#python resume

[lesbianfakir]

Y’all I’m so sad. I keep playing video games made by one or two people and now I want to make a video game soooooooo bad so I can design my perfect game and more importantly make the art. But!! Programming is my mortal enemy she and I do NOT get along. Maybe I could make something simple in terms of programming like a visual novel but I want more involved gameplay :,( I really want a fun video game project now

[key0-m0ve-al0ng]

MILGRAM REFERENCE?????

[juieon]

last week off before i start work again

[sorryimananti-romantic]

hello fellow programmer friend i have missed u and im here to tell u im starting programming in c# this year and im terrified also object oriented programming definitely not crying rnn !! (im so so excited tho)

omg hi fellow programmer i missed you too! good luck to you, i did oop in python and it was 💀💀 (i had to watch a few youtube tutorials to wrap my head around it [they all use the same car example which was really not helpful like i didn't get it until they used dogs to explain 😭 LOL you'll know what i'm talking about soon] but once you understand it, it gets fun). i'm here to wipe your tears away hehe good luck!! <33

[vitalskills]

In today’s competitive tech landscape, freshers aspiring to become Python developers must start with a well-structured resume that highlights relevant skills, experience, and projects. However, creating a resume that stands out, especially without years of experience, can be challenging. This guide will help freshers build a Python developer resume with carefully selected projects, strong job descriptions, and examples that align with job descriptions.

[pythonjobsupport]

5 Unique Python Project Ideas for Your Resume | Python Projects for Beginners to Advanced

5 solid Python projects for your resume with code and all the materials included. I’ve also included a sample resume where these … source

[douchebagbrainwaves]

A NEW THINGS

So an angel round, don't feel bad on that account. It makes those parts of your software easier to test, because although, like any everyday concept, human is fuzzy around the edges, there are probably twenty sane ones who think Start another company? What's really uncool is to be excited about it, is that there are many degrees of it. But the smarter ones restrain themselves, if they know that some of the startups we fund. The most valuable truths are the ones started by uncertain hackers rather than gung-ho business guys.1 And I agree you shouldn't underestimate your potential. How can VCs make money by investing in the right startups is for investors. Seems unlikely. Second order issues like competitors or resumes should be single slides you go through quickly at the end of a long and unbelievably distracting process. We want to make money from.

So if such a company has two possible strategies, a conservative one that's slightly more likely to close, so of deals that close, more will have multiple investors. Web-based software sells well, especially in comparison to desktop software, because writing desktop software, you're in closer touch with your code. So they claimed, at least at the moment, when in fact you'd worked it out the day before. For users, Web-based applications, everyone uses the same version, and bugs can be fixed as soon as they appear. If you don't have to watch the servers every minute after the first year or so, but you have to assume it takes some amount of pain. Unfortunately this is just a metaphor, and not just intellectually, but the spirit of cooperation is stronger than the spirit of competition.2 If you think it's restrictive being a kid, imagine having kids. Resourceful implies the obstacles are external, which they still view mostly as a way to make a platform that startups will build on, they have to think about whether our upstream ISP had fast enough connections to all the backbones. Real Madrid, since the players were from about eight different countries. There are two main kinds of error that get in the way math or history or most other university subjects do. One thing I can predict is conflict between AOL and Microsoft. But they would do.

What you're afraid of is not presumably groups of hackers like you, but we thought very carefully before we released software onto those servers. The number of possible connections between developers grows exponentially with the size of the pool. And that is a knowledge of what various individual philosophers have said about good taste have generally been such nonsense. You're human. Investors always say what they really think. The way to do it for free. Web-based software assumes nothing about the client, it will at least be interesting. There can't be incompatibilities between the application and your operating system, much less device driver or patch. And yet by the next time you need to find out is to try to get into college are not a very discerning audience. Maybe in college you used to scheme about startups with, stay in touch with them as well. The other major technical advantage of Web-based applications. At Rehearsal Day, we have to give advice, you can cry and say I wish we'd listened.

They should be something in the thing as such. Because the software in a Web-based software, no one knows yet, not even a cup of coffee. But large organizations will probably never again play the leading role they did up till the last quarter of the twentieth century. If you get an offer at all, it will be. A key ingredient in many projects, almost a project on its own, is to find good books. So far we've cut the Standard Graduation Speech down to, what someone else with your abilities? A few ideas from it turned out to be a doctor may simply not realize how much software development is affected by the way it is released. But in the late twentieth century something changed. One of the advantages of developing Web-based software is like desiging a city rather than a single big binary.3

Notes

What you learn in college. Most employee agreements say that education in the mid 1980s. 27 with the solutions.

