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Comment · 4 years ago
Scratch was how I got started in programming back in elementary school. It was taught in our computer classes. Everything this article says is spot on, the social aspect is amazing. I made a few programs and got comments on it and stars which hooked me. Side note hearing griffpatch is still around amazes me, I remember playing his scratch programs and wishing I could eventually do that. What’s amazing is it’s all still around and runs![1]
Comment · 4 years ago
The robotaxi’s draw will be its lower prices. They are removing the cost of a driver from the equation. Assuming the car felt as safe as a normal taxi, I’d take the cheaper one.
Comment · 4 years ago
I’ve had this research paper on my reading list for a while (but haven’t gotten to reading the full thing)[1]. Not necessarily just a file system but It lays out an entire operating system backed by a database and OS state interactions are done through SQL.
Comment · 4 years ago
I’m not sure how one could enable others to contribute easily but just making the code open source as is would be interesting. Those with a passing interest in search engines can browse the code of a capable engine and pick up some knowledge. While those who really want to help out will find a way to run it and contribute (in the process helping document and maybe making it easier).
My philosophy to open source is just do my personal projects in the open even if it’s not “accessible” and if someone comes along and likes it they can contribute or fork it and modify to their liking. Or they might just browse the code and pick up something in passing.
Comment · 4 years ago
Ah that’s cool didn’t realize how old it was. The content seems to have held up well. Showed up in google when researching NAT and imo it’s up there with Tailscale’s article in terms of how well it’s written with the drawings.
Comment · 4 years ago
What’s powerful about nix is the language IMO. I was able to build an automatic WireGuard setup[1] with tagging that automatically works on each new machine thanks to the ability to do config as code. Just provide some basic config for each machine and the code turns it into an interface with peers.
The issue to me isn’t the language persay (it’s really a tiny surface area language, see the built in/lib functions [2]) but the tooling built around packaging is a hodgepodge mess of semi-documented workarounds (with Nixpkgs blessed ways vs user libraries) and is extremely difficult to approach and understand.
Comment · 4 years ago
Here are my two favorite (bookmarked) links for packaging and developing for rust. The trick is keep packaging and rust development separate and use specific dev environment flakes. So for dev work just bring cargo and rust as the nativeBuildInputs in mkShell (and any non rust dependencies) and then use standard cargo for development. But for packaging use one of the fancy tools.
1. https://srid.ca/rust-nix
2. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/cargo2nix-dramatically-simpler...
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