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Clever. I like it. I've given up trying to understand where my btrfs disk usage is, and I think this will help.

What does "valid comparison" mean?

If the intent is to help potential readers to estimate the difficulty of the book, then that's useful.

I prefer to use Debian packages because it conforms to conventions that make managing systems easier: predictable naming, integration with service management, logging, docs, manages.

(I use NixOS for personal use.)

The author isn't saying that isn't important. The author is just tackling one aspect of censorship resistance.

What is your usecase for network transparency? Remote desktop? Is that not supported in a Wayland world?

Yes, a classic Linux distro feels like a REPL or writing in assembly/m4. NixOS turns a machine into a compiled program.

My comment was meant to demonstrate the effectiveness of the NixOS model. Debian relies on the blood, sweat and tears of maintainers, with weak steps towards automation: ( https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-windin... https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/on_leaving/

See also that there are comparatively few maintainers, despite having a large amount of up to date packages.

This is the result of treating a distro as a software problem, versus the manual processes used in Debian, for example.

I've been using NixOS on all my devices for 2 years now, and it's great to have easy reproducible systems.

NixOS design gives it a robustness that is missing from taking a mutable distro and applying mutations (via Puppet/Ansible/Chef) to it.

+1. I figured it was anti-abuse.

I meant modal as in "if you hold down backspace, the item's text will be removed, but the item heading will remain", i.e. the headers are read-only while editing an item. evil-org-mode won't stop me pressing backspace too many times and screwing up.

Yeah, I think it could do with a modal interface: normal mode would perform tree-like operations and allow entering text. Insert mode would treat the entire file as plain text.

... there must be a mode that does this already?

I don't trust myself to remember to commit changes, so rely on regular btrfs-based snapshots via http://snapper.io/ .

I think the landing page would be more effective/descriptive if it emphasised it's role as a TODO/extensible structured document.

I use it as a personal planner for career and life stuff. Nothing too fancy, just TODOs with tags.

OP's solution sound good enough for their needs.

Solutions can always be improved, but it's not always worth doing that.

I do a similar thing so I don't have to store sensitive data on a VPS. The sensitive data is used to compute non-sensitive results that I'm happy to go via a VPS.

After disliking it for 6-7 years, because it doesn't offer the amount of abstraction that others languages offer (Scala, Haskell, Java), Go has grown on me.

I got too caught up in designing elaborate abstractions in those languages. I couldn't avoid it either, since other libraries would also use elaborate abstractions.

With Go, I just write plain dull code, against a suite of good dull libraries. Ultimately I spend less time writing programs (typically internet services) in Go than other languages.

Does this reflect the global nature of tackling climate change?

Tackling climate change requires structural changes, not heroics.

> It's simple enough.

> (Oh and ...)

+1 to just dumping it all in ~/.bashrc

gitlab.com is down, but are public/private instances are not. Separate failure domains is an advantage of self-hosted.

Github is great, but when it's down, it impacts developers in many places.

When we spread our eggs across many baskets, we are more resilient.

It does not.

It mentions "One might posit that people with lower cognitive ability have higher risk of catching the virus. We consider such a relationship plausible; however, it would not explain why the observed deficits varied in scale with respiratory symptom severity.".

That is, it attributes that potential causal link as raising incidence of infection (e.g. they may choose to gather in crowds indoors), not as raising the impact of infection.

Either way, as a cross-sectional study, it doesn't establish causation, but may be a smoking gun.

NZ's tax policies favour the rich too. https://twitter.com/hynesalan/status/1317837979520552961

I think the point is that there are unofficial routes: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/new-zealand-ga...

Not sure if you're rich, as Gabe is. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/new-zealand-ga...

+1 to waiting a bit, incurring the inconvenience, and seeing whether you come across alternate solutions. Often the first thing I think of (customize, or install a new package; both of which incur maintenance costs) is just masking not understanding another aspect of Emacs.

Every few months, if I'm not 100% on the utility of a customization/package, I'll remove it and see if I survive without it.

This beats having to declare config bankruptcy.

https://gbdeclaration.org/ is indeed a rebranding of herd immunity.

> so you don't have to bother wearing a mask

This isn't the doc's motivation. The doc is concerned with unintended consequences of lockdown: "lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health - leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden".

Why do so many of these "start your own business" nomads types have businesses that revolve around getting more people to start businesses? The author's business appears to be about monetising blogs.

It's circular. Where's the value?

It's simple and comparatively easy to make reliable, but a factor in its continued use is that's so prevalent in hard-to-change places: the web, libraries, old OSs, switches, other battle-hardened systems, etc.

Public health systems often subsidise private health care, so some of that difference will come from taxes.

$500 is a lot to many people, and people have different tolerances to risk.

You may choose to put more in, of course.