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At the Mountains of Madness

We're open-sourcing a tool that may be useful to people who develop code on NixOS and distribute it in binary form.

I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why… Doubt of the real facts, as I must reveal them, is inevitable; yet if I suppressed what will seem extravagant and incredible there would be nothing left… In the end I must rely on the judgment and standing of the few scientific leaders who have, on the one hand, sufficient independence of thought to weigh my data on its own hideously convincing merits or in the light of certain primordial and highly baffling myth-cycles; and on the other hand, sufficient influence to deter the exploring world in general from any rash and overambitious programme in the region of those mountains of madness. One way to think of a container is that you’re just static-linking your entire userspace, which seems excessive unless you remember the world where it was normal to see your process spitting out errors like “cannot open shared object file” when you deployed it to prod, and vowed to become a wandering hermit and never to touch a computer again. We are descending through geological strata, marveling at perfectly preserved skulls and papyri and stuff, pondering how to run our sewer line through here without triggering a lot of red tape.

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