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by pxc 28d ago
In centuries gone past, members of the bourgeoisie would be directed by their doctors to summer homes and country estates so they could "convalesce in the countryside". It seems there was something to it, or at least there is now.
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by pxc 2mo ago
When I used to go to parties in college, I was known within my friend group for participating in multiple conversations at once, flitting from one group to another. One of my friends later told me he thought it was impressive, but in fact I
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by pxc 3mo ago
> We must be living in a completely different world then. I'm not even a real Nix old-timer, but I've been using NixOS on the job for roles in IT operations and software development for more than 10 years now. And for a few yea
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by pxc 3mo ago
> Firstly, NixOS is hype NixOS is more than 20 years old, and virtually all of the things that make it compelling were already present a decade ago. If it's not for you, you'll know after you give it a try. But for those for wh
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by pxc 4mo ago
My two favorite non-fiction sections of the bookstore are dead and dying. The computer section, if it still exists, is just things like _Excel for Dummies_, and the philosophy books have all been pushed out by self help and dime-store &quot
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by pxc 4mo ago
"Green card" literally refers to US permanent residency cards; it's called that because the physical cards issued by the US are/were green. "Other contexts" are riffing on actual green cards as a metaphor,
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by pxc 4mo ago
You have to be either a committer in general or a maintainer of a specific package to merge PRs into Nixpkgs. Contributors' PR approvals in Nixpkgs are just an informal signal for maintainers and committers to consider. And maintainers
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by pxc 4mo ago
Flox is a more comprehensive platform, it's proprietary, and it's designed to replace/hide Nix to some extent. Devenv is open-source and basically standalone, and uses the same kind of Nix configuration interface Nix users ar
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by pxc 5mo ago
Who has? Nixpkgs has. :) Nowadays the only search like this I need to run is nix-locate -r 'bin/foo$' It would be nice to have a CLI alternative to Repology, though.
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by pxc 5mo ago
> virtualenv isn't relocatable out of the box, so how else would you deploy a python project? My team has a handful of Python projects. Here's how they work: devenv.nix provides a Python runtime and all native dependencies, git
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by pxc 5mo ago
The experience of using LLMs as digital assistants so far is not great. Gemini on Android sucks so bad it's hard to describe. It can't tell what its own capabilities are, it can't inspect the states of the apps it manipulates
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by pxc 5mo ago
> It's not just common, it's almost universal to run `pip install` on production machines as a means of deploying a Python program. Maybe a Python culture problem; maybe a hallmark of Python's status as an "easy to hi
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by pxc 5mo ago
At the end of the day, LLM slop PR spammers are essentially adversarial actors. Git hooks are ultimately a tool for good faith developers within a given community (your team, your company, your regular contributors) in maintaining good hy
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by pxc 5mo ago
> Hooks (although there's no clean way to enforce they be "installed" on a clone), GHA Workflows (or their equivalents on other forges). Git supports pre-receive hooks. But big multitenant forges like GitHub.com don't
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by pxc 5mo ago
The most important real use case of devices like this is as accessibility tech. Blind people everywhere are talking about devices like this. It's the same with phones. I know blind people who have been harassed for holding their phones
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by pxc 5mo ago
There aren't true 1:1 clones, but there's ripgrep (inspired by GNU grep) and fd (inspired by GNU find). Those two I like, though. I think they're thoughtfully designed and in ripgrep's case at least (I just haven't
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by pxc 5mo ago
I thought it was a learning exercise, and maybe some corporations also like it because it has more permissive licensing.
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by pxc 5mo ago
What are those strengths? I've worked with projects hosted on GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps at my current job, and was generally not impressed with AzDO (mostly looking at CI stuff).
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by pxc 5mo ago
As someone whose employer uses both: nope, not yet
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by pxc 5mo ago
> This is a very HN take. It's something that Microsoft leadership themselves certainly seems to have believed at times. From "developers, developers, developers, developers!" to courting Linux-targeting webdevs with WSL t
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by pxc 5mo ago
Huh? The usual pattern is that experiments belong to a user and then they graduate to having their own org iff they grow enough maintainers for that to make sense. How is that toxic or self-centered? It's just like "here's a
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by pxc 5mo ago
The original has the best ergonomics of any controller in my sizeable collection. I'm curious to see how this thing holds up.
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by pxc 5mo ago
> * Someone allowed sudo access or set the SUID bit on a GTFOBin. Using these tricks, you may be able to read or write sensitive files or execute privileged commands in a way the person configuring sudo did not know about. Some enterpris
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by pxc 5mo ago
> Read that again. The agent itself enumerates the safety rules it was given and admits to violating every one. This is not me speculating about agent failure modes. This is the agent on the record, in writing. > The "system rule
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by pxc 5mo ago
> MacOS doesn’t claim to work on other hardware, Linux does. "Linux" isn't even an operating system. There is no entity in the world who claims "bring any Linux distro at all to any random assortment of hardware you h
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by pxc 5mo ago
Huh? I never claimed they made a breakthrough. My point is that if they really have an alignment or interpretability breakthrough, they won't have to tell us by virtue signaling about how safe it is. Users will just be able to tell bec
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by pxc 5mo ago
GitLab annoys me in tons of ways, but I feel it's generally better than GitHub in lots of ways.
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by pxc 5mo ago
This is the problem for me with the cloud: > Finally, clouds have painful APIs. This is where projects like K8S come in, papering over the pain so engineers suffer a bit less from using the cloud. But VMs are hard with Kubernetes becau
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by pxc 5mo ago
Labor-saving devices don't save labor at work. They increase productivity rather than reducing hours, and the extra value is captured by the employer. That's the difference between your home dishwasher and the means of production.
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by pxc 5mo ago
Maybe that's true. But I think part of the issue is that for a lot of things developers want to do with them now— certainly for most of the things I want to do with them— they're either barely good enough, or not consistently good

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