This comment thread highlights an issue that Nix has...some people love it personally, some love it professionally. Some are software engineers, others are hackers.
Most of the comments here seem to be from people using NixOS on a laptop. NixOS as a production OS in the cloud or on a robot is a game changer.
What is so interesting about Nix is that it's not one thing. Its not (just) a distro. Its not (just) a package manager. Its not (just) a system manager. Its not (just) a language. Its not (just) a build tool.
It is all those things, but specifically, what you want it to be. Yes, that makes it super confusing, but also powerful.
Interesting. I asked similar questions (Who will win the Presidential Election and Will XXX college football team win the national championship, etc) and none of the responses included percentages or yes/no indicators like the examples you link to.
Can you provide an example of the type of question that comes back with a reasonable prediction? So far, I've tried 3 times, and the answer each time was something along the lines of [prediction will be true] if [they do the thing that makes the prediction true] which is not useful.
>Like, do you want a 0.01% chance to raise money or a 2% chance to build a business that keeps you and a few others well paid and perhaps out of the rat-race.
I don't do startups to have a job, I do startups to do the hard things in an attempt to build something groundbreaking.
Presenting "raise money" vs "have a job" is a false dichotomy.
I don't see the need for this. I mean, its a fun idea for LLMs/Generative text, but does the target user struggle with figuring out how to configure an alert in their o11y tools?
Ignore the clickbait title of the post itself, as I did when sharing here. This is a master class on how to market to developers. Could take the HN stuff out and it would still be brilliant.