naedish

It would be interesting to be able to change the wall budget for each puzzle to add some variation (with a max limit).

Stuff like this sense unlikely to contribute to overall runtime, but it does decrease flexibility.

Astral have been very clear that they have no intention of replicating all of pip. uv pip install was a way to smooth the transition from using pip to using uv. The point of uv wasn't to rewrite pip in rust - and thankfully so. For all of the good that pip did it has shortcomings which only a new package manager turned out capable of solving.

> No bytecode compilation by default. pip compiles .py files to .pyc during installation. uv skips this step, shaving time off every install.

... thus shifting the bytecode compilation burden to first startup after install. You're still paying for the bytecode compilation (and it's serialized, so you're actually spending more time), but you don't associate the time with your package manager.

In most cases this will have no noticeable impact (so a sane default) - but when it does count you simply turn on --compile-bytecode.

Certainly! Here's the Litany of Fear written phonetically in a Scottish accent:

"Ah maunae fear. Feer is the leel-deeth that brangs total obleetiration. Ah will face mah feer. Ah will pemreet it tae pass ower me an throo me. An when it hus gaun past, Ah will turn the inner ee tae see its path. Whaur the feer hus gaun, there will be naethin'. Only Ah will remain."

After that I've been unable to go back to normal speed podcasts - I just don't have the time or patience.