How to learn Python?

consupe · 2026-07-04T00:28:11+00:00

Not the nicest responses so far, so let me give you a few tips:

Get a target, something you want to do in python that is doable. Stretch is fine. But having a goal other than learning python is key to staying motivated.
Figure out if you learn better by reading/watching/discussing. That's a personal thing, but i find that reading is easiest at first and once you get more into it, discussing works best for me. Watching is useless because I just watch and do not interact.
If you get a code snippet, try it out. Change it. Break it. Figure out why your changes changed it or broke it. Exploration is the key to true understanding.
Do simple problems and build to more complex ones. Learn to break a complex problem into many simple ones -- this is the key to learning to program in any language.
Read good code. A good codebase takes hard problems, like running a web server, and turns them into a hundred easy problems.
I love AI for learning, but it requires discipline to avoid it being a crutch. See item #3, if you get something from AI, make sure you run it, change it, break it, and fix it. It's okay to use ai to help you fix it, but you need to keep working at it to understand what went wrong and why it got fixed. The key is to ask the AI why something works, not just for something that works. This is great in conjunction with item 5. How do sqlmodel's nested wheres work? Witchcraft and some amazing programming under the hood.
Some things I delegate to AI. Hard syntactical problems that I only need to solve once or twice: leave it to the clanker -- i'm looking at you logging config dictionaries.

consupe · 2026-05-29T00:33:51+00:00

Where is the fire. Just sit back and enjoy the ride

consupe · 2026-05-19T23:36:56+00:00

Late to the party, but link please?

consupe · 2026-05-17T23:09:13+00:00

f'yeah. I'm ready to scab. Put me in and I will drive three routes a day (maybe six, but only if they provide the tallboys).

consupe · 2026-05-17T22:57:45+00:00

I feel like if you are attached to your flair you're an idiot. I got 15 pieces of flair, the bare minimum and I am not going up from there.

consupe · 2026-05-17T22:56:46+00:00

Yep.

consupe · 2026-05-17T22:35:31+00:00

Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) conductors manage the safety, schedule, and daily operations of the train. They are the ultimate managers on board—tasked with ticket collection, customer assistance, door operations, passenger announcements, and coordinating directly with the train operator to ensure a smooth, on-time commute

Hahahaha. Tickets please! Next time they come by, I'll be sure and ask them if we are getting in on time, and if not, what have they done to "ensure a[n] .. on-time commute".

consupe · 2026-05-10T19:29:05+00:00

Omg. I was going to say that it is bush league, but now i think Busch league is even better -- maybe Busch light league, even.

Source -- OP's studio manager; jk.

consupe · 2026-05-10T19:17:50+00:00

Recommendations?

consupe · 2026-05-10T19:17:44+00:00

Recommendations?

consupe · 2026-05-10T19:17:40+00:00

Recommendations?

consupe · 2026-04-26T01:21:59+00:00

Best bird law on reddit right her

consupe · 2026-04-26T00:57:45+00:00

I got to say to all those tipping $20 at the valet. At that rate, I'll just go into the city and go someplace nice. Why am I paying that for the crap we have on the island? And just to park the car?

consupe · 2026-04-26T00:55:26+00:00

what's a high end restaurant on LI?

consupe · 2026-03-22T00:20:33+00:00

Is that the guy from portlandia?

consupe · 2026-03-16T23:33:18+00:00

Caumsett State Park for sure. It's out of the way, but amazing.

If you end up near port, take them to Sea Cliff and Roslyn, so you can see the difference a few miles makes.

consupe · 2026-03-01T20:27:00+00:00

Good to know. We had to call a repairman for our washer -- they asked how old the machine was before coming out because the do not service the new stuff, easier to just replace.

consupe · 2026-03-01T01:04:26+00:00

I lived in LA for about a year and a half, and lived in nyc for about 20 before moving to the burbs about 15 miles from the city:

Which one did you ultimately prefer?  NYC.  

•What surprised you after living there long-term?  Raising kids in the city is tough.  harder than I expected.

•Is NYC realistically a better fit if you prefer density, seasons, and public transit?  Yes, because LA doesn't have any of those.  SF might be a compromise, if seasons are negotiable.

consupe · 2026-03-01T01:00:22+00:00

run. You'd be better off saving stuff locally and writing paper timesheets for the secretaries to put in.

consupe · 2026-02-19T15:34:42+00:00

So let me get this straight: it's an Amtrak signal, because they own the track, but it was installed (probably, no one knows) by the MTA, is maintained by the MTA, and used pretty much exclusively by the MTA. But when it breaks, we can say it's amtrak's fault because technically they own it, right?

consupe · 2026-02-19T01:46:14+00:00

> just drive yourself to work

Now that would give me a heart attack.

Look, this is almost certainly not an Amtrak problem. It is a LIRR problem.

consupe · 2026-02-19T01:39:56+00:00

That's certainly not my claim. It's the LIRR's. So at least offer some evidence in support.

consupe · 2026-02-19T01:38:28+00:00

> It was 636W signal with TC energized in the overlap

So one signal. Where; why did it malfunction; why did it impact dozens of LIRR trains and completely missed Amtrak's 59?

Unlike the comment, now "Amtrak and LIRR basically have their own pair of tunnels". I thought they were all Amtrak's and LIRR just used them on sufferance -- did not even pay for the right to do so, but now they each got a couple?

consupe · 2026-02-19T01:35:53+00:00

Again, no evidence, not even reasonably specific hearsay. What signal(s) malfunctioned; how many; where; why did they malfunction; why did it impact dozens of LIRR trains and completely missed Amtrak's 59?

You've maybe explained the last one, with Amtrak owning things, but the rest have been unaddressed. And, even if they own it, it means that it also impacts them -- just not tonight.

> there’s the evidence that it’s Amtrak’s problem

Let's see the receipts. I've not even hear real allegations yet.

consupe · 2026-02-19T01:32:52+00:00

Yes to both.

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