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I'm amazed to learn that Tesla normally disables parts of the battery on cheap models, but was able to remotely enable the full battery during hurricane Dorian! https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/09/12/how-the-world-will-change-as-computers-spread-into-everyday-objects A car is turning into a computer with wheels, and that computer is sometimes a thin client.

Python packaging: Source dists require compilation, eggs don't work with pip, and you can't upload binary Linux wheels to PyPI. Argh!

Turns out that you can convert eggs to wheels. Eggs are nice as they save you recompiling, but using wheels gives you pip! Hurrah!