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I recall successfully renewing my registration several times online before, but now they want a phone number and they are pushing some weird government smartphone app "to handle your government todo items"?

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1jPv45CHN8

So maybe I'm spoiled by linux package managers, where you tell it to "upgrade" and things continue to work... to me that is just a natural expectation.

Well, it seems the python package manager (pip) will happily upgrade all your project's required dependencies, but not your optional dependencies... yet the old (incompatible) version is still visible at runtime.

Consequently, it seems to be an excepted norm in the python world that things may break after a "pip upgrade", at least on a single tool.

How do python devs put up with this? Apparently there are a bunch of hacks scattered across countless projects to test at runtime for incompatible deps, even though they have already dutifully specified the compatible version in the dependencies list.

What a mess.

It seems like every third meeting someone is driving. Is it really worth the added risk to your life? Can you really contribute or take anything from a meeting when your attantion is so divided and you have none of your productivity tools?

There is always a LESS organized way to do something, but that's not what you want. There is also a more CLEVER way to do anything, and you don't want that either. The goal is to make things is as organized and stupidly simple as possible... so boring that opening any file at any level you sigh "yep, that's what I thought it would look like" instead of "WTF?!"