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by pxc 2y ago
What kind of complexity is actually entailed by adding additional codepoints? Does it require changes to the structure and composition of the encoding, or is it just more stuff that's exactly the same in form as the other stuff?
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by pxc 2y ago
> VSCode advocate talk about cheering for the overdog, sheesh
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by pxc 2y ago
> It actively lies about what it is doing. How do you mean?
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by pxc 2y ago
It's fine if his software is not for you, but Kovid Goyal is the real deal. And his claim wasn't that he would keep a generally-viable fork of Python 2 going, but that he would maintain the parts of it that he used in his Python
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by pxc 2y ago
> I think it's a general issue of developers with tricked out machines and fast internet connections developing software for everyone else. The reason the CLI is fast is not because it was carefully engineered that way, but because
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by pxc 2y ago
In the pre-LSP era, I worked as a novice Scala developer, and I didn most of my Scala work in Emacs with ENSIME. It was pretty good. I imagine the language server is pretty usable by now.
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by pxc 2y ago
nix-locate is actually a third-party command, shipped with nix-index: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-index make sure to check out the pregenerated databases, they're very convenient
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by pxc 2y ago
My question was genuine, not just rhetorical. I appreciate the additional context here, especially that Win32 is implemented as a long-lived NT personality. It's indeed a bummer that Microsoft didn't see it as expedient to maintai
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by pxc 2y ago
Oh! Yeah, that's a great idea :)
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by pxc 2y ago
Why the black flag, though? That's a symbol of anarchy, which kinda suggests some kind of endorsement to me. But that also doesn't make sense because the Jia Tan affair was an attack on the commons, which is absolutely opposed to
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by pxc 2y ago
The demo screencaps are of the xz binary.
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by pxc 2y ago
What does it say about the practical usefulness of this Windows facility that MS has, it seems, never maintained one of these 'personalities' long-term?
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by pxc 2y ago
It helps disambiguate Nixlang from the codebase that includes the Nix CLI and the Nix daemon, for one. It's also an unambiguous designation for the original Nix implementation, as opposed to Lix and Tvix. A Lix user might well reasonab
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by pxc 2y ago
Microsoft could have implementes the Docker API as part of WSL1 instead of loading up a real Linux kernel for it. That's how LX Zones on Illumos work for running Docker containers on non-Linux without hardware virtualization. I'm
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by pxc 2y ago
Is it actually the case that local computation on mobile devices is much more expensive than running the radios? I was just the impression that peripherals like the speakers, real radios, and display often burn up much more power than local
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by pxc 2y ago
By WSL1. But WSL2 is a VM running a Linux kernel, not POSIX compatibility for Windows. There's still all kinds of pain and werodness surrounding the filesystem boundary with WSL2. And contemporary Windows still has lots of inconsistenc
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by pxc 2y ago
I think both very adoring dogs and rather challenging or independent-minded dogs can be really precious in their own ways. My mom had a boxer who was absolutely obsessed with her for his entire life. He was so eager to please her that she w
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by pxc 2y ago
An escape hatch like that can be really nice for trying software out on a temporary basis, before you know if you care about it enough to write a package and a service module. Given time limitations, I can imagine living with some applicati
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by pxc 2y ago
One trick that is popular in my family is to rest a treat on the tip of a dog's nose, tell them to wait, count silently for a few seconds, and then give them permission to eat it. (My sister's dog does it every day after his break
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by pxc 2y ago
Food is a primary reinforcers for all species. Neither humans nor dogs are special in that respect. I don't see why anyone should find that depressing. Spend some time training dogs and you'll also find both that food motivation c
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by pxc 2y ago
> For those who are on NixOS and can’t find `dc` $ nix-locate -r 'bin/dc$' | grep -o '^\w.*\.out' | xargs basename -s .out plan9port gavin-bc busybox bc _9base :)
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by pxc 2y ago
> and learn on the way In case you're interested in resources for this: I think _Learn Enough Developer Tools to Be Dangerous_ is a great start. I've been guiding my roommate through it as he studies, a chapter a week. If you d
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by pxc 2y ago
I don't think that's a conventional requirement. And having done both, I frankly don't find the hardware piece of the picture very interesting. It was never where most of the action was.
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by pxc 2y ago
Support for uptime-kuma is built into NixOS and documented here: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=24.05&from=0&size=5... As to your question: on NixOS there's no need to fuck around with volume mounts o
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by pxc 2y ago
> However, most self-hosted software is already "pre-packaged" in Docker containers. It's much easier to grab that "off-the-shelf" than have to build out something custom. Imo, the quality and documentation level
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by pxc 2y ago
It's really not that hard to run a server with a handful of applications on it, especially for personal/home use. It seems to me that when developers talk about this kind of thing they often massively overstate how much work is in
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by pxc 2y ago
> it would seem the most used browser by virtue of this fact has the best UI This doesn't follow at all. It's not how anything does or ever has worked. Consider your claim in the context of the days of IE6, if this is not obvio
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by pxc 2y ago
So what if the book is never scanned, but there's a video stream of a camera pointed at the book, and a robot turns its pages? If we make a video streaming jukebox for books, is it 'distributing copies'?
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by pxc 2y ago
> I wish Yubico had some serious competition, but sadly they don't. NitroHSM is not the same thing What's not the same thing as what? There's no NitroHSM (Nitrokey has 2 different HSM-related products that are different ki
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by pxc 2y ago
Ah yes, the ol' > Why don't we support Linux? Because we don't support Linux! runaround. When a company that mandates MDM chooses to buy an MDM software that lacks Linux support, that choice is the choice not to support

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