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  • I think there are two answers to this. First, there is a long standing tradition in the US that the new guy doesn’t put the old guy in jail.

    Look at so many other countries and so much of world history to see how that style of governing is problematic to the transfer of power from one regime to the next and why it causes its own set of problems.

    The second, and arguably the most important, is that the American people as a whole can elect whoever the fuck they want to be president, no matter what any mid level beurocrat, judge, lawmaker or even current president or other official says about the issue, even if said person is in jail at the time.

    The law and its punishments should still apply to all, including the president and former presidents, however.





  • Python developer here. Venv is good, venv is life. Every single project I create starts with

    python3 -m venv venv

    source venv/bin/activate

    pip3 install {everything I need}

    pip3 freeze > requirements.txt

    Now write code!

    Don’t forget to update your requirements.txt using pip3 freeze again anytime you add a new library with pip.

    If you installed a lot of packages before starting to develop with virtual environments, some libraries will be in your OS python install and won’t be reflected in pip freeze and won’t get into your venv. This is the root of all evil. First of all, don’t do that. Second, you can force libraries to install into your venv despite them also being in your system by installing like so:

    pip3 install --ignore-installed mypackage

    If you don’t change between Linux and windows most libraries will just work between systems, but if you have problems on another system, just recreate the whole venv structure

    rm -rf venv (…make a new venv, activate it) pip3 install -r requirements.txt

    Once you get the hang of this you can make Python behave without a lot of hassle.

    This is a case where a strength can also be a weakness.


  • He seems to lack competence in many ways, but some of the guys around him are a whole lot more conniving and potentially effective.

    It’s also not likely Trump feels any urge to hire a somewhat moderate(ish) cabinet of professionalls like he did last time. I assume he learned his lesson given that they all eventually turned on him.

    So let’s see. I think he’s spent the past 4 years surrounding himself with some bad hombres, to borrow a saying, and now he’s ready to act with fewer guardrails.











  • nucleative@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRuins rule
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    A company cannot disrupt itself. Sears, Kmart, and their colleagues who have perished became particularly good at making a profit through one specific channel. So every executive, every performance bonus, in fact every person on the payroll was focused on maximizing their specific method of turning a profit.

    Unfortunately for them, the world changed and the leaders didn’t realize they were themselves being disrupted and therefore had no capacity to turn the titanic.