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When I used to go to parties in college, I was known within my friend group for participating in multiple conversations at once, flitting from one group to another. One of my frien…

> We must be living in a completely different world then. I'm not even a real Nix old-timer, but I've been using NixOS on the job for roles in IT operations and software developmen…

> Firstly, NixOS is hype NixOS is more than 20 years old, and virtually all of the things that make it compelling were already present a decade ago. If it's not for you, you'll kno…

My two favorite non-fiction sections of the bookstore are dead and dying. The computer section, if it still exists, is just things like _Excel for Dummies_, and the philosophy book…

"Green card" literally refers to US permanent residency cards; it's called that because the physical cards issued by the US are/were green. "Other contexts" are riffing on actual g…

You have to be either a committer in general or a maintainer of a specific package to merge PRs into Nixpkgs. Contributors' PR approvals in Nixpkgs are just an informal signal for …

Flox is a more comprehensive platform, it's proprietary, and it's designed to replace/hide Nix to some extent. Devenv is open-source and basically standalone, and uses the same kin…

Who has? Nixpkgs has. :) Nowadays the only search like this I need to run is nix-locate -r 'bin/foo$' It would be nice to have a CLI alternative to Repology, though.

> virtualenv isn't relocatable out of the box, so how else would you deploy a python project? My team has a handful of Python projects. Here's how they work: devenv.nix provides a …

The experience of using LLMs as digital assistants so far is not great. Gemini on Android sucks so bad it's hard to describe. It can't tell what its own capabilities are, it can't …

> It's not just common, it's almost universal to run `pip install` on production machines as a means of deploying a Python program. Maybe a Python culture problem; maybe a hallmark…

At the end of the day, LLM slop PR spammers are essentially adversarial actors. Git hooks are ultimately a tool for good faith developers within a given community (your team, your …

> Hooks (although there's no clean way to enforce they be "installed" on a clone), GHA Workflows (or their equivalents on other forges). Git supports pre-receive hooks. But big mul…

The most important real use case of devices like this is as accessibility tech. Blind people everywhere are talking about devices like this. It's the same with phones. I know blind…

There aren't true 1:1 clones, but there's ripgrep (inspired by GNU grep) and fd (inspired by GNU find). Those two I like, though. I think they're thoughtfully designed and in ripgr…

I thought it was a learning exercise, and maybe some corporations also like it because it has more permissive licensing.

What are those strengths? I've worked with projects hosted on GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps at my current job, and was generally not impressed with AzDO (mostly looking at CI st…

As someone whose employer uses both: nope, not yet

> This is a very HN take. It's something that Microsoft leadership themselves certainly seems to have believed at times. From "developers, developers, developers, developers!" to c…

Huh? The usual pattern is that experiments belong to a user and then they graduate to having their own org iff they grow enough maintainers for that to make sense. How is that toxi…

The original has the best ergonomics of any controller in my sizeable collection. I'm curious to see how this thing holds up.

> * Someone allowed sudo access or set the SUID bit on a GTFOBin. Using these tricks, you may be able to read or write sensitive files or execute privileged commands in a way the p…

> Read that again. The agent itself enumerates the safety rules it was given and admits to violating every one. This is not me speculating about agent failure modes. This is the ag…

> MacOS doesn’t claim to work on other hardware, Linux does. "Linux" isn't even an operating system. There is no entity in the world who claims "bring any Linux distro at all to an…

Huh? I never claimed they made a breakthrough. My point is that if they really have an alignment or interpretability breakthrough, they won't have to tell us by virtue signaling ab…