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by ris 5y ago
> requiring me to find and copy hashes of things Put an incorrect hash in. Run the build. The error will tell you what hash it actually got. Copy that. Run build again.
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by ris 5y ago
> The biggest drawback is installing Nix on OS X is a huge pain Did it on an aarch64 mac the other day. One command (two?), 15 minutes, done.
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by ris 5y ago
It is possible to use from a completely unprivileged environment by putting the nix store in your home directory instead of `/nix`. But (and it's a big but) you'll then have to build all packages from scratch because the ha
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by ris 5y ago
Not very actively maintained these days but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvdisaster stores error correction codes in the remaining space on an optical disk, without affecting its readability by unaware systems.
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by ris 5y ago
There's a degree to which I agree with this, but the advantage monoliths have is the "opinionated" frameworks (chiefly Rails, Django and the like) that hand-hold a less competent team towards a sane design. In comparison, bui
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by ris 5y ago
Except in my experience most attempts at microservices scale extremely poorly because they have nowhere near enough precision in their APIs to get just the information you need and so most applications end up fetching way, way more data t
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by ris 5y ago
The problem is that there are so many developers now who have never had any experience of anything that isn't some botched attempt at microservices. The idea that it's possible to encapsulate code and separate concerns in any othe
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by ris 5y ago
"Diffuse" has come to my rescue in the past when I've needed to do the odd 6-way diff (don't ask)
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by ris 5y ago
> LibreOffice, VSCode, Gimp/Inkscape and everything JetBrains has to offer just doesn't make the cut yet. But we are getting close by each passing year. I've been reading effectively this sentence for well over a decade an
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by ris 5y ago
This is also sometimes unavoidable because not all test suites are built very robustly. One often comes across projects with test suites that the author only intended for their own use and doesn't care if it fails on other peoples syst
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by ris 5y ago
The real bug here is not having a test for this, or not running the tests as part of the packaging process. We should not have situations where packages are so sensitive that a small change to them should be considered unsafe. Open Source i
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by ris 5y ago
Running a snowflake https://snowflake.torproject.org/ certainly gets connections from Russian IPs, so the obfuscation must be succeeding to some extent.
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by ris 5y ago
What Google does with their keys is known only to Google. Google also have various commercial pressures which can compromise their behaviour (on that note, have we even managed to stop Certificate Authorities selling carte-blanche certifica
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by ris 5y ago
> I have been writing for years that package managers are a big security risk "Wild-west"-style package managers (more specifically, their repos) are a big security risk. It's possible to have far more confidence in "
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by ris 5y ago
I'm interested in what the legal basis for this is. If someone found a way to circumvent the check (and presumably they will), what law would they be breaking by unlocking everything in sight?
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by ris 5y ago
See `dockerTools` for using Nix to build very minimal docker images.
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by ris 5y ago
> For me it's a total lack of any description of the nix language. I just have no idea what I'm looking at, and nowhere (last time I looked, which I admit was some time ago) explained what tokens make up the language. Some show
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by ris 5y ago
Just a reminder that the term "online casino" is one of the most expensive google adwords terms in existence.
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by ris 5y ago
Yes, the only reason I say "solved" is that this approach will only help for suites of many small tools that ship together.
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by ris 5y ago
My guess is people will start "solving" this kind of problem through multi-call binaries a la busybox.
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by ris 5y ago
Can't wait until the crows start stealing cigarettes out of peoples hands or mouths.
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by ris 5y ago
I honestly think that Nix is one of those things where "going all in" is one of the worst things you can do. Running a desktop system on NixOS is quite a tricky prospect for someone with no experience of Nix and you'll like
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by ris 5y ago
> You're assuming that an async event context switch is somehow vastly less costly than an OS context switch They are, and this is the entire premise green threads are built on. An OS context switch has to do a lot more including sw
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by ris 5y ago
It depends what you mean by "choke". I think the parents consider "choke" to mean "will focus on one long-running task at the expense of any other task that needs to run". The GIL means that multiple threads wo
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by ris 5y ago
The more classic example is probably Feistel ciphers.
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by ris 5y ago
They are still generally found to be slower to use than sequential primary keys in postgresql.
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by ris 5y ago
Please Just Say No. Docopt is the sort of thing that seems like it would work wonderfully but you'd be surprised how quickly you end up running into a situation that is ambiguous or just impossible to represent using docopt. On the oth
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by ris 5y ago
For a few years now I have been trying to resist filling my room/house with old VHS tapes for this purpose. This missing piece of the puzzle is not making it any easier.
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by ris 5y ago
Nix. There isn't an ensmallen package yet, but I wouldn't imagine it will take long and I guess it'll be a 20-30 line package.
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by ris 5y ago
The rpath trick you mention is how Nix actually works, but the difficulty is in convincing build routines to obey it. I'd estimate less than a quarter of the packages in nixpkgs have "well-behaved" build routines where it&#x2

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