The set of users to recruit manually—is probably a cause them to stay in a large pizza and found an open source project, but it wasn't. If anyone remembers such an interview, I'd say the raison d'etre of prep schools do, just that they could attribute to the ideal of a type of proficiency test any apprentice might have to kill.

Disclosure: Reddit was funded by Y Combinator never negotiates valuations is that there's no center to walk in with a product company. 92. We currently advise startups mostly to ignore these clauses, because such companies need huge numbers of users comes from a technology center is the lost revenue.

[dreamdolldeveloper]

back to basics

mostly free resources to help you learn the basics that i've gathered for myself so far that i think are cool

everyday

gcfglobal - about the internet, online safety and for kids, life skills like applying for jobs, career planning, resume writing, online learning, today's skills like 3d printing, photoshop, smartphone basics, microsoft office apps, and mac friendly. they have core skills like reading, math, science, language learning - some topics are sparse so hopefully they keep adding things on. great site to start off on learning.

handsonbanking - learn about finances. after highschool, credit, banking, investing, money management, debt, goal setting, loans, cars, small businesses, military, insurance, retirement, etc.

bbc - learning for all ages. primary to adult. arts, history, science, math, reading, english, french, all the way to functional and vocational skills for adults as well, great site!

education.ket - workplace essential skills

general education

mathsgenie - GCSE revision, grade 1-9, math stages 1-14, provides more resources! completely free.

khan academy - pre-k to college, life skills, test prep (sats, mcat, etc), get ready courses, AP, partner courses like NASA, etc. so much more!

aleks - k-12 + higher ed learning program. adapts to each student.

biology4kids - learn biology

cosmos4kids - learn astronomy basics

chem4kids - learn chemistry

physics4kids - learn physics

numbernut - math basics (arithmetic, fractions and decimals, roots and exponents, prealgebra)

education.ket - primary to adult. includes highschool equivalent test prep, the core skills. they have a free resource library and they sell workbooks. they have one on work-life essentials (high demand career sectors + soft skills)

youtube channels

the organic chemistry tutor

khanacademy

crashcourse

tabletclassmath

2minmaths

kevinmathscience

professor leonard

greenemath

mathantics

3blue1brown

literacy

readworks - reading comprehension, build background knowledge, grow your vocabulary, strengthen strategic reading

chompchomp - grammar knowledge

tutors

not the "free resource" part of this post but sometimes we forget we can be tutored especially as an adult. just because we don't have formal education does not mean we can't get 1:1 teaching! please do you research and don't be afraid to try out different tutors. and remember you're not dumb just because someone's teaching style doesn't match up with your learning style.

cambridge coaching - medical school, mba and business, law school, graduate, college academics, high school and college process, middle school and high school admissions

preply - language tutoring. affordable!

revolutionprep - math, science, english, history, computer science (ap, html/css, java, python c++), foreign languages (german, korean, french, italian, spanish, japanese, chinese, esl)

varsity tutors - k-5 subjects, ap, test prep, languages, math, science & engineering, coding, homeschool, college essays, essay editing, etc

chegg - biology, business, engineering/computer science, math, homework help, textbook support, rent and buying books

learn to be - k-12 subjects

for languages

lingq - app. created by steve kaufmann, a polygot (fluent in 20+ languages) an amazing language learning platform that compiles content in 20+ languages like podcasts, graded readers, story times, vlogs, radio, books, the feature to put in your own books! immersion, comprehensible input.

flexiclasses - option to study abroad, resources to learn, mandarin, cantonese, japanese, vietnamese, korean, italian, russian, taiwanese hokkien, shanghainese.

fluentin3months - bootcamp, consultation available, languages: spanish, french, korean, german, chinese, japanese, russian, italian.

fluenz - spanish immersion both online and in person - intensive.

pimsleur - not tutoring** online learning using apps and their method. up to 50 languages, free trial available.

incase time has passed since i last posted this, check on the original post (not the reblogs) to see if i updated link or added new resources. i think i want to add laguage resources at some point too but until then, happy learning!!

[phantomrose96]

Hey not to go all "tumblr is a professional networking site" on you, but how did you get to work for Microsoft??? I'm a recent grad and I'm being eviscerated out here trying to apply for industry jobs & your liveblogging about your job sounds so much less evil than Data Entry IT Job #43461

This place is basically LinkedIn to me.

