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People who don’t like AI aren’t in denial about how useful it is. People who like AI are in denial about how useful it is

I’m interested to see the results. Especially when it comes to deploying pipelines in environments not previously using Python.

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PEN ISN'T MIGHTIER THAN SWORD. PENS DON'T WIN BATTLES, AND SWORDS DON'T WRITE POETRY. MIGHTY IS THE HAND THAT KNOWS WHEN TO PICK THE PEN AND WHEN TO PICK THE SWORD.

It’s Catervision Channel 1

When an unauthorized, uncleared person or persons accesses a core computer system or network it's all but impossible to know with any degree of certainty that they didn't leave malicious code behind somewhere. The result: all the hardware and software must be scrapped and replaced. /1

Can’t wait for Grok to hallucinate and just throw random things into the “upgrades”.

Can’t imagine these would be legal in Europe or privacy respecting locations.

Um.

8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur Surprise surprise, we've done it again. We've demonstrated an ability to compromise significantly sensitive networks, including governments, militaries, space agencies, cyber security companies, suppl...

This is a wild read. So much for keeping a massive pace on things and just forgetting all the old infra.

#infosec #iiiiiitttttt

I've done an unusual number of mentoring calls this week, and one thing I'd like to remind everyone is, you are enough, and you can't forget how far you've come. You're most likely in the best position you've ever been in to build on top of everything you've done until this point.

I think it’s time to bring my most viral tweet over from the bad place.

How to structure projects when you’re used to just scripting a single file.

How to orchestrate running projects in Windows environments where the admins know nothing of orchestration or Python.

It costs $0.00 to be a decent human being. The image is one person helping another get up.

It takes $$ to take care of infrastructure, but it’s money well spent when the infra takes care of you too.

Yeet all genAI into the sun please.

Producing useless bullshit more quickly is not an improvement in educational outcomes. Why would doing things in "a fraction of the time" is usually takes be a good thing? Why do we so disrespect the labor of teaching and learning as to wish it away by outsourcing it to something that cannot think?

That’s just wholesome.

#Python crowd, for those using @pola.rs is there a way to remove items from a list object or do you just create a new list minus what needs to be removed?

For context, I create a list of selected df columns and use that for transforms then want to drop _most_ of the same columns later on.

They’re an unoptimized, append-only database with an exponentially long lifecycle.

Walt, a character in Die Hard, pops his head out of an electrical access shaft in the street during the hostage crisis at Nakatomi Plaza.

end your seasonal debate. Die Hard is an infrastructure movie. 🧵

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Anyone who’s ever had to deal with them feels this to their core.

“McKinsey is to the middle class what flesh-eating bacteria is to healthy tissue.”

I could have done without remembering this. 😳

I kind of forgot about Harlequin. I’ve used it on my work machine for DuckDB, but it’s been a bit.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Thanks!

#DataBS #Python #MacOS:

What are your go to apps for doing data work and development?

I gifted myself a MacBook and I’m coming off of Windows 10. I’m familiar with common IDEs and cli tools like DuckDB, but not sure what I might be missing.

Also looking for good mouse and CLI setup suggestions.

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Thankfully, it didn’t take much scrolling to find this.

The SomaFM Christmas Lounge music channel was a refreshing change for me.

No Nevill Brothers or Mariah Carey.