I’m not sure if they’re a decent person or not, but I liked this sneer on the orange site, in the context of this recent rant (previously, on Awful), describing a hypothetical executive-humbling mechanism. I agree with them; I’d read that fanfiction too.
You got Schmidhuber’d! A Gödel machine would fit the bill. Nobody’s built one yet, but the hard part – proof search through something like Metamath (particularly Metamath Zero) – is long-since solved. It wouldn’t take over the world, though; it would just sit in a corner and get really good at maths over the next few centuries.
Why are techbros such shit at Lojban? It’s a recurring and silly pattern. Two minutes with a dictionary tells me that there is {seldikca} for being charged like a capacitor and {nenzengau} for charging like a rechargeable battery.
Yeah, Lix is good. It’s not what it claims to be, but just being a CppNix fork is enough.
So, I’m not developing in secret. My code is here, in my rpypkgs flake, and as the .packages.${system}.reguix attribute of that flake. One would probably want this Cachix cache if they’re on amd64 and want to avoid building PyPy or CPython. (Upstream discussion about this bootstrap path is here.) I’ll send out a more serious round of invites once the lexer, parser, compiler, and evaluator can actually handle a real-world evaluation.
For posterity: Hi! I’m linking this to you because you’d like to contribute to Regiux. Cool! You need to know RPython, a dialect of Python 2.7 used to specify interpreters. In a nutshell, RPython is statically-typed with lots of metaprogramming, somewhere around Java or Haskell. You write a Python 2.7 program, it gets imported into memory, and then the RPython toolchain compiles from memory into C, optionally generating a JIT compiler. For a gentle explanation, check out Brown et al doing Brainfuck (1, 2); if you’d like to see what high-performance RPython looks like, check out my DIVSPL interpreter or my take on Brainfuck.
While the author is being a bit of a tool, they’re right about one thing: everybody who jumped the gun prior to the board announcement is now left with an ostrich-sized amount of egg on their face and no obvious path towards reconciliation other than eating a very large omelette. In particular, Jake and the Aux team don’t have an obvious technical roadmap, which is a serious problem for a nixpkgs fork; also, I feel bad for Xe, who has left the community entirely and condemned themselves to pre-Nix distros. Pride leads to hubris leads to self-flagellating blogposts.
…I say, as I continue quietly working on my own reimplementation of Nix…
This article motivating and introducing the ThunderKittens language has, as its first illustration, a crying ancap wojak complaining about people using GPUs. I thought it was a bit silly; surely that’s not an actual ancap position?
On Lobsters, one of the resident cryptofascists from the Suckless project decided to be indistinguishable from the meme. He doesn’t seem to comprehend that I’m mocking his lack of gumption; unlike him, I actually got off my ass when I was younger and wrote a couple GPU drivers for ATI/AMD hardware. It’s difficult but rewarding, a concept foreign to fascists.
That thread from Paul is such an eyeroll. “Community”, says the VC-funded startup-builder. But it really does show how far out into the wilderness Dorsey has gone; not even his startup bros want to follow.
I guess. This doesn’t really match my experience at all, though; in particular, Nix was slow to evaluate back when we all used nix-env, and I’m not sure why flakes would matter much to evaluation performance. It reminds me of Hugs; surely at some point we should invent a GHC instead.
I’m still waiting to hear about how Lix will achieve faster evaluation. I’m worried that they don’t actually have such a plan, and are hoping that Rust will magically speed things up.
Can’t believe that doofus doesn’t know about T-Mobile. I find that their profile includes several red flags: invited by the sock, no articles submitted, only comments sporadically with opinion-only short jabs, profile is not filled out after months… I’m not saying that they’re a sockpuppet, but they don’t seem like part of the community.
You’re right. I incorrectly believed that hexa had signed based on their comments elsewhere, but I was wrong.
The original signers include members of the infrastructure and moderation teams. You can find about half of them on Mastodon. They’re all well-established community members who hold real responsibility and roles within the NixOS Foundation ecosystem.
Also note that Eelco isn’t “a maintainer” but the original author and designer, as well as a de facto founder of Determinate Systems. He’s a BDFL. Look at this like the other dethronings of former BDFLs in the D, Python, Perl, Rails, or Scala communities; there’s going to be lots of drama and possibly a fork.
Yeah, I thought the cake was quite sneerworthy. “I’m struggling to think of any organizations that I would refuse to accept money or contributions from out of principle,” they say. I also rolled my eyes at the sock. “In my observations over the last few months,” says a person who I’m relatively sure doesn’t participate in FLOSS at all, let alone Nix/nixpkgs.
On a happier note, some folks revealed themselves as decent people, and I’m marking them too. It’s good to know that some neighbors are respectable.
Microsoft is legendary for this. In fact, I’ll give you Microsoft’s entire business recipe; it’s not secret:
Sure. It’s a tough question, though; morally, yes, cars are physical objects and typically well-regulated, but self-driving cars are enabled by software, which tends to flout legal demands. I hope in this case that the sheer physical presence of cars will enable regulators to ban unsafe vehicles from public roads, but it’s not as clear-cut as we’d like.
This is some of the most corporate-brained reasoning I’ve ever seen. To recap:
It’s a fucking pattern, ain’t it.
Wow, I hadn’t read Lowe’s response before, and it is capitalist cringe of the highest order. Thanks for sharing.
To be clear: I agree with every chemical and pharmacological critique leveled at the anarchists here. I also think that none of them have addressed the actual problem that the anarchists are solving, which is that medicinal chemistry has undergone so much regulatory capture that it is no longer legal to perform it at home for one’s own private use or even to reverse-engineer the synthesis pathways. For more commentary on this, I recommend watching e.g. NurdRage reverse-engineering pyrimethamine and paying attention to what they say about obtaining precursors and carrying out various steps of synthesis.
I’d summarize it as joyriding but with skyscrapers.
You don’t have to release anything. Most of my flakes are on private storage in my homelab, including my homelab configuration, and I don’t feel any obligation to contribute anything upstream right now.
Don’t let them take the Nix language from us. Focus on what’s important: nixpkgs can be forked trivially and everything will continue to work, because that’s the point of Nix. They can’t disempower us other than by insisting that we don’t have voices on their committees.