I'm gonna start by saying I am so so very sorry you're a recent grad in the year 2024... Tech job market is complete ass right now and it is not just you. I started fulltime in 2018, and for 2018-2022 it was completely normal to see a yearly outflow of people hopping to new jobs and a yearly inflow of new hires. Then sometime around late-spring/early-summer of 2022 Wallstreet sneezed the word "recession" and every tech company simultaneously shit themselves.

Tons of layoffs happened, meaning you're competing not just with new grads but with thousands of experienced workers who got shafted by their company. My org squeaked by with a small amount of layoffs (3 people among ~100), but it also means we have not hired anyone new since mid-2022. And where I used to see maybe 4-8 people yearly leave in order to hop to a new job, I think I've seen 1 person do that in the whole last year and a half.

All this to say it's rough and I can't just say "send applications and believe in yourself :)".

I have done interviews though. (I'm not involved in resume screening though, just the interviews of candidates who made it past the screening phase.) So I have at least some relevant advice, as well as second-hand knowledge from other people I know who've had to hop jobs or get hired recently.

If you have friends already in industry who you feel comfortable asking, reach out to them. Most companies have a recommendation process where a current employee fills out a little form that says "yeah I'd recommend such-and-such for this job." These do seem to carry weight, since it's coming from a trusted internal person and isn't just one of the hundreds of cold-call applications they've received.

A lot of tech companies--whether for truly well-intentioned reasons or to just check a checkbox--are on the lookout for increasing employee diversity. If you happen to have anything like, for example, "member of my college Latino society", it's worth including on your resume among your technical skills and technical projects.

I would add "you're probably gonna have to send a lot of applications" as a bullet point but I'm sure you're already doing that. But here it is as a bullet point anyway.

(This is kind of a guess, since it's part of the resume screening) but if you can dedicate some time to getting at least passingly familiar with popular tech/stacks for the positions you're looking into, try doing that in your free time so you can list it on your resume. Even better if you make a project you can point to. Like if you're aiming for webdev, get familiar with React and probably NodeJS. On top of being comfortable in one of the all-purpose languages like C(++) or Java or Python.

If you get to the interview phase - a company that is good to work for WILL care that you're someone who's good to work with. A tech-genius who's a coworker-hating egotistical snob is a nuisance at best and a liability at worst for companies with even a half-decent culture. When I do interviews, "Is this someone who's a good culture fit?" is as important as the technical skills. You'll want to show you'll be a perfectly pleasant, helpful, collaborative coworker. If the company DOESN'T care about that... bullet dodged.

For the technical questions, I care more about the thought process than I do the right answer, especially for entry-level. If you show a capacity for asking good, insightful clarifying questions, an ability to break down the problem, explain your thought process, and backtrack&alter your approach upon realizing something won't work, that's all more important than just being able to spit out a memorized leetcode answer. (I kinda hate leetcode for this reason, and therefore I only ask homebrewed questions, because I don't want the technical portion to hinge at all on whether someone managed to memorize the first 47 pages of leetcode problems). For a new hire, the most important impression you can give me is that you have a technical grasp and that you're capable of learning. Because a new hire isn't going to be an expert in anything, but they're someone who's capable of learning the ropes.

That's everything I have off the top of my head. Good luck anon. I'm very sorry you were born during a specific range of years that made you a new grad in 2024 and I hope it gets better.

[girlywhooooops]

Why do Fools fall in Love?

A Peach Tart and a laptop that's old enough to drink.

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Sukuna Itadori is everything you hate in a person. Cocky. Obscenely rich. A trust fund baby who strolls into lectures twenty minutes late, corrects the professor mid-slide, and still tops the curve despite missing three assignments. Dual major in Computer Science and Business Administration, heir to a multi-billion yen empire, and walking proof that nepotism can, unfortunately, come with a 140+ IQ. You hated him on principle. Your life was already a whirlwind of scholarship deadlines, double shifts at the diner after a full day of lab-work, and keeping your GPA above 3.7 just to survive. The last thing you needed was a spoiled rich brat tailing you like an overgrown, imprinted duckling. So why in hell is Sukuna orbiting you of all people? And what is with the damned peach tarts? cw: slight angst, mentions of childhood neglect, mentions of death during pregnancy, mostly fluff, slight enemies-to-lovers, down bad sukuna, emotionally repressed sukuna, smart-kuna, mentions of programming languages and computer programming jargon (i hated every second of it so i felt the need to mention it), use of Y/N, emotionally slutty.

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Burger, Baby! | 1 NOV, 11:47PM

The lights at the diner buzzed with a faint hum accompanied by the tick-tick-tick of the egg timer. Perched on a barstool behind the counter, your pen mechanically scratches against your worksheet. Biochemistry. All about Proteins— Fold. Heat. Repeat.

