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> My point is that if you care deeply about what is being installed in the image, size, dependencies, bloat, etc. then perhaps using the NixOS abstraction is the wrong approach. In…

Right ~ fair enough. I should have clarified I meant Debian stable (and by extension all other non-rolling release distros).

My own view: rolling release distros gets less in my way than distros like Debian. They allow me to install anything I want, as close as possible to upstream. Not saying one is bet…

Right. Because only laid-off employees can cause such a damage of course (/s). This is a twisted way to look at the risk. Disgruntled employees have more reason to wreak havoc. All…

I have been out of the field for some time, so I am not sure how much BLAST is used these days. Therer was a time when BLAST-ing a DNA and protein sequence you have is like doing a…

Bit of an aside, I found this bit from https://hackclub.com/clubs/ interesting: > in the Hack Club Slack (Discord-style online groupchat), you'll find a group of 27,253+ fabulous .…

I can second AsciiDoc. It hits the sweet spot between Markdown (arguably more suited for short-ish content) and LaTeX (full-blown academic papers with citations, formulas, etc.). H…

GSoC is awesome and I'm happy to see it's still running. The experience I got as a student in 2012 was invaluable for my career in tech ~ more so since I did not formally study CS.…

> But the real question is why they don't do the same for tax evasion? Who says they don't? If I had to guess, I would say the magnitude of the problem is just more complex. The ta…

It's neat ~ could have used checks in-between to ensure e.g. `$(go env GOBIN)` is not empty. For something more comprehensive (of course with a larger install size) and the possibi…

Not really (for the first part at least, am not yet finished with the second part). I did deviate a little bit with my Rust implementation. This was my goal anyway: implement Lox d…

I didn't worry because of Java's perceived lack of 'excitement'. Just that I am more familiar with other languages and I worried I'd get lost trying to understand Java and not dige…

I hesitated a little bit before deciding to purchase and go through the book. Had already read many glowing reviews then, but was not sure if the choice of language (Java) for the …

Introducing `false` as a standalone type but not `true` is what makes this weird. Generic, literal returns are fine. Python is another language that has it [1]. The introduction of…

Here I disagree. HTTPS gives guarantee to visitors of the site that they can trust the information being served to them. A malicious actor hijacking plain HTTP connections does not…

And `pyenv` [1], for Python. I came into `nodenv` after being a regular user of `pyenv` for a while. Started with `nvm`, but wished for something more pyenv-like. There is also `as…

Type hints are machine-checkable documentation, similar to doctests in my view. Since I started using them, the number of runtime errors coming out from my own code has been drasti…

Why do you think it is the worst? If you don't consider Python, what would you then think is the worst? Genuinely curious. I use Python daily and I rarely encounter problems with i…

> how does the „two copies“ phenomenon of the human genome and the „two copies“ thing of chromosomes fit together? Are those one and the same concept? Which phenomena are you refer…

I used to do print debugging a lot. And then I tried using the `breakpoint()` call available since Python 3.7[1], and now I can't imagine doing any serious debugging without PDB (o…

There is indeed no limitation on the number of tokens in a game. There are many combo wins that involve having (technically) infinite tokens, dealing infinite damage, gaining infin…

I'm wondering if there are any best practices to document your software architecture design. Related to this, are there are any public examples of a good software architecture docu…

Looks neat! Pattern matching is one of those features that I sorely miss when I have to program in Python. I do feel a bit wary seeing this[1] though, given that `_` can be conside…

It depends. Another commenter mentioned Cram, which I would look into if checking stdout/stderr (mostly) is enough for my use case. If I am already using a specific framework to wr…

Some time ago I wrote a pytest plugin[1] that helps me test my long running shell scripts. The idea was to treat the shell process as a fixture, and conditions before and after the…