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Just a basic programmer living in California

  • I haven't done this, but I think this idea is going to stick with me going forward

  • Heads up: when I upgraded network name resolution broke. It looks like the problem was services.mullvad. Unfortunately booting into an old generation still left me in a broken state. I guess there is some non-declarative state set. If you get into this situation there is a recovery procedure given here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/314694

  • No problem! We've all been there!

  • It looks to me like 696b10c removes the filter that previously skipped the xrizer-fix-aarch64 patch. So I would expect that patch to be applied in the latest nixpkgs-xr

  • I think one of those kisses in Exhibit A was an evil duplicate. But yes, you make a strong case

  • What does your flake.lock look like before and after running nix flake update nixpkgs-xr ?

    • That alien transporter with a range of 40,000 light years (the spatial trajector) that just can't work on Voyager because it has an incompatible power supply
    • Infinitely fast travel at warp 10 that comes with serious, but entirely curable side-effects
  • Oh I was pissed when the bubble burst right before I graduated from high school

  • IIRC in the movie The Last Temptation of Christ making crosses is kinda his thing

  • Ok, I don't really know what I'm talking about. I think the deal is that there is a concept of a "bargaining unit", and the government usually limits bargaining units to one workplace, or maybe one employer. And employers can't be compelled to negotiate with a group that is not a single bargaining unit. So in practice organizing has to be done workplace by workplace. Unless I've misunderstood.

  • I had a workplace organizing training session the other day, and learned a couple of things. I'm not sure I have all this correct, but from what I recall US laws are strict in what kind of organizing is allowed - I think cross-industry unions aren't allowed. Contractors aren't eligible to unionize. (That's on top of the "wage theft" effect of classifying full time employees as contractors instead of W-2 employees.) Organizing protections for workers don't extend to managers. It's a lot of bullshit.

  • I think Templates is for cases where you make lots of documents that have the same starting structure. Like a letter head, or a spreadsheet you recreate every month. The starting structure can be saved in Templates so you can copy it ever time you need it. Maybe I'll put a Nix flake template there instead of always copying from a recent project.

    Public might be for files that other users have read access to on a multi user system? Or maybe for network shares? Or a personal website? I'm not sure. Edit: I found a comment saying that Gnome file sharing uses Public.

  • You can customize the names with a ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file. That will work on XDG-compliant programs. instructions

  • I used to have a scratch directory. Then I realized I can put stuff in /tmp/whatever, and it gets automatically deleted on reboot. I made a shell function that creates a /tmp subdirectory, and cds to it in one command.

  • Me too! But now I'm thinking maybe I should capitalize the folder name

  • I also use a Projects folder. It looks like it probably won't break anything. Apps might start putting stuff there by default, hopefully in sensible subdirectories. There's a note in the article that you can create ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs to specify where you want files to go.

  • How did the makeup team do Dax's spots anyway? Were they painted by hand, and a little different every day of shooting? Did they have a template and spray paint?

  • Just open up the door. We'll all come inside, and eat your braaains!

  • I like to use this style of italics for keywords. (That's also what the Maple examples do.) My thinking is you see keywords so often that you recognize them by shape, not by reading the individual letters. And my theory is that the italic variant being a little harder to read helps my eyes skim over keywords, to focus more on words that I do need to read precisely, like variable names.

    It does mean that I spend some time customizing my syntax highlighting theme to make it work the way I prefer. I've got examples set up on my blog. Although that's not Maple - it's a different font with cursive italics called Cartograph CF.