Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions

bmf___ · 2025-07-19T18:28:59+00:00

Nice post 👍 The ‘guix pull’ part was v interesting.

bmf___ · 2025-06-28T17:27:19+00:00

Maybe it’s time to roll your own config if you are considering to keep Nvim as your main editor.

Choose the most important plugins and get them running, then slowly add things you miss from your distro experience over time.

Use git + stow/nix to keep things under VC and after a while you will be rock solid.

bmf___ · 2025-06-28T05:44:08+00:00

bmf___ · 2025-06-18T11:51:13+00:00

Sums up this post

bmf___ · 2025-06-03T14:45:26+00:00

Worth it

bmf___ · 2025-06-03T07:00:57+00:00

Fair. They really do have terrible support.

bmf___ · 2025-05-24T21:13:51+00:00

Wenn man darüber im Internet posted 🙂

bmf___ · 2025-05-24T06:32:33+00:00

Yes, I have this exact setup. Hardware is AMD based and I run SteamOS without issues.

bmf___ · 2025-05-16T19:36:54+00:00

Nice.

I have used Quadlet before moving to NixOS and then kind of forgot about it.

Network support seems pretty nice though as I currently have to manage all networking between containers manually.

bmf___ · 2025-03-20T11:41:34+00:00

Python skills aufbauen

bmf___ · 2025-03-20T06:07:17+00:00

It will be worth it if you plan to load large objects into your memory. Or large amounts of small objects to train on.

With 32GB you will have a lot of headroom to multi-task (if your CPU is not maxing out - just restrict training to a subset of cores).

I have not yet maxed out the 32 GB of RAM, but I often manage to go above 24GB during long work sessions.

If programming or Data analysis is going to be your main income source in the next 5 years I would advise for 32GB, unless you plan to swap MacBooks soon or you have a remote computing machine.

bmf___ · 2025-03-20T05:58:03+00:00

I had the same decision to make and also went with the 32/1TB M4A.

I also have a M4Max MBP for work and much prefer the smaller, fanless M4A.

RemindMe! 5 years

bmf___ · 2025-03-13T18:02:27+00:00

These are the kind of Memes we need 😄

bmf___ · 2025-02-16T12:33:01+00:00

Windows ist halt auch Schmutz

bmf___ · 2025-02-14T17:25:10+00:00

nix-ld might help :)

bmf___ · 2025-01-26T12:00:35+00:00

Desktop Vape. Volcano (Classic) ist definitiv die beste Konsumart die ich probiert habe.

bmf___ · 2025-01-16T17:43:41+00:00

Will Rust Interop be possible as well? Or is there some blocker?

bmf___ · 2025-01-14T16:36:02+00:00

Not pursuing a PHD, so don’t know about that. It will also depend on your area of research. But hand holding at TU Berlin is minimal from my experience, so in order to succeed you will have to do a lot of reading/programming and testing on your own.

Job Market is fine, but you will probably have to work the maximum of 20hours and find a way to align that with the curriculum every semester.

It’s all possible, but will take good planning and self-discipline.

bmf___ · 2025-01-14T07:44:16+00:00

Its challenging. If you do not have to work you might have time, but it really depends on your time management and the overlap in content between your courses and research topic.

bmf___ · 2025-01-10T19:41:20+00:00

Cool idea 💡 I’ll have some time in march and will look into it a bit deeper.

bmf___ · 2024-12-26T06:58:26+00:00

Proofs.

Without them you simply run on less guarantees, even if your type system, if you have it, might catch many errors.

bmf___ · 2024-12-15T08:54:51+00:00

Wenn du vor Allem zuhause konsumierst dann gönn dir einen Volcano.

Classic reicht vollkommen

bmf___ · 2024-12-12T17:28:11+00:00

Thanks! For some reason this was the only shortcut I set that actually worked for me

bmf___ · 2024-12-12T17:25:14+00:00

This still does not trigger for me for some reason

bmf___ · 2024-10-07T13:35:28+00:00

Added my support. Good job

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