I use guix because, while it has a small community, the packaging language is one of the easiest I've ever used.
Every distro I've tried I've always run into having to wait on packages or support from someone else. The package transformation scheme like what nixos has is great but Nixlang sucks ass. Being able to do all that in lisp is much preferred.
Plus I like shepherd much more than any of the other process 0's
I have a feeling a lot of these demos were just trying to game that very "new and trending" page, and this change will produce fewer demos.
Eric Roesch did a number of blog posts on this issue throughout 2023.
Glad it's only taken a year for the rest of the news media to get their head out of their ass.
They didn't really cancel it, it kept going through corona when the entire staff went remote so the conversation stopped cause everyone was kind of working on their own desired time anyway.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h-2ExgMVZcE
Microsoft continues to do full remote and "hybrid" (only coming into the office once or twice a week) work schedules depending on your position and responsibilities.
Edit: I also wanted to add some clarity about Japan's labor laws and how they interfere with a more "lax" labor schedule.
Japan requires employers submit the actual working schedules of employees and proof that they're working those schedules (usually either time cards) as a way to prevent overwork.
This obviously doesn't work in many cases because bosses will force their employees to work past their time clocks in or work during nomikais.
And on the other hand, this prevents teams in larger organizations from taking more hands-on approaches to their work schedules by forcing employees to work the schedules they're assigned.
What a lot of foreign companies and companies that do full remote do is exactly the same as "black companies": they fake their employees time cards so they can take a day off even when the official work schedule says they were working that day.
Japan needs some reform in their labor measuring practices before 4-day work weeks (a surprisingly popular reform, given Japan's penchant for conservatism in the workplace) can take hold properly.
That's not really how that works. The 2°C increase is a prediction of how average temperatures will increase based on already existing carbon in the atmosphere.
If we stop emitting today, the average temperature will still increase beyond 2°C and stay there unless there's another force actively removing the CO2 from the atmosphere.
This isn't "if we stop emitting today, we'll peak at 2°C increase and then it'll go back down" the 2°C prediction is a permanent increase to the average temperature.
The damage is done. Millions will likely die regardless of how much carbon we put out from this point forward. The fight now is to decrease the people that will die beyond that number.
if we exceed the 1.5°C warming target set by the Paris Agreement.
Pretty sure previous studies have already confirmed we're already blowing past 2°C even if we stopped producing CO2 today.
Not to be too doomer about it but we're already too late to prevent centuries of damage. What we can do now is try and keep the ecosystem from becoming completely uninhabitable.
Not only that but the entire Apollo program was about to be scrapped before the CIA fucked up the bay of pigs invasion.
Two days after the Gagarin flight on 12 April, Kennedy discussed once again the possibility of a lunar landing program with Webb, but the NASA head's conservative estimates of a cost of more than $20 billion for the project was too steep and Kennedy delayed making a decision. A week later, at the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion, Kennedy called Johnson, who headed the National Aeronautics and Space Council, to the White House to discuss strategy for catching up with the Soviets in space. Johnson agreed to take the matter up with the Space Council and to rec- ommend a course of action. It is likely that one of the explicit programs that Kennedy asked Johnson to con- sider was a lunar landing program, for the next day, 20 April 1961, he followed up with a memorandum to Johnson raising fundamental questions about the proj- ect. In particular, Kennedy asked Do we have a chance of beating the Soviets by putting a laboratory in space, or by a trip around the moon, or by a rocket to go to the moon and back with a man? Is there any other space program that promises dramatic results in which we could win?
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4503-apollo.pdf
They needed a win so they pivoted to the space program. Kennedy didn't approve that program "because it is hard" and he was a great man. He approved it because he was desperate for anything to show some kind of leadership and superiority over the soviets and communism and the space program seemed to have the only thing left.
Don't get me wrong I think JFK was a great president but people shouldn't make him out for something he's not.
Firefly needs to hurry up and make a human-rated capsule instead of cargo farings.
I have high hopes for a company that can set up a rocket almost from scratch in 24 hours.
There's also a block coding plugin for Godot now too!
https://github.com/endlessm/godot-block-coding
Perfect tool to get kids into game creation.
There are VERY FEW fully open LLMs. Most are the equivalent of source-available in licensing and at best, they're only partially open source because they provide you with the pretrained model.
To be fully open source they need to publish both the model and the training data. The importance is being "fully reproducible" in order to make the model trustworthy.
In that vein there's at least one project that's turning out great so far:
Tango closed cause it was the one of the only studios under Zenimax that wasn't currently making a game with "executive producer: Todd Howard" squirted all over it
You can use nix alongside guix, it'll just double-up the dependencies on disk:
Services are, in guix terms, any configuration change to a computer, so creating your own service 99% of the time is just extending
etc-service-typeand creating a variable interface to fill in the config file text yourselfCreating a service as in a daemon of some kind uses shepherd and involves extending
shepherd-service-typeorhome-shepherd-service-typewith your service description, depending on whether the service runs in root or user space.Shepherd service configurations aren't actually part of the guix spec(https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/manual/shepherd.html#Defining-Services), but still use Guile, so you can interoperate them super easily.
It's important in guix to understand lisp pretty thoroughly, and knowing how to program lisp is still a very useful skill to have so I'd recommend learning it even if you never touch guix.