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Ultimately, Databricks wants your enterprise on their platform. I dont think they particularly care about open source or the little guy.

I'd retrain that model if I were you.

This article is not AI generated. Everyone is asserting it is but the author is well known as a critic of these tools in his communities. Why would he lie and use it to write an ar…

From my interactions with him in some nix forums online, he is not in the industry. This is hobby work (not to devalue it, as his software is generally high quality).

$160 billion valuation and market capture among some top (non-AI, traditional enterprise) companies, I think.

Seconding this. I'm not happy with the fact that the drivers are proprietary, I really prefer FOSS. But, I am tired of having to deal with FUD around performance and issues with NV…

Whether they did that or had an LLM one shot it, I dont really care. Commit history is pretty important if you ever want to try fixing bugs or improving features in the future.

250k lines of code in one commit is reason enough to disregard the project entirely, IMO. Vibe code if one wants, but that is just madness...

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There is a project by a group of nix/nixos enthusiasts aiming to replace some of these core deps https://github.com/manic-systems/nixos-core . I havent tire-kicked it much, but it …

I can't blame you when the first few sentences almost always evoke one of the "creators of XYZ" (I don't know how you can say a model or model harness has a singular creator when t…

You don't sponsor people or projects to complete specific issues or build specific features in the first place. Sponsorship is a reward and token of appreciation for doing good wor…

Better yet: give them cold hard cash instead of what is arguably monopoly money for many OSS devs. Ironically this is something GitHub made "easy" with sponsorships several years a…

... which many would argue is between a patient and their doctor. We dont pay premiums for no reason, and the insurance company isnt really allowed to determine what "necessary" me…

It works on darwin and any linux just fine. Theyre even working on a "standalone" like HMs, if you really want to decouple your user programs from your system. With some programs i…

I'm saying that I value the completeness (thoroughness may be a better word) as well as the reproducability and portability that nix ensures over convenience. I cant tell you the a…

Its the only complete, reproducible, and portable solution, in my opinion. I like mise, but at the end of the day some programs are more complex than just pulling a precompiled, dy…

If you like home manager but also like to understand how your "home"/user programs are configured, take a look at hjem!

What a snakepit of a comment! I know there are tensions within nix but this feels like a classic case of Chestertons fence at a big scale.

Or nix without home manager, and ideally without flakes as well. Two solutions looking for problems, IME.

I use it with Spotify to track my listens and sort by artist, album and the like. It definitely still has value, even for Spotify users!

No, which is why I started my message with "No, ..."!

It seems the original author of the popular SDD toolkit for agent frameworks has gone no-contact. One of the maintainers has forked it. This is concerning as the original author ma…

I agree with the messaging generally, but unfortunately to fight implicitly unprofessional behavior with a terse response like this would look explicitly unprofessional!