No, “aesthetic” is generally just a noun, historically. As in “it has a modern/minimalist/cyberpunk aesthetic.” Its usage as an adjective just means “relating to the general idea of aesthetics as a field of study,” or “someone with a strong sense of and attunement to the design and beauty of things.” Using it to just mean “beautiful,” basically, is a new usage in just the last 5 years or less.
Using it as an adjective, to mean “has a pleasing aesthetic.”
Yeah, which nobody would “expect” you to if you’re not from there
Where are you getting this impression? I’ve never gotten any sense that anyone outside the city is “expected” to know its geography. “Expected” how?
Also there are only 5 boroughs
Any concept this was ever a thing will be buried beneath the sands of time within your lifetime. You, too, will forget it completely. Nobody will ever think it peculiar because nobody will ever think of it at all.
it’s also not that weird
You are so gullible
“digestible” and “nutritious” aren’t social constructs, so no. If your body can transform it chemically in a way that produces energy, it’s food. Otherwise it’s not. The same things are food regardless of your culture.
I’m really trying to make this one make sense, but it’s just not happening. Can you rephrase?
Chemists learn it without being taught linear algebra ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Why would anyone stop using those standards? You seem very confused about the incentives for adopting standards. Sure, maybe US-driven standards were chosen over other possibilities partly because of political environment, but once you have a perfectly good standard adopted you’re not just going to throw it out because the original author isn’t cool anymore. You don’t need a dominant power to adopt standards.
And for being “slightly political” and “focused on the standards,” your post sure does spend the majority of its time talking about only politics and not about standards at all
The corporate bureaucracy is as much a product of the overall system, and just as much a slave to its incentives, as you or I. Though granted, the level of self-awareness of their role in the system is on average pretty low. With few exceptions, there is nobody at the wheel of problems like these. Worrying about whose fault it is is usually a waste of time.
It’s wildly under-taught. It explains like half of all problems in the world. Education: “teaching to the test.” Economics: optimizing GDP at the expense of non-material well-being. Maximizing shareholder value by selling out employees and enshittifying your product. Software: “data-driven decision making” optimizing short -term gains over long-term because they are more measurable. That’s just off the top of my head.
Well, part of the point of NixOS is to eliminate that whole issue of forgotten tinkering – the whole system is defined right there in a few modules, or even one file, and there’s no way for un-tracked tinkering to exist outside those files.
But can I ask how you use your computer? What goes into these months of prep? I really can’t imagine it.
All of the configuration options you’re specifying there are for the nextcloud NixOS module, it’s not a magical part of Nix itself. Same with the self and other arguments at the top. Outside of NixOS (and home-manager, for user-level installations), all Nix is going to be able to do for you is build software, it cannot
do runtime configuration or other alterations to your system like that.
Still better than cities skylines too. No shade, C:S is good and obviously made with love, but outside of the traffic sim, it’s never felt as fleshed out. Sc4 cities feel like places, C:S cities feel like model train sets
Other than maybe a few very rote, boilerplate types of development, all this shit about replacing coders is almost entirely noise made by either the wishful thinking of oligarchs or credulous repetition of that wishful thinking by clueless journalists.
But it’s still a pretty rough time to be just getting into tech, just because of the state of the job market.
Your premise is wrong in like… A bunch of ways. We sure as shit do not live in a post-scarcity society lol
Now you’ll have a zillion users trying to install software in ways that violate all the assumptions that NixOS operates on, but which are still tightly coupled to your NixOS config. Now updates to your system, or even seemingly unrelated config changes (through some transitive dependency chain) can easily break that software.
So now we’ve basically removed half the advantages that motivate Nix/OS in the first place, and when stuff breaks it will look like it’s Nix’s fault, even if it isn’t.
On the other hand, nixpkgs is already the most comprehensive repository of system software out there, and for 99% of packages Nixifying it is pretty trivial. Hell, my NixOS config does that for 3 different GitHub repos right inline in my config.nix
The bashrc poisoning thing was sarcastic. the point is it’s not important as an attack vector because if that’s even part of your surface area, then the attacker is already pretty well into your system
? You’re saying exactly the same thing I am. I was giving a definition, not an example. Admittedly confusing since I used the (real) word in its own (slang) definition.