earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Package management on macOS with Nix-Darwin
So the barrier to nix is... nix? No, the language is not the problem. It is not a particularly difficult language at all. There are plenty of actual problems to address, but the language isn't the issue.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: How Amazon Became the Largest Private EV Charging Operator in the US
Delivery to stores might be more efficient, but then the last mile cost doesn't go away. Most of the stuff that I would buy from Amazon isn't available at the stores that I go to so it would require an entirely separate trip to somewhere that I would not go otherwise. Often multiple stores.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Dehydrated: Letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-script
Why would I want a system level python install?
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Android features I envy as an iPhone user
On Android you can change any of the volumes using the keys. No need to go into settings and find the option each time. I change mine throughout the day.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, all yours for a price
Imagine walking into a town square. There are the highest resolution cameras mounted every few feet that take a constant stream of input. People scoff at the idea that you might want less of them.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Show HN: a Rust based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images
I think their thought was incomplete. It's a language-specific package manager. Out of that list I think there are some that have no business installing packages for use on the greater system. They work fine for development dependencies and project building, but they should stay in their lane when it comes to installing tools to use outside of project development.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Fast, Declarative, Reproduble and Composable Developer Environments Using Nix
The language is the easiest part. It's fairly simple, ergonomic, and actually pretty well made.
Trying to use a container to accomplish the same thing is not a substitute. They are fundamentally different.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: NYC startup founder Sophia D'Antoine dies after being struck crossing street
Cars don't make a society more free. They've certainly become a cage in modern times. And driving is one of the most dangerous things most of us do.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Mental health in software engineering
Quite frankly, this is why I'm glad to no longer be part of such an organization. This is as close as you can toe the line of actually causing harm while still making it look beneficial.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Mental health in software engineering
You dismiss that these are arbitrary, but I'm not seeing a whole lot in your examples that aren't also arbitrary. Sure, this is how a lot, if not all, companies work. That does nothing to disprove that this is arbitrary at the cost of mental health.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Airlines in the U.S. charge separately for checked bags in order to reduce tax
Why does it need to be their problem to matter? It's an annoyance, and it can cause enough friction to stop potential customers.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Looking into an apparently scammy looking zsh plugin manager called “zi”
No, I absolutely do not do this. For one, I don't have any network requests in my vimrc. I also keep my plugins versioned using an external tool that pulls them from a given git hash rather than request them from some other server.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Don't Let Perfectionism Stall Your Software Development Project
I'm tired of this mentality and all of the broken things it produces. Obviously it's important that it works for the people using it. That doesn't mean we should all shovel a bunch of crap together and sell it like it's some perfectly polished creation. Find a balance between the two extremes.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images
I'd prefer that nearly all of us were off the road, but in practice we've not built a world that allows such a lifestyle.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: FCC to Vote to Restore Net Neutrality Rules, Reversing Trump
That's just not believable given that I have a few ip ranges that I get heavily throttled on when I don't connect through a VPN.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Documentation for the AMD 7900XTX
It's always intriguing to see other people's takes. I'm in nearly the complete opposite boat: in recent years I've switched to AMD and it feels like all of my hardware problems have gone away.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Bacon – a background Rust code checker
It isn't outdated. I run lsp and bacon when working. You can get bacon to run clippy for you, which is also really good to use.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: School absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere
It doesn't have to be this way. Covid has nothing to do with it. I didn't like it then, and don't like it now.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Dioxus 0.5: Web, Desktop, Mobile Apps in Rust
Axum is certainly where it is at and where it has been for a while in terms of HTTP server frameworks. I'd say actix is in second place for sure, but it is wholly viable regardless. Rocket is no longer in the running as far as I'm concerned, and it hasn't been for quite some time.
Dioxus is certainly taking the head spot in front end. I still have more concern about the venture backing than I have confidence about it, but for better or for worse, it is certainly the best attempt at this so far. I enjoyed yew as a react-style framework, but its development is slow. Dioxus has made a lot of progress, and in my experience, it is currently the best experience that can be had.
It's hard to say if now is the correct time, but I'd be watching it closely if I were you. There's been major work to improve the framework with many of the interfaces changing. Now might be a good time because of the progress made here, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were more changes in store. Although I imagine that you're used to that from bevy anyway.
earthling8118
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1 year ago
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on: Notes on EndeavourOS
Windows never caused you issues? That's an incredibly bold statement. I had to switch off of Windows because it was nothing but issues.
