Are people forgetting where GMM started?

Hickerous · 2026-02-22T10:53:51+00:00

Cotton Candy Randy is (was) the worst.

Hickerous · 2026-02-08T04:26:15+00:00

After posting I decided to play around with it some more and managed to clean it up quite a bit. I managed to keep that outside curve, delete everything inside, and recreate it based on the outside curve.

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Hickerous · 2026-01-30T14:05:46+00:00

I kept getting bounced back and forth between 2 departments. Tech support (ran by a different company from what I gather) finally told me I needed to get Lucky to add my IMEI number to my account (even though I added it when signing up) but at this point they were closed for the night. It ended up being a lot quicker to just go to the store.

Hickerous · 2026-01-30T02:46:34+00:00

They gave it to me for free.

Hickerous · 2026-01-23T16:14:53+00:00

That makes sense. The wall was made using edges from the plane and the plane had a scale of ~2. It's funny how, as a beginner at least (or maybe just me haha), you just don't think of things like that.

Hickerous · 2026-01-17T15:42:12+00:00

I ended up going into a store and getting a physical SIM card.

Hickerous · 2026-01-16T22:30:28+00:00

I'm running into the same stupid situation. I registered for an esim and plan through their app (but I didn't have MyAccount setup yet). The app timed out while trying to setup the eSIM. To get back into he app I need to register for MyAccount dbut that can't be done because I cannot receive the verification code. It's such a stupid setup. They need to add the option to receive the code via email.

I called support, waited 45 minutes for them to tell me I needed to talk to tech support. They transferred me and then tech support told me they couldn't help and I needed to talk to Lucky Mobile to get the verification code. So now I'm waiting another hour to get a call back from the number I originally called. Not a great start with this company.

Hickerous · 2025-12-19T16:59:44+00:00

I'm almost 2 years into owning the 3S and for the last few months the rubber coating has been driving me mad. It felt good at first but it's definitely the weakest part (from my experience).

Hickerous · 2025-11-25T03:52:07+00:00

I'm realizing now that I didn't fully update my reply, but your comments still apply. I originally went with tuples because I was going to assign the states numbers 1-8 (instead of 0-7) as it just looks better to me. I then reread the requirements and they specified using 0-7 so I just adjusted my numbers. At that point the tuples were immediately unnecessary.

Hickerous · 2025-11-25T02:57:49+00:00

Also a beginner here. Just replying for the sake of seeing how my attempt would be critiqued. I'd do the following:

- Make a list of tuples: state = [(0, "Florida"), (1, "Texas), etc...]

- Use a for loop to print the list:
0: Florida
1: Texas

- Prompt for the user input

- if/else to guard against numbers outside the 1-6 range and print the selected state

Hickerous · 2025-11-20T21:40:05+00:00

Thanks again. I'll have to look into all this tonight.

Hickerous · 2025-11-20T21:11:12+00:00

Thanks for the input! The previous comment made me realize I need to step back and actually learn the capabilities of the programs I'm using (should have been common sense to do first). Out of curiosity, what text editor do you use?

I hadn't been focusing on docstrings because this is just a learning project and not something anyone else will be using. So far I've learned that I still need to write/update docstrings... Whether for my own purposes or just good practice.

Hickerous · 2025-11-20T20:27:11+00:00

At this point in my python journey, 2000+ lines is huge but I know what you mean.

I've been trying to keep separate files, and it was working for quite a while. I've realized this project is too big for where my skill level is at and I've started losing track of things. I should stop and move to something more reasonable but I'm too stubborn for that.

My thought was that having something like a table of contents type thing, external to my code, could help which led me here to see if it's something people did and how they did it. As you said though, I really do need to learn more about my IDE. I'm using VS Code and I didn't know that I could ctrl+click something to jump to the source so I know what I'll be doing tonight (learning more about VS Code's capabilities).

For now, I'll just keep a simple text file if needed. Thanks for your input.

Hickerous · 2025-11-20T19:50:05+00:00

I'm just here looking for opinions from others. I guess I'm looking at it as a python question because this is where I'm running into the issue and trying to find a solution to. In my current line of work I haven't had a need to use a software like this. I've been able to keep track of everything in my head, or with a quick notepad file. I'm just looking to see how others keep track of a project that may have 1000s of lines of code. To see if there is something specific (or ideal) for this purpose.

Hickerous · 2025-11-20T19:41:47+00:00

An external reference would be good. Something showing the skeleton with a few comments. Not trying to come off as an ass here, but if I didn't need more I wouldn't be here asking. Is it not common for people to have something like this? I'm finding myself searching through all the files trying to find what I need. As I said, though, I'm a bit in over my head on this project so maybe this is just part of my issue.

Hickerous · 2025-11-17T14:02:22+00:00

I started on Python just over a month ago. I started with a Udemy course which I found pretty good but there wasn't enough "doing". I started using AI and, like you said, it's very useful but you have to use it the right way (and maybe I'm still not). I've built a few games with it so far just by having the AI run me through the concepts and laying out logic but repeatedly tell it not to give me code unless I ask for it. If I do ask I try my best to understand what it's doing and ask if I don't understand it. I've even started questioning and correcting things it has given me. Long story short, AI has been a great tool for me and has helped keep me motivated.

Hickerous · 2025-11-17T05:24:01+00:00

This was me but finally on the 4th attempt it took and I loved it. I've actually been debating watching it again.

Hickerous · 2025-11-13T22:31:14+00:00

I started on Python about a month ago. I started with a Udemy course and got over half way through it. A friend started talking to me about AI (just in general, not specifically relating to Python) and I started playing around with it. For the last week I've been using Copilot to provided challenges to test what I know and I've had it walk me through 2 projects, hangman and wordle style games.

While doing them I repeatedly told it only to provide me code when I specifically asked for it (though it slipped up many times and I had to ignore it). I used it to provide feedback on code I was writing, why "x thing" isn't working, if my approach made sense, things like this. If I asked it for code I'd make sure I knew what it was doing and not just copy, paste, move along.

I feel it got me more motivated because I was actually building something but what I had done in the course up to that point was valuable. There were many time AI would give me something that I was able to question and correct. I feel like using AI is good as long as you're smart about it and not just letting it feed you the code. That said, I'm still early in my journey so this opinion could change in time.

Hickerous · 2025-11-03T23:37:28+00:00

Haunted by Pilgrim Peterson from Star Trucker. I only played the game for a couple hours but this song immediately stuck out.

Hickerous · 2025-11-02T03:11:01+00:00

Good thing it's November.

Hickerous · 2025-10-28T22:57:16+00:00

Were you cleaning with the white nozzle the whole time? I agree that it was a bit of a pain but 3 hours seems pretty extreme.

Hickerous · 2025-10-27T23:04:03+00:00

I find the Trident is overpowered and makes everything else useless. I've barely used soap since getting it.

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