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811.
by pxc 2y ago
Indeed the latter is kind of a precursor to the former: AI has to be helpful enough for key use cases in order to become used in whatever critical ways cause it to serve as humanity's downfall. Setting aside the apocalyptic prediction
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by pxc 2y ago
No, Nickel is Turing-complete. That's been one of the characteristics intended to distinguish it from most other configuration languages from the start. See the 'RATIONALE' document: https://github.com/tweag&#
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by pxc 2y ago
> I was trying to bring NixOS to a bare minimum, which is an exercise similar to building containers with the bare minimum required for the software in the container to run. I think this is a worthy endeavour. I think we have all the too
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by pxc 2y ago
> - didn't check if nixos uses it, but coreutil has a single binary mode (like busybox, a single binary is built and symlinks or hardlinks are used to provide all the commands); that might save some space It does. If you have coreut
815.
by pxc 2y ago
What release made this change effective?
816.
by pxc 2y ago
It's a tautology that only open-source drivers will be part of the codebase of an open-source OS. It's also more or less a given that first-party code will be better-integrated into an OS than third-party code is. That was a preva
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by pxc 2y ago
Isn't Android plagued by all manner of proprietary dependencies for hardware support? I don't understand all of the pressures on vendors in the Linux case, but at least one of them is that they can't upstream their drivers (a
818.
by pxc 2y ago
Done!
819.
by pxc 2y ago
Yes. I was a bit sloppy in using 'VSCode' to refer only to the thing distributed at code.visualstudio.com but also treating derivative works of what Microsoft calls 'Code - OSS' in their GitHub repo as defective (more li
820.
by pxc 2y ago
A lot of courses involve as much memorization as they do only because they are taught without or prior to the foundations or tools that are used to solve common problems in them. For instance, in the cases of 'algebra-based' (i.e.
821.
by pxc 2y ago
It's a lot like how whenever Apple adds a new feature to one of their operating systems, for Apple and its most dedicated fans, that feature is Apple's invention. Much like macOS' very official and increasingly nominal affili
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by pxc 2y ago
If you actually look at Apple's history with these, it's embarrassing for Apple. Apple effectively abandoned CUPS when Michael R. Sweet left the company, which is why the OpenPrinting fork exists. For something like a year they le
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by pxc 2y ago
In your opinion, was that an effective approach to teaching, either in general or with respect to the specific material? Sounds very strange to me.
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by pxc 2y ago
That sounds like a really, really fun class with an enthusiastic teacher. I'd never heard of that kind of thing. Thanks not just for the story but also sharing the name of the technique! It definitely sounds like it allows flexible pac
825.
by pxc 2y ago
Definitely a better move nowadays! Wasn't an option for me before college, though.
826.
by pxc 2y ago
VSCode is not open-source, and neither is this extension. Much F/OSS on Windows and virtually all F/OSS on macOS has proprietary build dependencies (e.g., MSVC on Windows, Xcode and various Apple frameworks and GUI toolkits on mac
827.
by pxc 2y ago
Depends on how many mistakes they make each lecture. I had one math teacher in high school that our whole class basically gave up on because he was useless. The only way for us to actually get at the material was read the textbook outside o
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by pxc 2y ago
> I had a teacher that routinely did this. > I hated it. > The issue is that, at least for me, I'm madly trying to capture in my notes whatever it is the teacher was presenting. I've observed this relation for myself, but
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by pxc 2y ago
When a teacher does that every class, multiple times a class, it becomes agonizingly boring for the students who actually understand what is going on. The long silences while no one is willing to raise their hand are painful and irritating.
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by pxc 2y ago
Just wanted to drop in to say that this take reveals a blind spot with respect to visual impairment. Reflowability is really vital for visually impaired people who can still see enough to read. Panning in two dimensions is very cumbersome a
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by pxc 2y ago
You only need the system package manager to provide the non-Python dependencies of Python packages. I'd expect that those by and large are already packaged in Debian and elsewhere, perhaps with some exceptions among smalltime C (or R
832.
by pxc 2y ago
That page seeming depressing is essentially a result of misunderstanding the genre. The point of this blog series is to give a personal, experiential account of exploring the Nix ecosystem through the official docs alone, without seeking
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by pxc 2y ago
> I personally haven't printed anything for a long time, so I might've been biased in my reply. Huh. I print less and less since college, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that you might be a desktop Linux user who jus
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by pxc 2y ago
Yes, and CUPS was used on macOS, from which iOS was forked before Apple releases the first iPhone. And from that same year (2007) until 2019, Apple employed the creator and chief maintainer of CUPS, which is presumably how they got their
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by pxc 2y ago
Hey I missed this reply at the time but I wanted to say thanks for your thoughtful reply, although I don't have the energy or time for much of an answer at the moment. You raise some good points, and I better understand where you'
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by pxc 2y ago
That commenter is probably just someone who has never used anything but Windows on the desktop.
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by pxc 2y ago
I dunno. I assumed that > The standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple for iOS®, iPadOS®¹ ships on iOS® and iPadOS®. But maybe it doesn't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In seriousness, exposing only a very limited interface
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by pxc 2y ago
The socket activation thing it has with systemd as well, but I don't know if there are facilities for automatically shutting it down like that as well. That's a nice touch, and it'd be cool if Linux distros added that.
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by pxc 2y ago
CUPS is also part of iOS and iPadOS.
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by pxc 2y ago
The I in IPP stands for 'Internet'. I guess some people really mean it.

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