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by zimbatm 4y ago
Have you ever tried sending money abroad? With BTC/ETH/USDC it takes seconds. The whole process is entirely transparent. It doesn't get blocked if you reach some threshold. And the fees are smaller than with the traditional b
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by zimbatm 4y ago
It's not possible to block C2 without also helping censorship on the Internet. Whatever mechanism is used to hide one traffic is going to be used by the other one, and reversely. Morally, the question is which one is the most important
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by zimbatm 4y ago
Look at the ratio instead: 4k open vs 162k closed. Or 4k open vs 80k+ packages. If we split things up, there will be less open PRs per project of course. But I doubt the ratio will be much better. It will actually increase the number of PRs
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by zimbatm 4y ago
AWS Control Tower is great to set all of this up. It's basically a layer on top of AWS SSO, AWS Org, Cloudtrail, AWS Config. With some sane default security policies.
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by zimbatm 4y ago
It seems odd that `scalar` is not a sub-command of `git`. Does anybody know the reason behind this?
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by zimbatm 4y ago
I have had cases where Terraform would OOM because each Terraform provider instance maps to a fresh new Go process. Most of the time this approach is not an issue, and it works really well. But you need to be aware that it's best to ke
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by zimbatm 4y ago
That's the life of the package maintainer. You get grief from users that complain about upstream issues, and upstream that doesn't like you reporting issues to them.
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by zimbatm 4y ago
Oracle and Document Foundation are coming from different places. I don't know if it's fair to compare them like that. One reason that Oracle lost control of their projects is that the motivation behind is clearly profit-driven. It
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by zimbatm 4y ago
One question that often comes up on HN is how to make open source sustainable. This is one avenue that will allow funding of open source applications. What we found out with Spotif, Netflix, ... is that people are willing to pay for a conv
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by zimbatm 4y ago
Does this mean that a software upgrade will change the keys?
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by zimbatm 4y ago
For a more modern iteration of that idea, check out https://github.com/nlewo/nix2container It has all the benefits of OP but produces the images much faster, and with less on-disk usage.
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by zimbatm 4y ago
For those who don't know; LtU is a programming language design treasure trove. It has been around for 20(?) years. It's a great place for curious minds that like to explore and discuss new ideas and go down less trotthen paths. Hi
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by zimbatm 4y ago
Update: new code started landing in https://code.tvl.fyi
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by zimbatm 4y ago
There has been a bit of a pause while tazjin was exploring how to use Nix as a monorepo build system, together with Gerrit. Now that this is done, he recently started writing a new Nix interpreter that will better scale for big repos. I don
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by zimbatm 4y ago
Exactly. Each software has a shape that makes sense, in the eye of the creator. That shape might change but it has to stay internally consistent somehow. Unlike companies, we don't have to eternally grow the software to satisfy every c
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by zimbatm 4y ago
The best thing to do is to decide where your boundaries are, and then tell them. I was in your position many times. I was so frustrated to feel like the other person was entitled to my time. Then I had to fight my urges to tell them to fuck
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by zimbatm 4y ago
Yes, LSM trees are specifically designed with this propery in mind.
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Nix Packaging, the Heretic Way(zimbatm.com)
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by zimbatm 4y ago
The next evolution will be a shared build system. If the builds done by the developer can be cached and shared with the CI, CI's role is lessened to just a gate-keeper. Most of the time, the cache is already warmed up by the developer&
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by zimbatm 4y ago
> Steelmanning means that you ignore the argument your interlocuter makes, in favour of the argument you think they should have made. It runs diametrically counter to trying to 'meaningfully connect with what others are saying'
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by zimbatm 4y ago
Even technical people. Look how quickly we rushed to re-centralize Git.
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by zimbatm 4y ago
It was the same with SourceForge. It worked great (for its time). You get stuff for free. It's convenient. And then slowly they started changing policy, closing the source, adding ads to the platform, .. then one day you realized you&#
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by zimbatm 4y ago
If you want the convenience of having pre-packaged build, pay for it. Or get the source code for free, and build it yourself. What's the problem? Pay for convenience.
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by zimbatm 4y ago
User buys a $600.- phone and then complains about a $2.- app. It's not enough that the application is open source, it should also be completely free of charge!
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by zimbatm 4y ago
You're taking him too seriously. Cue: "Maybe a 3090 is already a human brain." Sometimes it's just fun to squint at a problem a certain way. Sharing that doesn't mean that the person necessarily think it's true
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by zimbatm 4y ago
There is one emulator mapped per target system. Depending on the target system it will use qemu, wine, wasmtime or mmixware. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/111839dcf6e9a8bac6972e...
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by zimbatm 4y ago
QEMU and FFmpeg are sort of in this category of tooling that are incredibly powerful. The amount of things you can do with it, the technical achievement, is incredible. And the only thing holding them back is that you need 3 pages of comman
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by zimbatm 4y ago
You can always set `__noChroot = true;` on your derivations and forgo the sandbox. Then it's not more difficult than a Dockerfile really.
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by zimbatm 4y ago
It's not that easy to change the default store dir. https://cache.nixos.org/nix-cache-info has it hard-coded to /nix/store. If you want another one you'll need a whole new cache. But Hydra only works wit
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by zimbatm 4y ago
samueldr has been doing a lot of good work in that direction. See https://mobile.nixos.org/ and https://github.com/samueldr/

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