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RNG and Cosine in Nix
How to implement random number generation and cosine for your NixOS configuration
NixOS is an immutable, atomic Linux distribution with a declarative and reproducible configuration and packaging system using the purely functional, lazily evaluated, dynamically typed Nix programming language. Sadly, Nix doesn’t have built-in RNG since it’s purely functional, but I found a project called rand-nix with this code: Kublai: Welp I kinda forgot what I wanted to use cosine for in my configuration.nix in the first place… If you’d like to read some slightly less cursed Nix stuff, here are some great articles.
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