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by tazjin 5y ago
In "modern" stacks it is preferable to do things like layouting of formulas millions of times on the clients, instead of once on the server. I guess that sort of thing needs JS.
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by tazjin 5y ago
Cloudflare really doesn't make much of a difference for HN. The last front page traffic I saw (~a week ago?) was still at most a handful of QPS. Any nginx instance with default configuration serving static files from any modern compute
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by tazjin 5y ago
Plenty of places are pretty much normal. If you want normalcy, you need to go to it - it won't come to you at this point.
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by tazjin 5y ago
That's not what anyone is doing though. You can run Nix with minor tweaks to e.g. its garbage collector settings[0] and you'll quickly see it crash in various ways. Memory safety is a real concern in programs, not a buzzword. [0]:
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by tazjin 5y ago
Твикс - does that help?) It seems that North Americans struggle with the word, but most Europeans (including Brits) don't. Don't know enough about linguistics to guess why! Try saying "Twix" the way you'd imagine a
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by tazjin 5y ago
> Nix does not have a formal specification: Nix is what its C/C++ implementation says. Yep, and this causes a whole lot of issues. In tandem with evaluator development we are writing an initial language specification which will repr
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by tazjin 5y ago
Yep, we'd like that, too! Our current thinking around the evaluator design incorporates the idea of evaluation with/without a Nix store, where using the language itself (e.g. to generate JSON structures or whatever) should be perf
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by tazjin 5y ago
Nix is a much older language than Dhall, this seems like a weird argument to me.
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by tazjin 5y ago
> You have the advantage that all existing production Nix code is known to terminate in short order You don't really know this - there are many code paths in nixpkgs that are never touched during Hydra evaluation (various overrides,
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by tazjin 5y ago
The background on our side is that we did do quite a lot of profiling and investigation of the current evaluator - last year, informally, over video chats and IRC. We have a bunch of logs and various perf measurements spread out over some m
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by tazjin 5y ago
No, we are writing an implementation of the Nix language. Nixpkgs is written in Nix and we believe that's the most important part of the ecosystem, so Tvix will support it.
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by tazjin 5y ago
For the core parts of Tvix we won't have any OS-specific dependencies, but each platform will need a working builder and sandbox implementation. I suspect that OpenBSD has at least one OCI-compatible sandboxing/containerisation me
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by tazjin 5y ago
The answer to that is to make the decision for yourself and then move to an appropriate area of the world where the policies match your decision. Some areas will stick to this for a very long time because it's now part of an identity f
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by tazjin 5y ago
HN traffic isn't that large, maybe a few requests per second.
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by tazjin 5y ago
Consumers don't really get a choice about this, same as with headphone ports. Every generation of phones is bigger and even if they buy the smallest of the bigger phones, the average still increases. Voting with your wallet only works
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by tazjin 5y ago
My phone is a Unihertz Atom L, I've had it for a few months now. It's a good phone. Not the lightest, but the screen is a comfortable size and it has the most important feature of a phone for me - a headphone jack.
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by tazjin 5y ago
Gerrit is probably high up on the "Most underrated dev tools" list. People don't like it because it really uses git (which people don't really like) and doesn't have a flashy UI, but it is so good .
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by tazjin 5y ago
Monzo. It's the default in fact, since in order to get an overdraft you need to do a credit application.
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by tazjin 5y ago
I don't think that's really true outside of the US.
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by tazjin 5y ago
I used to work at Google/DeepMind and don't remember anyone even asking about it during the original interview process. (I did not go to uni)
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by tazjin 5y ago
I think it's interesting that there are Emacs users who use it for so long and yet still regard it as a text editor. For me it's a window manager, mail client, terminal emulator and so much more and I don't know of a rivaling
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by tazjin 5y ago
There's nothing in the comment that "questions" CRISPR, it's just pointing out that due to the larger space of possibilities more care needs to be taken with it.
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by tazjin 5y ago
That's also not what they wrote, they used it as an analogy - in the sense that mRNA can express one very specific thing, and CRISPR can express a much wider variety of things. It's not about literal turing-completeness.
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by tazjin 5y ago
No, they auto-approve after 3 workdays and in my experience this is what usually happens with "questionable" peer bonuses.
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by tazjin 5y ago
It's not each month. You can send a lot of them. There's a theoretical limit and a bunch of restrictions but in practice they're unenforced.
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by tazjin 5y ago
Russian also has this for feminine plural accusative.
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by tazjin 5y ago
I don't know what the situation is now that Blizzard is no longer really Blizzard, but back in the early years of WoW this was - in large part - because almost every other MMO that launched just plain sucked . Blizzard was to the gami
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by tazjin 5y ago
On Android, Google Translate in Safari doesn't work on AMP pages which I find somewhat ironic.
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by tazjin 5y ago
The amount of random encoding problems that still exist are so bizarre. I recently left a UK job after already leaving the country more than a year ago, and in their attempt to mail P45 form to my new address (in Moscow) the only bits that
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by tazjin 5y ago
In Gerrit, the review unit is commonly one commit. IMO the Github pattern of bundling several changes in one review is a mistake.

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