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Nix is my favorite package manager on MacOs - Dreams of Autonomy
  • anything I tried getting from their repos was always way further behind the mac OS homebrew or Debian apt versions.

    Nixpkgs are the most up to date of any package respiratory source

    It is likely that you were using the current 'stable' channel that does not have the very latest packages. The 'unstable' channel does have the very latest packages and is what I think most people use.

    nixOS is really slick in concept, but has a steep learning curve to get it properly customized as a daily driver. The learned skills don’t really translate outside the nix realm either, so I decided it was too much effort for my use case. I love this concept as a way to build reproducable servers or workstations tho, so I’ll def be playing with it again.

    I totally agree, I wish it was easier to learn.

  • Nix is my favorite package manager on MacOs - Dreams of Autonomy

    Homebrew is the most popular package manager on MacOS, and for good reason. However personally, I believe that Nix is more powerful.

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    uv IS the Future of Python Packaging 🐍📦
  • Putting aside the speed uv has a bunch of features that usually require 2-4 separate tools. These tools are very popular but not very well liked. The fact these tools are so popular proves that pip is not sufficient for many use cases. Other languages have a single tool (e.g. cargo) that are very well liked.

  • ELI5 Using python virtual environment in docker container.
  • upgrading your base image won’t affect your python packages

    Surely if upgrading python will affect your global python packages it will also affect your venv python packages?

    you can use multi stage builds to create drastically smaller final images

    This can also be done without using venv's, you just need to copy them to the location where global packages are installed.

  • new display arrived, what can I do with the old one?
  • I'm not really against it if there is a demand and people want to buy/sell/trade here. If buy/sell/trade gets too much we could restrict it to a sticky thread.

    It might be easier for people to find buyers/sellers on the framework forum category that @narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee pointed out though.

  • uv: Unified Python packaging
    astral.sh uv: Unified Python packaging

    Manage entire Python projects and even Python itself with a single unified tool.

    uv: Unified Python packaging

    TL;DR: uv is an extremely fast Python package manager, written in Rust.

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    The Half-Life 3 Leaks We’ve Been Waiting For - Tyler McVicker

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/17763625

    > Datamining youtuber found some stuff.

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    The Half-Life 3 Leaks We’ve Been Waiting For - Tyler McVicker

    Datamining youtuber found some stuff.

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    Nix Release 2.24
  • Stable channels provide conservative updates for fixing bugs and security vulnerabilities, but do not receive major updates after initial release.

    If you want up to date packages then use the unstable channel.

  • Nix Release 2.24
  • Nix has the most unique packages and the most up to date packages of any Linux software repository. It has substantially more fresh packages than Arch or Alpine (which you say does a better job in a separate comment).

    Source:https://repology.org/repositories/graphs

  • What's the dumbest reason you've learned a programming language?
  • object oriented

    Python does have OOP but you are not at all forced to use it. You can write code in a functional or even procedural style.

    typing

    I do hate that python doesent have proper support for typing but I think weakly typed variables will actually help beginners as it is less to think about to start off with.

    indentation

    I think there are pros and cons here. In other languages it is considered good style to use indentation anyway.

    I'm sure it is difficult to teach a large class like that though. It was hard enough for me to learn with a much more favourable teacher to student ratio than you probably have. Sorry but honestly I do sympathise with admin as well.

  • Sell us on your favorite exotic/niche distro
  • NixOS:

    • Largest and most up to date package repository (no need for flatpack/appimage/snap ect)
    • Reproducible
    • Declarative
    • Rollbacks you can select at boot time
    • No dependency conflicts

    I think it will easily be the number 1 distro if/when they can :

    • the steep learning curve (e.g. have a gui installer EDIT: As in a GUI software centre)
    • documentation
    • have more tools use nixos and have nixos in mind (e.g. there are a couple of tools that didn't work for me because of specific C libraries not beeing present/configured on nixos that are present on other distros. some libraries implicitly expect these to be present).
  • Release 24.07 · helix-editor/helix

    Came out a few days ago, but I thought it was worth posting here =)

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    Exciting Partnership Announcement: Framework Community & NixOS Communities Join Forces!
    discourse.nixos.org Exciting Partnership Announcement: Framework Community & NixOS Communities Join Forces!

    Dear NixOS Community, We are thrilled to announce a unique partnership between the Framework community and the NixOS community! This collaboration aims to foster innovation in hardware enablement, enhance user experience, and strengthen our collective commitment to open-source hardware and software...

    Exciting Partnership Announcement: Framework Community & NixOS Communities Join Forces!

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13537798

    > Exciting Partnership Announcement: Framework Community & NixOS Communities Join Forces!

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    Exciting Partnership Announcement: Framework Community & NixOS Communities Join Forces!
    discourse.nixos.org Exciting Partnership Announcement: Framework Community & NixOS Communities Join Forces!

    Dear NixOS Community, We are thrilled to announce a unique partnership between the Framework community and the NixOS community! This collaboration aims to foster innovation in hardware enablement, enhance user experience, and strengthen our collective commitment to open-source hardware and software...

    Exciting Partnership Announcement: Framework Community & NixOS Communities Join Forces!
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    Radicle - a sovereign peer-to-peer network for code collaboration, built on top of Git.
    radicle.xyz Radicle

    Sovereign code infrastructure.

    Hacker news discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600810 Radicle source code - https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/seed.radicle.garden/rad:z3gqcJUoA1n9HaHKufZs5FCSGazv5

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    No Boilerplate NixOS video

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/10557947

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    No Boilerplate NixOS video
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    Nixing Technological Lock In – Economics from the Top Down
    economicsfromthetopdown.com Nixing Technological Lock In – Economics from the Top Down

    I take a dive into the world of software and look at the problem of managing dependencies. From the Unix design, we've inherited many problems. Can we nix them with 'Nix'?

    Nixing Technological Lock In – Economics from the Top Down
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    To catch a catfish
    www.newstatesman.com To catch a catfish

    How one detective took on an international network of romance fraudsters.

    To catch a catfish
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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)UT
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