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by wmertens 7y ago
This was a fascinating and humbling read, and only after reading did I realize this was almost 3 years old… What are they animating now? Snowstorms with individual unique flakes?
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by wmertens 8y ago
It's slowly moving out of the hobbyist realm though - there has been a consistent output of "stable" releases with very little problems upgrading. One reason it hasn't gotten much traction yet might be because the percei
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by wmertens 8y ago
Regarding the laziness, i kick while scooting, making it go faster which is very dynamic and lots of fun, although it doesn't seem to impact the range.
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by wmertens 8y ago
I have a twin model, the Stryder Zoom, and my experience is similar. I get 16 km out of a charge, which is exactly my daily commute, so I charge it at work too. On snow it was behaving quite ok, but indeed lower range. My main worry is that
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by wmertens 8y ago
Put on skiing gear and you can do it in winter too. Works great.
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by wmertens 9y ago
It still doesn't explain why the tip has to be a percentage. Makes no sense.
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by wmertens 9y ago
I always pay by card and where I live you can't add a tip so I never tip.
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by wmertens 9y ago
My bank's app sends a notification for every transaction. So normally, I pay, and seconds later my wrist buzzes and I can check the amount. Thanks to this I caught a fraudulent online transaction for 1.2 million columbian pesos(?) and
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by wmertens 9y ago
Isn't the toilet paper there meant to dry/clean your hand after you used the latter to clean your downstairs area using the water that is also near the toilet?
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by wmertens 9y ago
As an example, gcc includes code generators that try a few random things in order to optimize code. So two builds, on the same system, won't result in the same byte code. Also, build stamps like time, PID, path etc.
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by wmertens 9y ago
Also, the OS X windowmanager has a memory leak and you have to resart every so often. Yesterday mine was 22GB and after restart <100MB… Nothing to do with Nix, just venting ;-)
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by wmertens 9y ago
Cool! Indeed, Rez does something similar on the package management side. For Nix, this is almost a side-effect, however. Nix's primary task is to describe how to build packages, and the entire OS is just another package that groups all
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by wmertens 9y ago
Tell apple they can only recognize your face if it shows a certain expression
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by wmertens 9y ago
I keep hoping that FaceID will also get FacePassword, where you have to show one or more expressions in order. Then it becomes a password, and the police can't force you to change your expression.
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by wmertens 9y ago
* NixOps lets you define the complete layout of your deployment (in Nix, obviously): how many VMs, what they should be running, where they should be running. * NixOps works on whole machine + transformation of machine level: NixOps builds a
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by wmertens 9y ago
Note that with nixops, you can pass variables to the whole deployment configuration, and as such, your deployment is "dynamic" if you reconfigure it often enough :) Here's a deployment of mesos where you can specify how many
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by wmertens 9y ago
So, I recently saw a study claiming that memory management-related issues constituted 25% of attacks, the rest was other vectors. I may be misremembering, but in any case, simply getting rid of memory faults does not get rid of all attack v
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by wmertens 10y ago
their repo is full of slightly adapted other packages. If they are 100% React compat, why would they need rax-redux? :-S
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by wmertens 10y ago
* 2003 Nix & nixpkgs Language and packages * 2007 NixOS Linux distribution * 2009 Hydra Continuous Integration * 2011 NixOps Cloud deployer * 2013 First stable NixOS branch (from http://wmertens.github.io/nixos-cfgmgmtca
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by wmertens 10y ago
Ex-Gentoo dev here. It is not the same. Gentoo emerge runs in place, and you can definitely break your system with a broken build. NixOS on the other hand, builds everything in sandboxes that only expose the requested dependencies. Builds a
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by wmertens 12y ago
One big difference is that _the entire system_ is built using Nix, including configuration files. Nothing in /etc is editable, everything goes through /etc/nixos/configuration.nix followed by a `nixos-rebuild switch` (do