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Why doesn't he set up a config management server, like puppet or chef or ansible, and have students get set up that way? Or provision some VMs? Or provide some Docker containers?

I have tweeted him thusly.




Likely because student A's research requires tools X, Y, and Z, while student B's research requires X, L, and M.




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