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I tend to just override nixpkgs downstream. I think the situation you are describing is more power-user.

Flakes to me introduced a lot of overhead beyond what niv can provide.

I get 99% value just pinning my top level dependencies since most of the time I'm referring nixpkgs + 1-2 other packages.

I'm still in the 'meh' camp for flakes. I use niv and it gives me enough usability.

I find the need to include additional libraries to make flakes usable for some reason a weird hurdle I don't personally enjoy (i.e. flake-parts or systems)

Wow. Neve heard of these features. Would love a link to a great write up.

How does one debug the Linux kernel ? I want to step through some portions.

Even with UML it sounds arduous

Is it worth paying for workspace? If I'm a single person? I'm open to paying $100 for Google products. I already paid for Google one

Like the forced vacation. Djshshsbsb sjs Very cool concept.

When did Yegge join source graph?

Still fleshing out the domain model (would love some contributions) but feels nicer to use than readelf or objdump

Does anyone ever feel older in their head than their body after their 20s?

Ruby definitely optimizes for the writer but it fails for the reader (a saying I say quite frequently at work).

Why shouldn't this be upstreamed?

What's the context?

Bought the book....kind of shallow.

It's more geared to the user facing side or how to specify compiler command line flags.

Love my sauna but never know if I'm staying too short or too long to achieve the positive effects.

I stay in maybe 5-10 minutes and have it reach 200F

I can never wrap my head around writing a tool chain in bazel

Thanks for posting :) Happy to answer questions on it.

Funny enough I introduced Nix to our company which was acquired by Google -- so Google has software leveraging Nix. (I got Google to in fact sponsor Nix which was nice too. A small amount but it was meaningful to me).

I wish this blog post had more meat to it. It was pretty minimal on information.

This is also due to the fact that I tend to value Graham's posts highly :)

Love the idea and we are all thinking Nix needs the Docker treatment.

I believe though that something has restart from scratch rather than rely on Nix.

Nix ushered the idea but needs a new face. Building on top of it may be too problematic long term.

Is there is there a good deep dive explaining how the actual portable executable works? The original blog post is kind of light on the details.

I introduced Nix into our build setup as well. We are an acquisition within Google and it's been quite a fun adventure incorporating it alongside Bazel.

Nix has been great but I've run up against a few thorny edges. Luckily I've sent out patches for them; long love OSS :)

I was always surprised how fast they got NoMachine to work on the VPN.

In today's world with tools like Nix and more hermetic build systems that include libc, the need to build on RHEL5 wouldn't exist.

Of course it's always good practice to test on the environment you're going to eventually deploy.

It's more complicated because these clang tools need a compilation database.

Doesn't bazel already calculate a minimum build set based on changed files?

I don't use Guix but use Nix.

How does this compare to Home Manager ?

Guix always seems like it has a cleaner well thought API, especially when reading the examples.

That's interesting. I'll have to think on why (or profile) the ld.so.conf.cache way is faster.

Thanks for the profile.

I got an email asking for second change pool so I clicked it. Sorry. Didn't know someone else submitted.

I actually wrote somethijg recently related to RPATH in Nix you might find interesting

https://fzakaria.com/2022/03/14/shrinkwrap-taming-dynamic-sh...

Honest question: are sanctions that affect normal citizens OK if it's through SWIFT?

In my mind that would cause the populace to be more frustrated with Putin for what he's done.

Genuinely curious why not?