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I just assumed they were already doing this and have never considered them to be something anyone should ever put in their home.

Kids are just really good at learning quickly. That's all it is, really. Chess is all about study and learning, so kids are very adept at getting good quickly. Obviously there are some who are prodigies, but that's pretty exceptionally rare.

Adult learners also can get good quickly, but it requires a lot of meta-cognitive thinking (thinking about how you think, or "learning to learn"), time, and discipline. The guy that runs my local chess club is probably in his 60s, and he told me that he was sitting around ~1100 for a long time until recently he started studying, where he rapidly jumped up to ~1600 after, as he put it, "things clicked".

It's never too late to rapidly improve your own abilities, which is what I really love about the game, because I find it teaches you to apply that mindset to all aspects of life.

Just sounds like a win-win. The fascists no longer have their travel cops, and people no longer have to deal with the useless bullshit of the TSA.

You were being a massive dick.

Think about how many columns you can fit!

We have someone at work who uses it and he's constantly having tooling issues due to compatibility problems, so.. yeah.

I'm sure it's fine for sticking in the shebang and writing your own one-off personal scripts, but I would never actually main it. Too much ecosystem relies on bash/posix stuff.

It used to be much better (like when it first started). Now it's straight trash and has been for quite some time.

Seems unlikely and frankly doesn't matter much.

1GB of files is not configuration.

It came out in 2013, so no, not new at all. It was an incredibly popular song, with over a billion listens on Spotify.

1. Supposedly there's a way to install nix without root access, but I can't speak to it as I've never tried. Ofc it doesn't require sudo to install packages or anything, though.
2. I don't think it does this right now, largely because it's super fucking complicated (as is basically everything Apple) and homebrew casks themselves have had a ton of headaches around it. But nevertheless, I think home-manager has some workarounds it uses itself to enable many common GUI apps on MacOS.
3. Not sure exactly what you mean, but I think it does that?

If you want to install packages purely by name, you can use nix-env -i hello or whatever. But it's pretty janky and not really a recommended way of doing things.

Nix. I use it for everything, including all of my tools I use on my work MacBook.

There are many ways to use nix for this stuff, but personally I use home-manager in a flake-based setup. Versions of tools are all pinned in a lockfile which is committed to source control, so it's easy to get my config and all my tools on a new machine without any breakage (it does require installing first, though).

It's a great tool and has largely solved the pain of dealing with having to work on MacOS, for me.