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by ris 1y ago
It's weird to me that TALA is considered the "special sauce" layout engine, because I've only ever had it produce extremely weird layouts for me. I always tend to end up using ELK.
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by ris 1y ago
I much prefer d2 https://d2lang.com/ Only downside is AFAIK no in-browser renderer.
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by ris 1y ago
I would much much prefer the cited "awful" syntax over the proposed loop syntax any day. Don't make me run a little virtual machine in my head to figure out what the end result of a block of code is going to be.
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by ris 1y ago
Let's take this thing to Canada.
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by ris 1y ago
I think it's about more than just having ABI stability - the rust ecosystem is built around applications being able to demand exact micro-versions of every dependency and that falls apart when you want multiple non-cooperative applicat
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by ris 1y ago
This is cool, but still (...HN formatting fail, imagine shell output showing the nixpkgs bash binary is 1.1M, the brush binary is 6.9M...) with no prospect of further amortizing that size through shared libraries. Without shared libraries t
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by ris 1y ago
Please see yesterday's https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/29/chatgpt-is-not-bad-for... instead of propagating the hand-wringing.
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by ris 1y ago
Distributions tend to use shell-script-wrapped compilers that can inject additional flags desired by the distribution, and in all likelihood distributions will just add flags that force the old behaviour if there are problems.
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by ris 2y ago
Yeah sure if you want to get zero guarantees about any of the versions of anything you're getting.
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by ris 2y ago
Worst part of GitHub Actions? Its encouragement of the total misuse of containers as what have essentially become installer scripts - complete with all the flakiness you'd imagine. Go look at your workflows and see how much of the runt
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by ris 2y ago
Have you ever donated? What services do you want that shouldn't be available to non-paying users.
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by ris 2y ago
Some people are very good at this, e.g. https://app.media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9614-inside_the_amd_microcod...
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by ris 2y ago
Still waiting for someone to train an LLM entirely from sources written before a chosen date and be able to discuss concepts with someone apparently lacking any knowledge of the world after that date.
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by ris 2y ago
> Restate is open source and you can download it at... https://github.com/restatedev/restate/blob/main/LICENSE#L1 > Business Source License 1.1 https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1
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by ris 2y ago
Why? It just isn't what draws me to Nix. I've never even really tried NixOS on the desktop TBH.
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by ris 2y ago
I think this is quite a fair commentry (although I quite like the Nix language personally) - as a nixpkgs developer even I don't use NixOS on the desktop. For me it shines on servers and development environments.
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by ris 2y ago
No, I'm not going to give you access to WebGL just to show me a map.
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by ris 2y ago
Those tricks cover a very small subset of dynamic queries, and if you don't give your developers a proper tool to do dynamic queries in, your code will start growing these funny string-formatting-based query-mangling functions that hav
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by ris 2y ago
And you end up with no canonical declaration of the schema in your application code, leaving developers to mentally apply potentially tens, hundreds of migrations to build up an idea of what the tables are expected to look like.
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by ris 2y ago
This is a fun article, but the whole "dependency resolution problem" is a bit of a wild goose chase anyway, because the underlying data you're basing it all on (what package authors publish as their version constraints) is on
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by ris 2y ago
> A nation state can probably buy the building across the street if that's the value of hacking your system. So make them spend that money. Or, more likely, convince them to refocus on a cheaper target.
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by ris 2y ago
Terraform
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by ris 2y ago
I'm not really convinced of the value of such attestations until a second party can reproduce the build themselves on their own hardware. Putting aside the fact that the mechanisms underpinning Github Actions are a mystery black box, t
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by ris 2y ago
Further to this, don't underestimate how powerful git diff | sed | git apply can be for mass edits of files.
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by ris 2y ago
Nothing?
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by ris 2y ago
Just Say No to "endpoint security"
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by ris 2y ago
This sounds like a message written from a time before NixOS.
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by ris 2y ago
How about you stop trying to create package managers for every single language/ecosystem in existence and instead converge on trying to solve the whole problem once and for all with Nix.
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by ris 2y ago
Makefiles become a horrific technology the minute dynamic variables and the ensuing escaping games get involved. Massive footgun. Bash is already a fairly bonkers language (think from a junior engineer's perspective) and Makefiles so f
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by ris 2y ago
Implementing a very cut-down and basic sketch of the business rules of a particular observable effect can allow you to cover a lot of cases in a very compact and digestible form without falling into the traps that your actual business rul

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