> > > > > > 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--

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