@civodul @ekaitz_zarraga

Okay this is amazing. I was just asking @ArneBab some of these exact questions today.

Here's a question...

The guix build servers- how do they know what architectures to build for? Do they build all packages on all architectures? Do they do some "on demand"? Is there a flag somewhere that's set?

@ekaitz_zarraga

Thanks! This is already taking me further.

I still may convert this whole thing to another language but this is helping for sure!

@ekaitz_zarraga

I have a directory of files, some of which may contain one type, or another type, I want to say "Go through some of these files, but not all of them, only the ones with the extension *.txt and *.md but not, say *.tex

@ekaitz_zarraga

The glob helped... but now I get a weird one....

let's say I do

for i in "*.txt *.md"; do
runme $i
...

it goes through the txt files, but then it sends "*.md" to runme!

@ekaitz_zarraga

ah right because the shell is already expanding it for you.

I'm probably going to end up switching this script to be a lua or python script. I just hoped to stay "simple".

@ekaitz_zarraga

I can't get bash to easily let me for loop through files that contain spaces and single quotes.

bash is an unacceptable scripting language

@civodul

Is there a discussion somewhere on Laminar vs Jenkins or other popular floss CI programs?

Also...

@ArneBab @civodul

Yes, Jenkins seems to be the established tool in this space and yet guix-forge uses Laminar, and so I'd love to understand why. :)

@taiju

> I have no right to complain about my free use of free software

I don't understand this statement. Are they saying that the software is bad and needs fixing but they feel embarrassed or too shy to do so?

> I want them to have respect for free software developers.

I'm confused, because this seems in contradiction of your above statement.

Can you explain what they're doing that shows they don't have respect for developers?

@publicvoit

This is good! I'd like to send this around to friends.

A couple small things.

There are some weird formatting and localization issues.

For example, the words "Size", "Glossy", "Shape" etc are quite small.

Also you use guillemet, which are not used in English.

@civodul @publicvoit

It just feels "off"

[define [fib n]
[cond
[[= n 0] 0]
[[= n 1] 1]
[else
[+ [fib [- n 1]]
[fib [- n 2]]]]]]

My wife got a new computer...

Microsoft: "You don't need to do this... we can make it work..."

@ekaitz_zarraga

Whose the audience?

@ekaitz_zarraga

Yes, you have your own food... which you label as "American". :)

One weird experience I had was on a trip to London, I'd gotten up early in the morning (4am in NYC), flew to London and when I got there it was early evening and people wanted to eat at the American restaurant.

Five and a half hour flight (plus airport and other time) to eat... "American food". which was basically cheap diner food exocitized and with a huge markup.

Europeans (or any non-Americans)- these bizarre and disgusting foods you're eating that are labeled as American are really not American.

Watch this video by a Canadian talking about faux-American things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xgd79wuriQ

CW: The some of the "foods" in the video make me a little sick to my stomach to think about.

After reading someone's complaints about getting into Python (maybe @AbbieNormal ) I decided to check out Poetry. I expected to hate it, but actually, it's been really nice so far.

I felt like I had more control when I used pip + pip-compile + virtualenv + setup.py but ultimately that was a lot of housekeeping and replicated work.

I don't think I'll be going back to the old way any time soon without a *very* compelling reason.

@AbbieNormal

I also feel bad for someone just starting out because indeed Poetry is new and experienced Pythonistas won't have heard of it!

I'd probably teach it to start with and tell someone "Don't worry about pip and setup.py and virtualenv"- the problem is that they're going to encounter mention of those tools everywhere because the language is >20 years old and these tools are 10-15 years old...

Cruft is hard to get rid of.

@mntmn

Wow cool. Maybe you can explain what it is and what an SoM is? Maybe a blog post to explain the significance too? :)

@ekaitz_zarraga

Yes, this is the amazing thing about Europe and the Middle East, when you are walking down the road and you see a place and it's like "Wait, this is THIS place?"

When I was a child and heard about the bible stories, it might as well have been Narnia, but then I went to Jerusalem and it was very odd. It's like "Wait, so THIS is that place? The people lived HERE?" It was very strange.