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If you are using an Apple Silicon laptop and you want to deploy to an x86-64 Linux box, this can get a bit annoying due needing to deal with cross compilation in nix.

Golang is not a replacement for C. It is a much higher level language, which doesn't play well with systems programming/embedded development etc.

Yeah, I remember in the early days, when I installed Spotify it would scan my computer for music and upload everything it found. I imagine this is basically how they bootstrapped

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37920655

Note that it is in Swedish, and one of the articles is behind a paywall. - https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/on2Rpg/uppgifter-krimin... - https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/krimin…

But you can't look it up anonymously. You have to authenticate with your national ID number, and the person will be notified about who looked up their income.

Actually addresses being public are causing issues. Sweden has a lot of problems with gang violence, and gang members often register their public addresses to other peoples address…

ptrdiff_t is a signed integer type - which means you can subtract these numbers without worrying about underflow

`fetchTarball` with a github archive link is much faster than `fetchGit` for bootstrapping nixpkgs.

Yes, you are right - I misremembered this detail. My problem at the the time was I didn't want to commit my flake.nix to the repository in one of my previous work places (for polit…

A derivation is simply an attrset with `type = "derivation"` as a key-value pair in it

My use case here is not using pkgs.fetchgit etc - but rather when developing a package locally and rebuilding it. Let's say I'm working on a huge monorepo locally, with GBs of code…

The biggest show-stoppers for me with flakes is: Building third party flakes takes forever since every flake uses its own version of nixpkgs. If you don't pin your third party flak…

I feel like looking at the first working versions of a big successful project is a great way to understand how it works. Usually it will only contain the most important core featur…

Also the ability to connect to external displays is missing - which is a pretty big one.

It is funny because it is the exact opposite of what you should do if you want to stop corruption. Deregulation is the best cure for corruption, because it makes the gatekeepers ob…

No amount of abstraction is going to save you from the problem of 2 processes manipulating the same state machine.

I was expecting this to be about economic bubbles for some reason