hallettj

hallettj, 28 days ago

I think you want to remove the c because that means “create” an archive, and you’re missing a z which applies gzip decompression/compression

hallettj, 27 days ago

By using one rail they can get two-way traffic on one set of tracks. These early units have an anti-tipping safety device that extends to the second rail, but they plan to get rid of that later.

hallettj, 7 days ago

It could be good, but there is a conflict with one of the electric car hurdles: range anxiety. I use a level 1 charger at home which works fine for regular use - but it does take about 4 days to charge a nearly-depleted battery up to 80%. I’d be loath to give up energy that takes such a long time to get back. But this system would presumably require a level 2 charger, and that might make it ok. Still I can imagine objections over not having a car charged when you want to make a longer, last-minute trip, and over battery depreciation due to more cycling.

hallettj, 16 days ago

When I was using Debian I found I could generally get the latest version of software I wanted from Nix if it wasn’t in the main Debian repos, or was outdated. Nix works quite well on any Linux distro - it doesn’t interfere with the rest of the system.

hallettj, 12 days ago

This seems like the right answer to me. Whether or not you decide to dual boot, make one of these USB keys so you can recover if something goes wrong.

hallettj, 18 days ago

That comic really came out with a banger on day 1

hallettj, 29 days ago

This is why I switched to labelling USB sticks with two-character codes, and I keep a file that lists the current content of each stick.

hallettj, 26 days ago

There are other galaxy clusters. Gravitational binding is not unique to the local cluster. From Wikipedia,

Notable galaxy clusters in the relatively nearby Universe include the Virgo Cluster, Fornax Cluster, Hercules Cluster, and the Coma Cluster.

The expansion of the universe is very tricky to explain. Oversimplifying can lead to an explanation that seems to be contradictory.

hallettj, 1 month ago

Good to know! I’ll put the Ibis and fruit bat on my Australia bucket list, along with a Huntsman. Although the latter are so widespread that I’ve probably already seen some living in America. But I’m guessing the Australian Huntsmen are a bit different from the North American ones.

hallettj, 1 month ago

Seems like a good idea!

Does it relate to stylix or ThemeNix? Does it do something different? (I haven’t tried any of these so I’m not clear on how they compare.)

hallettj, 25 days ago

This is how I sometimes take my dog on my bike for short trips:

dog sitting in a tub secured on the rear rack of a cargo bike

But the best way to transport dogs is using a trailer. That tub takes the place of the rear seat; so to transport kids and the dog at the same time I’d need a trailer.

hallettj, 1 month ago

Modern frameworks like Playwright do a good job of avoiding those waits. So the tests are less flaky, and are faster.

hallettj, 1 month ago

Sourcehut is already federated! The workflows use a combination of email (which is federated), and git clones (which are decentralized)

hallettj, 29 days ago

I’ve often thought that the people working on herpes treatments probably don’t get the credit they deserve

hallettj, 30 days ago

Thanks for the reply! Yes I have been trying WineGE. I didn’t realize it had special media support, that’s good to know.

hallettj, 1 month ago

It’s great that the system is so efficient. But things do come up. I once worked with an LSP server that was so hungry that I had to upgrade from 32 to 64gb to stop the OOM crashes. (Tbf I only ran out of memory when running the LSP server and compiler at the same time - but hey, I have work to do!) But now since I’m working in a different area I’m just way over-RAMed.

hallettj, 1 month ago

Anyone else read these newsletter titles in Pixlriff’s voice? “This week, in Hermitcraft Gnome!”

hallettj, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

It’s possible (and I think advisable) to set your flake nixos config to set the system flake registry to point to the same nixpkgs revision that your flake uses. The nixos-starter-configs standard template has two lines that do this:

<span style="color:#323232;"># Opinionated: make flake registry and nix path match flake inputs
</span><span style="color:#323232;">registry = lib.mapAttrs (_: flake: {inherit flake;}) flakeInputs;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">nixPath = lib.mapAttrsToList (n: _: "${n}=flake:${n}") flakeInputs;
</span>

That actually adds all of your flake inputs to the system flake registry. So for example if in addition to your nixpkgs input you also have an input you named nixpkgs-unstable then can also reference that with stuff like nix shell. For example:

<span style="color:#323232;">nix shell nixpkgs#hello nixpkgs-unstable#cowsay
</span>

hallettj, 1 month ago

I don’t know anything about the treatment. But to be hereditary the genome changes would have to affect gametes. If genes are only changed in other targeted tissue then the changes wouldn’t be inherited.

hallettj, 1 month ago

Just the best identity reveal I’ve ever seen

hallettj, 1 month ago

My guess is they had fun making these episodes, and that’s why they kept going

hallettj, 1 month ago

There’s a relevant community post, NixOS is not dying, please don’t spread fear actively

hallettj, 1 month ago

That’s a good one, and also the first thing I thought of.

There’s also a remake that’s not bad that features Hugh Laurie using his native accent.