PolarKraken

Yeah I've been hearing about it and meaning to dive in. Been learning some infra stuff lately though.

Any particularly strong selling points you want to convey?

Oof, my first time coming across JSON5, thanks. Damn near every one of these improvements are things that annoy me from time to time lol, would love to see it adopted.

Yeah, not trying to dunk on other commenter, but these don't sound like complaints I experience with Python at all. Setting up the environment is a breeze with venv, package installation couldn't be easier with basic pip, and I really like having a diverse ecosystem of multiple (often high quality) approaches to solving similar problems.

Sounds much like PowerBI, which I can't say I've used much directly. But every time we use it, because the client likes the idea and it can theoretically do "all the business intelligence" natively...we eventually find it can only do 80% of what they actually want, which completely removes its single advantage and forces us to go custom anyway. We've stopped offering it, to be clear.

Couldn't agree more. Field service is one hell of a drug. Money's good, variety is fun, the chaos and travel are fun too, and you learn a lot quickly. The latter often because some or all of the mfg. plant you're visiting needs you to fix your stuff so they can run, and no one is coming to BFE to help you, lol.

But that all wears off, in time, and it starts to take a huge toll like you described. Never met a long term field service engineer with a healthy home life, or with their health in general. I got out because both of mine were crumbling, for real.

Ah, alcoholic then

Hard agree, I have a B&W laser of theirs from similar era bought new and it just works and works.

I really credit my present strength with Python, in at least a small part, to PyCharm. Really a great IDE for Python projects. It irritates me, if anything, how much more flexible VSCode can be for non-Python stuff. I end up using VSCode.

As someone new to both, I'm commenting to hear your answer to the other person's "why?" :)

Yeah, it's certainly not a perfect model :) and I will absolutely acknowledge that some folks seem to delight in their own smugness and knowledge and seem to enjoy opportunities to shit on someone. The way the platform works probably amounts to a certain "gravity" pulling those personalities in, TBH.

It's mainly a different model, but I totally sympathize that it's the opposite of welcoming or encouraging.

SO recognizes that many, many questions are really just rephrasings of the same underlying question, and the aim is to find and provide the best answer to those. It explicitly does not want to repeatedly answer the same question, and given how few people find out how it works before simply asking, they have to be pretty ruthless about it. The result is that usually the most active and fleshed out questions and answers are very informative. So there's a big upside in trade for those downsides. Answers are meant to be durable, ~singular, and authoritative.

Reddit is basically halfway between that, and Discord. Discord is the polar opposite, questions and answers are naturally ephemeral, duplication happens constantly, and quality of responses is all over the map.

I greatly prefer the StackOverflow model, and - to be very clear - I have never once asked (to say nothing of answering) a question of my own there, lmao.

I'm not super familiar with either, but are you aware of Rescuezilla? It's a GUI for Clonezilla. I used it for some simple things once or twice recently that I didn't feel merited learning Clonezilla's CLI.