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Lucy Letby should be released immediately

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Framework (2nd Gen) Event | 2025 Launch Event - Discussion

  • I use Helix

    TLDR: Yes I think helix is worth trying out. It has some missing features but it is an amazing piece of software.

    Yes I use helix daily. It is very fun to use and you can do many things faster. It is particularly good when navigating a (large) codebase you know fairly well. You are able to jump around and find/edit relevant code very quickly.

    Compared to vs code:

    • it is much faster and more minimal
    • It might be harder to get things up and running than in vs code, e.g. to get auto-completion working in helix you need to have the LSP for that language installed. It can be a bit confusing if you have never done it before but it is easy once you have done it a few times.

    Compared to neovim I think it is:

    • easier to learn
    • slightly faster - especially with large files
    • you will have a much smaller/simpler configuration. AFAIK Helix has more features working out of the box than neovim (file picker, lsp support ect) and needs less configuration to get things to a workable state.

    The downside of helix compared to both neovim and vscode is that it does not have plugin support yet so you will need to use other tools in combination with it to get an equivalent experience. Here are some tools that are commonly used with helix:

    Helix really shines when:

    • performance matters - I have edited files with millions of lines and had no trouble on codebases where my colleagues IDE's become very slow.
    • You want to use multiple cursors at times
    • You want a simple or no configuration
    • It is taking too long to learn the vim keybindings - vim keybindings are more concise but less intuitive and harder to learn

    I recommend you use the tutor (hx --tutor) for a few minutes each day to learn the keybidings.

  • Right to Repair @discuss.tchncs.de
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    John Deere is costing American farmers $4.2 billion a year by restricting them from fixing their own tractors. Apple, Amazon and major automakers use the same strategies on everything you own. It's bad for consumers and local mechanics, but excellent for corporate profits.

  • anything I tried getting from their repos was always way further behind the mac OS homebrew or Debian apt versions.

    Nixpkgs are the most up to date of any package respiratory source

    It is likely that you were using the current 'stable' channel that does not have the very latest packages. The 'unstable' channel does have the very latest packages and is what I think most people use.

    nixOS is really slick in concept, but has a steep learning curve to get it properly customized as a daily driver. The learned skills don’t really translate outside the nix realm either, so I decided it was too much effort for my use case. I love this concept as a way to build reproducable servers or workstations tho, so I’ll def be playing with it again.

    I totally agree, I wish it was easier to learn.

  • Nix / NixOS @programming.dev
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    Nix is my favorite package manager on MacOs - Dreams of Autonomy

    Homebrew is the most popular package manager on MacOS, and for good reason. However personally, I believe that Nix is more powerful.

  • Putting aside the speed uv has a bunch of features that usually require 2-4 separate tools. These tools are very popular but not very well liked. The fact these tools are so popular proves that pip is not sufficient for many use cases. Other languages have a single tool (e.g. cargo) that are very well liked.

  • upgrading your base image won’t affect your python packages

    Surely if upgrading python will affect your global python packages it will also affect your venv python packages?

    you can use multi stage builds to create drastically smaller final images

    This can also be done without using venv's, you just need to copy them to the location where global packages are installed.

  • Python @programming.dev
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    TL;DR: uv is an extremely fast Python package manager, written in Rust.

    Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    The Half-Life 3 Leaks We’ve Been Waiting For - Tyler McVicker

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/17763625

    Datamining youtuber found some stuff.

  • Stable channels provide conservative updates for fixing bugs and security vulnerabilities, but do not receive major updates after initial release.

    If you want up to date packages then use the unstable channel.

  • Nix has the most unique packages and the most up to date packages of any Linux software repository. It has substantially more fresh packages than Arch or Alpine (which you say does a better job in a separate comment).

    Source:https://repology.org/repositories/graphs

  • Helix Editor @programming.dev
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    Came out a few days ago, but I thought it was worth posting here =)

    commandline @programming.dev
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    This may be my favorite CLI tool ever - TypeCraft

    Nix / NixOS @programming.dev
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    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13537798

    Exciting Partnership Announcement: Framework Community & NixOS Communities Join Forces!

    nixos @lemmy.ml
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    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13537798

    Exciting Partnership Announcement: Framework Community & NixOS Communities Join Forces!

    Helix Editor @programming.dev
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    Git integration in Helix for an IDE like experience?

    Programming @programming.dev
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    Radicle - a sovereign peer-to-peer network for code collaboration, built on top of Git.

    Programming @programming.dev
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    No Boilerplate NixOS video

    Nix / NixOS @programming.dev
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    No Boilerplate NixOS video

    Programming @programming.dev
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    United Kingdom @feddit.uk
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    The secret economics destroying Britain | Gary Stevenson interview

    science @lemmy.world
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    I wasn't worried about climate change. Now I am.

    Rust @programming.dev
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    your first RUST programming experience

    Technology @lemmy.world
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    Python @programming.dev
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    Polars in aggregate - what they have been working on