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It also supports .tar but that's probably not very commonly used.

Haha indeed. At work suddenly documentation and APIs are important, but it's all for/behind "skills". Before it was always "sure, that would be nice"... I do welcome the improvemen…

Could you have a heuristics based on the input size and the pattern to decide what to use?

They do, but the US can still force them to hand over data that's in EU. (This was confirmed by Microsoft France officials.)

At least in Belgium it's quite common for a lot of students to fail the first year (partly due to the difficulty, partly due to partying instead of studying). But it's not like it'…

If you're porting a library, you can use the original implementation as an 'oracle' for your tests. Which means you only need a way to write/generate inputs, then verify the output…

Indeed, the Tcl implementation does this so e.g. `set d [dict] ; dict set d key value` can modify d in place instead of creating a copy (since everything is immutable).

You could use this funky tool from oss-rebuild which proxies registries so they return the state they were at a past date: https://github.com/google/oss-rebuild/tree/main/cmd/timew…

There's Hedy if you want to try a text based programming language for kids: https://www.hedy.org/

What actually happens if you remove read permissions on the /nix/store directory? Do things still work? I suppose I'll need to try!

I wish a Python package manager would support patching dependencies, like e.g. Cargo allows: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/overriding-depende... It's much cleaner than …

Don't you need to wait for some kind of delimiter (like ",", "]", "}", newline, EOF) before parsing something else than a string?

For optimizing the module finding, using a custom import hook was indeed what I had in mind!

While I see the usefulness of lazy imports, it always seemed a bit backward to me for the importer to ask for lazy import, especially if you make it an import keyword rather than a…

I've always thought it would be great for the government to provide a free domain name for every citizen. There's really not much you can do without DNS.

For logic in Python this project looks pretty neat, it encodes facts as typed objects and rules as functions, then allows you to run the model using a solver like soufflé: https://…

I was always surprised that NixOS doesn't have a better story there, the main install instructions are to do manual partitioning, generate a config, edit it, etc. What I had expect…

I was also thinking about this use case when reading the announcement. Let's say you have a bunch of parquet files already (on local FS, HTTPS, S3, ...) that you can assume are imm…

True, I believe I mostly worked around that limitation by splitting off quoted from unquoted code into separate commands. So in your example "[cmd $bar]" would be in a separate unq…

I implemented something very similar a while ago, it's indeed too bad it's not built-in. I don't think you need such a "quasiquote" function, [list {*}$args] can escape a single co…

That's actually how the nix package manager works, normal users can 'install', or even build, packages. It works because the installation does not really have any side effects beyo…

Agreed. Also if you can generate your configuration at build time, it matters much less whether you use a Turing complete language or not. It then allows you to enforce limitations…

Or go even further and you get yaml?

Interesting! A use case I could see for using builtins would be to gradually rewrite a bash script in some other language, as otherwise you have to do it through subprocess which c…

Nice! I tried using XQuery (superset of XPath 3) for a while through the BaseX implementation. It's pretty nice, but you have to face XML problems like namespaces, document order, …