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This is the most important missing feature to me as well.

I've written a lightweight replacement script to manage named central virtual envs using the same command syntax as virtualenvwrapper. Supports tab completion for zsh and bash: https://github.com/sitic/uv-virtualenvwrapper

Re:Switching from Pyenv to Uv on Thursday March 13, 2025 @06:05AM (#43351773)
I'm also only missing virtualenvwrapper-like support for central named venvs in uv.

I'm too used to type virtualenvwrapper's `workon` and `mkvirtualenv` commands, so I've written some lightweight replacement scripts of virtualenvwrapper when using uv. Supports tab completion and implements only the core functionality of virtualenvwrapper:

https://github.com/sitic/uv-virtualenvwrapper

Re:A Brief History of Code Signing at Mozilla on Friday February 07, 2025 @06:09PM (#42978568)
Trusted Signing for individual developers is in Public Preview, prices start at $9.99/month [1].

Here is the GitHub action for file signing using Trusted Signing: https://github.com/Azure/trusted-signing-action.

[1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-security-...

Elon Musk can't vote his shares for his own pay package, I assume.
Southwest Airlines Flight 1380's window was broken at 32,000 feet, the plane survived but one passenger was sucked part way out the broken window and died of her injuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/falling-through-the-crac...

Re:Why Isn't Titan Classed? on Friday June 23, 2023 @05:48PM (#36452600)
Apparently it's at least 13 dives since 2021: https://www.geekwire.com/2022/beyond-the-titanic-oceangates-...
"Historically, the FDIC pays insurance within a few days after a bank closing, usually the next business day, by either 1) providing each depositor with a new account at another insured bank in an amount equal to the insured balance of their account at the failed bank, or 2) issuing a check to each depositor for the insured balance of their account at the failed bank."

https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/faq/

The LLaMA paper contradicts this view: "[...] Although Hoffmann et al. (2022) recommends training a 10B model on 200B tokens, we find that the performance of a 7B model continues to improve even after 1T tokens." https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.13971.pdf
Isn't this basically the same as selling hacked and refilled printer ink cartridges? The Supreme Court ruled against Lexmark in that case (as far as the patents are concerned, not sure if Lexmark also tried the trademark route).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impression_Prods.,_Inc._v._Lex....

Ukraine has ratified the Ottawa Treaty linked above.

I'll note that it only bans the use of all non-remote-controlled anti-personnel landmines.

Probably a good time to download an archive of your Twitter data: https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data
Re:TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:27AM (#33244485)
US Google One users on a >=2TB plan should currently also have an offer for a free Titan key at https://one.google.com/benefits
"The Dodd-Frank Act, which Congress passed after the 2008 financial crisis, expanded the SEC's ability to seek penalties in its administrative proceedings.

In the ruling Wednesday, the majority said that because seeking penalties is akin to debt collection, which is a private right, the defendants were entitled to a jury trial."

Reminds me that I should finish reading The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:39AM (#31154483)
Twitter has a shareholder meeting on May 25th, could/would they stop this? Or will it be a done deal by that time?
Hard IP bans are the exception and used when a lot of sock puppets are involved operating from the same IP range. Soft IP blocks don't prevent logged in users from editing. On enwiki you can try to get a 12-month IP block exemption: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exemption
Have a look at Italy. 40% of the electricity is generated from natural gas, which largely comes from Russia. https://ember-climate.org/data/data-explorer/ https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-italy-mil...

How could one overcome this in a short period of time without shutting down the whole economy? These aren't "comforts", they are necessities.

What if it doesn't work? What if Russia turns off the natural gas?

Rolling blackouts everywhere throughout Europe and in the next winter everyone freezes?

Why? Renewal energy production was at 42.7% in Q1 2021. https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/presse-und-medien/news/2021...
Re:YC-backed uBiome is basically Theranos-lite on Monday April 04, 2022 @04:28AM (#30904420)
They usually can still be prosecuted for crimes committed abroad by the local justice system, as if the crime had occurred within the country's borders.
"Another basic problem with MSRs is that the materials used to manufacture the various reactor components will be exposed to hot salts that are chemically corrosive, while being bombarded by radioactive particles. So far, there is no material that can perform satisfactorily in such an environment. A 2018 review from the Idaho National Laboratory could only recommended that “a systematic development program be initiated” to develop new alloys that might work better. There is, of course, no guarantee that the program will be successful."

https://theconversation.com/nuclear-power-why-molten-salt-re...

Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient on Monday January 10, 2022 @07:37PM (#29885394)
This was indeed the case for the early total artificial hearts implants (Jarvik-7), https://youtu.be/0Xn5u-LzsW8 is a nice short documentary about it
Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient on Monday January 10, 2022 @07:03PM (#29885033)
Canine (dog) hearts are also very similar to human hearts. Historically, they were the predominant large animal model for cardiovascular diseases and many landmark studies used them. For some disease models a canine heart resembles an "old human heart" better than a pig heart.

The public sentiment is much more favorable for using pig hearts opposed to dog hearts. It's not nice having to explain that you kill dogs for your research.

Re:Miniature 3456 LED Cube on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:49AM (#29469428)
The video of Malt Whiskey's 16x16x16 LED cube is quite impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciaFar8nfHc
Re:“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @07:12AM (#29252032)
A recently passed German law requires (among other changes) an online cancel button, however companies don't have to implement it until July 2022 unfortunately.

https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/wissen/vertraege-reklamat...

Re:Wearable Microphone Jamming on Saturday October 16, 2021 @05:39AM (#28886652)
"Police officers in Beverly Hills have been playing music while being filmed, seemingly in an effort to trigger Instagram’s copyright filters."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxb94/is-this-beverly-hills...

MediaWiki (the software running wikipedia) has this queuing feature already, it's called pending changes (edits from IPs/new users require review before going live): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes

It is often used in non-english Wikipedias as default for all articles, on enwiki however only a very limited number of articles are protected in this way.

However review guidelines usually don't ask for a check of correctness, but against spam and other obviously inappropriate content.

Which vaccine would that be? The Pfizer one was developed by BioNTech in Germany (it's also produced by Fosun Pharma for China), the Johnson & Johnson one was developed by their Belgian subsidiary Janssen. I think only the Moderna (NIAID) and Novavax are truly "US-developed" vaccines. The AstraZeneca one was developed in the UK, Sputnik V by Russia, and CureVac is German.

Besides, I don't think patient-healthcare spending (where the US is spending an additional 5-8% of GDP) affects that or where they were developed.

Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:53PM (#26548512)
The current bottleneck in the Pfizer vaccine production is the last manufacturing stage — combining the mRNA with lipid nanoparticles. There are currently two plants for it, one in the US and one in Belgium. The US plant only delivers to the USA, the Belgian to the rest of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-...

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