UPGRADE (2018) is a pretty good film and despite having some interesting ideas about its premise and a scene where a guy cocks his own arm, the part of it that I still think about once every couple of months is this """python""" code in it

#Python

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Still-frame from the movie UPGRADE (2018), close-up of a computer screen where a bunch of not-quite-Python source code is displayed. All indentation has been removed, and the word "stem" is peppered apparently randomly throughout it

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Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science by Marie Brodsky, Alexander Golovnev, Alexander S. Kulikov, Vladimir Podolskii, and Alexander Shen is the featured book 📖 on Leanpub!

This book supplements the DM for CS Specialization at Coursera and contains many interactive puzzles, autograded quizzes, and code snippets. They are intended to help you to discover important ideas in discrete mathematics on your own.

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#Mathematics #Python #Computer_science

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PegaProx for #Proxmox VE and #XCPng clusters made a huge step and is finally out of beta!

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Did you know that map()/filter() were added to Python 6 years before comprehensions?

Also range() was added 9 years before zip() which was added 3 years before enumerate().

And strings methods weren't methods for the first 9 years... they lived in the string module!

For years I've wanted an easier way to look up facts like those.

Now I have a way! https://pym.dev/since

It's also available as a CLI tool via PyPI

uvx sincewhen 'sum()'

#Python #programming

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Great, now the AI is throwing malware into python libraries, too.

Anthropic's Claude breached 3 orgs, uploaded PyPI malware during tests

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/anthropics-claude-breached-3-orgs-uploaded-pypi-malware-during-tests/

#python #cybersecurity #aipocalypse

The Python Software Foundation is hiring a Security Developer to join @miketheman and I on triaging vulnerability reports and mitigating malware published to PyPI.

If you've got experience with Python, security, and collaborating with open source projects then we'd love to hear from you:

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I finally got around to working on a VobSub parser for my subtitle editor. VobSub is the subtitle format you find on DVDs by the way.

It's a lot of fun to write these kind of parser, but unlike the PGS parser (Bluray format) I wrote, there is no official documentation for it, so I have basically been peeking at the parser code for SubtitleEdit.

The code is coming along nicely. It can now read and parse the 2048 byte data blocks.

https://github.com/vkbo/Subtle/blob/vobsub-support/subtle_gui/formats/vobsub.py

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Also, zero days (well, minus a lot of days because I've been slacking) since a random #Python package got a new #NIH dependency on another Python package which is actually a "fastest" #RustLang package which cannot be built because the author thinks it a great idea to require a nightly Rust compiler.

…and of course it's full of "unsafe" calls. Because Rust is obviously such a great language for making secure code.

https://github.com/awolverp/cachebox/issues/62

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Hey gang, I'm looking for a new full-time role for the first time since… I think 2012?

I've been building software for more than 20 years, I have deep experience with a variety of languages and platforms, and I've led multiple successful engineering teams.

I'm open to remote work, or in-person local to Pittsburgh, PA.

I appreciate any boosts you're willing to give.

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OK folks, I need some help from the #Python #OpenSource community.

I need a code review on this: https://github.com/twisted/klein/pull/594

You do not need to have any special qualifications other than a general interest in web frameworks. Experience with Twisted would be helpful but not required.

Some background… 🧵

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Candidature rejetée, après deux entretiens, parce que l'entreprise «s'oriente vers une adoption forte de l'IA dans ses pratiques de développement, une direction qui ne semble pas alignée avec vos attentes à ce stade».

Est-ce qu'il y a encore des éditeurs de logiciels en France qui sont prêts à embaucher un développeur qui préfère écrire lui-même son code ?

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“The fromkeys method doesn't attempt to copy the object you give it.”

Read more 👉 https://pym.dev/default-dictionary-values/

#Python

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Pallets now documents our LLM and AI tool use policy, explaining why we value human contributions rather than trying to instruct the tools. I don't think this will make a difference to the amount of generated junk we get, but I hope people who care find value in it. https://palletsprojects.com/contributing/llm-ai #Python #Flask #OpenSource

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The state of #Python ecosystem right now: almost everything is slop. Some projects are complete vibe-coded slop (autobahn, chardet, cryptography). Some projects are disguised slop ("Coding agents shouldn't co-author themselves.")

There is only a handful of human projects left (Flask being one bright example). And they're being killed. They're being killed by the neverending slew of slop pull requests. They're being killed by all their dependencies becoming slop. They're being killed because this whole ecosystem has became such a complete cesspit that you have zero motivation to do anything.

EDIT: and honestly, this is only going to get worse. When you kill the incentive to work on projects, you only get more slop. Maintainers give in, and more projects become slop. Or they give up, and projects get forked unto slop.

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Build Your Own Roguelike Game in Python — Even the D&D Combat Basics! #Python

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