And it is still living in weather forecasting models used by many weather institutes.

Source: Work for a weather institute.

Trowing in my 2 cents. I am currently an AWS cloud “engineer”. I put it in quotes because the market is wild. In one place you actually design a landing zone for the company to use. In others you are a glorified support plus ops, but still get paid decently because the title is in demand and you passed a few multiple choice quizes from Amazon.

My current workplace has 99% in python. But this can also vary between companies.

Of course, this varies per region. I am in the Netherlands and our department has perpetually 3 job offers open.

But you can still get a bunch of good ones on the second hand markets. Also, NUCs are still a thing. Intel deemed the formfactor mature enough too pull out themselves and leave it too the partners to develop further.

If we talk about solutions: python has plenty. Which might be overwhelming to the user.

I use Direnv to manage my python projects. I just have to add layout pyenv 3.12.0 on top and it will create the virtual environment for me. And it will set my shell up to use that virtual environment as I enter that directory. And reset back to default when I leave the directory.

But you could use pipenv, poetry, pdm, conda, mamba for your environment management. Pip and python do not care.

According to the WHO, 50% of all statistics are made up. Unsourced statistics have an even higher diagnosis rate: 70%!

But who would lie on the internet?

Against Chinese imperialism and their absurd historical claims to steal land?.

So you just invalidate their whole effort to make a phone in 2023 that actually held together by screws, and not glue because it lacks one audio-port?

I agree with you. And I do understand why, and I don’t like it:

I think it is more about the profile of the people in need.

Wasn’t there a billionaire on board of that vessel? Their family probably got some influence to force this massive operation. And we idolize these big money havers.

And what money do the immigrants have? It is an ongoing issue for the EU (as an example). It looks like the EU doesn’t even want these people. Sure, they begrudgingly accept people, when they arrive. Sure there is an effort to safe them… But if some are lost on the way. Less mouth to feed.

Once again: my pessimistic observations. Personally, I feel ashamed of this whole thing.

You forgot the third option: A Mac ;)

I did some shallow digging, and my guess is the virtual machine that is started for each.

I see that the podman vm is a whole ass fedora image, at least back in 2021 when this article was written.

Rancher seems to use alpine if I understand the configuration correctly

Finch also uses fedora… I think. Their config is seemingly simple to the point it looks deceptive.

That is awesome. I prefer podman, despite what my list might suggest.

I work somewhere that doesn’t have licensing with Docker Inc. And I work on a Mac. With Docker desktop out of the picture, I got some experience with the alternatives. I know this post is about the native implementation and not the VM one, but I just wanted to add my 2 cents:

Alternatives run by me: Podman, Rancher Desktop, Finch

Results:

• Podman uses a lot more energy on idle than Finch and Rancher. On AVG 4 more Wats on an M1. (Normal idle is about 5W, so 9 almost doubles it cutting greatly in my battery life)
• Podman and Finch are not compatible with some tools that expect a full docker sock. In my case the AWS CDK and SAM CLI have issues. (Which is fun as Finch is also made by AWS)
• Finch does not offer a sock at all
• Finch requires you to recreate the full VM when updated.
• If you really want to have a drop-in replacement for Docker Desktop, use Rancher Desktop. Rancher lacks in UI and the extension feature. But I never had issues with the sock, as I can run it with containerd.
• Finch has no UI
• Podman’s VM has clock drift if you put your machine in sleep. Only solution I found is to reboot the podman VM.
• Podman allows you to log in the VM with a command. I haven’t found a way on the others.

Oof. Right into the hurt.

Currently 6 months in, on a 2 week task.