jbboehr

> To truly make the claim that nix allows reproducible builds, it needs to provide: - a way to specify versions that don't depend on the commit hash of a "nixpck channel" whatever that is

I don't see why a commit hash in insufficient to declare a package reproducible. For my system, I just use channels, but for anything mission critical, I think most people pin their commit hash of nixpkgs [0]. A pinned commit of nixpkgs will produce the exact same set of packages, forever.

> a way to actually properly pin package versions

The way you do this is to pull in a specific commit of nixpkgs (you can install packages from many versions of it at the same time, if you want). Alternatively, you can manually vendor the package file, which is what I usually do for one or two packages.

[0]: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/FAQ/Pinning_Nixpkgs

> Lower-class workers will see their incomes increase much more on a proportional basis and end up with a net benefit.

Except their goods are going to cost more too now. Unless you're going to start proposing price controls.

I can't really see UBI doing anything except inflating itself away.

Kind of amazing how little the interface has changed over the last 70(!) years.

> At the time in California, you were able to select a community college as your high school.

I mean, at this point why not just take the GED or CHSPE and go straight to community college?

> And of course we have bit packing when we need to pack more efficiently than reasonable; bit-packing with *int_fast8_t* allows you to represent "I need this to take exactly 8 bits of memory, whatever it costs compute-wise, because I'm basically filling memory with these."

AFAICT, "int_fast8_t" is generally typedef to "int", and "int_least8_t" is generally typedef to "char", which conflicts with "I need this to take exactly 8 bits of memory, whatever it costs compute-wise, because I'm basically filling memory with these."

> Up next: sedentary lifestyle enablers

We can start with the internet! :)

> bit-packing with int_fast8_t allows you to represent

I assume you meant `int_least8_t`?

My SQL is a bit rusty, but, to reduce the queries even further, I think you can do:

> SELECT user_id, COUNT(*) FROM comments WHERE user_id IN $1 GROUP BY user_id

> It defaults to being dependent on a closed-source proprietary backend coordination server

Isn't its source[0] available?

> This is our reference controller implementation and is the same one we use to power our own hosted services at my.zerotier.com.

[0]: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/tree/master/controll...

If you use consul, you can use `consul lock` [0]. Allows you to have the cron configured on multiple servers too.

[0]: https://www.consul.io/commands/lock

On debian derivatives, you can use `apt-get build-dep` to install all the compile-time dependencies of a package.

I've seen a few people recommend "The True Believer" [0] although I haven't read it myself.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer

> not very novel either

David Skirbina addresses this is his forward to Technological Slavery[0]. Ted isn't a PhD student doing research; the lack of originality to his arguments is a feature, not a bug.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/45035203-technologica...

I don't mean to necessarily imply you are doing this, but I suspect "toxic masculinity" is a motte-and-bailey[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

This [0] article on prepping got some decent discussion [1] recently. For something a little more "out there" perhaps check out JWR and his books [2].

[0]: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/ [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060418 [2]: https://survivalblog.com/

You can say "the wrong side of history" because your ideas happen to be in alignment with the current zeitgeist, but there's no guarantee this will hold true.

In other words, it's a poor argument for anything and only interesting when used ironically.

> Lots of steam doesn't work out of the box compared to Ubuntu.

Make sure you're using Proton 5.0 until this [0] is fixed.

[0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/100655

Ever heard the term "anarcho-tyranny" ?

> you are on the wrong side of history here

And, probably, you were "on the wrong side of history" in 1930s Germany.

> Actions HAVE consequences.

That is a fascinatingly passive synonym for "struggle session."

“Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.”

Would it be possible or desirable for one of these backup system to natively implement parity?

Fair enough.

The suggestion was more for the HTTPS part and not the performance part of your complaint. It's simple enough to set up, pay-as-you-go, only requires one vendor, and should be very scalable.

I'd just as soon throw up nginx on a Linode, myself.

And this is why no one likes Californians moving to their state.

If you run it behind CloudFront it does support HTTPS.

> Lenovo doesn't bog down the image with their own software and it only had their firmware manager.

Even if they don't, the first thing I would do when buying a new computer is nuke the hard drive and do a fresh install.

For me nowadays, it's Linux (NixOS) with LUKS+LVM, but I would do it when I used Windows as well.

I can't articulate it very well, but "The Red Queen" [0] offers a theory whereby sexual selection evolved as a defense against bacteria, viruses. It seems as though it may be disadvantageous to live too long as these mechanisms wouldn't be refreshed.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Queen:_Sex_and_the_Evo...

If you're already using setjmp/longjmp I would suspect you are also already using an arena or avoiding heap allocations, so I don't know if it would specifically be a problem for memory leaks with defer.

I've been using Plasma on NixOS, switched from GNOME 3 because I was having terrible issues with the Nvidia drivers (it may have since been fixed). It's fine although I kinda miss gedit and the GNOME terminal emulator.

Try enabling hardware acceleration (layers.acceleration.force-enabled=true in about:config I think). I was having issues until I learned it was disabled by default on Linux.