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by pxc 2y ago
I suppose one characteristic that Oils, resholve, and Nix share is that each is an ambitious attempt to bridge two worlds in order to propagate recent innovations to actually-existing environments that are entangled with complex legacies: O
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by pxc 2y ago
There are a few really good ways to install Nix, including ones that people often invoke via `curl | sh`. If you prefer, you can download the exact same installers, and verify the checksums, read their code, etc. You don't have to actu
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by pxc 2y ago
If you're using an OS that honors your font choices (i.e., not macOS), you can use a font like Symbola to provide emoji so that they're stylized, monochrome, and vectorized, rather than incongruous color bitmap images. That helps
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by pxc 2y ago
> I expect someday clang will become the default [compiler for the Linux kernel]. Why? I don't personally use GCC except to compile other people's projects in a way that's mostly invisible to me, but it seems like it'
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by pxc 2y ago
ChatGPT is generally pretty bad at writing Nix code IME, and has a much greater tendency to hallucinate than when writing code in other languages. But it's better at advice and review than writing code. And if you want to ask it about
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by pxc 2y ago
Flipped classroom sounds horrible to me. I never liked being given time to work on essays or big projects in class. I prefer working at home, where the environment is much more comfortable and I can use equipment the school doesn't hav
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by pxc 2y ago
Depends on your use cases. I use Nix all the time at work but I don't use NixOS there at all. (I'd like to, but there are barriers and it's not a priority.) Distros like that don't address my use cases at all.
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by pxc 2y ago
You may not use Nix, but some pretty cool Nix tools use your work. :) Just today I was working on some integrations with a runtime dependency resolver for shell programs that uses OSH for parsing on the job. We use Nix to manage our develop
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by pxc 2y ago
I'll check this out. I actually don't love p7zip's CLI.
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by pxc 2y ago
I came here to make the same recommendation. Just use p7zip for everything; no need to learn a bunch of different compression tools.
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by pxc 2y ago
NewPipe and Tubular also lack the continuous video feed feature, so you can watch Shorts if someone sends you a link, but they're just like regular videos.
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by pxc 2y ago
This is true. Many people I know have uninstalled TikTok because it is too addictive, but no one ever does that with YouTube shorts.
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by pxc 2y ago
I have see Chinese users who state that they are gay or bisexual right on their profile page, too.
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by pxc 2y ago
A fairly clear hierarchy emerges with enough experience, I think, but I don't know if there's explicit consensus about it of the kind that could make its way into documentation. Here are the rules of thumb, though (in a kind of pr
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by pxc 2y ago
I ran NixOS while I attended university and don't remember any problems with this. Is it a NetworkManager issue?
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by pxc 2y ago
It mostly goes the other way, I think. The community surveys haven't asked about NixOS desktop usage in particular. Still, I'm certain that a large majority of contributors are running NixOS on their desktops/laptops/wor
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by pxc 2y ago
Incredibly disgusting drink. I'm convinced Chicagoans only ever pretend to like it in order to prank unsuspecting tourists by sharing a round of shots of it.
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by pxc 2y ago
'Desktop Linux' isn't an operating system but a family or class of operating systems. Linux distros are operating systems. If we are to make mewningful comparisons to macOS and Windows, then we must compare like to like
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by pxc 2y ago
> On desktop Linux I regularly have mixed Qt/KDE, GTK2, GTK3+/libadwaita and Electron (with every JS GUI framework being a different UI/UX experience) GUIs and dialogs. And you can choose to install GTK+, Qt, and Electron
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by pxc 2y ago
Windows' desktop environment is much too lackluster for that. It's uniquely inconsistent (many distinct toolkits with irreconcilable look-and-feel, even in the base system), has poorly organized system configuration apps that are
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by pxc 2y ago
Everywhere I've worked at that had some kind of Salesforce integration, that integration seemed almost incomprehensibly complex or a source of endless problems, and often both. But I've never been (nor wanted to be) very closely i
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by pxc 2y ago
I'm a software engineer maybe half the age of the speaker, probably less. But I am already gradually going blind. (No one knows whether I'll reach legal blindness in 5 years or 25, but its presence in my future is a certainty.) It
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by pxc 2y ago
> last thing he destroyed was himself, by going the bonkers “alternative healing” route on cancer. The tragic last act of Jobs' infamous reality distortion field
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by pxc 2y ago
I wouldn't say I particularly like bash, bash has seen a ton of improvements since Apple stopped updating the vendored version. Using that old bash which is frozen for non-technical reasons just seems stupid to me. If you don't wa
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by pxc 2y ago
> as famously happened to Linus of LTT years ago when installing Steam on Mint rendered the system unbootable The system booted fine! It just didn't have a graphical desktop environment installed anymore. But it was up and running,
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by pxc 2y ago
NixOS has this. Atomicity is implemented via the filesystem: the final switch between states is changing where a single symlink points from once place to another, which is an atomic operation on Linux and maybe elsewhere. Transactional file
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by pxc 2y ago
Docker is kinda the opposite of Nix in this respect— Docker is fundamentally parasitic on other tools for dependency management, and Nix handles dependencies itself. That parasitism is also Docker's strength: bring along whatever knowl
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by pxc 2y ago
Nix isn't 'yet another tool in the chain'; Nix demands to run the whole show, and in the Nix world native dependencies in all programming language are first class citizens that the ecosystem is already committed to handling.
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by pxc 2y ago
Logitech's mice can't do basic things like output a key chord upon a button press using only what's available onboard, sadly. The onboard capabilities are more limited than they have to be, probably to drive people to G-Hub.
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by pxc 2y ago
Is there anything like this on Windows? Logitech mice are mostly nice, but one of their major flaws is that their macro capability is not onboard but requires some kind of supplemental software like this, so even just binding a single butto

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