Clever. I like it. I've given up trying to understand where my btrfs disk usage is, and I think this will help.
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thespoonbends commented on Compare sentence length distributions of famous authors sentence-length.netlify.a... · Posted by u/thesephist
Is it a valid comparison if they're comparing sentence length of translations of works originally written in other languages? For example, Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and Plato's Republic.
What does "valid comparison" mean?
If the intent is to help potential readers to estimate the difficulty of the book, then that's useful.
thespoonbends commented on Packaging Kubernetes for Debian lwn.net/SubscriberLink/83... · Posted by u/pabs3
What's the driver for people who actually want an OS-provided k8s? What holds them back from using upstream releases instead? (Or given large enough team - building/patching themselves) I guess it also applies to Ubuntu/openstack to a lesser level.
If you're planning to run those as a platform, it sounds like more pain then necessary.
I prefer to use Debian packages because it conforms to conventions that make managing systems easier: predictable naming, integration with service management, logging, docs, manages.
(I use NixOS for personal use.)
thespoonbends commented on Mailing lists are resistant to censorship sourcehut.org/blog/2020-1... · Posted by u/ddevault
Developing free from censorship is useless if you can't ever reach the user due to censorship
The author isn't saying that isn't important. The author is just tackling one aspect of censorship resistance.
thespoonbends commented on On Abandoning the X Server ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/202... · Posted by u/cheshire_cat
Indeed, this network transparency, I use it every day... It is the #1 feature I couldn't do without on Wayland.
But X11 has been stale so long it would really benefit from a back-to-the-drawing-board approach. From many points of view. Network latency, security etc.
But Wayland isn't it for me... It's too desktop centric IMO.
What is your usecase for network transparency? Remote desktop? Is that not supported in a Wayland world?
After using it for a few weeks it feels like everyone else got package and config management kind of wrong.
Nix really shines when I’ve started to use nix-shell for different projects - can recommend!
Best way to describe it is that the os is no longer kind of a ”repl”.
Yes, a classic Linux distro feels like a REPL or writing in assembly/m4. NixOS turns a machine into a compiled program.
Which just means that the NixOS model scales better. While it is true that NixOS has a shortage of maintainers with commit privileges, I fail to see how that makes the "manual process" any better. Besides, all packages in NixOS still go through manual review, you know.
Edit: I forgot to mention, the maintainer shortage problem is a result of a series of policy decisions surrounding NixOS, and not even something inherent to Nix.
My comment was meant to demonstrate the effectiveness of the NixOS model. Debian relies on the blood, sweat and tears of maintainers, with weak steps towards automation: ( https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-windin... https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/on_leaving/
Great job everyone!
NixOS is most up to date and top three in number of packages :0
That is amazing! I love the Nix community, so happy to be a part of it.
See also that there are comparatively few maintainers, despite having a large amount of up to date packages.
This is the result of treating a distro as a software problem, versus the manual processes used in Debian, for example.
I've been using NixOS on all my devices for 2 years now, and it's great to have easy reproducible systems.
NixOS design gives it a robustness that is missing from taking a mutable distro and applying mutations (via Puppet/Ansible/Chef) to it.
thespoonbends commented on Twitter preconnects to the wrong domains ctrl.blog/entry/twitter-p... · Posted by u/weinzierl
This has been my experience on mobile twitter for years, and in the last year on the desktop one as well. I thought it was a passive aggressive push for users to log in or install the official apps.
+1. I figured it was anti-abuse.