thespoonbends

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by thespoonbends 6y ago
Clever. I like it. I've given up trying to understand where my btrfs disk usage is, and I think this will help.
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
What does "valid comparison" mean? If the intent is to help potential readers to estimate the difficulty of the book, then that's useful.
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
I prefer to use Debian packages because it conforms to conventions that make managing systems easier: predictable naming, integration with service management, logging, docs, manages. (I use NixOS for personal use.)
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
The author isn't saying that isn't important. The author is just tackling one aspect of censorship resistance.
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
What is your usecase for network transparency? Remote desktop? Is that not supported in a Wayland world?
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
Yes, a classic Linux distro feels like a REPL or writing in assembly/m4. NixOS turns a machine into a compiled program.
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
My comment was meant to demonstrate the effectiveness of the NixOS model. Debian relies on the blood, sweat and tears of maintainers, with weak steps towards automation: ( https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
See also that there are comparatively few maintainers, despite having a large amount of up to date packages. This is the result of treating a distro as a software problem, versus the manual processes used in Debian, for example.
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
I've been using NixOS on all my devices for 2 years now, and it's great to have easy reproducible systems. NixOS design gives it a robustness that is missing from taking a mutable distro and applying mutations (via Puppet/Ans
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
+1. I figured it was anti-abuse.
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
I meant modal as in "if you hold down backspace, the item's text will be removed, but the item heading will remain", i.e. the headers are read-only while editing an item. evil-org-mode won't stop me pressing backspace to
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
Yeah, I think it could do with a modal interface: normal mode would perform tree-like operations and allow entering text. Insert mode would treat the entire file as plain text. ... there must be a mode that does this already?
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
I don't trust myself to remember to commit changes, so rely on regular btrfs-based snapshots via http://snapper.io/ .
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
I think the landing page would be more effective/descriptive if it emphasised it's role as a TODO/extensible structured document. I use it as a personal planner for career and life stuff. Nothing too fancy, just TODOs with ta
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
OP's solution sound good enough for their needs. Solutions can always be improved, but it's not always worth doing that.
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
I do a similar thing so I don't have to store sensitive data on a VPS. The sensitive data is used to compute non-sensitive results that I'm happy to go via a VPS.
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
After disliking it for 6-7 years, because it doesn't offer the amount of abstraction that others languages offer (Scala, Haskell, Java), Go has grown on me. I got too caught up in designing elaborate abstractions in those languages. I
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
Does this reflect the global nature of tackling climate change? Tackling climate change requires structural changes, not heroics.
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
> It's simple enough. > (Oh and ...) +1 to just dumping it all in ~/.bashrc
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
gitlab.com is down, but are public/private instances are not. Separate failure domains is an advantage of self-hosted. Github is great, but when it's down, it impacts developers in many places. When we spread our eggs across many
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
It does not. It mentions "One might posit that people with lower cognitive ability have higher risk of catching the virus. We consider such a relationship plausible; however, it would not explain why the observed deficits varied in sca
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
NZ's tax policies favour the rich too. https://twitter.com/hynesalan/status/1317837979520552961
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
I think the point is that there are unofficial routes: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/new-zealand-ga...
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
Not sure if you're rich, as Gabe is. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/new-zealand-ga...
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
+1 to waiting a bit, incurring the inconvenience, and seeing whether you come across alternate solutions. Often the first thing I think of (customize, or install a new package; both of which incur maintenance costs) is just masking not unde
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
https://gbdeclaration.org/ is indeed a rebranding of herd immunity. > so you don't have to bother wearing a mask This isn't the doc's motivation. The doc is concerned with unintended consequences of lockdo
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
Why do so many of these "start your own business" nomads types have businesses that revolve around getting more people to start businesses? The author's business appears to be about monetising blogs. It's circular. Wher
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
It's simple and comparatively easy to make reliable, but a factor in its continued use is that's so prevalent in hard-to-change places: the web, libraries, old OSs, switches, other battle-hardened systems, etc.
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
Public health systems often subsidise private health care, so some of that difference will come from taxes.
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by thespoonbends 6y ago
$500 is a lot to many people, and people have different tolerances to risk. You may choose to put more in, of course.

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