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sporeray··on PYX: The next step in Python packaging
uv2nix is great from my experience https://github.com/pyproject-nix/uv2nix
sporeray··on Show HN: Nix Ninja – open-source Ninja-compatible build system for Nix
Not particularly, I was just curious thanks!
sporeray··on Show HN: Nix Ninja – open-source Ninja-compatible build system for Nix
Is there a particular reason you chose to target ninja over other formats?
sporeray··on Lix is a modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager
Ah right
sporeray··on Lix is a modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager
This is just a fork of nixpkgs and nix no?
sporeray··on Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus
Yes, paid quite a lot of money to flip coins lol. There is a pretty big section about his time there in Michael Lewis's new book "Going Infinite".
sporeray··on Show HN: Hacker News Blogroll
I very delexically read that as bogroll and was quite confused
sporeray··on Titanfall is still EA's most innovative shooter ten years later
Indeed, fantastic level! I was surprised I enjoyed the campaign as much as I did. FPS campaigns are usually a bit arse.
sporeray··on Titanfall is still EA's most innovative shooter ten years later
Titanfall 2 is also fantastic and still has a fairly active community!
sporeray··on Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
Yeah, each package/lib is stored in a unified directory by it's hash https://zero-to-nix.com/concepts/nix-store. Different variation different hash.
sporeray··on Tiny volumetric display
I think OLEDs might have a refresh rate issue. The nice thing about LEDs is that you can drive them at a very high refresh rate.
sporeray··on Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT
Gave it a go and was actually very impressed. Gave it a Nix question that I asked ChatGPT 3.5 last week (which ChatGPT had got completely wrong). It got it right first go and included all the sources that I had used to come to same conclusion, so that was cool!
sporeray··on Show HN: Nix Snapshotter – Native understanding of Nix packages for containerd
I don't think this is true, I think it only requires the host system to have nix installed.
sporeray··on Show HN: Nix Snapshotter – Native understanding of Nix packages for containerd
I’m guessing it also makes building variations of images much quicker because you only need to build the “difference” between the images?