Nix the language is inadvertently great for generation by machines due to its lack of types (something that makes it much less great for humans)

The only thing that can rescue this year is a new My Bloody Valentine album

I still just don’t find agentic coding faster and better than using AI in other ways (concepts, debugging, etc). I don’t see how people just blow past things like naming and idiomaticity.

Just something I hear a lot. "I don't see why this is necessary." "Can't you just ___?" "This is already possible if you ___."

"I don't know, it's been fine for my personal configs and the three NixOS boxes I manage 🤷"

Good to hear it. But this is just fundamentally not the right way to think about Nix and what it should become.

It is. I spent like half a day putting together some basic templates and now I make (fully declarative!) PDFs even for trivial things like meetings.

Just crazy how good @typst.app is

In case you’re interested in a distribution of Nix with flakes enabled by default so you don’t have to apply all those flags: docs.determinate.systems

How dare you not swing by the Clermont Lounge on the way

Police have it narrowed down to one suspect

It’s painful getting into your mid-40s and discovering that some of the most corny-ass, basic-ass bits of life advice are 100% spot on

Let’s hope not

Currently trying in vain to find a major European philosopher who left Europe even once in their lives

Friendly reminder that the Democratic Party is a fundraising operation first and foremost

LFG!!!

Spicy AI take: there is no substitute for a human therapist but AI for psychological triage and "first response" is going to save many lives

Hanging out in various places in the United States. I’m not from Argentina.

A truly, utterly minuscule percentage of Argentinians have any connection whatsoever to Nazism, by the way.

billionaire being interviewed: i havent listened to a single note of music in 27 years. think about it, music was basically invented, what, maybe 50 years ago?

interviewer: this is really interesting

Perhaps because you lived in a free society with a free press and freedom of information

I scroll Twitter about 3 minutes a month and it truly beggars belief what kind of slimehole it is now

Oh damn, rekt!

I’m sure you would’ve had the foresight and the gumption to do the right thing between the ages of 10 and 15 having spent the entirely of your conscious life under literal Hitler. I cower before your supreme virtue.

You seem like the kind of person who would gleefully condemn minors to death or life in prison

Yeah, literally not, though

Idiotic take

Ah yes, because children had real a real choice about membership in the literal Hitler Youth under literal Hitler

Have you considered the possibility that you’re a complete fucking idiot?

Also, this was literally the Nazi regime under literal Hitler

“Children were voluntarily part of the Hitler Youth and should be held accountable for that upon their death” is… one helluva take

Yes. He was a minor with a cleft palate living under literal Nazism who was literally forced to be part of the Hitler Youth, as was everyone in his cohort.