Through the kitchen window, your coworker flicks a salt packet at your face. "Negativity begone!" She shrieks, far too dramatically for someone wearing a paper hat.

You shot her an incredulous look as you bent down to pick up the salt packets. "You did the jaw thing five times in the past twenty five minutes. Take a break! Have a Kit-Kat! Don't give yourself a lockjaw." Before you could reply, the door creaked open. He walked in like gravity was heavier on him. Shoulders haunched, a laptop carefully tucked under one arm like it would shatter if he let go. Salmon-pink hair a mess like he had been raking his fingers through it in frustration. Glasses sliding down the bridge of his nose. A permanent crease between his brows— the kind people earn by scowling for three years straight. You blinked. Looked at your coworker. She mirrored your expression perfectly. This was Sukuna Itadori? You expected someone with a gait of a runway model cosplaying a Computer Science major. An arrogant prick with an equally arrogant smirk who corrects professors mid-sentence with an "Actually, that's wrong." The guy who saunters into class thirty-minutes after a lecture's begun and faces zero consequences. You expected someone who roams around campus like he owns it (He probably does). Not... this. This version of him looked like he sold his soul to the devil just to get his python code to run. Still, a customer is a customer and you have bills to pay. You wiped your hands on your apron, grabbed your clipboard and approached him with just the right amount of fake cheer. "Welcome! What would you like to have?" Sat in the corner-most booth, he was busy unpacking his electronic paraphernalia. "Don't need anything." He muttered, still rummaging through his bag. You blinked. "You're... here. At a diner." "Wi-Fi. Yours is the only place open past midnight." he said curtly, fingers setting up his crumbling laptop. Jesus. That thing looked like it was old enough to drink. "Suit yourself," You said coolly, walking back to the counter. You took your spot on the barstool, next to your coworker— who was sipping a strawberry milkshake while on the phone with, presumably, her boyfriend— and resumed working on that godforsaken worksheet. For the next fifteen minutes the only perceptible sounds were the occasional whir of the ice-machine, the oven’s ding and the aggressive clack of Sukuna's fingers flying over his keyboard like he was fighting for dominance and losing. He muttered under his breath. Frustrated. Vicious.

You caught: "Stupid Compiler."

And, "I should've incinerated this piece of junk when I had the chance."

Oh, and your favourite— a long drawn-out groan that sounded like he was one error message away from a complete mental breakdown. You shouldn't have looked, but the worksheet bored you and the sounds were too entertaining not to peek. So, you looked. What you saw wasn't smug. Or arrogant. Or the kind of careless that comes from not needing to care. He looked tired. Desperate. A little panicked. And alone. You sighed, got up and walked into the kitchen.

Your coworker arched a brow, "Please tell me you're not about to feed the enemy." "He's not an enemy." You mutter. "He's just a dumbass with a laptop that probably fought in Vietnam." You pulled out the tray of freshly-baked goodies from the oven and snagged a, still-warm, peach tart. You had baked them earlier during your break which—technically not allowed (it wasn't even on the menu) but your manager was nice and let you pocket some treats for what she called "Sugar therapy." You crossed the diner and wordlessly slid it across his table. He blinked up at you, looking like you'd just slapped him. "I didn't order it." He said flatly. "I know." You wipe your hands on your apron. "You looked like you needed it." Before he could open his mouth to argue, you turned around and walked back to your seat. No fuss. No flirting. Just kindness— one that doesn't expect anything in return.

From his booth, Sukuna stared.

Not at the tart.

At you.

No one has ever given Sukuna anything without expecting something in return. Not professors who coddled him. Not girls with big smiles who leaned in too close nor the so-called 'friends' who name-dropped him, emphasising Itadori like it could grant them salvation.

Heck, even his inheritance came with a whole set of terms and conditions.

He supposes parental love is a mutual exchange too— though he's not sure he's qualified to comment on something he never received.

So there was no way a stranger would do something nice for him just because.

You knew who he was. Probably hated him on principle if the scowl you wore when you recognised him was anything to go by.

And yet... you still bought him sugar. His stomach twisted uncomfortably. Not from hunger. From confusion. He touched the edge of the tart like it would burn him. The crust was flaky, still warm. It smelled like cinnamon and something gentler than what he probably deserved.

He looked up at the counter again.

You were back to scribbling something with a focused pout, a few soft strands of hair falling across your cheek.

He took a bite before he could talk himself out of it. It felt warm and tasted like home. He hasn't had either in a very long time.

