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> And if that's not already bad, I found this section of the docs recently and it said "This section has been moved to pkgs/README.md.", but when I read the README file, it doesn't…

I'm going to quote https://save-nix-together.org/ : > Single-handedly blocking Meson, which has a passed RFC, for five years because he doesn’t know meson but knows his own build s…

I'm afraid the letter spread some misinformation: The meson RFC has in fact not been approved: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/132 For a discussion on this, see https://github.c…

This is a great post, very well said! Over the weekend I’ve been working with NixOS foundation members and other community members to address what you’re describing, and I’m happy …

Flakes has an unfortunate past [1]. The fact that so many people are using Flakes now and treating them as stable makes it effectively impossible to make drastic changes, even thou…

Hello, the person you're speaking about here. I appreciate all the concern but I'm actually doing very good! While working on Nix was originally a hobby for me, I am now getting pa…

I think https://lobste.rs/ is pretty good at staying focused on programming

I've got a similar setup myself, check out https://lobste.rs/s/yppnts/tailscale_on_nixos_new_minecraft_... where I describe how I did it. It's quite custom but all open source. htt…

It's referring to the ncurses library: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses

It would even suffice to just swap two random elements every iteration!

Scion is such an effort: https://www.scion-architecture.net/

- /nix has been the (default) location for at least 15 years without problems, changing this now just because Apple messed with this would be very strange - With Nix, every path in…

They are using a Docker multi-stage build in the very Dockerfile they showed..

As choward already mentioned, I think NixOS is a very good choice: aarch64 is decently well supported with a bunch of people running NixOS on their Raspbys, and cross compilation s…

You should be able to make the webserver reverse proxy from https://eliot-jones.com/hntrends to http://localhost:5690 , e.g. with nginx [0] and httpd [1] [0]: https://docs.nginx.co…

Yes Nix has been around for a while and is a very good package manager. But please don't be disrespectful to everybody who doesn't know about it, it's still rather unknown in gener…

From what I can gather from the FAQ, this won't work for routers behind a NAT, which is the case for me and I assume many others too, this should probably be mentioned somewhere. A…

Not sure how I feel about Google entrenching itself in yet another part of the technology stack

However, this won't bring you back, it will just bring back a clone that is exactly like you.

> already available in 44 states I'm a bit disappointed by all big companies focusing on the states. Fact is, over 95% of people don't live in the US. Every time I see some fancy n…

> The first two years it was pretty upfront about being a work-in-progress that wasn't for people who wanted something stable I've been very much on the Swift train in its first 2 …

If you're doing so much casting you're doing something wrong. Swift's power comes from the type system, which alleviates the need for all casting in general. Instead of using a [St…