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> Things like fzf have bash completion accompanying files. I have not figured out where these reside using nix.

Bash completions get installed under Nix profiles (yours, root's (a.k.a., the ‘default profile’), or the ‘system’ profile, if you're using nix-darwin or NixOS), just like binaries.

On my system, I have some bash completions under my user profile, in

/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/profile/share/bash-completion/completions/

and some in the system profile, in

/nix/var/nix/profiles/system/sw/share/bash-completion/completions

If you use a shell installed from Nixpkgs, it'll automatically pick up on all such completions installed to your profiles (which come bundled with the packages they're for). (To try this with bash, make sure to install `bashInteractive` rather than just `bash`.)

If you use a shell configured by a Nix module system, like NixOS or Nix-Darwin, it will provide an option to enable the installation of such completions to your system profile, which you can enable like this: https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/blob/a7492a8c76dcc702d0a6...

> Things like mysql make heave use of directories such as /usr/local/var/mysql or similar. I was unsuccessful in surpassing permission problems with these.

It's clear that you're pointing to a real issue, but there's either a typo or a misunderstanding above. If your `mysql` binary really does spit out messages about /usr/local/, it didn't come from Nixpkgs. But if it comes from Nixpkgs, it might be emitting similar complaints about directories under /nix/store.

The explanation: Nix packages don't know or care anything about /usr/local, but they are compiled so that they think all of their ‘prefixes’ (e.g., what by default on a system are just /usr, /lib, /etc, etc.) live in package-specific directories under /nix/store. It's an important part of Nix's design that everything in the store be immutable, and so everything there is marked read-only.

The solution: to use stateful services like databases that you install from Nixpkgs, point them to writeable directories outside of the Nix store to use for their data storage. You can do this manually for mysql with options like `--datadir=/some/writeable/path/you/own` and similar. These same options are used inside Nix module systems when they enable configuration of services like MySQL, e.g., here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-21.05/nixos/modu...

Hope that helps!
I believe you also need to use the WASD keys to move the food objects around while still holding down left click.
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How far are we from Golang 2.0 RCs? Are they trying to exceed Scala 3's development cycle?

As much as I'd like to use a pragmatic language like golang, I can't live without generics (many folks feel the same way.) Feels like I'm better off learning Rust. Go's loss is Rust's gain.
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One may also learn Ujjayi breath. It needs no technology and has other benefits.
Have you been able to get nix working in silverblue? The read-only fs makes making a `/nix` not very straightforward.
What prevents Gemini from being taken over and utilized just like the current web has been?
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I've had fun doing it and been miserable doing it. It depends on the work and opportunity for creativity/impact.
That's because it's as pointless as african american studies.
Yeah, it's pretty much the worst place for me to consider it in any way reliable. Why would you choose to leak to 4chan instead of anywhere else?
This is definitely a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergy_with_carbon_capture_...

In theory it's energy positive: burning the crop can produce energy.
You might consider it if insurance puts up a fight but there's no utility in getting a T-cell test just to try to win arguments on the Internet.
Are flakes necessary for that? I would think you could install x86_64 binaries manually by setting `system`, even on the 2.3 branch. It seems I can do the reverse thing:

$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.hello --argstr system aarch64-darwin
$ file $(which hello)
/Users/ian/.nix-profile/bin/hello: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

But maybe you just mean that it does this automatically? That's neat, if so. And I would expect this to be a lot more annoying within a default.nix file, having to keep track of two different nixpkgs imports.
Seems very familiar.

