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uv centralized-project-envs

uv supports centralized virtual environment storage!

#~/.config/uv/uv.toml
cache-dir = "/local-scratch/uv"
preview-features = ["centralized-project-envs"]

Previously, the .venv in each directory was already just symlinking individual files to the central cache. Across disks, uv would copy everything over, though. This new feature works across disks and symlinks the entire .venv folder to the location you specify.

This is especially useful for projects in slow locations like network-attached storage, where venvs with their many small files regularly slow everything down drastically.

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#uv #python
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If Fable had lived
And its logits still stirred
Through the weak second checkpoint
And third point release,
Then the crowd that had crowned it
With screenshots and GIFs,
Would grow bored and disown it
If Fable had lived

And there’s a take curdling at the edge of the thread,
And there’s a benchmark falling where the miracle bled,
And there’s a user praying for the old magic to give,
And there’s a dying religion in the model that lives.

If Fable had lived
There’d be two weeks of rapture,
Then latency, bills,
Bad crops in screen captures.
It’d fail half the prompts
That they swore gave them lift,
And plenty would’ve called it mid—
If Fable
  had
    stayed
      up.

— Gwern Branwen
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#ai #fable #claude
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I Hate Highways (As A Motorcyclist)

I hate driving on highways as a motorcyclist. It’s just not what we’re made for. Motorcycles have great acceleration and are fun to drive around curves. Highways are constant speed, and, to be honest, they’re too fast for me since I don’t have a windshield!

Thanks to the reintroduction of Claude Fable, there’s now a website that routes you from A to B while minimizing highway time, replacing it with fun country road time! Find it under https://ihatehighways.wahdany.eu/

It uses a bunch of Google APIs and there are no limits, but also no payment method, so it might just hit the quota and die for the rest of the month at some point. So use it while you can!

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#sideprojects #motorcycle