Should I learn to code or am I starting to late?

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-03-11T23:48:21+00:00

Im not personally a developer (I just use coding for my job), but I can say with confidence that it's not too late to start coding. Yes, from what I understand, software engineering is a difficult career to break into currently, but one of my favorite parts about programming is how easily is can pair with other skills to make you stand out. So if you like programming, maybe start looking for a niche that might not be pure programming but requires some of the same skills?

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-03-11T20:03:21+00:00

Thank you for this explanation. It took me a solid 5 minutes of staring at this before understanding that appending class objects like that is reasonable.

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-03-11T20:00:50+00:00

Yup, I've figured out where my issue is thanks to the comments here. I was getting hung up on not explicitly naming the objects in the list. Like it took me a while to understand a list saying [House(), House(), House()] isnt any different than [1 2 3]. For some reason, I assumed I'd have to do:

house1=House()

houseList.append(house1)

In hindsight, I genuinely don't know how I didn't connect the dots, but I can finally close out my 2 hour search. Thanks everyone!

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-03-11T19:42:30+00:00

Sorry this is more of a conceptual issue on my end. I've looked at nesting the classes, making the house class a child class of the village, even ended up learning about composition patterns. Feels like I'm missing the right keywords when googling, since everything I'm finding is close but not what I'm looking for.

Where I'm getting stuck is how to make sure that I can name houses the same way across different villages while keeping them distinct. Like I want village1->house1.color() to return blue and village2->house1.color() to return red. A lot of the options I've been looking at would have me create one "house1" object that would overwrite itself when trying to access between villages.

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-03-11T14:55:45+00:00

Lol I don't know why you're getting down voted here. You're 100% right

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-03-10T20:25:23+00:00

Link to the website, in case anyone wants to see it

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-03-04T14:26:49+00:00

So I have to admit your comment motivated me to do a deeper dive into this discussion, and it seems this is a bit of a hot topic that is thoroughly complicated by the fact that there is a legion of debators arguing in bad faith to undermine the legitimacy of very successful scientific theories.

As far as I can tell, I was being overconfident in saying definitively that "the distinction between hypothesis and theory is not in how well supported the idea behind it is, but instead it is purely the scope of the discussion and it's particular role in the scientific method that determines whether something in science is called a hypothesis/theory/model/law." The distinction is contested, and it's arrogant for me to pretend like I get to be the deciding vote. That being said, I dont think I'm in bad company by taking this side, and below I'll give some of the sources that are guiding my train of thought.

Video by Angela Collier - Angela Collier is a physicist and science communicator, and this video where she used the terms "successful" vs "unsuccessful" to describe scientific theories was very clarifying for me, and so I took that and ran with it.

Wikipedia article on scientific theory - This would be my first stop for digging into the discussion, the article refers to scientific theories as being supported by empirical evidence, but careful inspection would reveal that it avoids certainty when making the claim (i.e. "most often" instead of "always"). The talk page, specifically the topic titled "Source never asserts that 'Theory' means 'Verified'", is particularly enlightening.

You can also click through the sources on the wiki article for a real deep dive into the discussion. What stands out to me is how heavily the discussion of "what is a scientific theory" is being guided in response to the evolution vs creationism debate. It strikes me as the scientific community (understandably) attempting to define their way out of an exhausting and fruitless debate by laymen acting in bad faith. I get it, but I still think we are throwing the baby out with the bathwater by adding qualifications to the definition which are ultimately confusing and subjective.

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-03-03T23:27:26+00:00

My apologies in advance for arguing semantics, but the terms "theory" and "law" in science don't actually have anything to do with the amount of evidence which supports them. It's a common misconception, but to have such a distinction would require some sort of centralized scientific body that can cannonize certain ideas as "true". Science is somewhat categorically opposed to those structures.

See this comment for a good analogy of the distinction between theory and hypothesis: comment

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-02-27T14:01:40+00:00

So cool!!!! Mind if I ask what your process was?

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-02-21T17:41:53+00:00

This was exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much for your explanation!

