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| | | | | Alpine Linux is a distribution that is designed to be lightweight. In particular, its seen a lot of use in Docker images because the resulting image bundles are considerably smaller than those generated by other minimal distros. However, in the context of building a Docker image for a Python application, its worth thinking carefully before using Alpine, as it can often result in slower builds and counterintuitively it can even result in larger images occasionally. | |
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| | | | | Stable Diffusion really opened the world to what is possible with generative AI. Stable Diffusion 2 and 3 ...well...did not go so well. For a while now, Stable Diffusion 1.5 was your best b... | |
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| | | | | If you're a Python developer, you probably know about pip and the different environment management solutions like virtualenv or venv. The pip tool is currently the standard way to install a Python package. Virtualenv has been a popular way of isolating Python environments for a long time. Pipenv combines the very best of these tools [...] | |
| | | | | til.andrew-quinn.me | |
| | | Shell Bling Ubuntu and finstem now have what I'm calling "speed paints" of how someone, starting from scratch on a standard Ubuntu VM, might install the programs. This came out of me realizing ffmpeg makes speeding up a video recording of a VirtualBox session a one-line operation: 1 ffmpeg -i output.webm -filter:v "setpts=0.1*PTS" -an output-fast.webm When I watched them back, I realized it gave me a really good sense of what the installation should feel and look like, even if I hadn't actually tried it yet. That in turn made me think "Oh, installing this thing really isn't that bad after all." So I decided it was worth including. | ||