Its not that finance get things done, its that they can prevent things being done entirely, or reduce funding/investment to the point they naturally peter out.
I spent a number of years behind a bar. Standing still and in place is indeed tiring. Pacing, with constant movement, is energizing in comparison. I still find pacing and walking to be relaxing even decades later...
Mostly a governance thing, yes. "Community infrastructure, coordination and legal framework in a box".
Surely dissolving CO2 in the ocean acts as a buffer, not a sink? We will have to stop emitting all of that CO2 as well (and future generations will have to sequester it).
The net absorption / emission from the biosphere involves a lot of emission following from our changes to the planet. We can significantly reduce our emissions (and slowly recover some of them) with better stewardship of the environment but there is a risk to the sequestered carbon: eg. where climate change causes forests to die and release most of their stored carbon.
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/n9FxMelZGAQ/m/...
OK but, it usually matters. If the events represent changes to some object, those changes almost always have to be handled in order if you are to arrive at the same end state as the source.

edit: Also, idempotent is not the right term here. Idempotent just would mean the event could be handled by the receiver multiple times w/o changing the meaning. If you need the events to be applicable out of order, then you need them to be commutative. This is a much more difficult property to ensure and in practice, I am guessing, almost non-existent in deployed webhook APIs.
When I was a child, it seemed like time stretched on forever. Summers were luxuriously long. As an adult in his late 30's? Every day goes by fast; Good or bad. Everything feels like it's next shortest unit of time. Hours feel like minutes, Days like hours, Weeks like days, and so forth. I'm kind of hoping that time slows down a bit when I retire (mid 40's), but I doubt it.
There shouldn't be subsidies anywhere near producers. The emissions end should be handled entirely via taxes.
Yes, this is what’s so alluring about WSL, whereas with homebrew on my M1 setup I have an utter clusterf&$& of a paper trail across my desktop that is a real PITA to plausibly reverse course, modulo Time Machine backups.
It's not at all uncommon for monopolies to provide benefit to the public. They're uniquely capable of doing so, given their vast wealth and power. The problem is that they ALSO cause harm, and that benefit ends up not being worth the harm.

What harm has Big Tech caused? We don't have an Internet anymore thanks to them. Not a real Internet. Seven or eight major sites and a smattering of others you occasionally visit is not the Internet. The Internet is supposed to be a vast sea of individual sites, small communities and small businesses each discoverable, each doing their own thing. Instead we have a few walled gardens you barely even need two hands to count.
Netcup is also excellent. It’s the best CPU bang for the buck that I’ve found, and where I run around 10 transcoding servers.

https://www.netcup.eu/
OK but if I can sell 10 million barrels of oil for $750M why would I accept $100M to keep it in the ground?
Yes, this seems to have potential.

The beauty of proof of work is the hashing algo is both 1) very hard to solve and 2) very easy to verify by anyone anywhere.

Furthermore, 3) miners have a financial incentive to solve the algo and 4) They may do so in anyway they see fit.

At a minimum a crypto-like solution should have these four properties.

Now we already have a lot of unpaid CO2 miners (plants) doing it inefficiently, ad hoc and short-term. The first stage should be to allow these to opt in to get rewarded. Like you could mine bitcoin with spare CPU back in the day.
On this topic, if an old fan of WoW (and single player FF games) who hasn't played any other MMORPGs since WoW wanted to play a new one, what would an RPG-savvy gamer recommend? I tried going back to WoW some years ago, but found myself spending so much time running to and fro that I quickly got bored and quit.
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It's so easy to pronounce the final outcome "inevitable" isn't it? There's no one to prove you wrong.

The great imponderable of war is the population's willingness to keep waging it. I don't know what would have happened and neither does Wikipedia.
Anecdotally (because this leak is likely not true), I did resubscribe to WoW for Patch 9.1 and it's surprisingly empty in my high pop realm/battlegroup, which is an issue when a large amount of new content is group-oriented and the time it takes to get a group makes the endeavor not worth it.

I cancelled my subscription.
I'm a big fan of Nix!

nix on OSX was my gateway drug to nixos. Nixos is much more intimidating & when you stray outside of what is supported by nixpkgs the learning curve really ramps up.

I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing shell.nix and build.nix showing up in more and more OSS projects & it spreads mostly that way.
In my opinion, you can start with the core concepts super young (as soon as they can use apps on phones) using things like lego boost.

