I also host Movim, which apparently functions as some kind of social network? if you’re on there, ping me!

you can now find me on XMPP at goldstein@tty5.dev. I have no idea if there’s anyone else there, but I hold some hope for XMPP revival and I decided to put my metaphorical money where my metaphorical mouth is and host an instance.

whoever answered “file” — yeah, you’re right! it would be a file input. with flake = true it would be a tarball input though. also it would be a tarball input if the URL ended with an “archive” extension.

I’m still not sure what exactly am I getting out of Kant, but “synthetic unity of apperception” (or, usually, синтетическое единство апперцепции) has been a nice vocal stim

if you’re interested in the stream and want to be notified if it happens, star this post and I’ll tag you!

(continuation of the previous poll)

sorting through the Great Nix Flake Check results is kind of a grueling task, so I’m looking for ways to make it somewhat more fun. would y’all be interested in GNFC stream on, like, Sunday? I’ll go through (some of?) the remaining test failures, investigate what happened and write it down (so you’ll get a sneak peek of the unedited blog post lol). if by some miracle I’m able to do that in reasonable time, I’ll write a script to classify another kind of test failures and start investigating that.

(poll times are in UTC and represent stream start time; poll is multiple-choice; mastodon only allows five options in poll so see next post for continuation)

I need a browser extension that displays a huge banner on github repos that have non-trivial AGENTS.md or something
the “huh this project looks cool → there’re weird inconsistencies though... → and I’m not sure how would that work? → oh, wait, that’s just slop” loop is very tiring

Great Nix Flake Check status update: I researched every unflake failure and wrote it down in a blog post (which will be real long lol). unflake is not the only impl that failed though: I have some tests that only passed with unflake, some that only passed with CppNix, some that only passed with Lix. I’ll research these next.

does anyone have experience with accessible math software?
there’re two subtasks I’m unsure how to solve:

1. there’s a math textbook that is only available in print or, at best, scanned form. is there some software that could OCR it in a form usable by a screenreader? the textbook is in Russian, so that further complicates things somewhat.

2. then the student needs to actually solve the problems, so they need some way to input math that is, again, compatible with a screen reader.

we’re talking school-level math here, so no need for any bizzare notation, just, like, fractions and exponents.

@fractal thanks!

can we actually please deprecate flakeref syntax and try again

okay pop quiz: if you specify a #nix #flake input like so:

{
  url = "https://example.com/whatever";
  flake = false;
}

what type does it have?

Great Nix Flake Check status update: I have a semi-detailed breakdown of every-ish incompatibility. now I just™ need to write a blog post (while diving deeper into the specific issues to explain them to myself lol)

what’s your favourite way to draw charts? I want something that’s configured from code/text (i.e. not a GUI) and produces vector graphics.

I’m fighting with matplotlib rn, but a lot of their examples are just manually drawing primitives by coordinates (see link for an example). I’d really like something that provides a more out-of-the-box experience for moderately complex charts. maybe there’s some wrapper around matplotlib?

https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/pie_and_polar_charts/bar_of_pie.html

petition to start rendering \x1c to \x1f as whitespace characters

honorary mention to using \x1d group separator instead of tabs. basically never needs escaping, unless your data is, like, malicious, but unfortunately renders as nothing, so really annoying to read

shout out to tsv
easy to produce
easy to consume
easy to read
much less need to escape than csv, often doesn’t need escaping at all if you’re working with somewhat well-behaved data

all(-ish) the test results are now sorted. I’ll need to solve a few more mysteries, because I don’t understand how some errors happened, but at least now I have a list of mysteries.

Great Nix Flake Check status update: main run is complete! I got all ~30k test results, now I need to sort them and run some supplemental tests