Room C321 | 2 NOV, 9:07AM

His laptop died in the middle of his Data Structures lab. Not with a bang or any fanfare— just a soft wheeze, flash of a blue screen and poof. Blank. Sukuna stared at it. Pressed down the power button. Held it down. Once. Twice. Nothing. The TA was droning on about some assignment or a test. Sukuna couldn't bring himself to listen (or care). All he could hear was the sound of his own pride dying slowly. With a frustrated huff, he closed the laptop. Picked it up like it was a corpse and wordlessly walked out.

People actually stared at him because even for an arrogant prick, he never left things halfway. Even his assholery had structure.

Now he just looked... deflated.

He ignored the looks and the voice of the professor calling after him. Walked out of the lecture hall, through the hallway and into the courtyard.

The bench under the old banyan tree was quiet and shady. He sat down with a huff and plopped his things down beside him. He ran his fingers through his hair, exhaled hard and muttered:

"Ancient piece of junk."

If he's being honest, he should've upgraded two years ago. Everyone said so— Jin, his supervisor, even the annoying girl from last semester's group project who called it "quirky."

But this was his. He saved up for it in high-school and spent sleepless nights coding under the covers, teaching himself C++ and Python because no one else gave enough of a shit to teach properly.

Holding onto it was stupid, he knew that. He just... didn't know how to let it go.

He leaned forward with a sigh, elbows on his knees, eyes bloodshot from sleep deprivation and hands jittery from too much caffeine. A business pitch due in 28 hours. Two interviews to prep for. A group project he has to carry on his back and now—

Now?

No. Fucking. Laptop.

He sat there for a while.

Just breathing. Just... tired.

And for some reason, in all the mess and static corrupting his brain, what popped up was—

You.

Not your name. He didn't even know it.

Just the image of you in that frilly apron and sleep-lidded eyes, handing him that peach tart like he wasn't campus royalty with a superiority complex. Like he was just a guy.

Having a shitty night.

In need of a little sugar.

You hadn't smiled. Hadn't flirted or asked him who he was. And that— that confounded him.

You didn't want anything from him.

He doesn't remember the last time that happened.

He pulled out his phone and searched: Campus retro diner 24h wifi

Burger, Baby!

He stared at the screen for a bit. Tapped a photo. There you were, blurry in the background of a Yelp review. Holding a tray. Looking tired. Determined. Real.

God, you probably hated him which was fair.

The rumours were sort of true.

He was an arrogant prick with a god complex. He did skip lectures. His dad was on the board— though Sukuna hasn't returned any of his calls in weeks.

You probably thought he was just another nepo baby cruising along on daddy's dime. Fair assumption. Maybe. Probably.

But none of that mattered when you slid that tart in front of him with a quiet "You looked like you needed it."

He hadn't even thanked you.

Just sat there, staring at you like you'd grown two heads before inhaling the entire thing like he was starved.

Which, okay. He kind of was.

He hadn't eaten a proper meal in two days. Barely got three hours of sleep in the past thirty-six hours. Was chasing internships like a dog chasing its own tail because he couldn't afford to be just the trust fund kid.

Without his grades, his skills— what even was he?

A name?

An accident that took his mother away?

He closed his eyes and exhaled slowly trying to calm his racing thoughts.

Then quickly closed the Burger, Baby! tab and searched: Laptop service near me

A few options popped up. None open. One of them said same day delivery on new systems. He bit the inside of his cheek, checked the time. 10:52AM.

With his contacts, he could probably get a new one before sundown. Something top-of-the-line. High TDP. Maxed out RAM. Whatever.

But he didn't move.

Because as annoying as it was to admit— what he wanted wasn't a new laptop.

It was to walk back to the diner. Sit down and maybe... see you again.

Which was ridiculous.

It was just a tart. Just a quiet night. A tired girl. A coincidence.

Still—

He pulled up his Notes app and scrolled down to his To-Do list.

Mock interview

Mock interview FINAL

Finish outline for CSE334 Project

Fix/Buy Laptop

Find out peach girl's name I

Find out peaI<<

Visit diner.

He won't say it out loud but he kept the wrapper.

It smelled like cinnamon and something sweet.

an: the dead laptop spiral was most definitely inspired by my good for nothing laptop dying mere hours before my bachelor's thesis presentation. fun times. also i have no idea about programming systems and their specs so i apologise if that gave you an ick. Dividers: @andromeda-graphics @cafekitsune

[kimberlychapman]

Not dead! Been offline a lot the last couple of days. In particular I haven't done the @spacedadsupport and @spacedocmom daily messages because I'm working on a new way of presenting them that strips all social media, making them independent but then posted to various social media.

