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lvass··on Tea: A new package manager from the creator of brew
The security concerns here are really, really glaring. All the way down to having your system hacked, by someone who pushed crap to a blockchain, for merely sending a typo into your shell should you decide to install this piece of condensed insanity and the suggested shell hack. Null terminated strings and "billion dollar mistakes" are much saner than this.
lvass··on Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments using Nix
Now make that template vendor in every dependency reproducibly for Linux and Mac.
lvass··on Ask HN: How do I build a website as a backend engineer?
Or just place those files on archive.org. This route may be more or less convenient than a web version depending on what the user is doing and how much they're used to spreadsheet software.
lvass··on Ask HN: How do I build a website as a backend engineer?
Maybe export the spreadsheets to HTML tables and add interactivity with datatables.net? If you're going open-source, sharing the spreadsheets as-is would be great, I may be willing to hack on that.
lvass··on Tell HN: Cloudflare Is Blocking Piped
LibRedirect is working fine with Piped for me. I think I hit some blocked URL but it's trivial to remove it from the list, most mirrors are definitely working.
lvass··on How friendships change in adulthood
You just start caring. When you dedicate your time to it, you'll find out how to deal with each person uniquely as you should do.
lvass··on Psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid
Agreed. I despise political correctness yet appreciate this list, using precise language is always a good idea. I clicked in ready to see "shell shock" being renamed for the third time in less than a century, but that type of shenanigan is not what this article is about.
lvass··on Psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid
The data is pretty clear that psychology and psychiatry sucks at doing it's job. But it's a hell of a tough job, and using more meaningful words probably doesn't hurt.
lvass··on Python 3.12.0 is to remove long-deprecated items
Nix has every maintained python version, so does Arch User Repository, and those can definitely be in parallel.
lvass··on Erik Hoel on Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and the Repugnant Conclusion
What if you're already paying around 50% in taxes, and benefiting of a nearly negligible part of what the government spends in?
lvass··on Erik Hoel on Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and the Repugnant Conclusion
They gave people what they wanted badly enough to pay for, but not for free, like all evil capitalists.
lvass··on Erik Hoel on Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and the Repugnant Conclusion
Whoa, calm down. Subsidizing afghan plumbers may be 0.5% more effective than those nets.
lvass··on FTX hacker identity discovered by Kraken Exchange team?
>Imagine how it would sound if one were to s/polyamorous/gay for example

Unfair comparison, if gay was used that would be highlighting their sexual orientation, not the nature of the relationship between each other which is relevant in context.

lvass··on FTX hacker identity discovered by Kraken Exchange team?
s/SBF/SBF or one of his 10 polyamorous roommates.

Edit: Roommates who are in a mutually intertwined amorous relationship. No offense intended.

lvass··on Do not rug on me: Zero-dimensional Scam Detection
There's a lot of reasons to dislike cryptocurrencies but the fact you can manually paste an address to the uniswap interface and trade a well-performing token to a poor-performing one (the definition of scam used here) is definitely not one of them.
lvass··on NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages
Doesn't ruby have mark-and-sweep GC while Perl only has ARC with no circular reference cleaning?
lvass··on Three new utility functions in C++23
1. Isn't std inadequate in "embedded" programming?
lvass··on Wii U Architecture
Wonderful 101 does it beautifully, entire game was designed to use it in many different ways.

The best overall use is the Nintendo DS emulator. Unfortunately only few games are available for purchase but with a bit of hacking the compatibility is great.

lvass··on Lula defeats Bolsonaro to again become Brazil’s president
Archive history (title version not yet archived): https://archive.ph/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/30/w...
lvass··on Ask HN: What mindset change made the biggest positive change for you?
That I could let go of all anger and nothing of value neither ability to do anything would be lost.

That motivation isn't some intrinsic value but a fleeting feeling with no value without rigid discipline.

That there's no value in being what society considers a "good person", just pretending to be one when needed is more than sufficient.

lvass··on The Gnome Project is closing all its mailing lists
I didn't know chromium was a gnome app. Now I hate them for manifest v3.
lvass··on Eglot has landed on master: Emacs now has a built-in LSP client
On the other hand, "manually" installing LSP servers for me has consistently been running a single liner, with the huge benefit of being packaged in a predictable manner and updated alongside my system.
lvass··on Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests
I grew up watching anime and that's not the case. It's far too cacophonous to me, anime does not sound like that.
lvass··on Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu
If you just want to install packages, nix-env is really simple.
lvass··on Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu
More like continuously trying to reinvent the wheel and giving up.
lvass··on WhatsApp is more secure than iMessage: Mark Zuckerberg
Client-side encrypted, rather.
lvass··on Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong
A related question: can I indefinitely test they're performing their task correctly? When operating these neurons for actual tasks, real time challenge-response-like testing is probably a good idea. But if they can learn, eventually they may be able to trick the tests. How would one design automated tests to evaluate the state of learning-capable systems?
lvass··on Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong
Do we have an open source PetriNeuronSDK to communicate with these yet? I can't wait until we get cloud neurons IaaS.
lvass··on Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong
Only religious idiots would prefer a "normal" life over having human-brained gorilla chimeras do all the work and just consuming psychotropics all day, right?
lvass··on Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', 'women with children'
Discrimination at least in this case means attributing value to a person (seemingly) belonging to a certain group. The word you're describing is called choice.
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