This is a pretty good list of tutorials for Nix (as the package manager thingy) (not NixOS): https://nix.dev/tutorials/#tutorials

Here’s a tutorial for the Nix language: https://nix.dev/tutorials/nix-language

As for the configuration.nix file, TBH, once you understand the Nix language you can just go around and look at what other people have written to get the inspiration. There’s a list of NixOS configs here: https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Configuration_Collection. Some of them are quite complex (as is mine), but you can start with something simple, maybe like this: https://bitbucket.org/bzz/nixos/src/master/configuration.nix . It will give you an idea of how to set config options and how the imports system works. To then see which config options are out there, look at https://search.nixos.org/options , you can search for anything you like (e.g. services, programs, networking, random system configuration stuff). You should never ever edit anything in /etc other than configuration.nix manually, always look for config options to do it.

There’s technically documentation about it here: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-configuration-file , which can be helpful, but it’s also kinda long for what it tries to explain.

Once you get the basics, you can look into flakes to replace stateful channels, making your configuration more modular to reuse it across multiple machines (now it’d be time to look at those more complicated configs), using home-manager to also manage your $HOME (so that you don’t have to touch ~/.config manually either), and maybe even impermanence to make your system reset to whatever is in your NixOS config on every reboot, erasing any accidental edits to configs, to make sure that your configuration reflects what exactly you want from your machines.

I think the discussion there is quite reasonable given the circumstances, and official_name:en-US once the GNIS updates is the correct way to go until people actually start calling it the new name.

what a stupid timeline this is

But instead, the device turns on (nearly) instantly. Because the wire isn’t actually what causes the device to turn on

That’s not exactly true. In this case, the energy transmission would go like this: (change of electric field in the little bit of wire next to the power source) -> (change of magnetic field in the air between the wires) -> (change of electric field in the wire next to the load). This limits the amount of energy transmitted significantly and incurs a lot of losses, meaning if you had something like a lamp plugged in it would start glowing extremely dimly at first (think about how some cheap LED lights keep glowing even with the switch off - it’s similar, albeit it happens due to inter-wire capacitance and not induction). It would then slowly ramp up to full power over a course of a year.

Here’s a video from the same person about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vrhk5OjBP8 (although I haven’t watched this yet)

Edit: after watching the video, I think I was actually wrong in a couple of my assumptions. First of all, it looks like the reason for the initial energy transmission is wire capacitance and not induction, so (electric field in wire) -> (electric field in air) -> (electric field in wire, in the “opposite direction”, but because the wire goes back and forth it’s the same current direction). This means that my LED example is even more potent. And the second one is that because it’s capacitance and not induction, this means that there’s no slow ramp-up, it just makes the light glow very dimly all the way until the electric field makes it through the wire, and then it ramps up very quickly.

The Fed Board, apparently: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

After reading through that page and the FAQ, I think it’s because the banks should now be compelled to held reserves because Fed pays them a reasonable interest (close to what they would get if they give a very low-risk loan) on them, rather than it being a strict requirement. I don’t know enough about economics to have an opinion on whether it’s a good idea, but I feel like it’s not too horrible? Like, maybe it makes some shitty banks even more susceptible to bank runs, but that’s the reality of fractional reserve banking in general.

• Catalan children get (some) of their Christmas presents by beating a cute piece of wood that then shits the presents out onto the floor. Seriously.
• There was a British guy who fought in WW2 with a scottish broadsword and bagpipes. However, the best thing is that he wasn’t even a Scotsman.
• On a small enough timescale, the electric field actually bounces around in your wires for a while after you flick a switch, even if it’s DC, just to “figure out” where it “needs to go”.
• More than twice as much time had passed from the invention of the motorcycle until the first motorcycle backflip, then had from the invention of the airplane until the first humans landing on the moon.

It’s actually 0.06 microseconds (0.00000006 seconds) per day, or ~22 μs (0.000021915 s) per year.

Also, technically, anything moving up or down in Earth’s gravitational field while physically connected to it is having an effect, however it’s usually to small to be reasonably measurable.

(I wonder what would happen if the rotation speed was changed by 0.06 seconds per day - that feels like a lot, adding up to 22 seconds per year, but would anyone except timekeeping nerds actually notice? I don’t even know how to begin figuring something like that out.)

Therefore a graduated cylinder that is 10m tall needs to resist the same amount of force as a dam 10m tall regardless of how much water is behind the dam. Even a thin sliver of water 1mm thick and 5m tall has the same force as a 5m lake behind the dam.

Technically only the pressures are equal, and the actual force will be linearly dependent on the area of the dam (or the surface area of the cylinder). That’s why you can make a tall water tank with relatively thin walls, but an actual dam will have to be quite thicc to handle the tensile/compressive stress (depending on the shape of the dam).

Doesn’t it have a much bigger population than Aus? Wikipedia says that California has about 39 million people and Australia only 27 million.

Trying to “secure” a turing-complete computer system by some arbitrary limits like that will never work. Unless you manage to directly prevent traffic that isn’t going through your proxy, it’s all pointless as people will just hack stuff together, be it by downloading binaries themselves and placing them in the home dir, or even by running them in-memory.

Nah, still easy to circumvent. This should work: https://github.com/hackerschoice/memexec, or (for dynamic exes) just call them through ld-linux.

Wow, this is pretty good! I might have to finally ditch sway.

Probably to evade some software determining it’s stolen/unlicensed copyrighted content and DMCA-ing/removing it (e.g. YouTube’s Content ID system)?

Engagement is just “emotional involvement or commitment”, it’s not necessarily “corporate media framing”. Capitalist platforms abuse this for profit (as they do with everything good), hopefully we can use it to create stronger communities.

TBF 737 and 737-NG are quite safe (look at page 10 here and consider that 737s make up a pluarlity of commercial aircraft), crashes like this one can happen with pretty much any aircraft type. 737 MAX is another story, obviously corners were cut in the name of profits at the well-known cost of human lives. (in short, fuck Boeing, not only for 737-MAX but also for their weapons manufacturing)

I’ve had some disagreements with admins of my instance and mods of some communities here and I’m yet to be banned. So, it’s alright I suppose. Although I must say that I’m on the same general side of the political spectrum as the admins.

Most Anarchists I’ve interacted with are from hexbear.net

Thinking that the current Russian government is communist/socialist is peak brain rot. It is a nepotist police state with conservative/neoconservative social policy (religion, nationalism, anti-LGBT) and a neoliberal economic policy (capitalism). It’s almost an exact opposite of the ideas behind the hammer and sickle.

Don’t get “rest of world” mixed in there; I mean sure, all governments suck in one way or another, but most of them at least aren’t imperialist.

Thank you!

An @lemmygrad user not knowing what USSR/СССР stands for is so funny to me for some reason (it’s the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Союз Советских Социалистических Республик). The difference between a united republic and a union of republics is kind of the reason it was so easy to tear apart in the end, any constituent republic could quit the union at any time.