NYT recently did a fantastic calculator. It isn't simple flat one or the other is cheaper. It takes into account buy vs lease, milage, local energy cost, length of ownership etc

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/upshot/ev-vs-gas-ca...

This falls under the "something similar" category but it's direnv support is great https://zed.dev/docs/configuring-zed#direnv-integration

It isn't 1:1 since there probably won't be ansible provided configs, but I find writing nix devshells per project to be low effort and high reward. It'll only be a couple lines if all you need is a specific version of ansible

People want containers, not nix, ansible, or devenv

Why don't they do the real portable thing and use OCI?

This is the way. This is how I do it with mine but use channels instead of flakes because I'm a giant curmudgeon.

My devshell can be found here and is dead simple: https://github.com/stusmall/stuartsmall.com/blob/main/defaul...

I used Zola for my SSG and can't think of the last breaking change I've hit. I just use the pattern of locked nix devshells for everything by default. The extra tools are used for processing images or cooklang files.

> The people in Venezuela want democracy. It's a fundamentally different situation.

"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators" - Dick Cheney (but I'm sure it'll work out this time)

There is a whole lot of directions this can go after we arrest the dictator, but a liberal democracy magically immediately popping isn't on my list. There might be one in the future but there will be a lot of chaos and violence between now and then.

What happened in Europe after WW2? Dick Cheney didn't invent the idea of America liberating a country and being greeted as liberators, it had happened before, specifically in countries that had a history of liberal democracy.

For some reason he thought it would apply to Islamic theocracies and it clearly didn't. Pattern matching Venezuela against Iraq or Afghanistan is an obvious mistake.

We aren't occupying Venezuela and rooting out everyone in the current regime and putting them on trial. We just arrested a handful of people leaving the rest of the government intact. It playing out like WW2 doesn't make sense

Trump has today, explicitly said that the US administration - specifically his administration - will run Venezuela, with boots on the ground, for as long as is necessary.

I was listening to the press conference and almost went back to edit my comment with a note about it. Honestly, coming out of that I have no idea if what is his saying is reality. As things stand and what we know, it doesn't make sense. We don't know about more troops currently on the ground. He said the VP has agreed to assist, but she is publicly saying very different things. I hate we are in a place as a country where we can't believe basic things about important topics our president says.

I think you are misquoting slightly. Trump said he's not afraid of putting 'boots on the ground' in the country if necessary, not they are confirmed.

Also in the Q&A he mentioned this was mostly targeting the protection of the oil extraction/American companies taking over, not the rest of the country.

(tho not sure how much we can really trust what he says)

> What happened in Europe after WW2? Dick Cheney didn't invent the idea of America liberating a country and being greeted as liberators, it had happened before, specifically in countries that had a history of liberal democracy.

Those countries were actually being liberated from a foreign power that had invaded them just a few years prior.

There are very few examples where a foreign nation overthrowing the indigenous government (no matter how despised that government may be) are greeted as liberators, and in those select few instances the sentiment is almost universally short lived.

I've been a massive JetBrains fanboy for a bit over a decade. I finally let my subscription lapse this month. It isn't so much about AI integrations but overall competitors have caught up. The rise of LSP and DAP did a lot to shrink their competitive advantage

Diversity is a fantastic thing for security. It limits the impact when a bug drops and gives the possibility to migrate or run a mix of systems.

I'm seeing this hot take a lot but it doesn't make sense. Are people worried than LE is going to have a 45 day outage or something? ACME is an open standard with other implementations so I'm having trouble seeing the political central point of failure too.

It's okay for something to be a good thing and to celebrate it. We don't have to frown about everything.

Yeah, doesn't the ACME bot defaults have it trying to renew the cert when it has like 30% of its life time left? Which means the CA would have to be down for Days/Weeks fo it to impact production.

Oh and you would definitely know about this outage because you would hear about it in your news, and the monitoring you already have set up to yell at you when you cert is about to retire (you already have that right? Right?). And you can STILL trivially switch to another CA that supports ACME.

You can force a panic with echo c | /proc/sysrq-trigger

I've been running local models on an AMD 7800 XT with ollama-rocm. I've had zero technical issues. It's really just the usefulness of a model with only 16GB vram + 64GB of main RAM is questionable, but that isn't an AMD specific issue. It was a similar experience running locally with an nvidia card.

For something as simple as a terminal multiplexer, if you aren't seeing immediate value in a switch maybe its fine if you stick with what you have. You don't always need to be on the newest thing. I prefer zellij over tmux, but it is evolutionary not revolutionary. Instead of forcing yourself, save the effort and focus on something more valuable.