| 18 Apr 2022 |
 Linux Hackerman | This all sounds like not-so-great workarounds for a problem that would be best solved by adding the feature to colmena. | 20:50:02 |
 Buckley | That would be the over engineered way | 20:50:04 |
 aanderse | ok cool | 20:50:30 |
| Buckley | Tbh I feel like the need for multiple deployments points to a deficcieccy in the tagging system. I actually thought you could combine tags to filter down more | 20:51:06 |
| Linux Hackerman | I don't think so, there are good reasons to keep the deployments separate anyway. Like if the configs aren't supposed to refer to each other. | 20:51:49 |
| aanderse | i have great interest in utilizing nodes
i'm not sure how you would make that work (well) with the tagging system | 20:51:50 |
| aanderse | Linux Hackerman: bingo | 20:51:59 |
| Linux Hackerman | I mean, yes, tag selection could be more powerful and it's something I'd like to have as well. But I'm pretty sure it's not the right solution to aanderse's problem :) | 20:52:23 |
| aanderse | learning rust and contributing a feature might be the solution to my problem... but i feel like that isn't happening soon | 20:53:29 |
| aanderse | so i'll hack something else up for now :) | 20:53:40 |
| 19 Apr 2022 |
 Zhaofeng Li | Sorry all, my homeserver was completely borked for a week and still catching up. The last scrollback I see after April 12 is "Not sure exactly what that code would look like right now" from earlier today. Could someone fill me in with the conversation? | 06:50:19 |
| Linux Hackerman | 
Download 2022-04-19-090015_screenshot.png | 07:00:34 |
| Linux Hackerman | (because screenshots are obviously the best way to share chat transcripts 🙄) | 07:00:49 |
| Zhaofeng Li | Thanks! I can see that part fine, what about the messages before that? Or how should I go about forcing Synapse Web to refetch the history? | 07:03:14 |
| Linux Hackerman | oh oops | 07:03:25 |
| Linux Hackerman | I thought you could only see up to that message 🙃 | 07:03:37 |
| Zhaofeng Li | Okie, "Clear cache and reload" did the trick. Sometimes eventual consistency needs a kick 😅 | 07:05:30 |
| Zhaofeng Li | In reply to @aanderse:nixos.dev
defaults apply to all machines regardless of tags, i don't want to accidentally reference a machine in a different tag via nodes, i want to grab all attributes from all machines in a tag Yeah, nodes refers to all nodes regardless of selection. We could have something like lib-colmena.findNodesByTag "webservers" but not sure whether that's the best way to solve the issue | 07:09:43 |
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 David Arnold (blaggacao) | Zhaofeng Li: you might have a look at this new exciting project: https://github.com/numtide/nix-eval-cache It uses black magic to cache better than nix flakes. | 16:48:47 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | In reply to @zhaofeng:zhaofeng.li
Yeah, nodes refers to all nodes regardless of selection. We could have something like lib-colmena.findNodesByTag "webservers" but not sure whether that's the best way to solve the issue I think the way to go about these issues is to modularize the eval interface. Batteries included, but if your project requires a different eval structure, that's not something that colmena should implement. | 18:55:13 |
| 20 Apr 2022 |
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| 21 Apr 2022 |
|  Wanja Hentze joined the room. | 08:58:37 |
| Wanja Hentze | In reply to @blaggacao:matrix.org
Zhaofeng Li: you might have a look at this new exciting project: https://github.com/numtide/nix-eval-cache It uses black magic to cache better than nix flakes. looks interesting, but ewww mtime | 16:49:08 |
| Wanja Hentze | I think I would exhaust the sound options first before reaching for that | 16:50:45 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | Yeah, maybe it's not the | 18:58:10 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | * Yeah, maybe it's not the right tool for such a varied closure as nixos configurations would exhibit. | 18:58:41 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | Maybe we'll be hearing something soon from the nixel front | 18:59:07 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | github.com/kamadorueda/nixel | 18:59:21 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | O think the plan was to use this parser to implement a parallel and cache friendly nix evaluator outside of nix. | 19:00:02 |
