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by rgoulter 4y ago
> 1. Does every nix-shell require building the whole world from ground-up? Seems impractical to me. It's the same as homebrew: If there's a cached binary already, it will download the cached binary. If not, it will fetch the so
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> they haven't been able to focus on the UX. I also feel like folks for whom Haskell is comfortable may not realize just how absurd it feels to everyone else. The majority of communication I've seen from Nix maintainers over th
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I agree with the preamble and the "our mission" stuff. I wish them success at bringing the benefits of nix to more users, but without it being limited to enthusiasts, and people who can afford to deal with rough edges. The "e
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by rgoulter 4y ago
> What is the reason for all this machinery? Nix wants to use /nix, but Apple wants macOS to be locked down and secure. The compromise was putting /nix on a separate volume. > I discovered it creates a new Unix group, ... in
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Which also doesn't work with system tray icons. (Although it's possible to install extensions which allow these).
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Nitpick: I think 'doomscrolling' is a slightly more precise term than just aimless consumption of infinitely scrolling content. My understanding is, 'doomscrolling' is more about content which outrages (albeit, also cons
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by rgoulter 4y ago
While maybe it's not very useful for your own bookmarking, there are other useful effects: - Saying "I think it's neat" internet points is kindof a nice kudos. It's relatively pleasing to see some stars on your repo
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Safari blocking searches for "asian" probably had more impact: https://9to5mac.com/2021/03/30/ios-14-5-no-longer-blocks-web...
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I get auto-repeat on space by doing tap-then-hold of the key. Apparently not for tab/return. - I presume the behaviour is configurable if that's something that suits you.
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> Do you retain standard qwerty staggered layout muscle memory? Yes, though I use a laptop's keyboard from time to time, which will help. I use row-stagger QWERTY, and use Dvorak on small, weird keyboards like this. I think learning
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by rgoulter 4y ago
The problem isn't really that "nix" can refer to the tool or the language. (e.g. it's not really a big deal to distinguish Java's compiler, VM, standard library, or language; and I'm not sure why you'd wan
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Two examples of malicious behaviour: (1) I have the server you're curling-into-bash. I write my server to check if it's piped into sh; if so, I instead pipe malicious statements. (2) I have the server you're downloading from.
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I used vim years ago, and the list looks like it was written then. e.g. the package management. vim-plug seems fine, it seems odd to me to mention the others. (Pathogen's readme now mentions that it recommends vim's built-in packa
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by rgoulter 4y ago
The reading of that phrase is "if something seems to good to be true, then it isn't [true]". It seems unhelpful that both "it is" and "it isn't" can be used to convey "it's not as good as it
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I think this makes sense considering that most of the cloud-native software is written with Go. (Docker / Podman, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, Terraform, etc.)
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Ah, I use 3+2 thumbkeys. (Tab, Esc, Space; Backspace, Enter). If I did have to go down to 2+2, I'd put Tab on an easy to access layer. That said, I think 2-3 is the number of thumb keys that are easy to reach. More than that, and it&#x
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Keeb.io does list prebuilt, where the store owner would build it for you. https://keeb.io/collections/pre-built-keyboards/products/iri... Pro'bly the most popular pre-built keyboard along the same lines
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by rgoulter 4y ago
One of the most popular layouts along these lines is the miryoku layout https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku To me the key concepts behind this are: - Home Row modifiers: putting Shift, Ctrl, Gui, Alt behind tap-ho
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by rgoulter 4y ago
It's not sufficient to be the whole point. With some security mechanism, I'd consider: 1. prevent other people from being able to use it. 2. recover from it in case it gets lost. If your perspective is "if I lose this laptop,
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Lichess' page on rating systems: https://lichess.org/page/rating-systems
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by rgoulter 4y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32550717 Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks (apple.com), 482 comments.
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Different cultural styles sometimes conflict. I liked Deborah Tannen's "You Just Don't Understand". She describes this pro-interruption style as "competitive", whereas pro-taking-turns is "collaborative&qu
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FWIW, the method in that xeiaso link (using resident keys on a security key) can be done with the cheaper "Security Keys" from Yubico, and doesn't need the more expensive Yubikey. -- The cheaper security key can be used as a
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by rgoulter 4y ago
As well as .keys, there's .gpg for GPG keys, and .png for the profile picture.
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I can tolerate having extra keys that I can't use. But I do strongly prefer having 2-3 keys for each thumb to use, rather than just having 1 big spacebar.
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QR code scanning is intended for mobile phone cameras as a way of communicating a TOTP secret. When presented with a TOTP secret, every website I've seen has presented the option to show the TOTP secret as text, which can be copied acr
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I think it's relegated to low-volume hobbyists. e.g. this is low-profile, wireless, and looks well made. https://lowprokb.ca/products/corne-ish-zen
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by rgoulter 4y ago
No, but I already spent time to learn tmux. (That, and I have the opinion that I'd rather keep any window fullscreen, and be able to quickly switch between windows; so I prefer having sessions of panes, rather than splitting panes). I
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by rgoulter 4y ago
I'd only recommend Helix (or kakoune) to someone willing to spend time learning keybindings. -- I do put helix in the same bucket as zellij as "exciting upcoming tools which are nice out of the box". which-key (from emacs) is
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by rgoulter 4y ago
TBH I like using tmux in kitty, but editing files and such in Emacs. I rarely bother splitting a tab into multiple panes (with either tool). I like tmux's model where I can switch to a different session quickly, or switch to a pane qui

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