> > > > > > > > i'm ill right now but a fun thing is that i tried nix again a > > > > > > > > few days ago! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > it's lots of fun to go like `nix run nixpkgs#vim` (when you > > > > > > > > don't have > > > > > > > > vim installed) and have it boot it up. > > > > > > > > and the nix people (;as we know) made deterministic builds ! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > i installed nix on my phone and in wsl ubuntu, then i > > > > > > > > uninstalled my > > > > > > > > packages so i'd get to use nix instead .. ummmm pretty edgy to > > > > > > > > do that > > > > > > > > ... uhhhh > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > anyway nix isn't very good at storage management, which is > > > > > > > > something > > > > > > > > that's on my long term. it doesn't even attend to free space > > > > > > > > when > > > > > > > > filling its cache. nor does whereever it downloads builds from > > > > > > > > seem to > > > > > > > > have thge stuff that installs by default (maybe cause it > > > > > > > > installs the > > > > > > > > latest version by default not sure) .. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > anyway that was cool to try nix. i was thinking m-- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > so obviously nix is missing a p2p package store for the cache by > > > > > > > default and likely the reason for that is that people really enjoy > > > > > > [whoooooops oooops ? > > > > > > > reverifying the deterministic builds. it's valid to check them so > > > > > > > much > > > > > > > because it took so long to implement, indicating somebody causing > > > > > > > binary corruption -- and we know there's been extensive binary > > > > > > > corruption from the computer virus development history > > > > > > > > > > anyway nix is right in line with my philosophy in areas others agree > > > > > with but i don't tend to have the free space to use it [appropriately > > > > > -- uh oops ... uh ... > > > > > > > > oh also nixos is an operating system designed to directly address > > > > problems with mainstream computer software > > > > meanwhile alexander nix was a mid-level criminal businessman who was > > > > convicted of international bad stuff, completely different, people > > > > don't agree with that guy. can be confusing. > > > > gotta specify nixos when making vague sentences > > > > > > >( anyway > > > > > > rep was to support nixos! since i ran out of space after like > > > installing 2 packages i figured i needed some kind of infrastructure > > > to make storage work, and rep's focus on abstraction makes it much > > > more useable for unknown things that work better than other things > > > > recently while implementing httptransformer i made this cool queue > > that _finally_ did offline/online caching > > nettensor keeps a disk space usage % and stores tensors on mmap-'d > > disk files until it is met, deferring to network loading once it is. > > adding a lru structure to that would make it a normal cach-- > > [although honestly nettensor works with access patterns that lru would > reduce the performance, which is part of why it doesn't use it. > instead it would need something that tracks usage count across > discard, such that things with more total usage count after a run > completes are retained, only discarded things based on not having been > used for a while after cycles of thrashing have been completed. > [thrashing --[is a solveable problem too >( maybe people have solved > it nowadays, it's so much into the future
hey i've got insight into my [spam] tag which is unclear around my content being inaccurate or uncertain or vague or full of mistakes! maybe it's more clear to clarify on eveything i say something about it holding some kind of meaning but always being misleading or mistake prone or draft-like ...
