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by rgoulter 4y ago
> That creates risk when we decide to upgrade, should bugs be fixed or new tools be implemented. This is true of literally any dependency, though. Semver is supposed to grant you confidence that things won't change very much, but
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> The Nix team doesn't allow any community proposals for making changes to Flakes because it is still 'experimental' and hasn't yet gone through an RFC. You sound like you have something particular in mind. If I look
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> Should I use flakes or not? Every single library I find is a Nix Flake, but insists that Flakes are experimental. In this case, "it's experimental" should be read as "maybe the team will decide to make changes"
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I'm not aware of context, but looking at the latest release seems to have fewer changes compared to the releases before it. https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/release-notes/rl-2.11.ht...
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by rgoulter 4y ago
What free or open source projects have had good governance? The motivation for neovim being forked was a frustration with having a vim PR rejected over fear that something would break. The last few years neovim and vim have competed. '
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by rgoulter 4y ago
With Chromium and VSCode, there are 'pro-privacy' forks which which remove the telemetry from the codebase. With Windows, there isn't an equivalent ad-free option. I think "freedom to manipulate the source code" may
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by rgoulter 4y ago
To rephrase the statement more strongly: It's okay to use tools written by people who have done awful things. That seems entirely reasonable to me.
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by rgoulter 4y ago
The Security Keys now also support NFC. https://www.yubico.com/products/security-key/
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Sortof. AFAIU, asdf is for providing particular versions of tools (e.g. python, etc.). In the original post, guix is also used to provide library dependencies. Guix is the free software oriented, lisp flavored cousin of Nix. -- I've us
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Some people use the word "agile" as a noun, supposedly taking inspiration from the "manifesto for agile software development". -- In this sense, 'kanban board' just means "todo list arranged in columns&quo
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Carlsen's acting with strong compulsion that Niemann is a cheater. Withdrawing from a round-robin and losing a game on purpose are quite strong indications of this. It's obviously a bad situation for the chess world. ... But, I th
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by rgoulter 4y ago
"Only here’s the problem: As far as I know, there is not one shred of evidence that Niemann cheated — not only that, nobody even knows how he COULD have cheated. This was, after all, an over-the-board game, in person, he wasn’t allowed
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by rgoulter 4y ago
"Business team have an aggressive road map" and "productivity is abysmally low".
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> Or am I missing some quite important? Speaking as to "why would you not just use command line git, or VSCode integration". Two aspects: Speed, and discoverability. These are two things that magit massively improves upon the c
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by rgoulter 4y ago
What do you want to do? Or, what do you want to not do, that you're asking others? Things I'd suggest: - Take the time to sort out any feelings you have about your old job, if you'd benefit from doing so. - Take the time to s
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by rgoulter 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I was surprised to see in a HN comment the explanation that not everyone finds Factorio enthralling. The gameplay experience is so similar to what many developers do in their dayjobs, that this leads to one of two responses: "...and I
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by rgoulter 4y ago
One of the points GM Daniel Naroditsky has made about this is that even with the heightened security, it would still be possible to cheat in over-the-board events. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-51lNSe8U
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by rgoulter 4y ago
My impression reading the question is it's a low-tier outsourcing company. (Work is billed by the hour, only for approved tasks, code has to be auditing/approved by an external party). But e.g. considering "setup a packaging
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by rgoulter 4y ago
It's a self-assemble kit, but Keebio's BFO-9000 may have enough keys for you (2x6x9): https://keeb.io/products/bfo-9000-keyboard-customizable-full...
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I'd learned Dvorak years before trying these keyboards. (Eventually gave up, probably by not making the effort to switch the layout back from US). One minor benefit: the nice thing about external keyboards is the OS layout can be US la
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Missing a 'not', I think? I think the idea that Nix is difficult to get started with, and undocumented, isn't a surprise to the community. -- These were some of the most repeated points in the community survey. And the topic
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> If you know how to build the binary from scratch, could you teach the npm package's continuous build to do it? Sending a pull request fixing the npm package would fix it for everyone, not just nix users. The "I have a binary
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by rgoulter 4y ago
In nix expressions, sure; but bob uses YAML, and uses that to drive nix.
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by rgoulter 4y ago
The point is: a couple of the tough points in packaging something with Nix are "how to come up with the Nix expression", but also how to get the software you're packaging to build with the constraints Nix has (no fetching ext
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Both Bazel and Nix have some powerful features to them. (Though, oddly, they don't quite mix). I think they both also have downsides where, if your software does things in ways they don't like, it's difficult to use them. --
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I recall the sqlite changed their tmpfiles on Windows from "sqlite" to "etilqs".
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by rgoulter 4y ago
The easiest is to change the default: { avr ? true, arm ? true, teensy ? true }: Change `true` to `false` as needed, only keep the ones you need for you keyboard(s).
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Oops. Wrong word. I meant "separate volume". /nix could still be used if it's on a separate volume. Which still seems less nice than just having /nix on the same volume.
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by rgoulter 4y ago
One of Nix's benefits is it aims to isolate where programs are installed; so you can have multiple versions of the same program available without conflict. (e.g. programs built with different feature flags, or multiple minor versions).

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