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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 virtua…

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 s…

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.co…

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://…

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 in…

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 t…

Here it is: https://open-assistant.io ( https://projects.laion.ai/Open-Assistant/ )

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 …

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

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,…

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

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 enwi…

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/articl…

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...

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 bo…

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