mfsch
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Comment · 5 months ago
I’m surprised there’s such a big turnover for packages. Looks like the total number of packages is on the order of 100k, so 20k updated packages sounds about right to me but 20k added/removed seems high, especially since nixpkgs was already pretty much the most complete set of packages out there. I guess there were a lot renames that their statistics did not catch? The last two releases had around 7–8k new packages.
Comment · 9 months ago
Perhaps of interest: I came across this retrospective of the author of that site and how he moved it to static hosting a couple of years ago [1].
I would also say that this library covers more or less the “lower half” of solo ball juggling in terms of difficulty. With lower ball counts (say ≤ 4), there are a lot of these patterns that have complex arm movements and can be difficult to explain with words, so having such a listing with animations and step-by-step instructions is very valuable. Starting with 4 balls, there’s less and less time for moving your arms around and it is more about the sequence of heights of the throws, which are well described with just their numeric “siteswap” pattern and you can learn them just from knowing the number sequence. The site has only the most basic of those (e.g. 534) and even very common 4-ball (7531, 633) patterns are missing with hardly anything beyond that.
[1]: https://ianconvy.github.io/projects/other/libraryofjuggling/...
Comment · 1 year ago
If you are just creating a simple document with default styling, the main advantage you get from Typst is near-instant compilation speed. Pandoc to HTML is similar though, but if you’re generating PDFs with LaTeX the compilation delays can be pretty annoying.
If you are creating more complex documents, the advantages become more pronounced. Styling in Pandoc means modifying templates, at which point you’re just writing LaTeX, and styling in Typst is much nicer than in LaTeX. You can also hit the limits of Pandoc templates quite easily, at which point you have to write Lua filters. I have found those to be quite cumbersome, and now your document logic is spread out over the Markdown source file, the LaTeX template, and the Lua filters. In Typst you can have a single file with your whole document in a clean modern format, and you can decide for yourself how much you want to separate content and presentation.
Comment · 1 year ago
It’s also what Thunderbird is using to build their paid email hosting. Seems like a very ambitious project mostly done by a single person – impressive!
Comment · 1 year ago
The issue I have with this is that it deletes the whole message, not just the media. In WhatsApp, you can delete media from the images/video folders and the messages remain in the conversation, they even still have the blurry preview iirc. In Signal, you end up with gaps in your history instead.
Comment · 1 year ago
From what I can gather, they are not yet incorporated and they are working through organizational questions in [1] and the issues thereof. The `ACCOUNTS.md` file there gives an idea about the main people behind the project and the donation page on Open Collective [2] also documents team members and how they spend those donations.
[1]: https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance [2]: https://opencollective.com/comaps
Comment · 1 year ago
Technically the big O notation denotes an upper bound, i.e. it doesn’t mean “grows as fast as” but “grows at most as fast as”. This means that any algorithm that’s O(n²) is also O(n³) and O(n⁴) etc., but we usually try to give the smallest power since that’s the most useful information. The letter used for “grows as fast as” is big Theta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation#Use_in_computer...
Comment · 1 year ago
That’s exciting! Is there a summary of what’s new in 1.0 somewhere? Usually the version announcements contain an overview of the most important changes, but this one is more of a retrospective and general overview apparently.
Comment · 2 years ago
Does “no lost data” mean that all drives were wiped or simply that there were backups?
Comment · 2 years ago
You could still move e.g. /nix to the BTRFS disks and only keep /boot on the thumb drive, no? That’s more or less how I have NixOS set up with ZFS. But your solution is of course much fancier :D
Comment · 2 years ago
Phoronix has looked into some the financial information available from their filings: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Purism-75M
I’d love for Purism to succeed and they appear to be doing a lot of valuable work in the software space, but I can’t help feeling like that 75M self-assessed valuation is a bit on the optimistic side…
Comment · 2 years ago
I’m not sure about these stable packages, but for the nightly packages they introduced recently they explicitly mention on [1] that you can keep browsing:
> Following community discussions, we have updated the post to highlight that Firefox can continue browsing after an APT upgrade, allowing people to restart at their convenience.
[1]: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2023/10/30/introducing-mozi...