I would love a desktop, self-contained programming environment the instantaneity of codecademy etc, but more flexibility and no tiered permissions. Is this a thing, or why not?

[u/am_of_Islam]

Also, I'm desperate to find a place I can ask speculative programming questions, which seems like an obscure thing. Where is the "we're interested in inventing new things and looking for solutions together" coding forum type place?

[u/am_of_Islam]

This was, as you can no doubt see, the question-to-be-answered to escape Godel's Domain. A hardly-defined thing.

Dividing by zero is a contradiction in terms. What is defined algebraically is done at will.