Exactly. We’re already bootstrapping, re-tooling, and improving the entire process of development to the best of our collective ability. Constantly. All through good, old fashioned, classical system design.

Like you said, a lot of people don’t even put that to use, and they remain very effective. Yet a tiny speck of AI tech and its marketing is convincing people we’re about to either become gods or be usurped.

It’s like we took decades of technical knowledge and abstraction from our Computing Canon and said “What if we didn’t use that anymore?”

I’m honestly doubting it will get there someday, at least with the current use of LLMs. There just isn’t true comprehension in them, no space for consideration in any novel dimension. If it takes incredible resources for companies to achieve sometimes-kinda-not-dogshit, I think we might need a new paradigm.

It’s the car culture I tell ya

None of them do. They just edit things down to the very few moments that make them look like they’re winning a debate, and even those moments are superficial, construed, or they don’t know that they’re actually losing. If it’s live or in person, conflicting views and evidence are avoided or just ignored. They’re all snakes as if snakes were made of slime.

Gotta love that I’ve had my daily use machine running nixos for a couple years now and I don’t even know what that is 😂

really fits the snowflake vibe too

Sooo right. Trying to learn nix, flakes, and home-manager in parallel without realizing extraSpecialArgs exists isn’t fun.

Skill issue, maybe, but it’s an ergonomic issue too!

copes

Yeah but then I’m up and sitting there like “oh shit, what the hell did I do yesterday?”

My main motivation is inclusion on my resume, and I’m left mulling over usernames instead of contributing! I also don’t want to be too personally identifiable for whatever random thing I want to chime in on, so maybe bifurcating is a good solution.

Definitely feel like I’ll end up in a similar spot and barely use the “official” one. I do see people with full names and all working on and sharing whatever they please, like through Lemmy. I just wish I had the nads to embrace it and not worry about connecting myself to bs memery. Damn social anxiety. Don’t look at me!

I laughed at “adult friendly” but that’s seriously apt.

You would say that, TurtleFucker!

Unrelated, but I’m forever stuck trying to choose between a professional GitHub name and something like GermanBread.

Funny story, the full project uses pandas which pulls in numpy and I was running into issues there too. I think it was saying I was trying to import numpy from within it’s own source tree, which was weird.

Although I couldn’t get any venv approach working with it, having the pandas package in my flake allowed it to import.

There’s just such a mix of different issues with each approach that it’s so hard to navigate. I feel close with poetry2nix though, just gotta get it runnable lol

What I’m referring to is the Baldur’s Gate 3 fiasco. I don’t know how things panned out, but people were turning away from it at the time. Admins were aware/involved as far as I know remember.

Wonder how long that will stand. Also hasn’t 1337 been deemed unsafe, or is it back on good terms?

Oh, for sure. It’s really just preference that I like it. Really great to have options, though.

Oh, by the way, is the padding issue due to the window size? When I run on tiling compositors, the full window is uneven with respect to character width so there’s space on the bottom and side. I’m not sure if there’s a way to fix it running in the terminal other than resizing so it’s even. Don’t know if you’re tiling or not.

Nixvim is great too. Nixneovim was originally forked from it, apparently. And now that I’ve been thinking about it, I’m pretty sure the reason I ended up using nixneovim was indeed the way it handles direct vim options, and maybe less need for extraConfig? I’ve slowly been configuring more as well and didn’t want to be confused learning vim config and having to figure out how to convey that in nix.

So that’s a thought if you find yourself having the same trouble! It’s not just a lot of config, but layers and layers and layers lol. Looking at you, lua in string literals.

I’m actually sad that the state of AI deserves the hate it gets. Neural networks are so sick, just going through the example of detecting a diagonal on a 2x2 grid was like magic to me. And they made me second guess simulation theory for quite a while lmao

Tangentially, blockchain was a similar phenomenon for me. Or at least trust networks. One idea was to just throw away Certificate Authorities. Basically federate all the things, and this was before we knew about the fediverse. It gets all the hate because of crypto, but it’s cool tech. The CA thing would probably lead to a bad place too, though.

I, for one, only want domestic adversaries abusing my personal information. Actual rocks and fence posts are smarter than this.

Why-depends can help you out. https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-why-depends.html

I don’t remember if you can use it directly on a derivation or not, so you might have to track down the relevant package.

Edit: forgot to mention you can give it /run/current-system for the first argument to only see what’s currently loaded from the store.