little step, little step, little step, BIG STEP
Currently playing The Farmer Was Replaced to keep the brain springy. It’s a programming game that uses a cut down version of Python to program drones to plant and harvest various crops.
It starts out nice and simple: some crops need watering, some need the soil tilling first. Some can’t be planted next to each other. Simple, discrete, individual functions.
Then it asks you to plant a field of cacti and sort them from the smallest in the lower left to the biggest in the upper right. Erm, that’s…I can’t do that. I suspect the seasoned programmers among you would find that a breeze, but I was only ever a skin-of-my-teeth sort of coder.
So my current strategy is getting AI to write code for it that works. It’s harder than you might think, but much easier than writing my own code. I got them cacti sorted, anyway!
p.s. yes, thefritz takes the Dead Pool with Dick Cheney. He was only 84.
Posted: November 4th, 2025 under personal.
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Comment from Uncle AL
Time: November 4, 2025, 10:22 pm
Dick “Dick” Cheney may have been only 84 but he had a 12½ year old heart transplant.
I never had occasion to use Python. Most of my coding was SAS Data Step and SCL with SPD data stores, and Korn Shell. But I did some nifty stuff in those, such as parameterized fuzzy matching and optimized nonlinear solution searches. If you’re not a true-blue geek, don’t ask.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: November 5, 2025, 9:46 am
It’s been going on 5 years since I’ve slung any code using any language for any purpose.
And
I don’t miss it.
Now I just sit back and critique the garbage changes the little idiots make “to provide a better user experience” on my phone (Apple) and especially Mrs D’s Gargle phone and the various web sites I’m forced to use to pay bills or stay up to date with the gubbmint.
My recent favorite, the weekly reminders I get from the Texas DMV reminding me, in panicky phrasing, that my truck’s registration expires ( this started back in September ) IN DECEMBER, and the four clicks I have to make on “logon pop ups” on many sites before the actual logon box pops up for me to fill out (because NO, I don’t allow Microsludge to keep my passwords on board).
Now….you damn kids get off my lawn and my hedges are not a lounge chair!
Meanwhile @Uncle Al, respect 👍
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