Update 2: While I appreciate UV for its clean, per-project virtual environments, it's still convenient at times to have long-lived, general-purpose conda style environments that you can activate from anywhere that aren't tied to an organized project, for general purpose hacking. I’ve completely switched from conda to UV, so I created this companion utility to replicate conda-like workflows when needed. I've made it available here: https://github.com/robert-mcdermott/uve