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This comment thread highlights an issue that Nix has...some people love it personally, some love it professionally. Some are software engineers, others are hackers. Most of the com…

In a world of LLMs and agentic coding, I think documentation is less important.

Check out https://zero-to-nix.com/

Also a delightful human in every interaction I’ve had with him.

I've used HubSpot in the past but currently just using Notion.

Everywhere I look in the Nix ecosystem, I see robotics companies and other hardware makers using Nix. My anecdata says that there seems to be an outsized adoption of Nix/NixOS in t…

What is so interesting about Nix is that it's not one thing. Its not (just) a distro. Its not (just) a package manager. Its not (just) a system manager. Its not (just) a language. …

Interesting. I asked similar questions (Who will win the Presidential Election and Will XXX college football team win the national championship, etc) and none of the responses incl…

Can you provide an example of the type of question that comes back with a reasonable prediction? So far, I've tried 3 times, and the answer each time was something along the lines …

Pings don’t seem like enough info

> Like, do you want a 0.01% chance to raise money or a 2% chance to build a business that keeps you and a few others well paid and perhaps out of the rat-race. I don't do startups …

I don't see the need for this. I mean, its a fun idea for LLMs/Generative text, but does the target user struggle with figuring out how to configure an alert in their o11y tools?

How is this #2 on the front page? It doesn't do anything! I typed in a question, no answer. I typed in a public company name, no answer.

Wow I didn't know it was annual!

Best part of datsource plugins for Grafana is that the data doesn't need to be stored, just gets queried from the source in realtime.

How the F does a document storage company pivot to AI? The rush to AI is starting to look like an episode of Silicon Valley.

Now add monitoring of the cloud platforms that our servers run on. Its a big gap and what we are solving for with Metrist.

Is it SRE or somewhere else?