> > > > > > > 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

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