so is wwdc this year basically a huge flop in terms of tech people caring? I'm in a bunch of slack groups and a couple discord, and i check things like hackernews and there's been hardly any mention of it.

Depends on how much you like emojis I guess

they're OK but they introduce new emojis every time they update the OS, so not something I would consider being a headline feature

apple has been regressing so long i didn’t even know something new happened

it feels like it's been a really long time since we've seen anything mind blowing from any of the tech giants. Maybe Surface was like the latest thing, but other than that it's been like at least 5 or 6 years of pretty incremental upgrades from everyone.

i guess samsung did have the Galaxy Note S7, but that was perhaps mind blowing in the wrong way.

yeah definitely.

surface book 2 has been my favorite tech lately, but still using a 2015 15'’ mbp as my main dev machine

Anyone got an example of how to run a VNC server before a user has logged into Ubuntu? I tried this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/229989/how-to-setup-x11vnc-to-access-with-graphical-login-screen

xauth:  unable to generate an authority file name
05/06/2018 11:13:40 -auth guess: failed for display=':0'
05/06/2018 11:13:40 -auth guess: since we are root, retrying with FD_XDM=1
05/06/2018 11:13:40 -auth guess: failed for display=':0'

I’m running this in a VM right now btw

i hate to be that guy but why do you need vnc for linux?

i mean i understand why if you're trying to make a little TV box or something, but it seems like for most other use-cases ssh might be better

(in which case if it's a media box why not just have it login automatically?)

come to think of it im not sure if vnc works with mac or windows prior to login either....maybe you get logged in when you vnc to the box cause it asks for credentials.

yes, I thought about it too, maybe I don’t need it, but still, it would be nice to run Kitematic for Docker stuff

or maybe I should just use https://github.com/moncho/dry

or learn proper NixOS and ditch Docker.. so many choices 😉

Windows has remote desktop which works prior to login, I think (haven’t tried in like 10 years)

I’m considering the HNK NUC for home server purposes: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12226/intels-hades-canyon-nucs-with-radeon-graphics-are-official-799999-shipping-in-spring-2018

Anyone read Cal Newport’s “Deep work”?

@borkdude NixOS doesnt work as advertised. none of your config would work, its way behind on libs. One cannot setup a dev station on Nix with latest libs. It really sucks but i tried setting up a ruby dev station on it few months back couldnt get all libs and latest working software on this machine. Cant even get a latest firefox running on the machine.

@metacritical Thanks for the heads up. I’m looking into NUC8i7HNK + linux. Since it’s fairly new I might run into trouble with whatever distro I choose.

@metacritical isn’t it possible to fetch unstable branch of nixpkgs or write your own though?

@borkdude Ohh sure you can experiment i dont feel its stable.

@borkdude Recently i experimented with GraalVM and native-image really works, i was able to even compile ‘spec’ into machine code. And its fast. If you are into writing terminal tools for yourself, clojure has arrived on the scene with native-image. That is one thing i would suggest you should use. but not NixOS.

@metacritical yeah, I tried it: https://github.com/borkdude/cljtree-graalvm

For fast command line tools, I’d choose Graal. For fast editable scripts, lumo: https://github.com/borkdude/balcony/tree/master/lumo

@borkdude Hmm.

And note that Graal is still pretty experimental and doesn’t support everything. So you might work for a day on a command line tool in the REPL and then only to find out some limitation once you compile it to machine code.

@borkdude That makes sense. It might break, but thats a small risk i can always go back to a previous version that works.

@metacritical e.g. I could not use clojure.pprint without deferring errors to the runtime (which then didn’t happen). That didn’t give me a good feeling.

Aah, thats basic. i get it now.

might try again in a couple of months, it’s actively being worked on

@borkdude Yes, All in all a good development though my biggest hope is for smaller Deployment containers. JVM is a little too heavy on the deployment side.

@metacritical would the modularization in Java 9 also help there?

It should i suppose, but i think that would be automatically handled by the compiler.

^ @borkdude

Never tried that stuff myself. https://blog.jdriven.com/2017/11/modular-java-9-runtime-docker-alpine/

https://sunng.info/blog/custom-jre-for-clojure-app-distribution.html

> If you care about the size of your application, it’s only 37MB totally for this hello world ring web application, includes runtime.

Thanks!

btw, with Criu, you can get a regular JVM - Clojure's startup time (with leiningen) to sub 300ms. It needs a special linux kernel flag, though ...

I'd just like to say that my mom lives on an island in the middle of the Pacific, pays half as much per month for internet, and somehow has 100Mbs uplink to my 50Mbps in Springfield, IL. I hate Comcast.

Low contention for bandwidth, probably, coupled with bandwidth being separate from latency.

Lack of competition is the issue. We have two ISPs here, one is Comcast, and the other exists mostly because they bill themselves as the company that won't screw their customers.

So the good side of that is CenturyLink provides great service with lifetime rates.