Constraints are not the same thing. Poetry locks the entire dependency closure. You can install with “no-deps” option, but then you have to specify specific versions of every dependency in requirements.txt

What do you mean? If you do "pip freeze >constraints.txt", that locks the versions of all installed packages, no matter where they came from.

As an example, let's create a venv and install some older versions of Django and its dependencies (current versions are 0.4.2, 3.5.2 and 4.0.6)

  $ python3 -m venv env1
  $ ./env1/bin/pip install sqlparse==0.4.0 asgiref==3.5.0 django=4.0.0

...and also Flask just to complicate the constraints file for the example:

  $ ./env1/bin/pip install flask

Lock all dependency versions in constraints.txt:

  $ ./env1/bin/pip freeze >constraints.txt 

Create a requirements file that specifies just "django" and references the constraints file:

  $ echo '-c constraints.txt' >requirements.txt
  $ echo 'django' >>requirements.txt

  $ cat requirements.txt 
  -c constraints.txt
  django

  $ cat constraints.txt 
  asgiref==3.5.0
  click==8.1.3
  Django==4.0
  Flask==2.1.3
  itsdangerous==2.1.2
  Jinja2==3.1.2
  MarkupSafe==2.1.1
  sqlparse==0.4.0
  Werkzeug==2.1.2

Now we can create another venv with the exact same versions of Django and all its dependencies (but not Flask or its dependencies) using just pip and the requirements file:

  $ python3 -m venv env2
  $ ./env2/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt 
  $ ./env2/bin/pip freeze
  asgiref==3.5.0
  Django==4.0
  sqlparse==0.4.0

That’sa lot more than just

    poetry init
    poetry add x y z
    

Then later

    poetry install

And maybe

    poetry remove y

Same issue since April 20?? Atlassian-level downtime

Where else do you think people are going for informal networking / keeping up with old contacts?

(Ie just the messaging part)

What did you do to cure yourself?

The conversion behavior you describe is also what happens in MacOS.

“ Pull requests are locked and cannot be merged until the minimum number of approvals are received. Project maintainers can indicate their approval by commenting on the pull request and including LGTM (looks good to me) in their approval text.”

Isn’t this how protected branches and github review functionality works anyways? What does this module add?

Possibly it was not so 6 years ago when the repository was initially made? Of course considering that this is the Gitea fork, their goal might not be the use for Github.

Yes, and it has a number of other features, but it's behind a paywall. So perhaps this is for those that want some of those features but don't want to pay.

The README says it uses GitHub protected branches, so I'm not sure if it does get around the paywall. That would be great though!

Might be better to switch the link to a clearer article. Eg this one has more nuance: https://kotaku.com/xbox-phil-spencer-raven-qa-union-activisi...

Collaborate with other people and draft off of their organizational skills. Pairing can make you way more productive + it’s a good way to get to better ideas.

Given the other stories posted on this site (universally claiming lockdowns were pointless and no medical reason for them), makes me question whether these stories are representative.

I think we need to distinguish between government imposed lockdown and measure that people take on their own. The study you cited [0][1] assumed that people wouldn't do anything in lieu of a government imposed lockdown, which is patently false.

> We attributed all COVID-19 lives saved (relative to the unmitigated counterfactual) to the public health measures (lockdowns, social distancing recommendations, masking recommendations), even though some voluntary behavioral modifications (e.g., limiting social contacts, trips to the store, or non-essential travel outside the state) would likely have taken place among the public even in the absence of these government interventions.

I think the most interesting studies are those that try to figure out the effectiveness of government intervention based on the timing of the lockdown. IIRC (big if), the timing of government intervention didn't matter much indicating that because of self imposed behavioral changes were about as effective as government intervention (or that people ignored government imposed lock-downs, ha ha). But take that with a big grain of salt.

[0] https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/lockdowns-during-early-pandemic-...

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

> I think we need to distinguish between government imposed lockdown and measure that people take on their own.

Why? It’s an exponential curve, either the number of cases is increasing or decreasing it makes little difference until you swap from one to the other. There is zero evidence that purely voluntary methods would have worked.

Further, the problem with using a zero policy baseline is voluntary lockdowns would also wrecked the economy. Movie theaters etc can’t operate if 90+% of the population including their staff is staying home. You can try and get some sort of synthetic baseline economic harm without government policies but you also get feedback loops of people staying home more as the situation falls apart.

That’s especially true of foreign countries. China’s lockdowns appeared to be extremely effective, but they where going to wreck US supply chains irrespective of the US response to COVID.

It’s even possible that government shutdowns reduced overall economic harm. Remember, lockdowns prioritized essential services, the disease wouldn’t have been so discriminatory. The zero government intervention baseline likely results in major disruptions in essential services like food delivery.

It's frustrating when anti-lockdown folks don't differentiate between lockdown now, when the disease is basically endemic and vaccines make COVID a non-issue for healthy/abled individuals, vs. in March 2020 when there was no vaccine, a mask shortage, a ventilator shortage, no consensus on transmission (the whole aerosol vs droplets shit), and just general pandemonium.

In my experience, the reason they don't differentiate is because they're implicitly arguing against the subset of pro-lockdown folks who don't differentiate. It's easy to forget, because most of us are understandably excited to memory hole the entire debate, but as recently as last fall there were mainstream voices arguing that it wasn't safe for kids to go to school.

Where are those mainstream voices now, in the grand scheme of things claiming that it's not safe for kids to go to school is a claim not rooted in science or statistics.

But probably those mainstream voices are not that interested in either.

I don’t think anyone questions the effectiveness when we literally didn’t know how Covid spread or how to treat it and our hospitals were getting overwhelmed.

The question is if they’re a useful endgame tool, after we have testing and treatments and vaccines. Absent the authoritarian measures China is deploying, the answer appears to be no: enough people skirt the rules to permit community spread.

I doubt any researcher believes our response was completely optimal or that US lockdowns would have ever eliminated COVID.

So allowing controlled spread after a successful vaccination campaign while avoiding overwhelming hospitals was the long term strategy if vaccination never hit herd immunity. Yes, we had strings like mask mandates last winter, but public schools where open almost everywhere even as the number of new cases spiked to unprecedented levels. The core difference was the dramatic reduction in hospitalization rates meant the healthcare system could cope with a spike of that magnitude.

Have folks had success at offering to be a junior dev to learn a skill? (Eg I’d love to learn how to set up these complex ML systems and play with data… but I don’t have much formal experience)

Beyond that, I feel this anxiety about leaving management so hard. I’ve been managing for 3-4 years now and I worry my skills are too atrophied.

I miss being able to create and solve problems in the back of my mind.

But then it feels hard giving up the ability to influence direction and take care of people.

But my heart is happiest when I’m mentoring someone or talking how to deal with a tough problem. I barely get to do that anymore :(