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1. 391.▲
   by spindle 7y ago

   I WANT to say that a Citroen DS's adjustable suspension could be genuinely useful in some situations. But presumably nowadays DSs are so old that they break down all the time, and the fact that I want to forgive them nicely illustrate
2. 392.▲
   by spindle 7y ago

   I agree - the book's main claim has been the orthodoxy in history of science for decades. (No doubt there are many new details in the book - I haven't read it.)
3. 393.▲
   by spindle 7y ago

   And Delta Chat encrypts not only messages but also metadata, right? Although only when used properly - again, there's no point in relying on Delta Chat if your correspondent is going to forward your messages to people on gmail.
4. 394.▲
   by spindle 7y ago

   IMO this author is very good at philosophy of mathematics as well as mathematics. He's not COMPLETELY alone in that, but it is refreshing.
5. 395.▲
   by spindle 7y ago

   Yes, there are places that are using NixOS in production. I don't know the details, so this is a placeholder for someone else to fill in - or else ask on the NixOS subreddit or IRC channel.
6. 396.▲
   by spindle 7y ago

   And also, if I understand correctly, NixOS and Guix need much less help from developers than this proposal would have. Specifically, NixOS and Guix don't care how anyone names anything (except, of course, their dogs).
7. 397.▲
   by spindle 7y ago

   I see the article says "oldest continuously operating". Sigh. I wish the headline were accurate.
8. 398.▲
   by spindle 7y ago

   That's not the oldest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
9. 399.▲
   by spindle 7y ago

   Me too. I think (hope) that the NixOS community won't end up doing all the work it would take to break up the existing monorepo; instead they'll just add a few small additional repos.
10. 400.▲
    by spindle 7y ago

    As someone who's read a lot of work on the philosophy of quantum mechanics, I want to say that this piece is VERY well written. (And I wasn't the person who posted it to HN.)
11. 401.▲
    by spindle 7y ago

    Someone will save money by no longer having to store the prototype artefacts ... unless we're in any danger of running out of caesium atoms.
12. 402.▲
    by spindle 7y ago

    I believe some operating systems have patches to get around this problem? See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/61076 for example.
13. 403.▲
    by spindle 7y ago

    Thank you for your work. (Does that count as a question?)
14. 404.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    OMG yes! Possibly the best design of anything of any kind ever.
15. 405.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    Well said.
16. 406.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    P.S. Also, Mullvad's staff have been doing some work to try to improve wireguard.
17. 407.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    Mullvad, because it has a good interface for port forwarding, and I kinda like the fact that it supports wireguard. It's also fast and reliable (but so are many of the others), and apparently has good privacy. I've previously use
18. 408.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    There are MANY foundations for set theory, some of them very different from each other. It's completely pointless to treat the subject as briefly as this post does.
19. 409.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    I'm not the person you're replying to, but stumpwm just works in NixOS.
20. 410.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    Just to clarify, they do the final mix and mastering of each piece on a variety of speakers. But right - the closer they get to the finished product the less they care how it sounds through expensive equipment.
21. 411.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    Most Nix packages, yes, but the NixOS packages specifically (the ones that build Linux), probably not. NixOS and Guix have slightly different philosophies, e.g. about nonfree software (Guix is generally opposed to including it, although I&
22. 412.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    I know that Nix users respect Guix (well, the ones who talk on IRC, at the very least), and I'm sure it's mutual ... and I think it's very helpful to make this mutual respect public!
23. 413.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    I totally agree, but that's because I've read more details about this idea elsewhere. Could you (or someone else) please post citations to more explanations?
24. 414.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    I don't know why it was initially deemed preferable, but as a user it was really nice to have something different for a change.
25. 415.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    For rock and jazz music: by finding out who my already-favourite musicians have been playing with. For classical music: by word of mouth and by reading musicologists.
26. 416.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    L.J. Savage, Foundations of Statistical Inference, 1962 and (if this counts as old) Berger and Wolpert, The Likelihood Principle, 1984
27. 417.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    Great work! Thank you! At the moment it seems that a lot of NixOS users (including me) prefer a keyboard-centric window manager to a full desktop environment, but obviously (well I think it's obvious, anyway) there's a place for
28. 418.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    Are you sure they don't? NixOS can be installed on top of any Linux distribution, unless the hardware is really weird. ETA: It looks like it is complicated, but might work. See https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_AR
29. 419.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    You really don't understand? I also (like you) don't use a DE, and I'm very happy that way, but in order to get to that I had to learn some stuff from scratch. It seems obvious to me that almost everyone who comes from MacO
30. 420.▲
    by spindle 8y ago

    I agree ... and could we see the system you mention in your last paragraph, please, or hear more about it?