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Comment #48983958
I never really felt like scheme got annoying when configuring guix. I’m half certain most of my configurations for Guix services were just yaml configs with s-expressions
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Comment #47480052
No there’s a nerd who will obsessively submit the latest version of any popular software that does that to nixpkgs. Or suggest you use the flatpak.
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Comment #47320910
It’s interesting how your comment did not talk about anything that’s unique to emacs.
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Comment #47113295
It really sucks that everyone’s go to dystopia is 1984. Especially in this case given 1984 required the active participation of millions of citizens whereas Brave New World maps be…
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Comment #46962087
Why? Because some guy was pushed out of the friend group?
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Comment #46961844
Very nice of Bazzite to adopt Drama Tuesday. They are true gamers.
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Comment #46837468
Guix on servers is ok. I run Guix in my homelab. The vast majority of what you’d want in a Guix server can be found in the services section and parts of the documentation that lay …
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Comment #46670601
> History will probably remember him as LTT, “Linus The Torvalds” This is trolling right?
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Comment #46670564
It’s not about circumventing the bans, it’s about the bans being in place to begin with.
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Comment #46635073
Hi. You cannot log on to porn sites in Alabama which is subject to those documents. I think it’s crazy that you’re this naive.
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Comment #46622310
I don't know much about car economics but I'd think Tesla probably should have built a truck to sell as a fleet vehicle first. There are very few car brands that aren't part of a l…
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Comment #46542648
They’re not saying you’re crazy they’re saying you may be helplessly incompetent when it comes to interpreting social data. You probably aren’t a good reader either if crazy was yo…
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Comment #46115220
Grok 4.1 told me my writing surpassed the authors I cited as influence.
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Comment #46106739
Honestly I’d rather google get their gemini tool in better shape. I know for a fact it doesn’t ignore instructions like Claude code does but it is horrible at editing files.
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Comment #46106716
I’m pretty sure Claude would not work well in my code base if I hadn’t meticulously added docstrings, type hints, and module level documentation. Even if you’re stubbing out code f…
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Comment #46092364
Weird question probably but outside of the super esoteric distros running a bespoke package manager what stops someone who installs a distro like bazzite from just continuing to up…
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Comment #45904639
Even if they are, Valve has a long track record of contributing back to open source projects.
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Comment #45686830
You’re asking ChatGPT for advice to stop drone attacks? Does that mean people die if it hallucinates a wrong answer and that isn’t caught?
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Comment #45597988
I have used Tao theme in Emacs along with rainbow identifiers for over a decade now (on light mode) and I personally prefer a less colorful palette on my text editor. Makes a nice …
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Comment #45426507
Hello. In English this makes me think of the phrase “dog shit”. Not sure if that’s intentional or not.
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Comment #45339702
Yeah, you're always gonna have those. I was just saying two middle class families living a thousand miles away from each other along I-40 were fairly similar to me. They are also c…
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Comment #45339435
Some, sure, but most people were upset that it was bland and followed the trend of other companies that have been removing texture or uniqueness from their brand logos in favor of …
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Comment #45339365
The reaction to most companies changing logos now is just making fun of it. Look at cracker barrel.
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Comment #45338658
Family goes to a non-denominational evangelical church in Knoxville, family goes to a non-denominational evangelical church in Amarillo. Both would probably be the same denominatio…
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Comment #45336533
I can see the similarities between Amarillo and Knoxville. Every city on I-40 feels similar to me until Albuquerque, having spent time in a number of Tennessee cities and having to…