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by revscat 5y ago
I have a Makefile that I use when I need to spin up a new laptop [1]. For your description it sounds like it is functionally similar. What does nix bring that a Makefile like this one doesn’t? [1] https://github.com/jchilder
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by revscat 5y ago
> Smart tab completion not only for the commands but for the arguments as well, and it apparently does that by parsing man pages. And it does this every time you spawn a shell. So if you have set your login shell to fish, then every time
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by revscat 5y ago
Why don’t you write a script that does that?
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Why do you think she was telling the truth? People’s instincts in such situations are for self-preservation, and shifting blame elsewhere is common.
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by revscat 5y ago
Democratic Socialists also have a good track record here.
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by revscat 5y ago
The universal emergent behavior of capitalism. It may not be by design, but is as certain as gravity. Capitalism is wholly incompatible with morality, unless you definite morality itself to be capitalism.
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by revscat 5y ago
Also agree. For me, I want to be able to do simple "for each file run this command" loops in the shell. But if those loops get much more complicated than that then I switch over to Ruby.
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by revscat 5y ago
I used fish for around a year and a half and wound up switching back to zsh. fish's startup time is way too long for my tastes, and the devs seem completely uninterested in providing a "don't load plugins" flag. I open u
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by revscat 5y ago
There seems to exist in some circles a slippery slope fantasy, where if today we are asked or required to do X then tomorrow will assuredly bring totalitarianism.
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by revscat 5y ago
You’re not entirely wrong, but one of the effects of the AT&T breakup was to allow customers to hook up non-AT&T approved devices to their lines. This lead to the popularization of things like answering machines and modems. The latt
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by revscat 5y ago
If dark energy is driven by a new light degree of freedom coupled to matter and photons then dark energy quanta are predicted to be produced in the Sun.” This seems very interesting but I do not understand it. This seems to be saying that
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by revscat 5y ago
This seems to be a reasonable take to me. Systems like Autopilot make driving safer. I'm worried that the conventional wisdom on HN is (a) that systems like Autopilotmust be perfect, which will never be attained, and (b) extremely loat
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by revscat 5y ago
It is great. I own a Model S with autopilot, and have since early 2018. I have driven it across some dozen states, and two Canadian provinces. It is far perfect, but it is very, very good, and makes long drives much less stressful and tires
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by revscat 5y ago
Tribalism may be the cause, but the cure (perhaps) is to approach these things in good faith. There are so many bad faith actors out there whose primary purpose is to evangelize, intentionally sow division, or both.
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by revscat 5y ago
Such as?
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by revscat 5y ago
Reading articles like this has the surprising effect of making me wish for something analogous to the Java Community Process. Improvements to the language can be proposed by organizations or individuals. Here, Chris (or -- more likely -- Sh
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by revscat 5y ago
> Simply and agreeably assert your rights. More people do it than you think. Police culture in America is based around disgust and disdain for the notion of “rights”. You can try standing up for your rights, but that is likely to be resp
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by revscat 5y ago
This seeks accurate. The rise of totalitarianism and fascism worldwide seems to largely be the responsibility of Murdoch, Putin, and some American billionaires (among others, I’m sure). For Australia, though, it seems that Murdoch’s fascis
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by revscat 5y ago
For now. Going to be much more difficult for this to continue when the average temperatures are 10° higher. And I can very well see a situation arise where nuclear weapons are used because of pressures from climate change, say between India
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by revscat 5y ago
You don’t know that, have no way of knowing that, and have no proof of it. This is simply your opinion, and, like assholes, everyone has one. (And I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt here, because honestly I have zero expectation that
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by revscat 5y ago
> I’m assuming Literally the first two sentences of TFA address this.
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The article is reporting upon a scientific study. It is up to you to decide what that means, not them. If you choose to act on it by complaining about tone then that is your problem, not theirs. Perhaps instead you yourself should do someth
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by revscat 5y ago
This is the go-to response on HN now when it comes to articles related to the environment. It’s general form is: “it’s not what they say, it’s how they say it.” IOW: nonsensical replies that steer the conversation away from the point being
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by revscat 5y ago
> chef-solo is a command that executes Chef Infra Client in a way that does not require the Chef Infra Server in order to converge cookbooks. I have never used Chef. This is babble to me.
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by revscat 5y ago
… ok? How is this relevant?
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I question this as well. A citation would certainly be helpful.
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The models were wrong. Everything is much worse. Humanity sees its doom and responds with angry, self-righteous narcissism, denial, and sarcasm. Chemistry doesn’t care about liberty.
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It’s not, though. It is genuinely a nice break. The very first road trip I took on mine was with my three teenage children. It was a moderately lengthy trip, from Texas to Colorado. After we got back home I asked them which they preferred,
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by revscat 5y ago
Good.
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4. Suffer the fate of so many species before us and go extinct. I no longer believe humanity is capable of saving itself. Our hypersexual narcissism are blinders preventing us from seeing that which we don’t want to see, but need to in orde

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