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A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by ainiriand »

psadri wrote: post #43

I feel like this could be adopted for your homegrown "whatever" framework (eg: UI framework, Auth framework, …) Congratulations on getting hired to this team! You probably count yourself lucky, but don't. We had been trying to fill this role for the past 5 months and every candidate would run away as soon as we showed them our homegrown auth framework. But don't run yet please, do give it a try. So, you are still her…

... If you want to have a reliable copy of the database do not rely on the one that sits in the repo, ask Steven for one of the latest backups that he made and that should be in his own cloud drive. Then you can proceed safely to run the migrations, just remember to skip the one labelled as 20259999-9 as this was made for a prod hotfix and is still necessary. Edit your migrations table to skip it. The migrations table will be created when you run 'status'.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by stavros »

zahlman wrote: post #100
elzbardico wrote: post #83

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Everybody else uses virtual environments and alternate installations of python instead of using and installing packages in the system python installation. It is not that hard.

That is the incantation.

`uvx ` and you're done. You don't even need to install the tool first.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by stavros »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #118
zahlman wrote: post #99

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These kinds of histrionics are really uncalled for. Virtual environments are easy to work with. https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2018/09/04/python-virtual-envi... is a solid tutorial.

Bookmarking this.

Don't, use `uv`. Literally just install uv and then try something like `uvx bakeit` and it'll download and run the tool in its own virtualenv. You don't need to bother with anything.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by j1elo »

Don't these cars pass the mandatory yearly review? In my country I passed mine recently (yearly, because the car is older than 10 years) and the first thing they said was "ok let me in the vehicle". If there is anything so utterly broken like in the article or the comments here, you got an insta-failed checkup, which means the vehicle's license to drive in public roads is removed, with the sole exception of going to/from a mechanic shop.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by pastage »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #75
psadri wrote: post #43

I feel like this could be adopted for your homegrown "whatever" framework (eg: UI framework, Auth framework, …) Congratulations on getting hired to this team! You probably count yourself lucky, but don't. We had been trying to fill this role for the past 5 months and every candidate would run away as soon as we showed them our homegrown auth framework. But don't run yet please, do give it a try. So, you are still her…

> Make sure you don't have anything else relying on Python because they will probably never work again. This is why when I see some clever open source tool discussed on HN and I go to the repo and see it's written in Python I close the browser window and pretend I never saw it. Yes I know there are ways to protect yourself when using Python in much the same way that lead-lined glove boxes protect you when working wit…

Any project written in a language with big user base java, C#, C++, perl, rust even fortran has this problem. The only thing that helps is experience with the language. I very seldom see code that survives ten years, even no deps things fail because your compiler interpreter changes.

It is just part of the job. Sure I am not a big fan of C# or PowerShell but a big part is just that I have no experience.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by alias_neo »

toast0 wrote: post #19
selimthegrim wrote: post #11

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Isn’t this why you cannot push start cars anymore?

You should still be able to push start a newer manual transmission car. Put in the clutch, put the key to run, put it in 1st (or so), get it up to speed, let the clutch out, and now the engine is turning, which should turn the alternator/generator which should now be able to run the engine. If your electrical system is really bad, maybe the alternator can't get the voltage high enough to run everything; if your car i…

The inability to do a rolling start in an automatic really bugs me after being used to manuals my whole life.

I switched to an auto a few years back for reasons (UK, still not super popular here), and once or twice I've had the car cut out on me at speed, in traffic; had it been a manual, I could have just restarted it while moving, but it forces you to be stopped, foot on the brake and in park before you can push the button to start it.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by eqvinox »

_carbyau_ wrote: post #109
bityard wrote: post #50

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I don't know why, but I expected quicksand to be an Australia thing. "Even the dirt tries to kill you."

"Quicksand" is the harder sand just above the water line that is more solid and faster to walk/run on.... /s

Great, now the smartass in me thinks everywhere is quicksand because it's just a bunch of compacted sand¹ on top of the groundwater aquifer…

¹ yes I know soil is not sand

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by riffraff »

bityard wrote: post #50
dmurray wrote: post #45

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You get your foot stuck in and then the tide comes in and you drown . Most quicksand I'm aware of is in tidal flats [0] [1] and it really is dangerous to take a short cut over them. Come to think of it, most normal sand I encounter is in tidal flats, too. [0] https://www.98fm.com/news/north-dublin-beaches-quicksand-war... [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/southend-on-sea-deadly-...

I don't know why, but I expected quicksand to be an Australia thing. "Even the dirt tries to kill you."

well, dirt does kill you in Australia. In multiple[0] ways[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldust [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkholderia_pseudomallei

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by rwmj »

pastage wrote: post #146
dreamcompiler wrote: post #75

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> Make sure you don't have anything else relying on Python because they will probably never work again. This is why when I see some clever open source tool discussed on HN and I go to the repo and see it's written in Python I close the browser window and pretend I never saw it. Yes I know there are ways to protect yourself when using Python in much the same way that lead-lined glove boxes protect you when working wit…

Any project written in a language with big user base java, C#, C++, perl, rust even fortran has this problem. The only thing that helps is experience with the language. I very seldom see code that survives ten years, even no deps things fail because your compiler interpreter changes. It is just part of the job. Sure I am not a big fan of C# or PowerShell but a big part is just that I have no experience.

Nope. Python has a habit of regularly breaking working stuff.

It's a developer/community problem - the language itself doesn't require it.

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