Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • flizzo@awful.systems
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    4 months ago

    Iā€™ve been out-of-the-loop for a bit on the Nix drama. Is there a good summary of the last couple weeks?

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        4 months ago

        Man there was a long thread about different forms of self-identifying as Muslim that was finally purged by mods after 2 days.

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        4 months ago

        Evaluation is 5-20% faster than 2.18, depending on which benchmark is in use, thanks to eldritch horrors.

        this is awesome

        nix flake lock --update-input nixpkgs is now the much more reasonable nix flake update nixpkgs.

        but this is making me go ā€œfuck yeahā€ on the inside. it seems like a small change, but I canā€™t emphasize enough how frequently this command gets used (for every flake dependency, not just nixpkgs) for how longwinded and non-memorable the old form of it was. itā€™s kind of fucking incredible how many UX warts Nix has just from the old evaluatorā€™s devs digging in their heels on shit like this.

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          4 months ago

          which reminds me, I need to check if lix/aux are going to do a cli-side nixpkgs search with a reasonable invocation

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            what do you mean you donā€™t like when your package search command is one of several random, probably-unmaintained ecosystem packages that has to very slowly index everything every time nixpkgs updates because it doesnā€™t have access to the evaluatorā€™s internals?