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by pxc 8mo ago
What one considers fast or slow may vary, but the general rule is something like the following. - very fast? run it all the time (shell prompt drawing, if you want, like direnv) - fast? run it in a pre-commit hook - a bit slow? run
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by pxc 8mo ago
The standard way for this with current tools is to have the formatter/linter make the changes but exit with a non-zero status, failing the hook. Then the person reviews the changes, stages, and commits. (That's what our setup curr
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by pxc 8mo ago
I think of Git hooks as a useful guiderail for myself that I share with others. They sometimes help me reduce the length of iteration cycles for workflows (which I generally don't like) where one typically commits before running/d
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by pxc 8mo ago
> My main critique is that it mixes tool installation with linting If you use a tool like this via Devenv instead of using its built-in mechanisms for installing tools: - you can add a linter without putting it on your path - you c
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by pxc 8mo ago
Since no one makes Android devices with hardware keyboards anymore, I almost never use this kind of software anymore. After getting burned by a couple of Kickstarter phones hampered by half-baked software and total lack of updates, the only
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by pxc 8mo ago
Centralized automatic updates, like those of a Linux distribution or Microsoft's Windows Updates, involve giving permission to way fewer parties permission to download and run (unsigned, in the case of Notepad++ this time) code on your
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by pxc 8mo ago
Debian backports security patches.
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by pxc 8mo ago
> I am still surprised most Linux Distros haven't changed their package managers to allow for selling of proprietary solutions directly, fully opt-in by default of course. That's essentially being done with Flatpak. Linux is la
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by pxc 8mo ago
This is also how I use LLMs at work. I have some vague worries because I'm told this is outdated, I'm falling behind, etc. I'm doing it this way in part hecause my employer is a big, old, slow company and experienting with ot
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by pxc 8mo ago
Yes. My experience is that it doesn't require scolding, mocking, or criticizing anyone to get permabanned. Just being up front about the fact that you have concerns about the use case is enough for a permaban, even if you only bring th
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by pxc 8mo ago
Generally yes, they experience that routinely and complain and joke about it. Some of them do also describe such jarring experiences as making them cry for a long time. If you can be respectful and act like a guest, it's worth reading
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by pxc 8mo ago
In what sense is it "immersion" if there are only one or two French speakers in the room (the teacher and an assistant?)??
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by pxc 8mo ago
I dunno. Tbf that subreddit has a combination of - a large number of incredibly fragile users - extremely "protective" mods - a regular stream of drive-by posts that regulars there see as derogatory or insulting - a fair
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by pxc 8mo ago
The range of attitudes in there is interesting. There are a lot of people who take a fairly sensible "this is interactive fiction" kind of attitude, and there are others who bristle at any claim or reminder that these relationship
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by pxc 8mo ago
> The distro packages are too bureaucratic and too opinionated about all the wrong things. For example?
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by pxc 8mo ago
It could also be the novelty to me, to be honest. We'll see if I'm still using it in a few months. :)
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by pxc 8mo ago
> The 3D on it is a very neat trick, but it's mostly a distraction and there's something "uncanny valley"-like and unpleasant about it. I recently picked up a used New 3DS XL to give this a try for the first time, and
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by pxc 8mo ago
I've been working a lot in fairly complex shell scripts lately (though not long— not much over 1000 lines). Some of them are little programs that run locally, and others drive a composable cloud-init module for Terraform that lets lets
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by pxc 8mo ago
All three of those are "system package managers" (if you count winget as a package manager at all, which I would not). Pacman and APT are binary package managers while Homebrew is a source-based package manager. Cargo and NPM are
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by pxc 8mo ago
All this, and yet package management is still so much better than managing software any other way, and there are continually real advancements both in foundations and in UX. It is indeed full of wicked problems in a way that suggests there
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by pxc 9mo ago
Using GitHub as an issue tracker for proprietary software should be prohibited. Not that it would, these days. Codeberg at least has some integrity around such things.
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by pxc 9mo ago
> I get so annoyed when there's a longstanding bug that I know how to fix, the fix would be easy for me, but I'm not given the access I need in order to fix it. This exact frustration (in his case, with a printer driver) is res
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by pxc 9mo ago
(Actually, now that I think of it, that experiment with supervisor was pre-flakes, so probably shell.nix.)
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by pxc 9mo ago
You just plug Nix into a service manager that you have Nix bring along for you. Many years ago, I did this for a proof-of-concept at work with supervisord[1] and flake.nix. Devenv[2] builds in[3] support for process-compose[4], which GP men
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by pxc 9mo ago
Which packages did you notice that had issues? I'd like to take a look.
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by pxc 9mo ago
Small farmers are generally aware that this makes no financial sense. They're participating in a multigenerational family tradition. There are also typically relatives urging those still farming to sell the farm so they can get their s
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by pxc 9mo ago
GP has also taken these issues and personalized them. They're about impact and access, not whether the person raising the idea is racist or a xenophobe or whatever.
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by pxc 9mo ago
I just took a look in F-Droid, and it looks like there are more than 20 launchers in F-Droid that are under active development (updated within the past three months). A lot of them are very different from each other, and a few look quite n
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by pxc 9mo ago
> In my late teens/early 20s, I went through a "phase" where I obsessed with getting "purer and purer". This was mixed with a weird obsession with non-x86 hardware, as well. Lots of NetBSD, FreeBSD and Illumos us
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by pxc 9mo ago
The analogy with Android and Linux is dead-on. As is the confusing language with which people talk about these things. "Android isn't Linux" and "macOS isn't Unix" aren't quite the right way to express the

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