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How many spoons does your environment cost

Talkat PyCon US 2026 · 2026-05-13..05-19· [developer-experience, accessibility]
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Shows live failing demos: GPU vs Apple silicon breakage, missing libgo.so.1 from OS linker, Docker platform/memory mismatches, broken editable installs and dependency conflicts. Claims cognitive cost matters — spoon theory mapped to environment friction — and cites a 23-minute switching cost for task recovery. Notes concrete fixes and standards: PEP 751 pylock.toml, PEP 723, multi‑arch Docker builds, and where pip/conda tooling actually succeeds or still trips. Watch if concrete failure modes, error messages, and remediation steps decide viewing.

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  1. 0:00Welcome
  2. 1:11Python environments hard
  3. 3:19Spoon theory explained
  4. 7:17Demo failure hardware
  5. 10:09Demo failure naming
  6. 14:27Demo failure OS
  7. 16:32Hardware abstraction limits
  8. 18:17Why environments fail
  9. 20:02Demo failure Docker
  10. 21:29Ecosystem PEPs
  11. 22:33Demo failure deps
  12. 23:36Sustainable autonomy
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