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Why is it asking for email?

I am pretty sure its this

/System/Volumes/Data/Users/<your_user>/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Caches/CloudKit/

I need to `rm` it at least once a month, I ran `du -sh` and it takes 153gb on my machine

Author seems to be one of the colleagues you are like I wish to be more like him.

Fair, another thing I really like is you can do `nix flake show templates` and try to `nix flake init -t templates#trivial` and be like ahh so thats how its supposed to be done or init `full` and be like ok this flake thing can do a lot of things I didn't know it could do, you can then edit, delete and experiment.

It actually is specific to flakes. Classic nix commands can see untracked files just fine. Flake evaluation behaves differently because of how it decides which "scheme" to use:

If the directory is part of a Git repository, then the input will be treated as a `git+file:` URL, otherwise it will be treated as a `path:` url;

This is why untracked or unstaged files disappear when using flakes:

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/ec6789f9dafce41011418fe6fc...

The flakes were the main UX/DX improvement for me. Before them I honestly could not do anything. The learning curve was so incredibly steep it almost felt like the people behind Nix were being malicious or intentionally gatekeeping. You finally stumble onto something you can at least partly understand, but then the powers that be throw two last obstacles at you like,

First, flakes are "experimental", so you have to enable them. Back then there were like three slightly different CLI commands to do it, and it felt like none worked from like 5 tutorial tabs I had open, putting it `experimental-features =` into flake you are trying to switch to does not work obviously.

Then you hit the classic situation where your flake is not committed or staged, so Nix refuses to see it. And instead of telling you that, it prints this abomination of error message "error: path '/nix/store/0ccnxa25whszw7mgbgyzdm4nqc0zwnm8-source/flake.nix' does not exist" (https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-3...)

I would not wish learning Nix from zero on my worst enemy, and I say that as someone who uses nix-darwin, devShells, deploy-rs and so on every day. The UX/DX is really bad, but nothing else comes close to its capabilities.

Sorry for rant but without flakes I would not make it.

I saw exactly the same infinite arms thing with zero prior interest in religion. It took me to place “I was once before and should know well” other entities protested because why bother when he needs to go back soon. Then I came back to my room and had no idea what to do with that experience.

I literally do that, it is not that hard. Getting locked into framework with weird licensing is probably harder engineering problem to solve.

HTMX can do all of that via OOB updates no?

I would love to use Ghostty but it renders fonts so ugly on external monitors its impossible to use https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/4504

As another commenter said,

it’s about your taste and philosophy.

Personally, method_missing goes against both of mine. It makes programs harder to reason about, more difficult to debug, and nearly impossible to `grep`. That said, I understand that this kind of flexibility is what some people like. I just don’t.

Just a personal observation that made my communication with ruby developers hard as I cannot use concepts from strongly typed languages because they live in a word without them, but I guess it's more issue with me than them.

You don't miss things like enums, exhaustive switch or any other basic language features? How about `method_missing` its such a crazy idea to me that something like this exists, I know why it exists but I am like why, why such bloat and complexity.

Serious question: do people actually enjoy writing Ruby? I feel I’m writing in something like Bash. I never felt this way until I picked up other languages like Rust, Zig, C#, and learned a tiny bit of programming language theory. After that, the loose and squishy feel of Ruby really started to bug me. Also, it seems like every Ruby programmer I know only ever uses other dynamic languages like Python. It’s never like they’re experts in C++ or something and then decided to start programming in Ruby.

Whats the salary in comparison to lets say full-stack webdev.

Can you debug zig in any MS/jetbrains IDEs? I type in nvim but debug in whatever has the best experience. I think I asked this question like 2 years ago and was told you can write tests, use lsp server or look at assembly.. has situation improved?

Obvious but it never occurred to me that experienced person sees far fewer parts than layman when looking at the board, for expert its like yeah "file read there", "serialization here" (if I were to use programming analogy) but layman sees gazillion little parts magically working together.

Is there some official document describing USB naming convention or reasoning behind those seemingly randomly chosen combinations of numbers and letters? Usually when products have confusing names you can at least see how by deceiving the customer its benefiting the whoever is making the product but with USB cables??

Hotline you describe seems like pure speculation I find unlikely but I have no idea how the law works but few questions naturally come to mind. Customer of which service? Provided by who? Agreed upon using what contract? Also having to burn your entire pile of cash because of one spec of dust is really funny.

Can somebody more knowledgeable confirm if all your coins will become forever tainted if you are "dusted" like this? As there is no way how to break ever break the paper trail using just bitcoin is only way how to make your coins clean going to monero and back again or something like that? Are techniques determining if your coins are tainted or not on exchanges where they could be refused or confiscated sophisticated enough to not flag you in cases like these? Even if its possible I imagine its computationally expensive.

If I were to speculate I think the absolute brutality of initial learning curve filtered anyone who perceives the usability as a problem so it never got improved.

I have never felt more dumb than when trying to use and learn anything nixos related. Its awesome technology not meant to be used by humans. I am using cs.github.com, open ai chat bot and usually like 4 tabs describing the same thing from different months using different commands + few versions of what seems like official manual while still having zero idea what I am doing. It feels more like I am reverse engineering something rather than using it. There is something seriously wrong with what is acceptable ergonomics by whoever is designing the user interfaces. I really wish they fix all their problems because when it all works its awesome.

I wanted to give guix a shot does anybody know if its any better ignoring their stance on non-free software as I think you can work around it.

enables conditional generation of 3D scenes from different modalities like text or RGB images.

Please help me understand few dumb questions I have.

- What exactly is used as an input to generate such scenes is it just few pictures or even text description?

- Is it able to generate data for something which was not in the input? Like you have some common object in the corner of your photo and its able to expand the picture as if you had it in the frame in the first place?

- What is the end game of technologies like these? Could it be one day fed lets say every piece of data google has about the world like every 360 picture, every book, article, video, movie and so on allowing you to take picture of something and spawning infinitely walkable world looking and behaving as our reality? Similar to procedurally generated video game map.

One of the possible explanations is maybe whenever you typed "gender" it suggested one of the two possibilities next to it or some kind of binary type which might be something github wants to avoid but I am just speculating.

You can google "controversy" around Spanish word for black while trying to somehow imagine you are reading about it from culture/country which is not as much influenced by US culture as other countries with good English proficiency or even completely unaware of it while being taught from your childhood to treat everyone as an individual and actually truly believing it. Then while reading about it you might sort of get feel for "that type of thing".

For some time I collected sources to things as the linked github issue but I had to stop as it made me unhappy now I try to ignore it and hope that I am no longer there when that type of thing hits my city.

Is it possible to rebind spacebar (SCP) to something else now?

WASM will probably be always slower than native but call it very inefficient is unjustified imho considering the compiler needs to be fast enough to run in browser from what I have seen its around ~1.5x slower than native code with there still being many low hanging fruits to be optimized.

How?

The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable. Activists take that discomfort w/the status quo & advocate for concrete policy changes…To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable…that’s the point.

For not having to dox contributors and have their past and future transactions public from the start instead?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/02/11/1045281/ottawa-a...