The MBP also throttles surprisingly easily. I have a 16 MBP and ended up buying a cooling stand that uses a 20w peltier cooler (solid state heat pump). It’s fixed the throttling completely, although I’m somewhat nervous about forgetting to turn the cooler off and creating condensation inside the case…
The author of Reeder has another RSS app that’s focused on recipes called Mela [1]. I’ve been using Reeder (the one-time payment version) and Mela for years and highly recommend both.
HelixDB is a database. ApeRAG is an application that uses multiple databases (but that not particular one). Hypothetically, you could fork ApeRAG and modify it to use that database.
You bet - I’m sure it’s the only fool proof way to get rid of all microplastics. Cumbersome though. But realistically, I no longer think they can be avoided. Probably already lodged all the way up in my brain waiting to cause some nuisance as I get older :-/
Our best hope is nanotechnology and bots or maybe even bioengineered cells or microorganisms that can get in there and eat them or at least reroute them out of the human body through natural pathways.
Home distillation probably only works if you have all copper plumbing instead of the PVC or PEX plumbing that a lot of homes have. But copper plumbing is probanly going to leach various metals into the water.
No? Your plumbing shouldn’t matter if you’re distilling the water.
Some volatiles are going to come through (which can be mostly mitigated with an activated charcoal filter at some point in the process), but you’re vaporizing the water and condensing it back into a liquid, leaving behind stuff like metal and microplastics.
Sure, but unless you're distilling the water at point of use, you'll have plumbing to distribute it. The typical setup is to have a distillation plant, some storage for the water and then plumbing to distribute it. Anything else quickly becomes infeasible.
I've been using Nix and NixOS since 2022. I can't imagine not using Nix at this point and agree that the reputation for "being too hard" is not quite accurate. Nix is different - that's the point.
The learning curve is a thing, although I'd argue that it's nowhere near as steep as the tools many of us use every day (C++, Rust, AWS/GCP, etc.)
Nix's "difficulty" IMO comes from defaults that are not sane and a split community. For example, if you use the official Nix installer, flakes are not enabled by default (despite being widely used [1]), but they are if you use the Determinate Systems Nix installer.
Flakes are realistically the only way to obtain the benefits that motivate learning Nix (deterministic pure builds, fine-grained control over dependencies) and are the "primary driver of Nix's adoption" [2]. AFIK there isn't a viable alternative to flakes other than maybe atoms [3], which are relatively new (like "lock files are totally hand made" new [4]). Yet, the official Nix stance on flakes is to wait... for... what?
For a day-in-the-life look at more of Nix's rough edges, I posted some rambles here [5].
Unless it becomes a typed language with clearer syntax around what is what, it’s painful at the scale of nixpkgs and nix without nixpkgs just isn’t all that useful.
I'll second that. Incredibly good quality videos. The precision of the narration is simply amazing. Even if you don't intend to practice Prolog in your programming life, it's worth a listen.
+1 for Kagi. Not only are the results consistently better, but the ability to tailor the search results to my needs are incredible. Honestly couldn’t imagine going back to Google after using it
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