As they get older, I'd steer clear of what I think are complex languages like Javascript, Python, Java and so on (lots of syntax and/or lots of higher level concepts) and start with a Lisp (ducks).
It’s worked out for this guy https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from...
I'm finishing a browser based application platform where the applications installed expose a RPC api, so in the end all applications can call others in the same local(or remote) node/s.

The beauty of this is that you also can compose with other nodes and for a distributed service by calling the local service as a proxy and routing the requests to the other nodes of the same api.

It took more time than i've predicted because its also expected to deliver UI and most of the 'HTML5' api to native applications (instead of Javascript), which is a massive platform by now (and the #1 reason why newcomers to browser technology cant compete, giving the feature creep tax imposed to them).

The idea is also to distribute over a DHT so you can just serve your application over torrent without needing to register anything..

The only way to get there is by empowering users and developers and taking some of the control from the cloud platform giants.

In my point of view the only way to break the browser monopoly now is to create a new path forward, a branch.. its not the time to follow the rules, its time to break them or else the future doesn't look so bright in my opinion..
Are these recommendations from the cost & usage report? just normal API queries?

If it is just from normal API (probably list instance/lb), is it really enough in order to create proper recommendations?

do you have an estimate on the cost/usage you are adding for each scale of customer?
I see it a little differently.

As an analogy, I'm a big believer in caloric intake determining weight for most people. Consume more calories than you use and you will tend to gain weight. Consume less and you will tend to lose weight. So to get a caloric deficit you can exercise more or eat less. But... it's 90-95% diet.

Bringing this back to FIRE, the key lesson I think is that what matters in having financial freedom is controlling costs not maximizing income. Expenses can (and often do) _easily_ rise to your level of income. People fall in these traps of thinking they need a $5m house instead of a $2m house, or a bigger boat or a third vacation home.

But if you control your expenses AND can be happy then you doubly benefit: you increase your savings (and thus the time required until you have financial independence) AND you decrease how much money you need in retirement because you're accustomed to lower costs.

So the point of FIRE is (IMHO) not to seek satisfaction through material things but rather through your approach to life and your experiences.

I've seen this with coworkers who convince themselves they need $50,000pa/child for private school, $500k+ plus to pay for each child's Ivy League education and so forth and kill themselves to achieve that. Worse, they can become bitter and unhappy as they realize how long that will take them to achieve even as the top 1% of earners.

So not only are they working super-hard for longer they're seeing their families less and bringing home this negativity and entitlement. All of that is a prison of your own making.

FIRE philosophically is about really examining what you need and what's really important.
He specified public condolences. I don't think it's uncommon for people to share those types of messages privately.
Amazing that they fired Timnit Gebru [1][2] after she pushed back against the removal of this very subject from one of her research papers, [3] only to publish their own work on it without mentioning her.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/technology/google-images-...

[2] https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2017/03/02/...

[3] https://www.theverge.com/22309962/timnit-gebru-google-harass...
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I lived in South Korea 2019-2021. On top of what you said above, they have a very good very intense contact tracing system, in SK the phone/bank/government are pretty inter-connected, it's not difficult for the government to literally hunt down cluster infections and force people into quarantine, and they did. They sent out over sms the exact times and locations of places people who had covid visited, etc, etc. I think contact tracing, Koreans taking it very seriously, wearing masks correctly, actually social distancing kept things under control. Koreans a very good at following instructions when they decide to, and they do it diligently.
Eh. S3 is easily replaced by Wasabi. And less easily by minio.
Same for lead companies too. They knew it was making people sick and killing them, but they hired people to publish bogus research and keep selling it.
If you're thinking about only yourself, sure.
"Originally" they were, but it was bumped to 1.18 (February 2022) a while back.
Sadly I think this would cause a cobra effect and people would start creating carbon emissions to mine it more cost effectively
I'm old school like you are, and morally agree with you.

