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.
@jasongorman OTOH, companies tend to see experts developers as expensive liabilities, over-qualified for their roles...

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_?"

@nixCraft From `man mariadb` (MySQL had it originally):

```
• --safe-updates, --i-am-a-dummy, -U

Allow only those UPDATE and DELETE statements that specify which rows to modify by using key values. If you have set this option in an option file, you can override it by using --safe-updates on the command line. See the section called “MARIADB TIPS”, for
more information about this option.
```

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

@botvolution It's annoying. There's clearly an appetite for burning things down (hence Reform), Trump and co. have demonstrated that things can be burnt down (I don't like *what* they are burning down, but that isn't the issue here). But Starmer is too timid to seize the moment (assuming that he recognises that there is a moment going on).
@estherschindler As put on a gamer website years ago, "persuade the eggs to aspire to omelettehood"

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