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I agree on your take, but I don’t think that “future scaling” is a concern for the most home users.





I have a custom split keyboard (lily58) and use the neo special character layer as my lower layer


Nix is a functional programming language / package manager, which allows you to build software reproducible.

For example, one developer has version 1.1 of a dependency installed and a second developer has version 1.2 of the same dependency installed. Both build the software from source and get a different result.

This can lead to “but it works on my machine” bugs. Nix mitigates this and ensures that all devs have the exact same versions and the build process produces the same output.

In theory these kind of bugs can now only happen because of hardware fault.

For game piracy this should streamline the installation process. You can just run one command and the game works and you don’t have to tinker around to find out why it does not work for you.


Sounds good,

but would the preferred way be to use a wrapper type, which holds either the data or the error and avoid exceptions completely?


I’m currently learning functional languages and have only limited knowledge, but from what I’ve read now you are right. Throwing exceptions is pure, but catching them is impure.

In this case I guess the printLine function can throw an exception therefore the calling function must be declared with Exception?


Yes, in functional programming you want to use pure functions. Exceptions are impure, therefore it has to be declared.

Other functional languages don’t even have exceptions



I would remove the keybinding Ctrl + Alt + T for opening the terminal in the README for distros like Arch and Gentoo.

It depends on the installed DE/WM and can be incorrect depending on the users config



No, I tried ZQ the other day, does not work


You could try Puppeteer, but I don’t know if you can check third party cookies.

Also I can recommend using Apache Airflow for automation. It is like a fancy crontab with a webui and email notifications, and lots of other stuff.


I thougt this is a standard feature, at least deluge and qbittorrent can do it.


Please put your code between tripple backticks in a seperate line above an below your code. Single backticks are only for inline code like this.

To answer your question, the %.2f means it should only print two digits after the decimal point.

You can also use some other variations like this:

  • %2f print the number at least 2 characters wide
  • %5.2 print the number at least 5 characters wide with a precision of two digits after the decimal point
  • %05.2 the same as above, but fill leading digits with zeros

This is just formatting, play a bit around with it and you will get it.