If other distros allow pip-installing into the system, that could be considered a bug or at least an anti-feature, because it's almost always a bad idea: it can clash with distro-managed Python packages, it will break on Python upgrades, and sooner or later you will run into version conflicts (a.k.a. DLL Hell). Recent versions of pip refuse to install into the system by default, for all of these reasons.
It's better to instead pip-install Python packages into virtual environments, recent Pythons havr `venv` built in for this purpose. For user-scoped or system-scoped utilities, `pipx` can manage dedicated virtual environments and symlink them into the search path.
Given (official*) UK speed limits are always in multiples of 5, using the 8/5 rule would be quicker and work just as well.
* There are occasional places where private property has speed limits with weird factors, but they're so rare as not to worry about. (the one example I remember is when I used to cycle to work and took shortcuts through a sewage plant that had an '11 mph' speed limit, why? who knows.
I agree, and if I’d written this code by hand I would have used pathlib. I basically stopped caring as soon as I ran Claude’s code and it did the thing I wanted it to do.
I think metered internet and a rolling distro is never going to be a great fit. Putting packages on the installation medium only inflates the ISO download, and those packages will be out of date sooner rather than later. It's not like Ubuntu, macOS or Windows updates wouldn't hurt metered connections.
Interesting! IANAL, but I think this should be basic functionality, ever since the recent-ish European and Californian privacy regulations. Although I think a quick e-mail to hn@ycombinator.com would suffice.
Even if you delete your account, it wouldn't really matter that much. Whole HN is probably crawled and archived on a daily basis due to a simplistic API
The Portugal model consists of decriminalisation, harm reduction and rehabilitation, but the Portuguese government has basically defunded the rehabilitation programs. Seems to me no wonder that the approach is failing if you take away the one factor that would reduce addictions, but also disingenuous to claim that the entire approach was a mistake. It worked, and now after defending an important part of it, it no longer works.
It's better to instead pip-install Python packages into virtual environments, recent Pythons havr `venv` built in for this purpose. For user-scoped or system-scoped utilities, `pipx` can manage dedicated virtual environments and symlink them into the search path.
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