wasting_time

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   by wasting_time 6mo ago

   Didn't Google recently report a verifiable quantum advantage? https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/research/qu...
2. 62.▲
   by wasting_time 6mo ago

   Gemini seems more tailored towards information retrieval and product integration (including Android and even iOS via Apple's deal). Google may reckon they can't (yet) reconcile their vision of Gemini with the raw coding performanc
3. 63.▲
   by wasting_time 6mo ago

   "Elegant weapons for a more civilized age." https://xkcd.com/297/
4. 64.▲
   by wasting_time 6mo ago

   https://archive.is/ZSvop
5. 65.▲
   by wasting_time 6mo ago

   "Meet hot local singles in Moon Orbit today!" https://xkcd.com/713/
6. 66.▲
   by wasting_time 7mo ago

   Care to elaborate?
7. 67.▲
   by wasting_time 7mo ago

   You can just install Nix on Fedora and grab it from there.
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   by wasting_time 7mo ago

   The key point is that all such tweaks to the system is managed in a one configuration file. While installing Hyprland may be a one-liner, configuring it and all other services from a single entry point is incredibly liberating. Reverting ch
9. 69.▲
   by wasting_time 7mo ago

   > it's the only game in town Hey now, LLMs are pretty good at Guix, too.
10. 70.▲
    by wasting_time 7mo ago

    No. To gain that level of control you need a declarative distro. Immutability and rollbacks are merely nice side effects of the Nix model.
11. 71.▲
    by wasting_time 7mo ago

    If anything, the POSIX passwd specification should be updated to include age instead of introducing yet another dependency on systemd for something that affects the entire ecosystem.
12. 72.▲
    by wasting_time 7mo ago

    I install from F-Droid when possible. It has less noise, and all apps are free as in software. There are some true gems such as:
13. 73.▲
    by wasting_time 7mo ago

    The VPS should just be their home router, and then have the ISP provide the domain name. Uploading the web site could be a discovered Samba or NFS share. Hopefully IPv6 can make self hosting viable again.
14. 74.▲
    by wasting_time 7mo ago

    Which things do not "just work"?
15. 75.▲
    by wasting_time 7mo ago

    Likely a typo of State Of The Art.
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    Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks(phoronix.com)

    17 points by wasting_time 7mo ago|1 comments
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    by wasting_time 7mo ago

    I wonder how many more sales Apple would get if they published enough specs to make Asahi et.al. first-class.
18. 78.▲
    by wasting_time 7mo ago

    I thought Celeste was a solo project of Maddy Thorson [0] before reading this piece. 0: https://maddymakesgames.com/ Fans of Celeste will almost certainly enjoy the local multiplayer game Towerfall by the same developers.
19. 79.▲
    by wasting_time 7mo ago

    MS-DOS itself is derived from QDOS, which stands for "Quick and Dirty Operating System". Things only went downhill from there.
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    by wasting_time 7mo ago

    With the enormous budgets we allocate in the name of "national security", this is exactly the kind of work I expect TLAs to do. Instead we have come to expect them to cowardly sit on exploits, or actively introduce them, rather th
21. 81.▲
    by wasting_time 8mo ago

    Why?
22. 82.▲
    by wasting_time 8mo ago

    For servers you might want to try 'guix deploy': https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix...
23. 83.▲
    by wasting_time 9mo ago

    I do the same. Somehow it feels safer than running a sandbox with my own user, despite the only security boundary being Unix permissions. Claude gets all the packages it needs through Guix.
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    by wasting_time 9mo ago

    ICYMI expands to "in case you missed it", ICYMI.
25. 85.▲
    by wasting_time 9mo ago

    fly.io launched something like that recently: https://sprites.dev/
26. 86.▲
    by wasting_time 9mo ago

    NixOS and Guix are fairly established in this regard. macOS is certified Unix, and necessarily implements the "legacy" cruft.
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    by wasting_time 10mo ago

    Is there any model that is actually free as in freedom (not necessarily gratis)?
28. 88.▲
    by wasting_time 10mo ago

    They can't be heard over the faint booing from the Solaris crowd.
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    by wasting_time 10mo ago

    I had the same confusion. Even without considering NixOS, "learnix" is awkward to pronounce and somewhat pretentious. I would suggest the name "Leanix" if the author is willing to rename. It rhymes with Minix which is th
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    by wasting_time 10mo ago

    https://archive.is/jTCRB