I’m a programmer and have switched to NixOS, because I can define all my configurations in code+git repo, which is great. I now have a single repo that has some parts that are shared, and some parts are host-specific (one desktop + 2 laptops, for now), and if I fix some bug (like my Samsung 990 Pro SSDs having Linux issues), I know it’ll be permanently fixed, instead of having to re-figure everything out after a reinstallation.

NixOS BTW. We’re making it ours.

edit: Steam has been a non-issue, so gaming has been great so far! Not that I’ve been gaming a ton, but still.

Also, being able to use an LLM to fix stuff for me in my nixcfg repo has been great - I would NOT have been as productive with NixOS had I not have had Codex.

Here’s my quick guide to fixing slow queries:

1. grab your query.
2. run EXPLAIN ANALYZE <query>
3. If there’s a Parallel Seq Scan, check the Filter value (which column are we checking) - you should likely try adding an index.
4. run CREATE INDEX ON <table>(<column>);
5. run EXPLAIN ANALYZE <query> again to check for improvements

Note that EXPLAIN <query> will only do a rough analysis, while EXPLAIN ANALYZE <query> will run your actual query, and analyse it.

If you want to ANALYSE EXPLAIN an INSERT query, do this:

BEGIN;
EXPLAIN ANALYZE INSERT ...;
ROLLBACK;

A simple ROLLBACK will help you here.

Rewriting the query will typically not do much - it might, but the chance it relatively small vs slapping an index on it.

There’s also !!, which is handy when you type a command that requires sudo, you can just do sudo !! to repeat the last command with sudo prefixed.

Also, if you know emacs shortcuts (ctrl-a, ctrl-e, ctrl-l, etc), you know bash shortcuts, and the other way around - you can also replace those with vim shortcuts, but I don’t like that. It breaks my brain, even though I like vim.

Protip: Turn off Dark Reader for that page - it’ll ‘break’ the optical illusions.

This just makes me want to stay in the terminal forever!

I’m not comparing actual tradition (setting up the Christmas tree to celebrate the passing of the shortest night) with a made up story.

Tradition is innovation that survived long enough to stop being questioned.

or

Tradition is a solution that forgot the problem it solved.

Yours feel unnecessarily disrespectful.

People of the Balkans were crazy for hating the Ottoman empire.

Almost like people want sovereignty, be self-governing and all that jazz.

Suicidal empathy.

Nix – whole OS determined by 1 file

* Can be determined by 1 file. Or one file and a .lock file. Or even more files. Your pick, really.

It’s fine for newbies.

As someone who used it when he was a newbie: Gnome is fucking awful to learn - it’s so bloody alien, it’s not even funny.

I’m now using a distro with KDE and it feels just right.

You’re obviously not using NixOS. I clearly don’t even need to try to use such a subpar stateful system such as Arch, you absolute pleb.

Am I out-jerking you already?

I use NixOS, obviously.

Because people made religion out of it? A religion from a Canaanitic people, who never set food in the desert they claim to have walked in for 40 years, but hey, we can’t all worship the same Canaanitic Storm God Elohim, amirite?

Context: Josephus was born 4 years after Jesus’ supposed death, and he wrote his Antiquities some 60 years after that…

I don’t know if that’s trustworthy in archaeology / history, but that doesn’t feel very trustworthy to me.

He’s a very untalented

Yet he was able to get his channel to 4 million subs, demonstrating that you’re lying about him.

unintelligent young man

He’s 35

who needs attention to have an income

This describes literally any science yt channel…

Just say you don’t like him, or even hate him. No need to dress it up in arguments.

Eh, I’ll stick to NixOS, where I have full control over what’s installed, in a declarative way. It enables me to have the same environment and configuration on my desktop and laptops. Much better than reinstalling whatever custom scripted OS someone else has released.

Very neat incremental improvement - especially it being less energy intensive, which means TMR can work on wireless!

Where is Nix? Oh right, he’s in space, chilling.

Clapping ovaries, eh? That’s the noise that IT’S BABY-MAKING TIIIIIIME!

That’s “klapperende eierstokken” in Dutch, BTW.

Neat! Reminds me of Mystical - a language where every function is a magic circle.