Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Yo dawg, I heard you like bicycles…

#bikes

Carter’s has this shirt for kids, but I can’t find an adult version anywhere. Trying to tell Amazon or a search engine that it’s important that the shirt have all three colors (much less in a specific order) seems impossible.

One day I hope ML technology advances to the point that I can describe a shirt and find out if someone is selling something like it.

It’s relatively easy to make a drop-in replacement for these, but also we’re deprecating them because they’re conceptually the wrong thing to do, so it’s best to migrate to using aware datetimes if possible: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2019/11/utcnow.html

datetime.utcnow and datetime.utcfromtimestamp will be deprecated in #python 3.12: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/103857

If you maintain a package, now is probably a good time to grep your source code for utcnow and utcfromtimestamp to get out ahead of the deprecation warnings. 📅🕐

$ 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.