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by sitic 1y ago
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:
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by sitic 2y ago
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 v
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by sitic 2y ago
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 . [
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by sitic 2y ago
Elon Musk can't vote his shares for his own pay package, I assume.
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by sitic 3y ago
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_Ai
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by sitic 3y ago
Apparently it's at least 13 dives since 2021: https://www.geekwire.com/2022/beyond-the-titanic-oceangates-...
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by sitic 3y ago
"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
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by sitic 3y ago
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:/&#x2
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by sitic 4y ago
Here it is: https://open-assistant.io ( https://projects.laion.ai/Open-Assistant/ )
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by sitic 4y ago
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
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by sitic 4y ago
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.
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by sitic 4y ago
Probably a good time to download an archive of your Twitter data: https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data
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by sitic 4y ago
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
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by sitic 4y ago
"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
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by sitic 4y ago
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
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by sitic 4y ago
Twitter has a shareholder meeting on May 25th, could/would they stop this? Or will it be a done deal by that time?
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by sitic 4y ago
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: h
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by sitic 4y ago
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-uk
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by sitic 4y ago
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?
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by sitic 4y ago
Why? Renewal energy production was at 42.7% in Q1 2021. https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/presse-und-medien/news/2021...
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by sitic 4y ago
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.
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by sitic 5y ago
"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 m
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by sitic 5y ago
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
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by sitic 5y ago
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 &quot
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by sitic 5y ago
The video of Malt Whiskey's 16x16x16 LED cube is quite impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciaFar8nfHc
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by sitic 5y ago
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-r
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by sitic 5y ago
"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-
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by sitic 5y ago
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:Pen
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by sitic 5y ago
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
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by sitic 5y ago
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 t

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