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by pxc 2y ago
Yeah, I think the weekend nomenclature is definitely trickier. > If it is Monday, and I say "next weekend", I'd wager there's a greater proportion of English speakers (at least) who would understand that to mean the t
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by pxc 2y ago
That's a good point! Overly bright headlights are a problem for a lot of kinds of eyes, including some we should expect to see more than a few of on the road. (I will say for myself that my contact lenses have long been thick enough to
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by pxc 2y ago
Yes, the boundaries of the calendar week is a convention that varies and impacts the description I gave in a straightforward and obvious way, so you can expect complications with different conventions on the boundaries of each week. :) Thin
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by pxc 2y ago
At any given time, the lexicon is evolving and some idioms are expanding or on the verge of extinction. Still, there are uses of words and phrases that can reasonably be described as simply wrong at a given time, based on a failure to under
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by pxc 2y ago
I have a degenerative eye disease. As one of its features is loss of visual acuity, my driving days are numbered. When they come to an end, I'll likely have to move, as it's just not possible to efficiently or affordably get aroun
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by pxc 2y ago
> It’s always so hard to describe “next Wednesday” if it’s Monday 'Next Wednesday' is always the Wednesday of the calendar week following the current calendar week; doesn't matter what day of the week it currently is. &#x
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by pxc 2y ago
> they haven't yet released a version where they allow specifying the Go toolchain version Devenv's maintainers are friendly and responsive when it comes to contributions from downstream, and like 90% of the devenv repo is plai
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by pxc 2y ago
> This is already a solved problem with Nix shell (except the task runner part). devenv, a Nix+direnv-based solution, has a pretty cool task runner thing, plus service management. > I don't understand why there are any other alte
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by pxc 2y ago
I think most Clojure implementations take the lesson from the original that to be embedded in a platform rich with mature libraries is a great strength, but aren't dogmatic about some idea that only a few runtimes are worthy of such em
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by pxc 2y ago
> frankfurt school writers, (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, etc.) None of the three writers you mention were part of the Frankfurt School.
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by pxc 2y ago
I wouldn't call Nix 'blazing fast'; I wish Nix evaluation were 10x as fast as it is. But for many things it's much faster than Homebrew and has a lot of nice properties besides. Pkgsrc is more conventional, and its packa
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by pxc 2y ago
We use Nix to distribute open-source application security tools to user endpoints and CI/CD environments at work. Our appsec program is still young and there's lots of things I look forward to improving or seeing improved in our t
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by pxc 2y ago
When I was a kid, I had so much fun playing open-source games based on Quake engines. Tremulous stands out as especially delightful at the little LAN parties we threw at my house on birthdays and New Years' Eve.
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by pxc 2y ago
> I've seen video clips of "efficient" terminal text editor use, and while it looks cool in a hacker way, it just isn't any faster than what I do without all of the overhead of memorizing a ton of keyboard shortcuts a
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by pxc 2y ago
Agreed! I first started using Emacs in 2015 or so, sometimes still relying on other editors (usually IDEs) alongside it. I was still in school then. By then, I'd used for varying lengths of time (and had been taught, to varying degrees
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by pxc 2y ago
> Emacs is an extremely esoteric program [with respect to] documentation I sort of get the other points, but I really don't get this at all. How is Emacs documentation esoteric? Emacs is without a doubt the best-documented applicati
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by pxc 2y ago
I wonder if this comes from the how some developers view ops knowledge and tasks as merely ancillary to their interests and work. For me, Linux was a hobby prior to and separately from programming. In the tutorials and documentation I read,
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by pxc 2y ago
> I don't print from Windows nor MacOS much either. Less than once a year. Many Linux users and developers don't run anything else. If they're to print at all it'll be from Linux.
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by pxc 2y ago
Workplace discrimination against disabled people is as at least as commonplace as it is illegal. The question is more how easy it would be to make the case against this kind of thing, rather than whether such a maneuver would be illegal in
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by pxc 2y ago
> real interaction between people where people perceive all these tiny non-verbal signals like changes in posture, gestures, mimics, breathing I dunno. I sometimes feel like many of those things just make communication more stressful, ac
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by pxc 2y ago
> Yeah, I eventually realized that nix-darwin is only good for managing the list of homebrew casks. If that's really all you use it for, and you already use Home Manager, the Homebrew module for Nix-Darwin works fine in Home Manager
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by pxc 2y ago
I guess some people have been addressing the clobbering of /etc/bashrc with full reinstalls?
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by pxc 2y ago
> Even when provided a means to instantiate virtual machines where they can have root access within the virtual machine, a lot of them will bitch. Well, yeah. I spent a year or so doing all my work in a VM (for other reasons) and it suck
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by pxc 2y ago
Mockery can be cruel, and even gentle mocking can be irritating or even harmful if it's very repetitious. Mockery is not always appropriate, or even truly funny. Mocking others is not an especially important activity or an especially i
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by pxc 2y ago
Unpopular take? I thought it was common knowledge that computer operation and computer programming involve distinct (if overlapping) skillsets.
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by pxc 2y ago
Got it. Yeah, that would likely be easiest to resolve by exploring the closure with nix-tree and looking at how to eliminate or split dependencies. But pkgsStatic can be a handy fallback option too.
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by pxc 2y ago
> Man pages are notoriously a colossal waste of time. In general they are poorly thought out, they are incomplete, they were written with complete disregard for user experience, and more often than not they are way out of date. Uh, what?
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by pxc 2y ago
Ok, I see what you mean now. What the post is trying to do there is motivate the creation of a new installer, including to the existing Nix community. The snippet you've highlighted is essentially correct, but I still wouldn't cha
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by pxc 2y ago
> I think a lot of things are dynamically linked and they include their own /usr/lib tree with the entire transitive dependency chain for that particular app, even if other things you have installed have some overlap with that
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by pxc 2y ago
> From my perspective, installing Nix seems pretty invasive. How so? With what other software does Nix interfere?

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