Xophmeister

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http://xoph.co

https://github.com/Xophmeister

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Comment · 15 days ago
I set up a systemd job to run at shutdown to run Borg. The hardest part wasn't the Nix setup, but getting the right systemd magic words.

https://github.com/Xophmeister/backer-upper/

I believe there are NixOS options to do this periodically -- which is even easier -- but I specifically wanted on-shutdown backups.

Comment · 4 months ago
Why would a Labour government be interested in enriching wealthy Conservatives?
Comment · 6 months ago
If you have a Kaitai spec for the format, then its IDE[0] will do structural highlighting for you. This is web-based, but it doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch to implement a TTY version.

[1]: ide.kaitai.io

Comment · 6 months ago
Did his own publication from 9 years into the future ever materialise?
Comment · 7 months ago
Surely type checking on the keys of effectively arbitrary maps is just a folly. Maps shouldn’t be used for these purposes. If you know the members at compile time, then put them in a proper record type, like a struct or dataclass, etc.
Comment · 8 months ago
We have "part time" as well, but it's different from zero hours. Part timers are usually (AFAIK) salaried employees that work a fixed <1 FTE (but not zero) and paid pro rata, with the usual statutory benefits such as holiday entitlement, pension, etc. You _could_ work multiple PT positions, if you could get them to line up and your employment contracts say it's fine.

Zero hours, to my understanding, is different: I'm not sure what statutory benefits you're entitled to, but yes, I believe you can be signed up to many zero hour contracts and it's up to you whether you take a job with (in theory) no repercussions if you choose not to.

Comment · 8 months ago
I’m the author — shameless self-promotion, on my behalf, I’m afraid — AMA :)
Comment · 10 months ago
A chilling vision of the future, where phone books and checkbooks still exist ;)

I have the impression that nanotechnology was very in vogue for science fiction around the late-80s and early-90s…and yet, these days, it’s seemingly disappeared; both as a sci-fi trope and, AFAIK, an area of industrial/medical R&D. Why is that? Did it just atrophy, perhaps combined with unmet expectations, or did we discover some limit that makes the technology infeasible?

Comment · 10 months ago
It’s not. It’s been through several editing rounds. (I was one of the editors.) In theory, we don’t have a problem with AI generated content if it meets our high editorial requirements, but all Tweag technical blogs go through a rigorous, manual review and editing process to keep standards high.
Comment · 10 months ago
Didn’t D get an ownership model, a la Rust’s affine types, relatively recently?
Comment · 11 months ago
Nice; thanks :) I usually squash-merge. Does that break this workflow?
Comment · 11 months ago
Yeah, I do this too: The `--onto` solution feels a bit too magical at times and an interactive rebase is pretty clear about what's happening.

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