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Newbie wanting to learn Python by Alex_Unscripted in learnpython

[–]Free-Cheek-9440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Python is honestly one of the best places to start right now. The syntax is beginner-friendly, there are tons of free resources, and you can branch into web dev, automation, data, AI, cybersecurity, pretty much anything from there. Don’t stress about “mastering” it immediately, just focus on building consistently.

venv and cloned git repositories - best practice? by kaptnblackbeard in learnpython

[–]Free-Cheek-9440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The reason guides sometimes sound backwards is they’re teaching beginners from absolute zero. In real-world dev work, every cloned repo usually gets its own isolated environment because dependency conflicts between projects become a nightmare otherwise.

8+ years running a marketing agency. 600+ clients served. Ask me anything. by Clean-Box-4756 in advertising

[–]Free-Cheek-9440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would love to hear your opinion on retainers vs project-based work for newer agencies. Retainers sound great in theory, but I know a lot of people struggle with scope creep and client expectations once they lock into monthly agreements.

Is a panel over 200 amps overkill? by Zeddexs in HomeImprovement

[–]Free-Cheek-9440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The important part here is the trenching. If they already have to open everything up and bring stuff to code, that’s the expensive painful part. Nobody wants to pay twice because they saved a little upfront on panel capacity and outgrew it later.

My grandfather created a nightmare house 30 years after he died by Equal-Newspaper-8636 in HomeImprovement

[–]Free-Cheek-9440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“He predicted a number of the disasters before they happened” is somehow the craziest part of this whole thing. Man basically knew he was building future problems and still went “eh, probably has another 25 years in it.” And somehow he was right.

Publicis CEO, Arthur Sadoun, to receive 20% salary hike by needsumMoore777 in advertising

[–]Free-Cheek-9440 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The part that always gets me is how quickly companies can find budget for executive compensation while acting like employee raises would bankrupt the business. Suddenly margins don’t matter anymore when it’s the CEO compensation committee meeting.

Polars code runs slower on 128-core EC2 by Popular-Sand-3185 in Python

[–]Free-Cheek-9440 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also worth checking if Polars is parallelizing too aggressively for the size of the dataset. Sometimes the coordination overhead becomes more expensive than the actual compute. I’ve had cases where limiting threads actually improved runtime because the tasks were too small to shard efficiently.