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https://fxtwitter.com/i/status/2010017942151540840 watch out polu

that is normal for st. louis

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ok now a new person has to do it

bears v packers game was wild

who won

Bears by 4 points, so Packers needed a touchdown and the QB fumbled the ball at the end but picked it up and holy shmoley, my nuts sucked up into my body watching that

Jimmies were rustled

I know you all love American football

i love tackling being against the rules

All I know is either 1) the refs fucked some call up that one side will say cost them the game 2) A receiver dropped an easy catch to win the game, forcing some last-second hail mary that the NFL thrives on 3) a kicker missed an easy kick, in order to stir more drama

#1 is basically every Lions fan ever

I don't think the league is rigged necessarily, but I do feel like all players know at some level they're putting on a show

I felt that at any hockey game when there's a fight and everyone cheers when their home team appears on screen and boos when the away team does

Or that people say they like hockey for the fights.. and it's like.. it's just assault, dude

Just watch a boxing match, why taint hockey with all these fights. Ah, I played hockey for 8 years and quit when someone tried to fight me. I hate that culture in hockey so much.

I think NHL is too far in that direction, but I hate the college sports version more where the announcers talk about how vile and unacceptable any sort of taunting or fighting is "you hate to see it" "this puts a stain on a great game" etc. etc.

I guess that's more annoying lmao

Well, no, I agree that fighting ruins the game, but taunting is fine.

I remember my cousin said he loved hockey not because he was good at the sport but because he loved fighting. It's like... fuckkk offff

timestamp

this kind of shit

it's the chastising over fucking nothing that I find genuinely annoying

oh, he even says the line later in the video too

a classic

I like that you still get American scames in Japan

i still have my phone number

Do Indian men call often

i have had unrecognized numbers muted for years

I had that setting on, but realized I needed to allow unrecognized calls because jobs would randomly call me after applying instead of emailing me

My Michigan phone number is great cuz whenever I get a call from Colorado, I know it's a real call

Lmao, brother called me telling me he saw a monkey

They are spotted about 2 miles from me

Polu go catch it

we'd all be very impressed

do you think a fishing net can hold a monkey

This with some of the famous fried ravioli below it should lure it in

I imagine it depends what you want to use it for

There are a ton of things you could learn, but specific thing to focus on depends on the application

i had already had decent scripting experience with bash and such. but doing advant of code and just using google/stackoverflow/w3school to learn whatever was beibg asked got me pretty good at python pretty fast

Also based on what mint said, it depends if you have zero coding knowledge whatsoever or not going in

I’m starting near nothing since the last time I did anything was before I dropped out almost a decade ago

I watched youtube videos on specific topics with Python. And as long as the video is 8+ years old or so, it isn't gonna be a slop video from someone wanting to make it big, it's someone who actually likes Python.

For me, I didn't know anything about Python classes, and all the recent youtube videos were... sucky, but then a video from 2014 about Python classes was great.

yeah experience with computer science concepts cak make a big difference

I took a few courses that taught C++ back then, don’t remember much from back then tho

I'm not sure what the best starting point would be. Advent of Code gets really difficult very fast. Maybe, like, building a website?

I think just learning syntax for now is an alright way to start, since you are effectively starting from scratch and that is a hard initial hurdle for people with zero experience sometimes

you can do tutorials or games or whatever to put ideas in your head but none of that learning will actually solidify into anything until/unless you do some kind of project on your own

im mostly saying to find a series of challenges/goals

anyway this question counts as today's poll

Lol

do it in rust instead

(she says laughing and cackling)

Rust?

No, don't get distracted

Python is a good starting point

I think just find some youtube series that explains the basics, then trying to think of "I wonder how I'd do this" and trying to figure it out would be a good way to go about it

no bbut then you get to add "in rust"

to everything you do

rust was invented by satan as a means of disrupting the natural order

rust is the current meme where everyone is demanding things be coded in rust

or something

Vinny if you learn Cobol you can get a job working under Polu

sidekick is rust

/r d20

@taxes: d20 = (4) = 4

/r d20

@taxes: d20 = (2) = 2

The problem is, like... what do you want to do? The coding I do is typically signal processing in the linux kernel and that probably isn't very interesting. Are you interested in game design, web development, math skills, machine learning?

i should have added "in rust" to its bio

i also forgot sidekicks banner was

a spooky dox

I could recommend you textbooks orientated at learning python for doing physics problems but uh, I am 99% sure that is not what you want

and would probably be no more useful than just finding a good youtube tutorial series

It doesn't have to be what I picked, but I'd try to go down some specific aspect? That'll get you a better starting point. And if you find it's stupid and you're bored of it, try another aspect of coding.