The most likely scenario is that the person with first-hand knowledge misinterpreted the situation.

Exactly. Which is why I started with questions so you could explain more. That’s how a conversation works and prevents it from getting toxic.

These poor men and their sensitive feelings…

Case and point.

Hey! That’s “Mr Moron” to you.

Reference explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarket_scanner_moment

Give it time.

TLDR:

Trailing commas for lists allows easier:

• merging of code
• rearranging of items in the list.

So roll a d20?

“Get the rice!”

Of course by then, the time you’d have spent would be worth more than $25

Yes, but you’d now have a script that can be used in the future as well. Automation is a magical thing, my friend.

There’s a bioinformatics website that has a course of problems to solve that slowly teaches you fundamental bioinformatics.

www.rosalind.info

I’ve only done about 17 of the problems. They often end up being the following format:

• take in a text file
• process the data
• output the answer

Processing the data can be calculating probabilities, matrix manipulation, string manipulation, etc. It’s free to try, and you can use whatever language you’re familiar with. I think Python would have libraries that would help, but it’s up to you.

Wait, you guys don’t update your system and install random packages before going on a hacking spree?

What have I been doing all this time?

Chance in a million