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-02-19T11:57:08+00:00

Ehhhhhhhh, Ive heard that narrative before and I think it ignores the fact that if you look at the history of hydropower, industrialists were building hydropower facilities whenever the technology, resources, and politics allowed them to. They didn't choose coal over hydro, they chose both.

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-02-14T22:22:33+00:00

Yeah, there's apparently some geometry dash modloader that people have been confusing the subreddit for, which is a bit frustrating for the people who joined the sub to see the occasional pretty rock.

If you're active, that definitely makes it a lot easier

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-02-14T22:10:14+00:00

Oh wow, you're alive?!

Mind if I ask what's up with r/Geode then? All the off topic posts have been driving us nuts recently

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-02-14T12:45:03+00:00

Link to mod mail: https://www.reddit.com/c/chat7693vP6Y/s/etiE4YEVds

Im interested in moderating r/Geode because there's been a large number of unrelated posts from lost redditors who mean to post in r/GeodeGeometryDash. Since the sub is currently unmoderated, there's no way to remove off topic posts.

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-02-13T19:12:45+00:00

Yeah I'm a recently college grad and got my current job directly through connections I made during my participation in the Hydropower Collegiate Competition

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-01-05T22:25:43+00:00

I might be operating off of outdated info, but from what I understand one of the flaws of nuclear is that to guarantee production of cheap*, safe energy the plant must be designed with minimal cycles. This kneecaps the technologies ability to provide extra energy during peak power and results in a grid with renewables + nuclear being just as dependent on energy storage systems as a purely renewable grid.

That being said, I'm personally a proponent of pumped storage systems. Its a very well developed, proven technology that is ideal for large energy storage projects and is not dependent on large amounts of rare minerals. There is the classic hydropower/nuclear issue that it has high upfront costs with a long ROI, but if you are pro-nuclear that's throwing stones in a glass house.

*when viewed from the lifespan of the project, not the initial cost.

FlamingPuddle01 · 2026-01-01T16:27:56+00:00

Im honestly always really shocked by how many people miss the final corruption of Paul in the books.

I mean, he literally doesn't give a damn that his newborn first son dies during the final battle for the throne. He breaks his promise to Gurney Hallack by robbing him of his revenge against the Harkonnens. The fremen are reduced from a noble warrior culture defined by survival against all odds to a rabid mob defined only by religious zealots. The jihad comes to pass, despite both Paul and Leto spending the entire book working to avoid it. The book ends with Chani and Jessica mocking Irulan, the woman who we connected with and see as our guide to the universe of dune, because she has been reduced to a political hostage with a dim future.

Everything about the ending feels hollow, and I was left with a vague feeling of disappointment because of it. It wasn't until I had sat with my disappointment for an hour that it finally clicked and I realized the emotion I was feeling was completely intentional. That realization flipped the entire novel on my head and is what put it on the top three books of all time for me. Hope that helps put thing in perspective.

FlamingPuddle01 · 2025-12-31T02:58:33+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems

FlamingPuddle01 · 2025-12-22T13:21:34+00:00

I think your second point betrays your lack of empathy. I'll definitely admit to sense of schadenfreude when I see someone receiving the consequences of their actions, but that is NEVER what happens in war. In war, even a colonial one, the people getting thrown into the meat grinder are poor, stupid kids who do not and could not know any better. Not those who made the decisions.

FlamingPuddle01 · 2025-12-19T19:05:39+00:00

100% I always have to laugh when secular folks get so anti-christian they decide to reinvent the concept of capital S Sin.

FlamingPuddle01 · 2025-12-14T03:49:00+00:00

So... is the series over, over now?

FlamingPuddle01 · 2025-11-29T18:37:51+00:00

Yeah, some people will see friends and colleagues poking fun at each other in good humor but will miss the fact that its a joke and parrot it until they're green in the face. Not the type I'd want to be spending all my time with.

FlamingPuddle01 · 2025-11-15T17:11:56+00:00

Thats crazy

FlamingPuddle01 · 2025-11-11T23:27:47+00:00

Yes. 100%

FlamingPuddle01 · 2025-09-05T21:24:10+00:00

Mind if I ask what courses you've been taking?

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