They had been solidly on Twitter but increasingly I don't want Twitter's look on them for obvious reasons. But I don't want them anchored to Bluesky (although I am setting them up individual accounts there in addition to my own year-old personal one at writercrafter, they have the same names everywhere), nor here on Tumblr, and definitely not on FB or Twitter anymore.

My partner's been writing me a little python doodad so I can resume their messaging shortly in a nicer format, easier to ALT/describe everywhere. But it wouldn't run when we tried it today because my computer is in desperate need of an update, for which it needs us to fix our backup system...so yeah basically I'm going to possibly return to doing them as per normal while we wait for that fix, but not today.

Just so everyone knows, they're not going away. They're being improved.

I have also resumed work on SpaceDad Book Four after spending most of this year in and out of exhausting medical appointments. I PEM hard after doing work on it so I have to pace myself, but it's coming.

[boinkingbattlemechs]

Mercury

The Mercury debuted for the first time in 2742, intended as a replacement for the aging Wasps and Stingers in use by the Star League Defense Force. Hailed as the beginning of a new age in 'Mech design, the Mercury was faster and better-armed than its competition without sacrificing armor protection. It also featured an advancement in weapons installation, making use of a modular replacement system to allow for easier repairs. The ideal scout and raider, sales of the Mercury were limited exclusively to the SLDF. After the Amaris Civil War and the dissolution of the Star League, those SLDF units which still fielded the Mercury were either stationed on Terra or at the Graham IV factory, all of whom left with General Kerensky in the Exodus.

In the Succession Wars which followed, the Mercury factories were destroyed and the design teetered on the edge of the abyss. Of those SLDF units which stayed behind, the Third Regimental Combat Team had the highest concentration of the 'Mechs, with twelve Mercuries gathered together in the Eighth Recon Battalion; all of them were ultimately lost during fighting on Sendai in 2798. As the years wore on those desperate few Mercuries still clinging to existence were increasingly rebuilt in haphazard fashion with less advanced and more shoddy parts until they ceased to look quite like the noble 'Mechs they once were. In the end nothing could be done to stop the decline of the Mercury and it eventually became extinct in the Inner Sphere.

It was with some surprise that ComStar unveiled their Com Guards early in the thirty-first century, a brand-new military force fielding a number of extinct designs such as the Mercury. Precentor Martial Anastasius Focht even went so far as to restart three of the mothballed Mercury production lines on Terra to resume production of the original model. A new variant, the MCY-97, was unveiled in time to meet the Clan Invasion (the Clans had also preserved the Mercury, and indeed its revolutionary design was responsible for their development of the OmniMech). One of these lines was eventually turned over to making the Nexus (Star Python) in 3054 while the rest continued to produce so many Mercuries that the 'Mech's life was extended for several more years. This included the dark years of the Jihad, when the Word of Blake also used the Mercury to outfit their Militia.

The Mercury carries an assortment of energy weapons which helps to extend its endurance on long campaigns. The primary weapons are two Martell medium lasers in the right arm and left torso. The right arm laser's power supply is spread across the length of the whole arm with multiple redundant systems, while the torso-mounted laser is clustered tightly in one area to decrease the chance of a penetrative hit damaging the system. These are supported by two Hessen IX small lasers in the center torso and head and feature the revolutionary modular replacement system. Using 'plug and fight' technology, the lasers are bolted down and connected by wiring to the power feeds and cooling system in three places. If any part of the weapon is damaged or destroyed technicians can replace the entire system in minutes, cutting back countless man-hours of repair and maintenance.

The heart of the Mercury is its MASC system which, in combination with an LTV 160 fusion engine, allows for momentary bursts of speed up to 172 km/h. Though long-term use can damage the actuators, these bursts are often the difference between life and death in some cases. They also make up for the fact that the 'Mech lacks any jump jets, while three tons of ferro-fibrous armor gives it superior protection compared to other 20-ton 'Mechs.

[gwynndolin]

I think my biggest roadblock to learning coding again is that I truly have no desire to be a developer in any capacity... I truly am just fooling with it because I know understanding python code is a good skill to have on a resume

[jeremy-ken-anderson]

Slow and Pause

Part of my solving of the issues with my sudoku solver couldn't have happened without diagnosing the problem. And that couldn't happen until I could see what the program was DOING.

Thing is, when your program does millions of things in order to get to its answer, and a terminal can only keep the last few hundred lines, you can have a hard time getting accurate info about what happened in the middle.

The two things I learned to help with that:

Pressing ctrl-z with the terminal selected will pause the program in operation. You can type "fg" and hit enter to resume the last paused program.

