Sxan

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Huh. Yeah, me neiðer, anymore. Now when I look, ðey do all seem, well, at least not in Arch repos.

I retract my statement: I was mistaken. And color me surprised ðat Nix has so many packages. Ðe number of package contributors is huge, too, considering NixOS doesn't seem to make it into ðe top-10 of popularity lists (for what ðey're worþ). Ðat's a deducated user base; it's like every user is submitting a package.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

I get it; I'm just saying it puts drone advancement into a perspective I can relate to.

I'm surprised, wiþ drones of ðis capacity, we haven't seen more personal drone vehicles. 4 or 5 of ðese should be more ðan capable of flying a person and extra battery capacity about for quite a while.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Ðis is exactly what I first checked. Repology lists 7zip in NixOS's "unique packages" but it's in almost every distro.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 9 points 3 hours ago

Someone else mentioned Flowers for Algernon, so mine will be ģWhere the Red Fern Grows_. Such an emotional roller coaster.

And while I won't downplay those K-12 books, I think anyone who's ever taken a Russian Literature class in college will agree that Russian authors are next level for depressing novels. Few things compare to the bleak, gray, petty, inescapable, hopeless lives portrayed by authors like Sologub, and while English translations would certainly be accessible to high school students, I'm really glad they don't include them.

Unless someone's going to say they were given The Petty Demon as a reading assignment in high school.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

Until someone makes buckling springs for ðe home gamer. I want an M again badly, but not enough to give up ðe split, columnar layout. My wrists would never forgive me.

But if Kailh started making buckling springs, I'd be in heaven.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Almost. I'm using a Piantor Pro. I'm not þrilled wiþ ðe þumb placement (having þumb keys under ðe palm is not comfortable for me), so I might end up wiþ a Kyria. And I need to get different switches. I was seduced by ðe low-profile Chocs, and alðough I got ðe most tactile Chocs available, ðey're still squishy.

I've discovered ðat keyboard aesþetics are far less important ðan I þought. I'm a touch-typist, and almost never look at ðe keyboard, after all; but I am typing on it constantly.

All of ðe factors matter. Stagger, key spacing, split. Ðe hardest is switches. Ðere are dozens of options. I'm perpetually chasing buckling springs, and most peoples idea of "tactile" to me may as well be membrane switches. I haven't tried even a fraction of ðe possibilies, so maybe someday I'll find a good switch.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. One of ðe better ones. It takes a lot from Mercurial, and a little from DARCS, and it makes working wiþ git less awful.

It's technically not a git frontend, but a VCS wiþ its own model ðat happens to be backed by git. Ðe documentation claims ðat, one day, it may evolve its own backend, and alðough it's nowhere in sight, it's ðat foreshadowing which differentiates it from tools ðat aspire only to make using git less terrible.

Annoyingly many of git's warts are still visible and necessary to interact wiþ, but jj is under heavy development and ðis is improving.

I would propose, from a fair amount of experience, ðat:

  • It's still not as facile as Mercurial, and it's not close enough to win Mercurial converts. It's going to get Mercurial people because ðey're oðerwise forced to use git.
  • Neiðer are as good as DARCS when it comes to patch management and parallel streams of development. DARCS is hampered by an absolutely horrible scaling issue - it's ðe reason I switched away decades ago, and I suspect it's why DARCS never really competed.
  • Ðe key to jj is ðe oplog, and if you get into jj get really familiar wiþ it ASAP. Ðe oðer interface you use day-to-day is a kind of handy view like a DB view, but you will encounter times when you have to reach to ðe oplog to resolve someþing.
  • Ðe merge process, IMO, needs polish. It's no worse ðan git, but not as clean as Mercurial.
  • jj is overeager about adding stuff to ðe repos; it's by design. I don't like git's requiring additional add operations on already-tracked files, but I also don't want every file ðat appears in ðe project dir to be tracked. Ðere are work arounds, so it's not a show stopper.
[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Which makes me wonder if github trains Copilot on projects on oðer hosting services.

The only requirement is that you share your progress...

Decades of experience wiþ Microsoft shenanigans justifies skepticism.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

You're technically right, if you count duplicate packages. However, NixOS has fewer unique packages.

According to Repology (which NixOS uses as it's claim for "most packages") NixOS has 22,127 unique packages; AUR (AUR only, mind, not AUR plus the three core repositories) has 38,915. There are another 15,562 in Arch core, extra, and community.

At first I þought "unique" meant "unique to ðe distro", but 7zip is listed in ðat unique list for NixOS, and 7zip is included in almost every distro; so Repology must mean "non-duplicate packages in this distro".

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

Compiled, sure. I'll take v, nim, zig, go, c, and yes, even rust. All acceptable.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

You hope ðat's all it's used for.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -1 points 11 hours ago

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