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In short: is it this particular CEO who is that valuable? Should I pay 100m to some Joe off the street since I know they will stay put?
So far so good! Some smaller hiccups, like chrome won’t use dolphin, but I installed rustdesk so I can help them through whatever.
Over Christmas the in-laws were asking about Linux because of windows issues, which was surprising since they’re technologically literate but in a layman sense. I didn’t try to switch them over since the parent experiment is still ongoing but a couple more months of seamless use and I’ll consider it a success.
All this to say I’m very glad for Microsoft leadership!
Feels like a breach of social contract. I used to see help requests that were well written as a signal of effort - as in “I’ll put in the effort to help since they did”
> The use case is Chef's Kiss levels of overengineering. They want to avoid Git commits... so they built a custom S3 server... that runs in a container... that gets rebuilt on every NixOS rebuild... to serve static files... to FluxCD. At some point, just make the damn Git commits.
$out is a magic variable in nix that means the output of the derivation - the directory that nix moves to its final destination
Good sleuthing, seems someone from OpenAI read your comment and found it embarrassing as well!
My reviewers love when I write “review commit by commit” in the PR description. Then each individual commit has its own reasoning, and you can mentally switch into reviewing if that commit does it’s one thing it’s supposed to do correctly. I will accept the argument that each commit should be its own PR though :)
Your work is excellent! Thank you, I’ll buy a copy soon.