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by dnr 9mo ago
I'm not an expert here but I have to say this feels like a very weak objection. p points to P1. One thread reads through p. Another thread races with that and mutates p to point to P2. The result is the first thread reads from either P
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by dnr 10mo ago
The inelegance to me isn't in the definition of the operation, but that it's doing a huge amount of brute-force work to mix every part of the input with every other part, when the answer really only depends on a tiny fraction of t
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by dnr 1y ago
Everything you said "should" is exactly what Nix and NixOS is.
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by dnr 2y ago
Hey, I sorta did this. Lazy substitution, at least, not lazy build. Plus a bunch of tricks to speed up downloads. https://github.com/dnr/styx/ Lazy build sounds tricky: you don't know the contents of the pack
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by dnr 3y ago
You're looking at the docs for "visibility". Visibility is a separate eventually-consistent data store off to the side that's used for certain queries so it can be scaled independently of the main data store, and indexed
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by dnr 3y ago
Temporal can also run on Cassandra, which scales much larger than Postgres (if you put in enough effort). It can also be replicated across regions for high availability. It's already running some pretty huge use cases. (I work at Tempo
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by dnr 3y ago
I'm also using NixOS and working on Go projects, and had to deal with out-of-date Go releases. Nixpkgs generally does get the latest Go versions pretty quickly, but only in the unstable channels, they're not backported to NixOS re
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by dnr 3y ago
It wasn't quite immediately, it would take a few hours to detect+revert. And that was only the root fs, there were other places to hide things if you really wanted. But then there were other detection systems too. (Probably fairly diff
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by dnr 3y ago
The idea that the capabilities of LLMs might not exceed humans by that much isn't that crazy: the ground truth they're trained on is still human-written text. Of course there are techniques to try to go past that but it's not
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by dnr 4y ago
Oh wow, that just jogged a really old memory. I'm pretty sure I had that one, but can hardly remember anything else. Could it have been Xenocide? edit: Oh, or maybe Silpheed? This is the closest thing I found with some searching: http
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by dnr 4y ago
Get a fresh cap! The caps only last about a year of heavy use. You can find replacements on amazon and elsewhere. It doesn't even matter if it's really oem, a fresh third party one will still be much better than a worn oem one.
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by dnr 5y ago
If "two" is acceptable for "many", look at the ODROID-HC4? I made some home NASs out of them.
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by dnr 5y ago
Actually a huge number of packages in nixpkgs are bit for bit reproducible: https://r13y.com/
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by dnr 5y ago
Does anyone write k8s manifests in raw yaml? They're so complicated that they're generated using some templating language (helm or kustomize or whatever is popular these days, I'm a little out of the loop). So you still have
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by dnr 5y ago
> I just want to list what I want and let the tooling make it happen. That's just what Nix does? It's very much more declarative than any system I've seen. Yes, k8s turns your declarative manifest into running processes, b
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by dnr 5y ago
The Fastmail UI is indeed snappy, except when it suddenly decides it has to reload the page, which seems to be multiple times a day these days (and always when I need to search for a specific email). Can you make it do what one of my other
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by dnr 5y ago
Hate to make a boring me-too comment, but I feel the same: I've been using it a bit over a year, and I wish I had started even sooner. Now I've got two laptops and a NUC, plus two odroid-hc4's, all on NixOS. All the system co
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by dnr 5y ago
This is one of those religious arguments where no one will every change their mind, but I feel like a trackpad is the dumbest mouse interface and can't use anything but a trackpoint (or a mouse of course). Consider dragging and droppin
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by dnr 5y ago
Isn't that exactly the point, and why it's so great? It's a single algorithm that's tune-able across that wide range of speed/ratio trade-offs using a single parameter. So you can just use one thing for almost every
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by dnr 5y ago
No relation to the link, but does anyone else remember these books? Algebra the Easy Way - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6781.Algebra_the_Easy_Wa... Trigonometry the Easy Way - https://www.goodrea
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by dnr 5y ago
I want to understand what you're saying, but at first glance this is contradictory: housing prices are driven by density, and housing prices are increasing in Ketchum. But Ketchum didn't increase density, and neither did anywhere
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by dnr 5y ago
Don't forget supporting small strings (<= 7 bytes) in the pointer itself using tag bits. No allocation or dereferencing required.
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by dnr 5y ago
I came looking for this comment too. A nice chair helps but the actual fix is to do deadlifts. And squats too. Even just getting up to being able to do 100% of body weight will help a ton.
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by dnr 5y ago
The trick is: as soon as you notice it drifting, take your finger off it and let it come to a stop. If you keep pushing opposite the drift it'll never stop. Also, if you haven't in a while, replace your cap. I replace mine every y
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by dnr 5y ago
Chrome stable 89.0.4389.90 was released on March 12: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/03/stable-channel... Version bump in nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/
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by dnr 5y ago
The claim that Chrome was not updated on the unstable branch for weeks is wrong. The two releases in question are: 88.0.4324.96 on Jan 19: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/01/stable-channel... 88.0.4324.
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by dnr 5y ago
Yes, exactly: https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf It's a key part of how nix works.
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by dnr 5y ago
That's wrong. The google-chrome packages in nixpkgs are "built" by downloading the official releases (in .deb format I think) and massaging them a little. It takes a few seconds. When the zero-days came out, I just updated th
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by dnr 5y ago
You're right, condescension is the wrong word. I apologize. I do think it's misplaced confidence, though. Look at the upvotes/downvotes on the comments in the type-ahead issue thread. What the gnome developers are saying is c
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by dnr 5y ago
I don't even use Gnome, but the behavior in the gtk open and save dialogs changed in the same way a few years ago, so I'm going to assume it's the same issue: I hate hate hate the new search behavior, and would go back to the

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