snakecharmerb

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Twitter tourist. Might move here if the emerald heir makes the bird site too unpleasant.
Signed up for an autumn half marathon in a fit of new year's resolve.

In my own story, I discovered JLR outsourced different cybersecurity areas to TCS and then made many of the UK team redundant 6 months ago.

https://doublepulsar.com/the-elephant-in-the-biz-outsourcing-of-critical-it-and-cybersecurity-functions-risks-uk-economic-96205e0585bf

"The blessing and the curse of a computer is that it does exactly what you tell it to."
Sam Altman: "But what if it _didn't_?"

SEPTEMBER 13th, 1999

Remembering the brave men and women of Moonbase Alpha, who were lost when the Moon was hurled out of orbit, this day in 1999.

#Space1999 #GerryAnderson #RetroSciFi

This seems a very cool website thingy to me:
Live tracking the global jetstream on an interactive map

https://www.netweather.tv/charts-and-data/global-jetstream#2025/08/25/0600Z/jetstream/surface/level/overlay=jetstream/orthographic=-19.36,56.41,712

Global Jet Stream Map - Netweather

View the jet stream forecast for the entire globe

Wow. https://fstrings.wtf *got* me. 13/26. More "oops, I didn't notice the gotcha" than "I have never heard of this feature" but some of each. This is a series of very deep cuts
fstrings.wtf - Python F-String Quiz

Test your knowledge of Python's f-string formatting with this interactive quiz. How well do you know Python's string formatting quirks?

fstrings.wtf
This week I finally came across a problem in the wild where the solution was to model a message definition as a DFA and then validate candidate messages using the corresponding regular expression.
Dammit I seem to be reinventing jsonpath.
(Not mine, via discord, appears to originally be from facebook, credit in image)
Elon's 5 minute rule explains a lot of things! LIFE HACKS, PEOPLE!