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You can open wa.me/ on a browser, it'll redirect to a chat on whatsapp.

To make that easier, I use stow.

very old english, that pretends to be modern but sounds dumb ;) Actually, I'm not very good speaking english. It's not my first language, if anything, it's the last one. :P

A long history for some practice does not make it right.

Exactly. There is nothing in the Bible that authorizes the change. In fact, the Catholic Church has said so explicitly and takes pride in being the one who changed it from Saturday…

I really appreciate people with convictions. I can see that the Sabbath issue is important to you, I'd only like to point out that, if one is to take it seriously, it's important t…

I managed to get Google Maps working on my Nokia 3310 3G

Floating is for boats.

What do we need our passion for? To motivate ourselves? IMO, we have a problem when we expect to feel motivated to do stuff. I think we need to learn to do stuff even if we "don't …

Fantastic! Can you please add keyboard shortcuts? :D

Yes! Look here: https://git.hso.rocks/hso/def Is a Telegram bot that queries the RAE dictionary (Spanish). It doesn't have any documentation yet, though :S You can look for the pro…

There's a post on building Docker images with Nix: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11502989

No. The shell is slower processing the download. You can detect this on the server. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11532599

I don't know for sure, but I think it's installed under /nix thinking of multi-user Nix installs. With Nix any system user can install its own set of packages and on NixOS there ar…

Did you know that a malicious server can detect if you are piping to a shell and serve a completely different thing? D:

We use it on Python projects instead of virtualenv. A problem that you sometimes have with virtualenv is that you must install libpq-dev and python headers and what not to install …

Yes. I'm unconfortable doing this as well. Not only with Nix, I really think you shouldn't do it, ever. On Ubuntu/Debian, at least, I'm installing the .deb package.

For me the biggest benefit is reproducibility. I can get a package to build on any machine exactly the same and with no hidden dependencies.

Since I discovered Nix, I've been using it as a package manager for OS X and Linux. Every project my team is working on now has a default.nix file. Getting started on a project is …

All this goes away when we exchange messages with other providers (eg: Gmail).