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Re:PYX: The next step in Python packaging
on Thursday August 14, 2025 @10:30AM (#44900832)
uv2nix is great from my experience https://github.com/pyproject-nix/uv2nix
Re:Show HN: Nix Ninja – open-source Ninja-compatible build system for Nix
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:47AM (#43568239)
Not particularly, I was just curious thanks!
Re:Show HN: Nix Ninja – open-source Ninja-compatible build system for Nix
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @06:56AM (#43567780)
Is there a particular reason you chose to target ninja over other formats?
Re:Lix is a modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager
on Monday May 06, 2024 @10:39AM (#40275226)
Ah right
Re:Lix is a modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager
on Monday May 06, 2024 @09:45AM (#40274614)
This is just a fork of nixpkgs and nix no?
Re:Jane Street is big. Like, big
on Thursday May 02, 2024 @08:03AM (#40235161)
Yes, paid quite a lot of money to flip coins lol. There is a pretty big section about his time there in Michael Lewis's new book "Going Infinite".
Re:Show HN: Hacker News Blogroll
on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @04:37PM (#39995459)
I very delexically read that as bogroll and was quite confused
Re:Titanfall is still EA's most innovative shooter ten years later
on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @10:23AM (#39756026)
Indeed, fantastic level! I was surprised I enjoyed the campaign as much as I did. FPS campaigns are usually a bit arse.
Re:Titanfall is still EA's most innovative shooter ten years later
on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @08:40AM (#39755093)
Titanfall 2 is also fantastic and still has a fairly active community!
Re:Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
on Friday January 26, 2024 @02:06PM (#39146627)
Yeah, each package/lib is stored in a unified directory by it's hash https://zero-to-nix.com/concepts/nix-store. Different variation different hash.
Re:Tiny Volumetric Display
on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:34AM (#38499255)
I think OLEDs might have a refresh rate issue. The nice thing about LEDs is that you can drive them at a very high refresh rate.
Re:Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT
on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @06:47PM (#38372336)
Gave it a go and was actually very impressed. Gave it a Nix question that I asked ChatGPT 3.5 last week (which ChatGPT had got completely wrong). It got it right first go and included all the sources that I had used to come to same conclusion, so that was cool!
Re:
on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @07:56PM (#37413039)
I don't think this is true, I think it only requires the host system to have nix installed.
Re:
on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @07:54PM (#37413009)
I’m guessing it also makes building variations of images much quicker because you only need to build the “difference” between the images?