hnarayanan

This is very cool. I have a project that built on Asahi[1], and the better the hardware support, the wider the audience.

[1] https://github.com/hnarayanan/hello-guix

https://github.com/hnarayanan/hello-guix - A GNU Guix installer for Apple Silicon Macs. :)

I like Apple’s hardware, reproducible software setups and Scheme. So I made a small installer that brings GNU Guix to Apple Silicon Macs.

It builds on Asahi Linux and installs alongside macOS. I developed and tested this first release on my MacBook Air (M1, 2020).

I also recorded a walkthrough of the installation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFVwoPW1ozE

If you do try it, I would love to hear how it goes.

I really appreciated that such a large chunk of time in the middle was dedicated to the conversation around QT not being free and the birth of GNOME and the competition that followed.

I literally thought this website was about DBUS Hell and I was all for it.

Alas.

Yes. Literally one of the best.

It would help (me) if this documentation had at least one screenshot.

Tiny mono fonts.

How is it possible to make graphs that look this hideous?

Thank you. I turn grumpy when my colleagues keep calling it N+1. What even.

This is a more general question, which is "Why don't people take accountability for their actions?"

Because it's hard work and it's easier to let someone else bear the costs.

I do not have this kind of money :( :)

This drives me insane! To combat it, I maintain a list of banned words and phrases. Claude mostly follows this (but sometimes ignores it).

blast radius, land, landed, lands, spine, earned its keep, grammar, spike, cutover, bake, seams, honest, honestly, honesty, long pole, long poles, register, grain, dissolve, floor, ladder, dear, seal, sealed, in anger, resent, amazing, incredible, perfect, sprint, epic, story points, stand-up, retro, grooming, robust, comprehensive, rigorous, surgical, elegant, systematic, dive, deep-dive, delve, unpack, leverage, streamline, surface, it's worth noting, to be clear, importantly, that said, the moment, in one breath, the thing itself, here's the thing, not just X but Y, not X it's Y, em-dashes

This is the take on this entire thread that I resonate with the most.

As a systems person, I do not know how to share with a details person how the combination of some magically conjured (and sometimes inscrutable) building blocks can still take us to interesting and joyful end results.

Maybe because Brendan Eich was tasked with "doing Scheme in the browser" before it pivoted to JavaScript.

I had forgotten about this. The last I saw this was 20+ years ago!

So many words to say: Scheme.

:)

Landing the plane.

I maintain a list of phrases I beg it not to use that it frequently ignores:

- smoking gun - blast radius - landed - spine - earned its keep - grammar - spike - cutover - bake - sprint, epic, story points (all Agile vocabulary) - paper-cuts - amazing, incredible, perfect

I might need to do a spike as this is a core part of the spine. I will verify it and let you know when it's landed.

I love this!

Does the OP honestly believe that the cost of maintaining a good blog is the €4/month hosting cost?!

I used to do this when I was in grad school as a matter of principle. F the man.

Wow, a post about Angular published on Medium!

Please share some of your tools.

Where are my RCS people at?

This is a general pattern in CAS. For a more basic case, it’s not obvious sqrt(square(x)) will simplify to x without any further assumptions on x.

Shock, gasp.

It has been so much fun. :)

I do understand this sentiment. But I wish these experts would see that they too are novices in literally every other field that they are not explicitly trained or experienced in. It is fun to explore curiosities even in spaces you don't know well.