I'm so stoked for what uv is doing for the Python ecosystem. requirements.txt and the madness around it has been a hell for over a decade. It's been so pointlessly hard to replicate what the authors of Python projects want the state of your software to be in.
uv has been much needed. It's solving the single biggest pain point for Python.
A huge value in having authors upload the original source, is it divorces the content from the presentation (mostly). That the original sources were available was sufficient for a large majority of the corpus to be automatically rendered into HTML for easier reading on many devices: https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.html. I don't think it would have been as simple if they had to convert PDFs.
Not a talk show, but the pilot season of Mythbusters tackled this. They registered some false positives and the test manufacturer refused to admit it was possible.
Yeah. That was really eye opening. They had to go to a proper lab to have the false positive properly assessed. And they had that false positive for close to 24 hours, as I recall.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for"
The author's experience aligns with my own, both at university and working with government-funded scientific and engineering organizations. I suspect that many well-intentioned cybersecurity, outsourcing, and streamlining measures have, on the whole, significantly harmed the ability of these organizations to fulfill their missions.
I spent way too long trying to find a way to read this without making an account on X, so here's the recap:
An illustrator accidentally mislabelled a quasi-satellite named 2002-VE68 as a moon of Venus called “ZOOZVE" on a children's map (Venus doesn't have any proper moons).
Yes, the story is essentially linked to a podcast called Radiolab* that has used the story as a story pitch about submitting the name for the the asteroid.
The link isn't the thing-itself, it's part of a media campaign. The naming committee apparently has two dangling votes left for the decision. The podcast came out today and the decision is expected in the next few weeks.
Are you sure it was Reply-All? Their latest show listed is Sept 2023 on https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all and nothing newer shows up in my podcast app.
Having also found the hyperventilating approach effective, I just want to note for other readers that hyperventilating before breath-holding is extremely dangerous when swimming or diving. This is heavily emphasized in safety trainings for swim coaches. It greatly increases your chances of hypoxic blackout: https://www.socom.mil/POTFF/Pages/Hypoxic%20blackout.aspx
Something I've learned recently is that the convention of when to use angle brackets and when to use quotes is not prescribed by the standard but instead is implementation-defined.
How did we get here from the post about uv?