Joined 10 years ago
I do have strong memories of OOXML and the scandals that were with it when it became a standard through MS allegedly buying/stacking/influencing votes:
https://chatgpt.com/share/68bf5e11-4e10-8003-ac9d-d4d10f7951...
Dave does some simple back of the napkin calculations in this video to pull apart the claims of [reflectorbital](https://www.reflectorbital.com/)
I am just sitting here amazed that this idea got past the idea-stage for the startup.
I was entertained by the video - I think you might be too.
> Dysfunctional behaviour is ubiquitous and systemic, not because people are wicked but because the requirement to serve the hierarchy competes with the requirements to serve customers. People's ingenuity is engaged in survival, not improvement.
- Freedom from Command & Control, John Seddon
https://www.internationaltaxreview.com/article/2bxqngyds66en...
- https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/62586003
The author of the above book has a good talk on the same topic here
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QOTBreQaIk
The book itself is well referenced with footnotes and an appendix with extra research papers etc.
Either try to package it or use a docker image or maybe raise an issue noting the blocker and request it as a feature for some changes to give an easier path for to having it build more easily for NixOS
Apart from that, as expected, the docker image that is produced following the instructions is working fine with NixOS as host. All it needed for the build was the openssl packaged on the host.
With that said, they have recently changed the architecture, with the local install required, and I have not managed (yet) to get it working with NixOS. Once I have some more time, I will try again - it looks like there will be some hoops to go through. https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#ssec-pkgs-appimageT...
Kudos to the Source Graph team, Source Graph's original product was nicely thought out and ahead of it's time. Nice to see how the original product gave a nice basis for building out Cody.
I found a set of tutorials on YouTube by Will, to be incredibly helpful at the beginning of my NixOS journey. Even though these tutorials are a couple of years old, they should have aged well.
Drake's book, should help confirm some assumptions I've made about how NixOS works. Given NixOS's declarative nature, I find it easy to copy configurations to do what I want - a handy approach when pressed for time, but it does leave some gaps in understanding that need to be filled.
You can find the tutorials I mentioned at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-saUBvIJzOkjAw_vOac7...
The tutorials are easy to understand and have good explanations
Thanks for all the knowledge sharing and education efforts you put into all sorts of areas I am interested in (Linux internals, NixOS, Rust, etc.)
My MBP 2017 was an absolute disaster. The last time they fixed the kb issue for me (3x issues with that for me) it immediately afterwards got the infamous cablegate issue (another design flaw on not giving enough tolerance for the cable to flex) on it being returned.
I have barely touched it in the last couple of years because of the unusable screen on it. I swore to never buy another Apple product, and then succumbed to buying an ipad for my daughter to support her digital art interest. Still, never again.
I am much happier on Thinkpads in Linux anyway. I would find it hard to give up the tiling manager and benefits of declaratively managing my system on NixOS.
The interesting thing is that my father swore off apple products back when they quick did an end of life with no support on something in the error of the Apple IIgs - this was after spending years with them.
I find it interesting how this has now gone full circle with me now swearing off Apple (with the exception of that one ipad).
The project is still active. It seems that feature requests and issues are not being asked of the project.
I just had a play with Garnix - and have to say I am impressed. Nicely executed.
Nice to see nix and flakes hitting hackernews through projects/services like this.
