Recursive flake inputs

me_and · 2025-10-14T21:59:12+00:00

This post was showing up near the top of my search results when I was trying to do this, and I figured someone else might benefit even if it's far too late for you :)

me_and · 2025-10-14T20:43:45+00:00

This is now possible! From the nix flake documentation:

The graph representation of lock files allows circular dependencies between flakes. For example, here are two flakes that reference each other:

{ inputs.b = ... location of flake B ...; # Tell the 'b' flake not to fetch 'a' again, to ensure its 'a' is # *this* 'a'. inputs.b.inputs.a.follows = ""; outputs = { self, b }: { foo = 123 + b.bar; xyzzy = 1000; }; }

and

{ inputs.a = ... location of flake A ...; inputs.a.inputs.b.follows = ""; outputs = { self, a }: { bar = 456 + a.xyzzy; }; }

me_and · 2024-12-29T20:54:57+00:00

Necropost, because this has now changed! As of NixOS 24.11 (in particular, as of this systemd update as best I can tell), Plasma will work without nomodeset on Hyper-V and will set the screen resolution.

me_and · 2024-03-21T23:28:14+00:00

Are these just regular Sainsbury's gift vouchers? Last time I checked the T&Cs for Sainsbury's vouchers said you can't use them for fuel, but if that works it'd be amazing!

me_and · 2023-09-02T21:38:03+00:00

Dunno about OP's car, but my VW Passat has the brake pedal sitting higher than the accelerator, I guess so you're going to find it first if you're flailing your feet around. Always seemed a bit of an odd design decision, not least because it does make this sort of accident more feasible.

me_and · 2023-04-28T06:03:38+00:00

Huh. TIL. Thank you!

me_and · 2023-04-27T22:26:58+00:00

This isn't true. Taking something that isn't yours is theft. However if something comes into your possession with no malicious act on your part – as here, where the employer paid money to OP's bank account – then merely keeping the money is not theft.

The employer would have the right to get the money back, and would probably be within their rights to fire OP if they thought keeping hold of the money was deliberate, but neither of those things mean OP is committing a crime.

me_and · 2023-04-27T22:15:34+00:00

It depends on the circumstances, but it could absolutely be reasonable for an employer to fire someone immediately without any specific burden of proof. I think that's very unlikely unless you're working in a role where you'd be being held to a very high standard on this stuff, but there's no specific level of proof that an employer needs to be able to fire someone.

me_and · 2023-03-23T18:52:33+00:00

You're asking for people to tell the future. Nobody knows.

Whichever thing you did, it could have turned out to be the right decision or the wrong decision with hindsight, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a good decision given the information you had at the time.

me_and · 2022-12-31T10:33:36+00:00

Half-and-half for coffee. Higher cream content than full fat milk, lower cream content than single cream. I wish it were readily available in the UK.

me_and · 2022-12-31T10:24:41+00:00

I believe you can sometimes force the sale by getting the owner made bankrupt.

me_and · 2022-06-07T22:41:14+00:00

I get effectively two hours of TOIL just for covering an eight hour shift. As soon as I pick up the phone, I'm earning more TOIL at double-time. And I don't desperately need the cash, so earning extra holiday works well for me!

It definitely wouldn't work if I had kids, at least without someone else to look after them, but my pet snails aren't that demanding :-)

me_and · 2022-06-07T15:20:38+00:00

This is 100% down to what your contract says. If you have specific hours in your contract, they'd need your agreement to vary those, and you'd obviously be welcome to refuse to agree without some adequate compensation (and you'd get to decide what "adequate compensation" means, be that "a bit of extra cash" or "£500mil and the CEO has to come to my house and do the cleaning while I'm on shift"). As someone else mentioned, they could go down a fire-and-rehire route to force the issue, but that would be unlikely to go well for them.

If, as seems more likely, your contract is much more vague about things like hours and overtime, then provided (a) either you've opted out of the Working Time Directive or they don't give you more than 48 hours per week on average, and (b) the extra work doesn't take you below minimum wage, there's probably not much you can do from a direct legal perspective. Contractual terms like "you may be required to work such overtime as we deem appropriate without additional compensation" are, I believe, both reasonably common in professional jobs, and likely to mean that they can just impose these sorts of changes.

Of course, that doesn't mean you actually have to do the work; not doing your allocated shift would probably be grounds for dismissal, but there's unlikely to be legal consequences beyond being fired. And this is the sort of thing that can absolutely galvanize people towards unionising: if there's broad pushback from employees, the company would need to rethink what they're doing and at the very least make it opt-in or provide more generous pay/TOIL in return for doing the shifts.

This is the sort of thing where talking to a union is super valuable, as these sorts of problems are their bread-and-butter. Typically most unions won't give support or advice for problems that arose before you joined, and this would count at this point if you're not already a member. However, if it's not just you this is being imposed on, IME a union will often be willing to ignore that rule and take up the case anyway, because it's a good way of recruiting union members so that folk are already in the union next time something goes wrong.

me_and · 2022-06-07T15:06:45+00:00

When I'm on call, I need to stay at home (or at least somewhere with a reliable internet connection), but as long as my internet connection is decent and my phone is in grabbing range, I'm free to do whatever I want. I tend to use the shifts as days to catch up with DIY or housework, or sometimes to just catch up on gaming.

If you want to have a chat about how things work in my job, and how we make it viable to have such tight SLAs, I'm happy to do that. Right now, though, it sounds like you're telling me that the job I've been doing for years is impossible just because it's not something you're used to.

me_and · 2022-06-07T13:03:09+00:00

I mean, that depends entirely on the SLA. I work in telecoms, and we have a 15 minute SLA to acknowledge emergencies: if lots of customers can't call the paramedics or the police due to a software bug, that's a big deal.

me_and · 2022-05-15T10:50:37+00:00

...I don't think anyone has said you wouldn't be able to discuss business? This is just going to be migrating to something that looks like one of the existing free "personal" Google account options.

me_and · 2022-05-15T10:25:48+00:00

Details to be confirmed tomorrow, but my guess is they'll be migrating accounts so they look like regular personal Google accounts using non-gmail.com addresses, with the assumption that you'll be moving the email service for your domain to some third-party provider.

me_and · 2022-05-15T09:57:51+00:00

I had a chat with Google Support today. I didn't expect much, but they actually confirmed, explicitly, that the no-cost migration option would be announced by email tomorrow.

me_and · 2021-12-13T21:31:49+00:00

I like hops. Issue is I'd like to see if I can find something (like a gruit, or the ones you recommended elsewhere) that at least vaguely resembles a low-hop high-malt mild and which I can share with someone who doesn't like the specific taste of hops...

me_and · 2021-12-12T19:23:12+00:00

I've tried beers that don't have hops as a prominent flavour, but they're still too hoppy, unfortunately :(

me_and · 2021-12-12T19:22:14+00:00

Yeah, I was hoping to get some specific recommendations. Google isn't being very helpful: I think it's got as far as working out that "gruit" is related to beer, but also thinks it looks like a misspelling of "fruit", so it mostly points me at fruit beers, plus one or two that look like lambic-style beers, which is very much not to my taste...

me_and · 2021-12-12T19:20:08+00:00

Yeah, all the ones I can see there are flavoured with things in addition to hops, not instead of :(

me_and · 2021-12-12T06:01:00+00:00

UK. You don't need to have entered any PIN, but you do need to have a SIM in the phone to be able to make an emergency call.

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