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Cake day: May 19th, 2024

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  • How do I make sure not to become this kind of person?

    Just focus on that and you’re good.

    There are two ways to do “bad things” 1. you’re not aware of them being bad (because you never question yourself), 2. you are aware, but you excuse them somehow.

    You have already cleared 1., all you need to do now, is to remain strict with yourself to never do excuse your own bad behavior.

    And to be clear, I don’t mean to constantly blame yourself, I mean “finding excuses to do the bad thing anyway, because this time is an exception”. And it’s also fine to give up on this later if you find you can’t keep it up. It would be disappointing, but any effort in this direction is good, don’t let it dominate you.

    Also, practice harmless small talk. If your colleague is talking drama, try to shift the discussion and bring up their pet or hobby or something.

    then they pretend to be your friend and ask questions about your personal life which I deflect as good as I can.

    I’m sure you can find some old boring topic that you find moderately interesting but can talk for hours on? Just use that. Comic book art, a particular species of flower you keep in a pot, 14th century mongolian music, idk.










  • The problem is that of those 20/30% only 10% will actually get out on the streets so you are left with around 2% of the general population. And that ain’t much

    So you do agree?

    Getting mass protests organized is a tremendous effort. If you have 80-90% support for something, getting 30-40% on the street is a huge accomplishment. If only 30% support the idea in the first place, there is no chance.

    The “mass protest” has to be at a scale, where it’s basically a general strike where society shuts down because people are protesting.

    That it doesn’t work right now doesn’t mean they should stop trying.

    but a very loud and significant minority

    This is meaningless in a country that chooses to ignore public voices. Authoritarian regimes can stay stable with 10-15% support of the population, ignoring protests and complaints.






  • my take on this whole thing is:

    … and there it is! A tool to fix the fallout of the practice of always using venvs and always version pinning.

    Nice.

    I have no need for this kind of tool, because I don’t have version conflicts. Does this manage my dependencies in other ways?


    No idea what .in is.

    .txt is split out into .lock and .unlock.

    Are they still .txt or is there a new file standard for .lock and .unlock?

    pyproject.toml

    .toml,

    The only thing you have to unlearn is being so timid.

    No, that’s… against community rules :) I don’t like the common use of venvs or .toml very much and I don’t like their use by other people and “timid” is also diplomatic. So you’re getting timid, and we get to get along and we can agree to disagree on the use of .venvs and we can wish each other a pleasant day.