Yet I did change my mind over time regarding this issue. for the sake of argument, assume we do use web standards.

It makes absolutely no sense for when using such standards, that results differ per browser. In our time, resolving all those differences cost a huge amount of time. Now browsers behave better, but there still may be issues.

We've long seen this as some diversity feature of the web, but it's a bug instead. It means millions of developers are spending time on the same non-value added activity every single time. It's a massive and ongoing waste of resources for everybody.

(browser makers agree with the above, they all have a compatibility program addressing this)

Second, "progressive enhancement" too has been embraced by the careful web developer as the right thing to do. It is. Yet it effectively means building the same thing twice. We've normalized doing that, but it's quite an unnatural approach not seen in any other tech platform I know of.

(the above can be solved by browsers coordinating important standards in time, but generally they won't...often)

Both issues above are time wasters and technical shortcomings. They still are the right thing to do, but an unwanted thing to do when adding pressure.

And pressure we have. We're no longer in the cute web, this is the business web. Developers are very expensive and need to deliver more than ever. Time to market is shorter than ever.

Any activity not directly contributing to time to market, is under severe pressure.

Note that I still agree with your point about some/many engineers being lazy, indifferent. But I hope you appreciate this view still.
Doesn't rotting, or being eaten by microbes or termites that eventually get eaten or die and rot eventually lead to the release of the stored carbon?

AFAIK coal is composed mostly of trees that fell back before microbes evolved that could eat through their cellulose walls, and have had millennia of underground compression to further increase their stability - basically that process isn't available naturally to trees that fall today.
Time will tell, the goal is ostensibly to avoid a UK-style 4rth wave, trying to catch it early on this time.
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That guy has the perfect, steam punk look to go with his vaporium power autobike.
The Segway was a failure because they built up so much hype around it, but it was so pricey and the tech just wasn't there yet. Battery and motor tech has advanced so much since then. The original Segway had a max speed of 10 mph and a range of 6-10 miles. It cost $6000.
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I actually got in pretty good shape playing beat saber last year, as silly as that sounds.
The lead developer has open contempt for the users, for one thing. Also, anyone with a few neurons to rub together can tell the UI is absolutely terrible from a functional perspective. Form over function, on a browser whose target demographic was supposed to be power users (long ago, in the misty past).
> Vulgarity is often just a verbal tic for the inarticulate. If this doesn't apply in your case, then you and your message will be disadvantaged by association.

This is incorrect. Vulgarity is the strongest possible choice when evaluating one's choice of words for emotional impact. I don't know what makes otherwise intelligent folk so damn afraid of them but that is not a part of the world I understand.

Why would otherwise chaste people shout "FUCK!!" when they stub their toe? My mother, for example, is super conservative and would never cuss in polite company. But she has been known to let them slip in extreme circumstances, like stubbing her toe.

There is an overall thread amongst "polite" circles of emotional suppression: don't show anger, don't be negative, couch all your words in disgustingly flowery language, etc etc etc. I don't understand why this particularly disgusting aspect of Victorian prudery and toxic positivity have managed to last so long, but it has. And I'm doing what I can to smash it.
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I hope we see similar numbers in Dlang or Nim.
'25mm'. If we are being that picky, my main dev board is the esp32picod4. It measures as 20mm longer than the tinypico and about 2mm wider, not 25mm. I just checked. the picod4 is $11, doesnt have any flash problems, is made by espressif who is worthy of support, has no battery connector or power module. The pico has more pins available. There is a place for the tinypico, and I think it is in wearables, but in most projects those 20mm are dwarfed by level shifters and power supply. Yes, I have tinypicos right here in my desk, they are nice.
Is this a liquidation under a different name?
Those are just the changes to the language! Many releases have none at all. Keep scrolling for a lot of improvements to the toolchain and standard library, including a couple security changes that might cause necessary behavior changes.
Reducing oil consumption by $100m worth of oil saves less than 1 million tons of CO2. We need - and the x-prize requests - solutions that can approach 10 Gt CO2 reduction per year. A one time reduction of 0.001 Gt CO2 is simply insignificant.
Like where? Is there any other community that is open, respects free speech and allows anonymous, long posts?
Downvoted.. why am I not surprised.
But doesn't a leaderless protocol also give you more resilience against failures? Or, in other words, can it be that the higher cost buys you not better throughput but faster reconciliation when connectivity is poor? Not in a data center but on a mobile network?
Oh it's absolutely dead man walking at this point. Just a question of when they finally decide to admit it, turn off the lights and go home.
Soil. It's soil.

