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pick your poison: 1:N or N:1 ;P

is that the 'build-trace' feature I saw John write about ? (I want to explore that more)

ca-derivations from what i understand, fixed-output derivations but more general.

The point of the article to me (author) was that i found it odd that Nix replaces the derivations when calculating the output path but not the derivation path. (talking about "paths" in Nix is so hard!)

Is this like a more robust funnel?

Looking at that repo.. i have no clue how to get started.

Great timing! I just published https://github.com/fzakaria/nix-nar-kaitai-spec and contributed kaitai C++ STL runtime to nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/454243

What's the rationale not to try incremental linking ? Is it such an incredibly complex problem that it likely induces performance overhead killing the optimization itself ?

Am I the first to say "Nix solves this" Nix effectively ships a sysroot with every binary !

I had similar idea ! Loved seeing it here. We thought about doing it with ChocoPy to make the types more consistent.

I really like it; the community curations are neat. So many ideas to explore and I wonder if it can model pre-existing events like if I wanted to explore: Should I DCA ? (I can look historically)

Dunno why but lately I can't visit any Anubis protected websites from my phone (Android).

Just says Invalid Response :(

Same that's why I wrote the blog :)

Even the 'scopedImport' builtin isn't documented.

I agree. Kind of feels there's a lot to learn but also Nix is a complete departure from how we traditionally built software.

So if you think about all the implicit knowledge you carry with you when you move to other tooling, it's probably comparable.

I agree and worry about that idea https://fzakaria.com/2025/07/07/home-manager-is-a-false-enli...

I think after having learnt about public benefit corporations, any company that now tells me "they have a mission" is giving me a false bag of goods because now I know there is this legal instrument to codify your mission into your profit motives.

Very cool.

Is gVisor a libc LD_PRELOAD ?

Isn't Oxide kind of like Oracle now building polished vertically integrated monster machines ? A bit humorous from that perspective given Cantrills dislike for Larry Nevertheless cool company and product.

Where's the obligatory Nix comment though ? /sarcasm (I really like Nix. It brings me joy.)

I've been trying to write a about Bazel from first principles to help out. https://fzakaria.com/

If you say a number, even 1.5x you've already lost. Replying with either yes (accept) or no are the only two responses that work.

Nix has support for bit reproduction and will not rebuild on comments if you specify it.

Of course lots of software isn't ready for but reproduction which is why Nix has taken such a pragmatic approach. (I have written a lot about this).

It's all a series of tradeoffs. If your goal is reproducibility (as close as you can get), you will have a larger graph likely ..since you are accounting for more!

Sometimes we like to believe we can have our cake and eat it too rather than understand life's a series of tradeoffs.

When we think we are getting a silver bullet, we've likely just pushed that complexity somewhere else.

Nix gives you a commit guarantee rather than arbitrary versions. You're going to put yourself in a bad time when you have edge cases: glibc changes or conflicting shared libraries.

It sounds like it's a little bit too late, but I'm happy to provide some consulting on how you can get it to work idiomatically with Nix.

Product looks cool!

I use NixOS seems like this got me enough to get started (I wanted Gemini)

``` # AI cli (unstable.python3.withPackages ( ps: with ps; [ llm llm-gemini llm-cmd ] )) ```

looks like most of the plugins are models and most of the functionality you demo'd in the parent comment is baked into the tool itself.

Yea a live document might be cool -- part of the interesting bit was seeing "real" type of use cases you use it for .

Anyways will give it a spin.

Wow what a great overview; is there a big doc to see all these options? I'd love to try it -- I've been trying `gh` copilot pulgin but this looks more appealing.

If you did flakes with impure does it avoid copying source into the store ?

I'm willing to add impurity especially about the system.

Having to define the systems feels unnecessary. Just define the targets for all systems and let me choose the one I want to build.

Coming across modules that forgot to add a particular system is frustrating.

Any other ways to circumvent this?

Some people want to stay in the Matrix and that's perfectly okay.

Wow cool! Can I use this to generate Nix lessons?

How do I start with Nix and not node.

I disagree based on my own personal experience of raising kids in California but they are all young and I'm paying quite a lot for preschool :P I'm also carrying a mortgage as I'm younger which is ~30-40% of my take home pay.

Total tangent: 2024 Jujutsu was my favorite tool to learn and your posts helped me learn it. Thank you.

Good point.

The other aspect that I didn't buy too much was the original blog entry claims the salary is enough since the founders themselves have kids and are living in San Francisco.

They are coming from a point of economic safety from prior successful ventures and maybe are on multiple boards with other income streams.

Anyways. I like the intent so I won't be too critical.

Not bad but I ended up writing a lot more CSS/HTML than I thought I would. Made me wonder if i should just write reveal.js instead.

You can see it here: https://github.com/fzakaria/learn-nix-the-fun-way https://fzakaria.github.io/learn-nix-the-fun-way/1

I liked putting the commit SHA on the title slide :)