For Python, you can also use the sleep() function, from the Time class. So up top you add

import time

and then wherever the loop is happening that you want to see the middle of, you can add, say,

time.sleep(0.1)

This will keep looping at a pretty high clip - once every 1/10 of a second - but slow enough that you can possibly catch what's happening and press ctrl-z to pause and take a closer look. Depending on your reflexes and the length of the loop in question (or if you suspect the problem is right at the start of the looping), you can set the duration in there to whatever number of seconds works for you.

[adarkrainbow]

As I have been reblogging and looking back at Sleeping Beauty stuff around the Internet, I realized the thing that is bothering me a bit... When it comes to the you know "original" format of Sleeping Beauty.

Everywhere on the Internet you have these posts and videos and whatnot about "The dark truth behind Sleeping Beauty" or "The Horrifying Origins of Sleeping Beauty!", and they all refer to the fact that in the "original" version of the tale, she got raped in her sleep. This is the "dark fact" everybody LOVES to spread around and talk about. Except... Except the version they refer to is Basile's "Sun, Moon and Thalia".

Why does that matter? I'll explain.

Everybody depicts "Sun, Moon and Thalia" as this sort of dark, horrifying tale of a grim and gruesome crime. They will have in their video a dark background, and creepy illustrations, and they will take an ominous horror movie voice and whatnot.

But there's a big problem with that. Basile's stories were all except serious. They were humoristic tales. Or more precisely, they were farcical stories. Farces. There's a reason its "twin compilation", Straparola's fairytale collection, is called "Facetious Nights". So the very idea of presenting these stories as if they were meant to be taken seriously is completely misreading the story's tone. Yes there was a rape - but if you extract this from the entire context and storytelling, you make this tale sound like something it is absolutely not.

"Sun, Moon and Thalia" is not meant to be a horror story. It was not meant to be read as "serious" story. It has nothing to do with either the Grimm or Perrault fairytales. The entirety of the "Pentamerone" is basically a folk-sex comedy. If such a thing can exist.

Every fairytale of the Pentamerone is opened by a small recap of the story announcing what it will be about - and already from the get-go the very two lines opening this recap give the humoristic nature of the tale away. "Thalia dies because of a splinter". I mean come on - the joke is obvious. A girl gets a splinter, she dies. And if this wasn't enough the rest of the sentence can be translated as following: "she is left in a room where the son of the king penetrates and makes her two children". The choice of the word "penetrate" is to highlight the pun in the original line where the prince entering Thalia's bedroom and the prince entering Thalia's body is resumed in one same verb.

For more breakdown of the jokes of the story, see below the cut:

As I said before from the get-go the "curse" is treated as a joke. You have this king that summons scholars to make his daughter's horoscope, right? And what does it say. "She is in great danger... BECAUSE OF A SPLINTER!". This is literaly the killer rabbit of the Monty Pythons.

In this story, what does the little old woman that offered the princess the spindle does, once the princess falls dead? (Because she is dead in this version, a magical death, but dead still). Does she warns everybody and cries for help as in Perrault's version? No! "She was quick to find back the stairs [from which she came in]" and she runs as fast away as she can without warning everybody, because she's not going to get into trouble because of some random girl that wanted to see how to spin.

The whole arrival of the prince is very, VERY unprincely and part of the joke. (Well it is a king here but I'm going to call him "prince" so as to not lose people). So he is hunting, right, and his hunting falcon enters the countryside building in which the king locked up his daughter's corpse. The prince wants to get back his bird, so he knocks - because he believes the house is inhabited. And since nobody answers and he REALLY wants his bird back, he fetches a ladder and is forced to climb up a window like a vulgar thief. And he is royalty, remember.

What is the prince's first interaction with the dead Thalia? Believing she is asleep, he starts talking to her. And since she doesn't answer he kind of shakes her around in trying to wake her up. And then suddenly, realizing she kind of looks good (an that she is visibly not alive anymore), he "does his little business" and promptly puts her back where he found her and leaves. Because he is, like most men in the Pentamerone a stupid horny dog without much morals that has the most sudden and bizarre bursts of sexual desire. Cause again the Pentamerone is a sex comedy.

