate for
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by pxc 1y ago
It seems Unsloth is useful and popular, and you seem responsive and helpful. I'd be down to try to improve this and maybe package Unsloth for Nix as well, if you're up for reviewing and answering questions; seems fun. Imo it'
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by pxc 1y ago
How unusual is this for the ecosystem?
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by pxc 1y ago
It's more general than that, closer to WSL. I usually use Podman Desktop for container stuff, but I like OrbStack for managing Linux VMs. It has some really slick integrations and it performs very, very well.
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by pxc 1y ago
> Systemd and Kubernetes are examples of things that do a lot of re-implementation but are mostly better than the previous. I feel the same way about systemd, and I'll take your word for it with respect to Kubernetes. :) > "
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by pxc 1y ago
Actually setting up rootless Docker is pretty manual and kludgy. With Podman, rootless is pretty much effortless.
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by pxc 1y ago
> every. single. thing. was reimplemented inside nix That's kinda what hermetic means, though, isn't it? Whether that's painful or not, that's pretty much exactly what GGP was asking for! > Once one thing was outsi
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by pxc 1y ago
What's not hermetic with Nix? Are you talking about running with the sandbox disabled, or and macOS quirks? It's pretty damn hard to accidentally depend on the underlying system in an unexpected way with Nix.
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by pxc 1y ago
> A truly modern language is Rust. Don't recent PHP releases actually have a pretty good selection of nice, modern features? Union types, JIT compiler, pattern matching against types, nullsafe operator, gradual typing, etc. It seems
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by pxc 1y ago
If you build them with Nix, you can. Just call `nix build` with a trailing `&` a bunch of times. But it's kind of cheating, because the Nix daemon actually handles per-machine scheduling and cross-machine orchestration for you. Jus
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by pxc 1y ago
Yes, and real portability for working with the environment variables is doable but there's nothing out there that provides it for you afaik. You just have to read a lot carefully. My team offers integrations of static analysis tools an
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by pxc 1y ago
You still inevitably need a bunch of CI platform-specific bullshit for determining "is this a pull request? which branch am I running on?", etc. Depending on what you're trying to do and what tools you're working with, y
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by pxc 1y ago
My team mostly writes glue code and infrastructure, occasionally the odd web service that runs in an AWS Lambda. We have a few small CLI tools as well. Most of what we have that isn't written in Bash is written in Python. The other day
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by pxc 1y ago
Edge has a ton of visual noise by default. For me, it's pretty disorienting. I watched a colleague use VSCode earlier today and was kinda shocked at the amount of pop-ups, and also how they'd cover the active pane, including what
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by pxc 1y ago
Yes, I'm using Microsoft's RDP client (which on Mac is now called "The Windows App") to connect to an Azure Virtual Desktop. My home internet connection pretty low latency (wired) and pretty high throughput (gigabit). It
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by pxc 1y ago
I have something like that at work for testing Windows things, since my work machine is a Mac. It's pretty miserable in terms of latency and window management. If you can get this to work well with NX or X forwarding, that's cool,
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by pxc 1y ago
The EQ test I took had a component that was questions like this. I'm not sure how meaningful it is for me given that I've been visually impaired my whole life. Nowadays, I can rarely see the eyes of strangers. But I did kinda hat
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by pxc 1y ago
IQ test questions have clear right and wrong answers that can be determined in advance of writing the test. But EQ tests just measure a (not necessarily unanimous) consensus of subjective intuitions by a handful of psychologists. It's
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by pxc 1y ago
My apologies!
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by pxc 1y ago
current actual article title: > Dedicated volunteer exposes “single largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia’s history” original submission title: > Most-translated Wikipedia article in the world is about a lover of Aryan culture

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