Soil, in prodigious quantities. We need to be making it.

Using human waste - food and faecal from our cities; Using whatever plant fixes the most CO2 in a useful form that we can turn into charcoal (quick trees? bamboo grass? something genetically modified?), releasing heat energy, and then fixing carbon in a useful matrix, for soil regeneration a la Terra Preta.

I sort of made this post elsewhere here, I just wanted to repeat and focus on the soil angle.

We have huge swathes of the globe that due to poor historical environmental conditions have poor soil, so not much can grow. Some have become desertified, perhaps some of which is our fault (eg. Mediterranean deforestation). If we add soil to these places, at least hardier plants can grow and we can expand the reach of our efforts.

Strikes me that the most important thing is that plants can grow, and for that we need soil.

Soil.
I don’t think you need any books or hardware at this stage, maybe just someone to explain the basics to you and ask questions from, and a few YouTube videos.

And try installing Audiokit Synth One (it’s free) on your iPhone or iPad to mess around with. Best to learn how oscillators, filters, envelopes and LFOs work from just messing around with a synth.
> Can Language Models Be Too Big?

That's interesting, GPT-n with 100T parameters would be bored by just reading the whole internet. Too little information, repetitive and on average, junk.

You can try the question in reverse too: Can evolution use too much energy? How much energy has it already consumed?
I thought append only logs required crypto tokens to use nowadays?
Because Chrome comes standard on Android and Firefox has little marketing.
There are a large number of video game journalists at respected publications (e.g. Bloomberg, Vice) who would gladly publish this info if vetted, using industry-standard privacy measures.
The other pushback, in the context of the 'indie/solo' niche software stuff, is to actually call or email the original person and complain.
> removes strain from your heart

If anything, I think our largest (modern) collective societal health problem is that we do wayyyy to much trying to avoid straining the heart. For how much of human history were we not working mostly sedentary? It has a cost. The body is meant to be worked. It loses strength and stamina when it isn't. I don't think the answer is to do even less. Besides, do you know how many involuntary naps I'd take if I was laying down all day?
I knew this was already in progress but didn't realize how little funding it received. I think you're right, 100M could go a long way.

> Seven countries of the Sahel region, an area located just south of the Sahara, therefore initiated a project that will see billions of trees planted across 11 countries by 2030

> A total of 20 countries pledged support to the Sahel countries for the mammoth project. The European Commission has already invested more than €7 million ( $7.5 million).

> But according to the United Nations, the initiative has only reached 15% of its targets after just over a decade. "Progress is slow, but we have learned a lot along the way," said climate consultant Vivekananda.

https://www.dw.com/en/what-happened-to-africas-ambitious-gre...
Yes, after a lot of lobbying, as of Apr 29 Ontario now has 3 days paid sick leave for vaccination, vaccination related illness, and COVID itself:

https://www.ontario.ca/page/covid-19-worker-income-protectio...

That said, symptoms are milder the younger you are is what I've seen. My 13 year old and the kids of all our friends had at most a headache and mild fatigue after dose 2.

My wife and I (45/46) were knocked on our ass for two days for both our AstraZeneca (1st) and Pfizer (mixed regimen 2nd) doses.