Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

`$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/to_be_wiped status=progress`
`59001459200 bytes (59 GB, 55 GiB) copied, 904 s, 65.3 MB/s`

65 MB/s, nice, nice. At this rate it's only going to take.... 3 days to wipe this 16TB drive.

```
Step 5/7 : RUN python3 -m pip install .
```
```
---> Running in 31b96e802fdb
/usr/bin/python3: No module named pip
```

Hmm.. So #fedora also ships a crippled thing that is not #python when you `dnf install python3`.

I was hoping that that was a reasonable alternative to Debian/Ubuntu ☹

Bugs like `dt.replace(year=dt.year + 1)`, code that works with ordinal day-of-year, etc.

Psst. Next year is a leap year. Depending on your deployment story, now (or 3 months ago😅) might be a good time to start looking into logic that won't handle leap years correctly.

#matrix isn't *great*, but it's a darn sight better than this.

"Oh I need to communicate with someone on Discord quickly, guess I'll launch it. Oh, there's an update available, so Discord *prevents me from opening their appliaction*."

Reason #215 to avoid #discord.

Note: This is one of the *exceedingly rare* occasions where I like something like this.

For the most part I find content about datetimes, DST and programming in general to be boring and uninteresting.

Heading home from #PyConUS, ready to relax and see my family again after 10 days in SLC.

To celebrate, here's some fiction relevant to my work that you might be interested in:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/03/the-witching-hour/

#PyConUS2023

It was just a few days ago that I was spontaneously praising @kevin for his work transforming Bloomberg's culture with respect to open source. You could do much worse than hiring him.

#PyConSprints goal: Get this number down to 0.

#PyConUS #PyConUS2023