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  • Blech, this is my least favorite kind of testing. I'd much rather have some all-encompassing integration tests even if they're confusing AF, than the "yep the language still works as advertised" nonsense that this approach often amounts to.

  • For me it's less about fear and more about having a limited budget of time and effort to spend on learning things, so CSS and front end generally gets deprioritized. But that's cuz I'm a back end kinda dev in my soul, lol.

    I've seen the good points you've made elsewhere in this thread - I would indeed react very poorly to willy-nilly back end changes and I think you're right that people don't give CSS and visual styling the same degree of professional respect when making changes. And that sucks.

  • So I think I was wrong, but you are too lmao.

    10120 is the number of valid game-trees, or valid ~80 move games.

    The much smaller number I quoted above, though, IS the valid positions, I was thinking it was actually the trimmed down "truly valid" game-tree sequences.

    Isn't math fun? Limitless ways for us to be wrong!

  • I enjoy and appreciate nature in nearly all its forms. Even mosquitos just tryna live, they're born required to bite somebody 🤷‍♂️

    Fuck the Canada goose.

    Fuck em as a group, fuck their whole flocks, fuck a flying V of Canada geese. Fuck em as an entire grand, branching lineage of this strange fractal miracle we call life, get rid of the Canada goose and our timeline returns to the more harmonious path it had been on before everything stopped making sense.

    Canada is cool, fuck that goose tho.

  • Frankly you sound like you have a great chance of moving past this, and it's not weird to need some help or feedback from others, most of us do. It's a shame the folks you found previously were such idiots, lots of people are really unqualified to give advice there. Keep pushing!

  • Yeah, not trying to dunk on other commenter, but these don't sound like complaints I experience with Python at all. Setting up the environment is a breeze with venv, package installation couldn't be easier with basic pip, and I really like having a diverse ecosystem of multiple (often high quality) approaches to solving similar problems.

  • I would love that! I do think there are probably interesting underlying personality factors / preferences for a lot of this stuff as well.

    I do think that many of Python's characteristics map to my own personality and I bet there's something to that. Things like syntax of course, but not strictly syntax, also things like "The Zen of Python", and the way its a "jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none". I also really kind of need the freedom and accompanying responsibility to break any "rules" on a whim (Python will happily let you overwrite its own internals while running, for instance), but I almost never do anything that uses it...

    I could probably keep going lol. Feels like a "people looking like their pets" scenario, lmao

  • Everyone's welcome to their opinion of course, but I find Python more readable than anything else and I resent the visual clutter required to make intentions plain in other languages. Feels like having a conversation where people say the words "comma", "period", etc.

    I also spend more time with Python than anything else and I suspect these two facts about me relate, lol

  • Sounds much like PowerBI, which I can't say I've used much directly. But every time we use it, because the client likes the idea and it can theoretically do "all the business intelligence" natively...we eventually find it can only do 80% of what they actually want, which completely removes its single advantage and forces us to go custom anyway. We've stopped offering it, to be clear.

  • Couldn't agree more. Field service is one hell of a drug. Money's good, variety is fun, the chaos and travel are fun too, and you learn a lot quickly. The latter often because some or all of the mfg. plant you're visiting needs you to fix your stuff so they can run, and no one is coming to BFE to help you, lol.

    But that all wears off, in time, and it starts to take a huge toll like you described. Never met a long term field service engineer with a healthy home life, or with their health in general. I got out because both of mine were crumbling, for real.