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Cake day: May 31st, 2020

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  • Oh man, in general, people be raving about aliens, but never give two looks to the ants in their garden. Or you know, the entirety of Australia. Or the deep sea. We have so much life that’s alien buzzing around us. Hell, we even have the Scottish – humanoids that speak an entirely cryptic language. It’s so much more compelling story-telling, too, if they don’t arrive here in a spaceship, but rather have been living among us all this time.


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    Last year, I got sneakers with a canvas cover to combat my stinky feet. And they’re heckin’ excellent for that. But yeah, now rain is scary. If too much comes from above, you get soggy feet. And if too much came from above, you’ve got dirt puddles that can somehow dye the white rubber rim. 🫠


  • Hmm, for whatever reason, I’m on 2.31.4, so that might be the difference.

    That version was tagged two weeks ago, because they apparently still release patch versions for rather old minor versions of nix. So, apparently I am getting updates, but I’m on some older release channel or something. No idea why.

    I have to head to work now, so will have to debug in the evening or the weekend. Thanks for the clue, though.


  • Yeah, good point. So, I wrote that comment with an experience I had in Luanti in mind (which is basically a community-developed platform for Minecraft-like games).

    In the worlds there, I’d find a cave and it would expand down several hundred blocks. The good ores also only start to appear down there, so because you’d need to dig down a lot more blocks, and because the caves allow you to descend so quickly, it is definitely not worth digging straight down.

    But then those sprawling caves are also worth coming back to, because you will definitely not mine all of it in one go.
    Even if you do deplete those caves, it’s still worth using them as a starting point for digging further down, where you’re also likely going to run into more caves.

    All of that just means that it becomes worth your time to build out your mine.

    Ladders are worth bringing right away, because the caves are so vertical, but when the way up or down takes several minutes, it’s also a good idea to build intermediate bases and minecart rails.

    In my most built-out world, I think, I had like 500 blocks of minecart line to get to my second intermediate base. And the deepest point I reached was -3400, if I remember correctly. Found a massive cavern down there. Even just placing torches down to light it up needed several visits. Was considering building a city into there, but it was actually too large for that. I would’ve never been able to fill that cavern. 🥲





  • Hmm, that sounds exactly like my setup. Weird.

    I did have the file created, with {} inside (empty Nix expression). If I git add it, it works as well:

    And yeah, I understand that it’s supposed to be a stacktrace, but other error messages look similarly horrendous and I can often only try to guess what’s wrong by reading the stacktrace top-to-bottom, so I’ve somewhat gotten used to doing that.

    But good to know that these terrible error messages might be a problem with my system. Thanks!


  • Hmm, that’s interesting. For me, it looks like this:

    I actually thought, it said somewhere in there, that the file isn’t staged, but apparently not even that (anymore?).

    You don’t happen to be using Lix or something, do you? I’ve heard that it’s supposed to have better error messages, but I was never sure how much better it might be…

    Edit: Perhaps I should add that those code locations it shows, are not from my code. Only the modules/terminal/new_file.nix in the second-last line is relevant.




  • Yeah, I was gonna say, that might be the root cause.

    In the vast majority of cases, you want Box<dyn Error + Send + Sync>, but folks tend to leave out the Send + Sync, because it looks like additional complexity to them, and because it doesn’t cause problems when they’re not doing async/await.
    It’s better to define a type alias, if you don’t want that long type name everywhere.




  • Servo company? It’s an open-source project underneath the Linux Foundation. The Servo Shell source code seems to be here: https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/main/ports/servoshell
    It probably wouldn’t be too difficult to compile it yourself, if you really want it.

    However, you have to mind that it’s damn near impossible to build a browser from scratch that supports the majority of web standards at this point. Servo does not do so. Most webpages will not be usable on it.
    That’s the reason why they don’t care to provide a general-purpose browser interface. Because Servo is only useful at this point when only a specific webpage or specific set of webpages needs to be displayed.
    So, generally when it’s embedded into hardware or into a software application, where the user does not have a URL bar to type arbitrary addresses into, and where the webpage to display can be specifically crafted for Servo.