I prefer to flip the logic of the .gitignore.
# ignore root files/folders
/*
# unignore files
!.gitignore
!README.md
!Justfile
!flake.nix
!flake.lock
!pyproject.toml
!.python-version
!uv.lock
# unignore folders
!src/
!docs/
# reignore (recursively)
__pycache__
This includes the files and folders (and their subfiles/folders), while recursively ignoring any pycache bullshit.
Creative constraints bred creativity.
That might explain why there’s so much crap coming out of the gaming industry. All the old constraints are gone, so everything now very much looks the same.
Just give yourself artificial constraints.
It’s the reason I switched to NixOS - I can’t pin for shit in Debian, and I’m stuck at whatever version they want things to be (like ye olde git). Some programs I just want to be bleeding edge, the rest I don’t care much about (unless it breaks).
Meanwhile, I can pin things in Cargo (Rust), and uv (Python) just fine, which is why it stings so hard that Debian doesn’t have it :(
Sorry, I declare NixOS being in its own tier, actually.
Because it’s Arch, except no systemd, I guess.
Note: if we throw out copyright, it’s OK for LLM companies to just steal any and all data under the sun. Example: Anthropic buys books, and just digitizes them, then uses that data to train their LLMs
It’s a nasty side effect.
On the other hand: No company can claim anything you’ve generated from their LLMs.
The claim was “Yet most AI models can recite entire Harry Potter books if prompted the right way, so that’s all bullshit.”
In this test they did not get a model to produce an entire book with the right prompt.
For context: These two sentences are 46 Tokens/210 Characters, as per https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer.
50 tokens is just about two sentences. This comment is about 42 tokens itself.
I’m a programmer and have switched to NixOS, because I can define all my configurations in code+git repo, which is great. I now have a single repo that has some parts that are shared, and some parts are host-specific (one desktop + 2 laptops, for now), and if I fix some bug (like my Samsung 990 Pro SSDs having Linux issues), I know it’ll be permanently fixed, instead of having to re-figure everything out after a reinstallation.
NixOS BTW. We’re making it ours.
edit: Steam has been a non-issue, so gaming has been great so far! Not that I’ve been gaming a ton, but still.
Also, being able to use an LLM to fix stuff for me in my nixcfg repo has been great - I would NOT have been as productive with NixOS had I not have had Codex.
Protip: Turn off Dark Reader for that page - it’ll ‘break’ the optical illusions.
This just makes me want to stay in the terminal forever!
Nix – whole OS determined by 1 file
* Can be determined by 1 file. Or one file and a .lock file. Or even more files. Your pick, really.
It’s fine for newbies.
As someone who used it when he was a newbie: Gnome is fucking awful to learn - it’s so bloody alien, it’s not even funny.
I’m now using a distro with KDE and it feels just right.
You’re obviously not using NixOS. I clearly don’t even need to try to use such a subpar stateful system such as Arch, you absolute pleb.
Am I out-jerking you already?
I use NixOS, obviously.
Where is Nix? Oh right, he’s in space, chilling.
Neat! Reminds me of Mystical - a language where every function is a magic circle.
I think they’re just uncomfortable with the word “master”
1 person over at Microsoft complained, and they moved mountains for this person to replace master with main. It sounds like a joke, but it’s not.
and that seems completely reasonable to me
No it doesn’t. Why does an entire industry need to flip over, because of a single person? Like the ability of changing the master branch for yourself should have been enough. Changing the default over on Github to strong-arm the rest of the world is disgusting behaviour. Which is why I’m sticking to master wherever I can.
especially when they’re people from a group which has been subjected to slavery.
That is literally every group… Every group has been slaves (and slavers) at some point in time. That’s not a good argument.
Haskell:
https://learnyouahaskell.com/introduction
It’s been a while since writing some (2018), but the concepts you learn from Haskell are great (though I still can’t explain Monads, even if my life depended on it) and can be applied in other languages.
Anyway, I can’t speak to BEAM, but Haskell is very typeful, it teaches you currying, very great language, awful tooling (but that was ~10 years ago, so I hope things have improved since).
over many many years.
19 years. Almost 20, coming December!
Aaah, PHP. I’ll stick with GoHugo, but it’s good to know alternatives!
IT vs OT?
I think it’s due to the crazy growth programming has (and is) gone through. I think there’s still a relative ton of greybeards around, but they are vastly being outnumbered by the newbies.
This is also why I think we keep reinventing shit, typically in a worse way, because there are not enough greybeards to go around.