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Do you know of any Nix projects which are basically nix-but-as-if-was-brew?

I get that this violates the Nix philosophy, but it’s hard convincing collabs to install a root package manager, which has install commands like:

nix profile install nixpkgs/nixos-24.11#hello

I get that it’s flexible, but I would like something more like:

nix install hello

I want three things:

1. rootless
2. can manage “casks”
3. global cli with support for per-project flakes

Do you know if this exists / is being developed?

I would love to see an actual source/docs stating 1875 is a commonly used epoch, rather than microblog posts. Either bring hard facts or shut up, because…

Arguing over the epoch completely misses the obvious refutation. If there’s errors in the database, that might be because there’s hundreds of millions of individuals represented in the DB, and no data should be made to be perfect at the cost of people starving. I would posit the bigger a tech system gets, the more social constraints it will acquire. The errors in the database could mean there’s underserved people, and we should fund efforts to represent these people, so their needs can be met. What errors don’t mean is that the SSA is being defrauded to such an extent that it should be shut down, but the way Musk has worked his claim makes that implication natural.

The epoch could be yesterday or at the building of the tower of Babylon and it doesn’t matter, they’ll just deflect and say there’s people who are ageless in the dataset who are defrauding the system and it’s all corrupt

This article gives validity to opinions of idiots meddling. This is implicit, and perhaps accidental, complicity in an outrageous government outreach. Musk is actively tearing down the government.

Sure tech is cool, but it’s nowhere near as important as the social issues surrounding it and for a tech based newspaper to ignore that basic fact is embarrassing

data.table is so cool! I was shocked to realize it has no dependencies (outside of base), very elegant and very fast for sure.

tidyverse is more than a pandas analogue. It’s more like Pandas (and a little more sugar) + Expression + Altair (or matplotlib) and a few others less used. It’s very beautiful. It aligns well with R and is quite functional stylistically and is usually pretty clean syntactically.

The books are really good, but the docs(tidyverse and R) are kinda poor compared to Python (and Rs documentation tools are very limited — PDFs mostly). R package management is much worse than Python’s.

It’s certainly powerful, it’s certainly elegant, and Wickham is an incredible technical writer.

There’s lots of really incredible research done in the R ecosystem.

Caution: Lots of docs are affiliated with Posit, including Wickham’s. Posit wants to sell their cloud offerings. This often leads to over-optimism in documentation.

The language is definitely capable of serious work, and is pretty good at dataviz, psych, and gis.

I highly recommend giving it a try, if you like functional programming or want to see some cool data science ideas and statistics research.

Perhaps I’m just lost or the fool here, but wouldn’t it be usual that the overhead of spawning a thread would be much higher than just drawing the next pixel? If the post is true, could someone explain to me how a renderer with so much thread contention could optimize drawing on a CPU?

You probably already know this, but for those who don’t, git can globally ignore patterns. It’s the first thing I set up after logging in. Honestly wish git just shipped this way out of the box (maybe match .DS_Store by name and some magic bytes?) with a way to disable it. Just for the sake of easier onboarding

I really like it for devshells which is really all I use Nix for. Flake-parts automates so much boilerplate and improves the error messages so much compared to standard flakes. Definitely worth the time investment imo

Yep, my block list is long. It’s updated occasionally. I call it “weeding the digital garden”. Negatively sprouts everywhere and it’s imperative to cull it asap.

The way I see it there’s far too many things in the digital world to care about, so I just care about basically none of them. I’d rather spend energy loving the people I love than being angry at what I see on the internet.

The internet is full of slacktivism and I find it’s more worthwhile to do something good rather than critiquing the bad and doing nothing.

My way is simple and stupid. I hit F12, then search for “rss” in the html and copy the link

If you’re on iOS, feeeed is kinda slick :)

Yeah, I can’t argue with that, it’s a shame :(

All the more reason to subscribe to independently owned ones if they’re available to keep them afloat :)

No specific recommendations, but I highly recommend following your local news orgs assuming you don’t live in a news desert.

The goal of big news companies is to get clicks for that delicious ad revenue and they don’t care about how predatory that is towards you.

Local news is much more community focused in my experience

If you’re happy with your solution, that’s great!

uv combines a bunch of tools into one simple, incredibly fast interface, and keeps a lock file up to date with what’s installed in the project right now. Makes docker and collaboration easier. Its main benefit for me is that it minimizes context switching/cognitive load

Ultimately, I encourage you to use what makes sense to you tho :)