alt Hacker NewsYou still need to have somebody half competent to ask the electric shaitan to the thing and validate the result and also demonstrate this ability during the hiring process. I'm not sure it's easier than actually finding a person who can do those two lines.
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bigyabai • today at 4:57 PM
Nix is declarative, the sum of work required to proliferate these updates is typing "git push" into your terminal.
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If you trust someone to manage IT policy in the first place I'd think they'd be smart enough to be able to learn the basics of Nix? Like 95%+ of it is just declaring obvious settings that are already in nixpkgs. In practice it's mostly an ini file, but with the power to do more if you need it.