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Kootle commented on Nix Derivation Madness fzakaria.com/2025/10/29/n... · Posted by u/birdculture

eviks · 2 months ago

> nix/store/24v9wpp393ib1gllip7ic13aycbi704g-ruby-3.3.9.drv

A different type of madness, but are ugly names so common, why not start with ruby-3.3.9 so any list of files is semantically sorted/readable?

Kootle · 2 months ago

In nix packages (derivations) are so lightweight that your store has tens of thousands of them, many with the same name, or with no meaningful name at all. On the rare occasions that you need to look in the store for a package you’re much more likely to be looking for a particular hash than a particular name. That, and having the hash as a prefix looks nicer in tabular output.

Kootle commented on Sora: Creating video from text openai.com/sora... · Posted by u/davidbarker

cyrialize · 2 years ago

Does anyone know how to handle the depression/doom one feels with these updates?

Yes, it's a great technical achievement, but I just worry for the future. We don't have good social safety nets, and we aren't close to UBI. It's difficult for me to see that happen unless something drastic changes.

I'm also afraid of one company just having so much power. How does anyone compete?

Kootle · 2 years ago

Best way to deal with the sense of doom imo is to actually use it. You'll find how dumb it really is by itself, and how much of your own judgment/help/editing is still necessary to get anything usable. It might look like magic from these manicured press releases, but once you get your hands on it, it quickly becomes just another tool in your toolbox that, at best, helps you do the work you were doing anyway, more quickly.

Kootle commented on A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald independent.co.uk/news/wo... · Posted by u/pseudolus

lupusreal · 2 years ago

> Mr Tomlinson, who dabbles in stand-up comedy, came to the attention of a hardcore group of online stalkers five and a half years ago after posting an innocuous tweet about the late Saturday Night Live comedian Norm Macdonald.

> “Hot take: I’ve never found Norm Macdonald funny and was pretty sure all my comedy friends who did were either nuts or screwing with me,” he posted on 11 September 2018.

Obviously that remark doesn't justify a harassment campaign, but it seems a little clickbaity for the headline to frame it as a joke. I clicked to see what joke so witty could tick people off that badly, but it's more of a mundane statement of opinion than a joke.

Kootle · 2 years ago

more of a comment really

Kootle commented on No Hello (2013) nohello.com/... · Posted by u/coryodaniel

SethTro · 5 years ago

Google has a whole list of these (ActionableIM, OnlyHello, ContextPlz); I'm into FastHello

1. Open the chat window, and type your question with no "hello". Do not press enter. 2. Instead, press Ctrl-A and then Ctrl-X to cut your question out of the chat window and into your clipboard. 3. type and send "hello" 4. Pause 2-5 seconds 5. Ctrl-P and enter to send your full question.

Kootle · 5 years ago

Why would I print my chat window

Kootle commented on China Uighurs: A model's video gives a rare glimpse inside internment bbc.com/news/world-asia-c... · Posted by u/baylearn

fiblye · 5 years ago

The outcomes will also give them a heightened sense of nationalism and feed into the idea that the West is just out to get China and Chinese people, which the media plays up quite a bit.

As an American, sitting down next to a European on vacation for more than a few minutes is never fun. Once they inevitably ask "Where are you from?", they follow it up with a lecture on American politics before I can even finish my sentence. It's tedious and it's nothing new.

It's probably way more frustrating for people having to listen to their boss lecture them at work about how screwed up a country they've never been to but you've lived your whole life in is. You're not in a position to just politely say "bye" and never see them ever again without any consequence. You certainly can't speak up against them because they're in a position of authority.

Kootle · 5 years ago

> As an American, sitting down next to a European on vacation for more than a few minutes is never fun. Once they inevitably ask "Where are you from?", they follow it up with a lecture on American politics before I can even finish my sentence. It's tedious and it's nothing new.

Counter-anecdotally; I've never experienced this and in my workplace at least, the people who never stop talking politics are all American.

Kootle commented on Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese legendsoflocalization.com... · Posted by u/polm23

Kootle · 6 years ago

I asked my Japanese colleagues for what the correct way to say 'koin ikko ireru' would be, but none of them thought it sounded funny.

Kootle commented on Interview with Simon Peyton-Jones cs.cmu.edu/~popl-intervie... · Posted by u/jasim

professor_plum · 8 years ago

I'm always curious what people are using the more exotic type system functionality of e.g. Haskell or Idris for in practice. It was interesting to hear that even Simon didn't expect such things to be used in industry quite yet.

Still, I wish I could see more info on this. At what point does the additional cognitive burden of advanced type system features become a worthwhile tradeoff for program correctness? It seems to me that this depends wholly on the complexity of the program.

Further to that point, the most complex programs I can think of (perhaps you may be able to offer other opinions, which I welcome) are AAA game engines. What are the reasons why the big engines out there are not using higher-kinded types, dependent types and the like? Is this just because of pragmatic issues such as the languages the developers learned in school not supporting these features, or because here-to-date functional languages supporting these features lacked the appropriate throughput of C/C++, where one can layout data for cache-efficiency?

Kootle · 8 years ago

Haskell's type system works because of purity, and purity doesn't generally mesh well with performance-oriented applications like game engines. There are some type-driven approaches to gamedev, like https://github.com/jonascarpay/apecs, but it's fairly experimental. There has been some talk about linear types, which would allow Haskell to have controlled impurity similar to Rust, but they're still a ways off.

Kootle commented on TeX Live 2017 released tug.org/texlive/... · Posted by u/l2dy

kstenerud · 9 years ago

I've given up on tex. I'm typesetting a book right now, and getting the epub going was a piece of cake. Then I tried using LibreOffice for the print version and it was a nightmare to control via the API and buggy as hell. So I decided now would be a good time to try tex. After 2 solid days of yak shaving, I threw in the towel. It's too fragmented, the documentation is terrible (complete - all 600 pages worth, but terrible for discovery or learning). It's basically rabbit hole after rabbit hole, with most, if not all, tutorials directed towards typesetting your homework assignments.

All of the CSS/HTML based solutions cost thousands per license, so that's out.

I'm now on to SILE, which fixes a lot of problems with tex. I can only hope that it's advanced enough to properly typeset a novel.

Kootle · 9 years ago

Have you seen the KOMA-script or memoir latex classes? They are very suited for typesetting books and have great documentation.

Kootle commented on 25 Most Common Passwords of 2015 abitofabyte.blogspot.com/... · Posted by u/mkelleyjr

Kootle · 10 years ago

The author, some of the comments here and especially the author of the Gizmodo article seem to lament the fact that passwords aren't stronger. I have no idea about whether or not that is justified, but a list of the most common passwords is in no way reflective of average password strengths. A good password is probably unique in the world so by definition the only passwords on this list are those that are trivially easy to come up with. A more interesting statistic, I think, is what percentage of the world's passwords is '123456'.