@publicvoit hm I recently switched from LineageOS on a Samsung Galaxy S9 to CalyxOS on a Google Pixel 7 and it is a massive upgrade for me. Interestingly CalyxOS defaults to Organic Maps and it is a lot smoother than OSMAnd+ ever was.

Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming | blog :: Brent -> [String]
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#fp #functionalprogramming

The root of so many problems in software: reflexively upscaling capacity instead of addressing efficiency. Once you see it, it's everywhere.

- Process running out of memory? Don't just give it more, find out why first, and reduce how much it allocates.

- Team delivering too slowly? Don't just expand the team, find out what's slowing them down.

- Too much work to track? Don't just buy Jira and curate a huge backlog, identify the essentials instead, and keep a simple list

KDE Plasma is great. GNOME is awesome. Window managers are wonderful. Everything has quirks but I love all these options we have. I can't wait to see where we take them.

#Linux

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@publicvoit @phaer @sa0bse Even 23.11 got the backport right away: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/323753#issuecomment-2199658842

For reference, here are the guidelines on what can make it into release branches: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#changes-acceptable-for-releases, which includes security fixes.

@publicvoit @phaer @sa0bse Also right from the beginning, 24.05 had the fix backported. The stable branch is definitely not an afterthought. Although most advanced users do indeed run unstable on their personal machines, this is not recommended for production systems.

The reason they have the same version numbers is because they're the same version ATM. 24.05 has just been cut from unstable, so the chances of any given package having diverged are low at this point.

@publicvoit @phaer @sa0bse Nix's hashes are very similar to git commit hashes.

If, in an arbitrary software project, you backported a bugfix from a stable branch into an LTS branch by cherry picking it, the new commit on the LTS branch would look very similar to the original. But their hashes would be different because the commits' parents and some metadata would be different. Same with Nix packages, and any input to a package affects the hash, even if one transitive dependency is different.

@compilz @daviwil I wonder if you'll like this theme: https://github.com/ianyepan/vscode-dark-plus-emacs-theme

Facts

#adhd

Interview with Esolang Academic 2024
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#intercal #guix #brainfuck #piet

@pludikovsky Here is my summary why I do think that #Markdown is not a good lightweight #markup language compared to #orgdown (or the syntax of #orgmode): https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/

Org Mode Syntax Is Intuitive, Easy to Learn and Remember

Org Mode Syntax Is Standardized

Org Mode Syntax Is Consistent

Org Mode Syntax Can Be Easily Typed

Org Mode Syntax Makes Sense Outside of Emacs

Org Mode Syntax Has Excellent Tool Support (If You Want)

... and for most of those arguments, Markdown is worse.

I'm so honoured to have been able to open DevConf Cape Town today, and more importantly to be able to among an amazing group of beautiful humans who are presenting at the event. It is going to be a great day

#devconf #devconf2024 #southafrica #developers #conference

Hi friends,

The http://alt-text.org alt text library project needs a new leader, I have brain cancer.

I built a working, scalable, proof of concept library of shared alt text with fuzzy matching.

I'd like to connect with the #accessibility dev community. I want to hand the project off to a team or a leader if anyone is willing to take it over.

Github: https://github.com/alt-text-org
WIP MVP: a site designed for writing alt text with a private library: https://my.alt-text.org

Boosts appreciated

#FunctionalProgramming alignment chart. via @haskman
#programming #alignmentchart

@fabio https://github.com/uazo/cromite

@jakehamilton many sources are also specified in nixpkgs using "mirror" URLs, so if the upstream project uses mirrors, if one goes down another will be tried when fetching source, and then I just came across this post by @solenepercent that might be answering what you're asking: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-11-03-nixpkgs-fetch-all-sources.html

@jakehamilton there's https://www.softwareheritage.org/ , which while not specific to NixOS, has archives of a lot of source code. I mean, my dotfiles are in there somehow, and they're genuinely not important at all to anyone other than me.

@zeorin Amazon apologist get lost.