zwiek

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   by zwiek 5y ago

   But what is it actually used for? Okay, you can donate to WikiLeaks ... But probably 99.999% of people who have possessed cryptocurrency are just speculators: buy low, sell high. And ironically, the exchanges are centralized entities :p
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   by zwiek 5y ago

   Indeed, when you depend on a package from a Nix channel, you implicitly depend always on the latest definition of that package in that channel. When the version matters, Nix has separate packages for separate versions. There are separate Ni
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   by zwiek 5y ago

   Someone is always going to want to run some piece of legacy software with legacy dependencies. The great thing about Nix is that it allows you to 'install' very specific versions packages 'locally' (in a shell) without p
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   by zwiek 5y ago

   I also cannot understand how a paper whose main contribution is a set of benchmarks, does not actually make the source code to those benchmarks publicly available. Unbelievable that such a paper can pass peer review. Very unscientific.