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  1. breaks compatibility
  2. breaks compatibility
  3. breaks compatibility
  4. hard to add without breaking compatibility

Then we arrive at Rust as a natural outcome.

And it's of course possible to migrate to Rust from C or C++ progressively, fish has almost got it done.

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Compared to btrfs it's claimed to be faster and having working RAID support. Its unique feature is using a fast device as cache to speed up access to slower, larger disks, I think.

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Honestly I'm surprised that so many people don't know how git can be used without those repository hosting sites. That's one way to use it, not the only way. And it's not even the way it was originally designed for.

Checkout git format-patch.

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Git and Email are not mutually exclusive. In order to collaborate with git, you need and only need a way to send your commits to others. Commits can be formatted as plain-text files and sent through emails. That is how git has been used by its author from literally the first release of it.

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Some have better ux, some support more platforms out of the box. I don't find it a good idea trying to replace everything though.

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the developer chooses to work with these publishers beforehand

What kind of paradise are you living in?

So why not just use the lean and maintainable wlroots

wlroots can't be used (comfortably and idiomatically) in Rust because it's too hard (if not impossible) to provide a memory-safe interface for it.

we can move to another implementation of the Wayland protocols.

So unfortunately this has already happened.

Any stream content. Any subscription. Anything that I can't access because of my nationality.

I'd pay for other things.

The point is 140kbps opus is almost identical to 320kbps mp3 for human so it saves over 50% size for the same quality. Also it's a royalty free format.

When Windows decided to auto update in the middle of an important meeting without any prompt;
when I download files overnight and the fan takes off at midnight by its telemetry process;
when it gives me a full screen ad trying to change my system settings and stops me from entering the system on time;
when the system starts to integrate with ads from the browser to the taskbar.
It's not because how good Linux is, it's because how bad Windows has become.

So I left after my little checklist of must-to-haves is fulfilled. With no regrets.

KDE Plasma 6 for the resolution of so many issues; COSMIC DE as a brand new choice in the future; Guix System to have KDE and more packages shipped because it's literally the best designed distro as of now.

Note that skim performs worse than fzf. There's a new matcher in Rust called nucleo which is faster, but it currently doesn't have a cli and can only be used inside Helix editor (hx)

nu is probably the best shell for ad-hoc data processing, handling all my daily needs in one expression.

fd and rg have another thing in common, that they're both 50% shorter than their traditional alternatives /s

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Guile and Guix is way better documented than Nix. The language have more features, so you don't have to use a hack to load packages, can actually know what is accepted in a function instead of blindly copying what others do, and it comes with a formatter.

There is a pre built distribution, you need to configure binary cache to get it. Refer to the "Substitute for nonguix" section: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix

You can swap it with the standard one. It's on another non-official channel called nonguix.

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There already are conventional abbreviations: see Section 2.1. I doubt they will be better supported by tools though.

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You can use Nix on Guix System and vice versa, but it's like installing them as a package manager on a foreign system. The store and packages currently are completely isolated between the two, although there's a very early plan for a common store interface.

Well, they are not going to release in between, but their rewrite still "works" at each commit being a hybrid of Rust and C++.

Definitely OT, but at this point you may want to checkout NixOS.

If it's only for 3 days you need nothing unless you get diarrhea.

You may find yourself lucky at nyaa.si, but there's not many.

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Btw, for those who think it's natural to select things by left clicking on them, try pressing space in dolphin to activate the "selection mode".

Yeah, I literally learnt how nix works through guix documentations.

I'd say no. Programming safely requires non-trivial transformation in code and a radical change in style, which afaik cannot be easily done automated.

Do you think that there's any chance to convert from this to this? It requires understanding of the algorithm and a thorough rewrite. Automated tools can only generate the former one because it must not change C's crooked semantics.

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Because it gives the wrong impression that it is not proprietary, just like how you are making this exact mistake.

Did they fixed the kernel panic problem that persisted in the last two versions? I don't dare to try it, last month their proprietary driver has almost destroyed my machine.

Typst. Much easier to setup and learn than TeX based solutions with similar capabilities.

By default you can always roll back to the last working version from boot menu.

Difference is that YOU CAN BE THE ADMIN whenever you want while still being able to talk to others. Over.

Nobody has mentioned that Guix is readily available on NixOS right now? Add a line to your config and it's ready to go. Compatible with everything else.

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Fyi, it's now available on nixos.

It does not work like that. $ is required in shell languages because they have quoteless strings and need to be super concise when calling commands. # and // are valid identifiers in many languages and all of them are well beyond the point of no return. My suggestion is to make use of your editor's "turn this line into line comment" function and stop remembering them by yourself.

It kinda fills a niche.

I use fish for simple command pipelines as well. But traditional shells are not as good when I need to do anything "structured", because they treats almost any value as a string and don't have anonymous functions. The first problem means that you have to parse a string again and again to do anything useful, the second means that when both pipe and xargs fails you are doomed.
Nu solves both of the big problems that matters when you want to do rather complex but ad-hoc processing of data. And with a rather principled design, nu is very easy to learn (fish is already way better than something POSIX like bash though).

Personally another important reason is that I have a Windows machine at work and nushell is much easier than pwsh.

Btw fish is also going to be a "tool in rust" soon :)

I think most window managers have the functionality to avoid windows occupying the space for custom bars. maybe you can make use of this.

I believe that I'm already using it on NixOS. Working without visible problems since half a year ago.

Kent just made a reply on this.

TL;DR: Fast on his machine. The reason of the difference is unclear though.

Thanks for the info. I still wouldn't consider these as long-term solutions bc they tend to be frequently blocked and/or are really slow.

Datalog. Basically relational, but have much simpler syntax and semantics,and is able to convey more complicated queries in a composable manner. Mainly used in Clojure-based databases where actual programs instead of strings are used.

A git server don't need to know email to work, and it is not required to have a git server. Email in this workflow is an alternative to a PR: contributor submit a set of commits to the maintainer (or anyone interested). Then the maintainer is free to apply or merge the commits. After that the code can be pushed to any servers.

No, monadic interface is used to programmatically access the store instead of being used to define packages. Packages are pure in Guix.