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Computing devices hardware and operating systems should be treated as a consumer's choice. If a company offers some benefit at the cost of some restriction, then users should decid…

Honestly, I’m against this. As soon as that is added, people will start to try to optimise their profiles to place them high in the list on certain things, rendering the tool prett…

This would introduce more problems than it solves 99% of the time. The 1% of the time, it could be very handy. I haven’t used UV, but it says that it manages python as well as pack…

Ok, tried searching something incredibly niche, and it came up with results that no search I'd tried through conventional methods could. There's a 50/50 false positive rate, but I …

The nice thing, at least, is that this particular kind of group always lose out in the end. They're divisive by nature and it always eventually turns in on itself. It's a matter of…

- a tmux session persists on the remote machine, whereas with direct SSH a disconnect loses what you were doing - a tmux session can be used by multiple people - with tmux a single…

Oh I see! Yes, absolutely doable in Nix. Derivations are just a set of instructions combined with a set of inputs, and a unique hash is made from that. If you make a derivation who…

Yes and yes. These applications specifically because anything that looks at anything on the micro scale includes these as “possible applications”. They sound cool and exciting, and…

Decentralised caching, absolutely - unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean there. You can build across many machines, merge stores, host caches online with cachix (or your own a…

Weirdly enough I came across a blog post last week that talked about exactly this. https://j.phd/nix-needs-a-native-build-system/ Nix can be used as a build system in the same way …

You sound like the perfect Nix cult memb… erm, user. It’s everything you describe and more (plus the language is incredibly powerful compared with starlark). But you speak from suf…

If it were to be released publicly, I'd give it a week before NSFW models based on it were uploaded to Civitai.

> While no immediate practical applications exist, the researchers envision enhanced efficiency in micromotors, microscale cargo transport, and materials that can self-assemble or …

Constructive criticism. I would like to see much, much more in a demo. Probably around 20-30 minutes. What was shown in the demo video was seemingly the functionality of Dropbox, s…

police knock on the door “DAD, YOUR SPRINKLERS ARE HACKING THE RECYCLING COLLECTION TIMETABLES AGAIN” (spend enough time around places like this, though, and one could easily imagi…

It frustrates me that the actual paper is well researched and very interesting, yet the title and even the concept of these 9 boundaries will make many immediately disregard it. Th…

I agree that the person who made such a mistake will be the person who never makes that mistake again. That's why firing someone who has slipped up (in a technical way) and is clea…

It’d be interesting to start with an image rather than a prompt, though I am afraid of what it’d do if I started with a selfie.

I have to hand it to them, I’m impressed. And annoyed. Many years ago I made a bet that Windows as we knew it wouldn’t make it to 50. That they would decide to go the UNIX route an…

I use Nix to manage python environments, and it’s quite revealing. For instance, a few months ago I was working on an environment for playing around with some libraries that you’d …

Loving the enthusiasm in which this is addressed on the issue thread.

Forgive my ignorance, but wouldn’t the Omegle brand and domain name be worth a considerable amount - with the caveat that it be sold to a responsible buyer? It seems like the creat…

I'm not an LLM expert by any means but here is my take. It's Speech Recognition -> Llama -> Text to Speech, running on your own PC rather than that of a third party. The limitation…

When I wrote a HA plugin for my heating system (which involved “reverse engineering” the JS on the front end login interface to break the extremely naive checksum generation that v…

Yeah, that’s part of the game though. You can’t get perfection from modelling a complex system with the (relatively) few variables that you can actually measure. Assumptions are al…