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JimDabell06/24/20251 replyview on HN

How often are you switching these things that you need their values in sight at all times though?

Even for cases where I need to use old versions, I don’t need a reminder of that every time I run a command.


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bredren06/24/2025

All of the time. Often I'm working with 3-4 different project contexts simultaneously.

It isn't that useful but I do glance it when I'm working on dependencies and to ensure the context between a terminal session and pycharm's interpreter match.

The information doesn't cloud the prompt for me though, as it is right justified and I don't really think about time to load, as the machines are relatively recent Apple Silicon.