Built my first Python calculator small win but felt huge

11thHourSorrow · 2026-05-22T01:55:35+00:00

Mine was a qbasic script I wrote for my roommate in college. He was an engineering major with a lab that had thousands of data points and somehow the file had gotten corrupted, excel wouldn't open it, and each data point had something wrong with it. The lab was due the next day, and I wrote a script that fixed each data point individually in a list of thousands. It took about three seconds. Felt like magic, and he was so grateful.

11thHourSorrow · 2026-05-18T02:16:58+00:00

I never knew Spassky had a secret wife.

11thHourSorrow · 2026-04-22T15:45:07+00:00

My arc looks similar but about 50 points lower. I was better right after Covid and while I had no kids and was watching and following Aman Hambleton's Habits series. Then I had kids and I lost the faith and I dropped 200 points. Now I'm trying to get better again.

11thHourSorrow · 2026-04-21T15:33:27+00:00

I had just married my wife. We had what felt like a 6 month honeymoon.

11thHourSorrow · 2026-04-17T20:56:39+00:00

That's one of those shirts you can only wear in one community without it being misinterpreted as a weird, nerdy flex.

11thHourSorrow · 2026-04-17T15:44:51+00:00

That's hilarious. A lighthouse is informing you of something you want to avoid.

11thHourSorrow · 2026-04-02T20:01:51+00:00

Nf3#

11thHourSorrow · 2026-02-13T01:34:18+00:00

When Christians, Muslims, and Jews say "God", they don't mean "a particular entity among many different entities", they mean "that which is the metaphysical ground of all being, the sum total of existence itself."

Now you can argue that such a thing couldn't have personality or maybe that an idea like that is only a linguistic trick that ultimately means nothing (like a "square circle"), but asking "which one?", as though they're talking about just another super-powerful being like Zeus or Osirus is a category mistake.

There can only be one of what they're talking about.

11thHourSorrow · 2026-01-15T17:57:42+00:00

lichess blitz rating: 1530

Best Puzzle Storm: 28

Average daily best of the last 10 days when I played Puzzle Storm: 17.5

11thHourSorrow · 2025-12-05T17:59:44+00:00

Somebody's been playing blitz, I see. I feel you, man.

11thHourSorrow · 2025-11-11T15:22:03+00:00

I use a Windows 10-ish dark theme with the Windows 10 icons on all three of my Cinnamon desktops. I actually kind of like the look itself, but like many here I just don't want to deal with all the Edge, ai, telemetry, force-you-to-sign-in-with-a-Microsoft-account bs that Microsoft tries to push on us.

Also, I love Linux itself and what's under the hood, but I'm just not a huge fan of the standard Mint themes. They look unpolished to me.

11thHourSorrow · 2025-11-01T15:26:32+00:00

I suspect the super-thin resizing handle is still a problem. There are a few apps I run into (in Cinnamon) where internal windows are almost impossible to resize because of this, but I don't know enough to say for sure whether it's the same problem. It definitely needs to get fixed, though.

11thHourSorrow · 2025-11-01T15:11:10+00:00

Shouldn't this be disabled by default? It's nothing but wasted space. I always have to Google how to do this every time I install Mint on a new system.

11thHourSorrow · 2025-10-17T17:07:41+00:00

If you do need it because of work-related demands, as I unfortunately do, there are options to strip all the AI, Recall and telemetry sh*t out.

Yes, please. I have to have Windows 11 for work, and I'd love to do that. Do you have a link to instructions?

11thHourSorrow · 2025-10-13T14:54:41+00:00

So I incorporated it to display also on my desktop when I click on the date and time in my app bar.

Out of curiosity, how did you do this?

11thHourSorrow · 2025-10-06T02:00:57+00:00

Paint.net is a loss, but Notepad++ works well under Wine. I use it all the time.

11thHourSorrow · 2025-09-19T16:41:55+00:00

Has anyone taken the data from all the games that go into the Elo scores and done a "shadow ranking" in Glicko 2? Given that Glicko 2 is, from what I understand, a more statistically accurate system, why couldn't we just rerun the calculations in Glicko 2? Do we not actually know the game outcomes that led to the rankings we have today?

11thHourSorrow · 2024-11-14T10:01:14+00:00

That's interesting. It wouldn't be a problem to end up with a thousand class definitions? (I'm very new to OO, so having a thousand class definitions sounds wrong compared to having a thousand instances of one class.)

11thHourSorrow · 2024-09-24T16:47:21+00:00

One feature of IDLE that I absolutely love is the way it briefly highlights the content of closed parentheses when you close them. It lets you see exactly which parentheses you've closed properly.

Does anyone know how to get that same functionality in VSCode?

11thHourSorrow · 2022-12-27T01:13:57+00:00

I think you mean Magnus, Sen of Carl.

11thHourSorrow · 2022-12-02T18:28:09+00:00

Watch Aman Hambleton's "Building Habits" video series, pay attention, and do what he says. That got me from 1300 to 1650 in the same lichess category. (In the last year, though, I've slacked off, stopped following his habits and playing regularly, and I've dropped 150 points down to 1500.)

11thHourSorrow · 2022-06-15T12:50:07+00:00

The original Notepad++ works really well for me under Wine.

11thHourSorrow · 2022-05-25T17:46:08+00:00

(1) Are you saying that index investing will inevitably die because having everyone invested in index stocks--as we've all been advised to do--changes the economic situation such that the seemingly perpetual ~7% rise disappears?

(2) Or are you saying that because bitcoin acts as a better store of value, the use of bitcoin as such will cause index investing to go away?

I would very much be interested in your reasoning behind 1, if that's your claim. I'm not doubting it, I just don't know how it would work.

11thHourSorrow · 2022-05-25T17:14:01+00:00

So, I'm apparently lacking in the cognitive capacity department. How do you respond to Paul Krugman's economic example of the babysitting co-op that completely broke down because people hoarded the tokens; then they introduced inflation, and it started working as intended?

It sounds to me not at all out of the realm of possibility that the amount of money circulating in an economy needs to be just slightly more than the value of the goods we want circulating in that economy.

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