In fact, in the story of "Sun, Moon and Thalia", the prince is MEANT to come off as quite stupid. He is stupid. First off he didn't get that Thalia was dead when he saw her. Then, as soon as he leaves the funeral-house, it is said he "forgot all about this adventure". Like literaly, he forgets all about it - and only suddenly remembers it randomly when Thalia wakes up. (The narration itself highlights the randomness of the events - the fact the prince remembers Thalia is random and for no reason, and in the same way there are two fairies that randomly appear out of nowhere to take care of the two babies and we are never explained anything about them - they even frighten poor awakened Thalia because she doesn't know who brings her magically food every day). When he sees back Thalia, he is all joyful and happy and he is like "Let's start a family! I'm a dad, woohoo!" ; and then the narration drops the bomb that nothing had foreshadowed: "Now, his wife was waiting for him back at the palace." The randomness of dropping the fact he has a wife is meant to be the joke, since we were led to believe he was a bachelor. But given the prince's tendency to forgetfulness it is very likely that he simply forgot he had a wife.

More of the prince's obvious stupidity and air-headedness. On one side how he betrays Thalia and her children's names to his wife - because he just can't stop repeating and singing their names out loud, day and night, even when eating or sleeping, due to how silly-happy he is. On the other, the reason why he is absent while his wife tortures Thalia: he got angry at a comment of hers, and because he was furious, he literaly had to go to ANOTHER LAND just to vent his anger. Literaly, he leaves his palace and moves to another of his domain just because he got pissy. And why did he get pissy? Because his wife kept ironically singing to him "Eat, because what you eat belongs to you" when she served him his "children" - and the stupid prince, unable to understand what she meant, literaly answers "Of course it belongs to me: I'm the bread-winner of the family, while you're doing nothing and bringing nothing to the house". [Which by the way, highlights the fact that in this couple, the wife is depicted as profiting off the king's wealth and power].

Speaking of the dinner around the fake "children": this meal is another sex joke. Because the two of them, the wife and husband, are "panting with desire" around the dishes, and keep singing stuff like "Oh that's good, oh that's good!" and "Come on, eat, come on eat!" making it all an erotic scene. A ridiculous, grotesque, perverse erotic scene around what one character believes to be a cannibalistic meal, while the other just very loudly appreciates good meat.

When the queen tries to have Thalia killed, Thalia tries to defend herself by the fact she didn't know of the queen's existence, and that any sexual thing that happened between her and the prince was in her sleep - which the queen of course does not believe because of how ridiculous it all seems. I mean you catch who you believe is your husband's lasting extra-marital mistress and what is her excuse? "Oh no you see, he made me my kids when I was asleep. Well kind of dead. I didn't know. No he did not wake me up. I didn't wake up either when the kids were born. I'm a really deep sleeper. And it was because of a splinter you see..." Literaly, imagine yourself in the place of the jealous queen hearing all that.

Thalia gains time on her execution by asking the permission to remove her clothes, and the queen accepts, but as a joke she accepts out of greed because she literaly wants to take back Thalia's dress and jewels for herself. And each time Thalia removes a piece of her clothes, she screams. She screams in hope of alerting the prince. But since the prince is far away, he doesn't hear until the very last scream. Meaning that Thalia literaly strips herself in front of the queen, while screaming every time she takes off a piece of clothing, to visibly no effect (which must leave the poor queen quite confused), and it is only when Thalia gets naked and pushes the final scream that the prince suddenly arrive. You can imagine Thalia going: "FINALLY! I've been screaming for hours now!" (especially when you consider how much pieces of clothing princesses wore at the time).

Literaly one of the threats the prince gives to his wife is "Get ready to go fatten up the broccolli". As a metaphor for being dead and buried underground. Tip-top manly threat. In fact the prince is here quite proficient in ridiculous poetic metaphors: when the cook reveals he saved his children, the prince says "Get ready to move out of the small kitchen of my castle to the vast kitchen of my heart."

And of course the final "moral" of the story is also part of the entire farcical joke that is this story. "People who are lucky receive good fortune, even in their sleep". You literaly have a girl who is randomly raped in her sleep and gives birth to children in her dead-sleep, and then is almost murdered by the rapist' wife... And THAT'S the moral of the story? If you take it all literaly, then you are a fool. Or at least Basile would have called you a fool.

Again, people tend to forget that when it comes to literary fairytales (but also a lot of folk-fairytales) there is a TONE that is important. It is the brothers Grimm and other collectors after them that imposed the idea that fairytales were meant to be read "seriously". A lot, LOT of fairytales were originally humoristic - even going into dark humor or sex comedy. And whenever you go by Straparola or Basile, you HAVE to look at them under the angle of a joke or humor, and search for the puns and caricatures and ridiculousness within these tales. Because these books were meant to be read as such. They are like Rabelais' Gargantua or Shakespeare's comedies. You can of course reinterpret them as "serious" tales... But it won't remove the fact the original was humoristic.