Indeed. I remember in the books the first confrontation Paul fled into the rocks and I think Jessica actually kicked some Fremen ass and did the talking. But after reading the first 2 books I'm really wondering how they are going to turn these books which are really more about power, politics and scheming than SciFi into some action.
Jessica also seems very motherly now in the movie, but has a much more dubious role in the books.
Same with Liet Kynes, who __SPOILER__ is the father of Chani. Of course she can now turn into the mother. And his/her death is completely different too.
The books are really difficult to adapt to screen really. And not because of the prescience but because of all the politics and little plots and twists.

Will Smith should have gotten it in 2001 for 'Ali'. But Denzel got it for "Training Day" instead that year, which to me wasn't such a great movie.
But then Denzel should have gotten an Oscar for "The Hurricane" in 2000, However, that movie had to compete with "American Beauty", Kevin Spacey taking home the Oscar for best actor there.
So I think Denzel got it in 2001 rather for making up not getting it in 2000 than really 'beating' Will Smith in 2001. And probably the jury though the same thing "The Fresh Prince getting an oscar? no way!".

Obviously you also had the students that were brilliant at everything. In my class there maybe were 2 or 3 guys of the hacker type I was talking about. Maybe the time they spend on hacking IRC clients or the college Unix mainframe should have been spend on learning Group Theory :-)

I agree with one point. There are very talented developers that flunked out of Computer Science because of the math that could code circles around the other students. I knew a guy in my freshman/sophomore year ( must have been 1996/97) that had written a Java interpreter or compiler (don't remember if it was just interpreting or compiling to bytecode) in Scheme (a lightweight Lisp-like language) while others were still learning about binary trees and hashtables. Dude flunked out because of the math classes.
I disagree in the sense that Computer Science is also Science. You can't make Science easier, the goal is to get better insights, not less.
So, if we want to churn out more people with STEM degrees to feed the economy, we should create curriculums that do just that. Vocational Schools and Colleges for example.
if you create an AI or ML degree where students don't know the basics of partial differential equations, how good an AI/ML engineer will they really be?
If you have biologists and virologists that don't know how to perform or interpreter proper statistical analysis of their data, would you consider them competent to operate in a laboratory environment?

A friend ordered a Ford Transit van last year in February (2021). Initial delivery was scheduled for August. Then it was moved to October, then it was moved to February 2022, now they are talking June 2022.
Some options will be missing too. He knew already in August that he wouldn't have the Head On Display he ordered (it's part of an add-on pack). So he paid for it but won't get it. Asking for a refund on the display they refused because there's a line behind him that would gladly take the van AND prices have since skyrocketed as well. So they can probably sell the Van at a premium without the head on display.

Because here in Belgium we had the worst summer in decades and the most rain ever recorded.
Average temperatures were around season averages, however not a single day over 30C, which hadn't happened in 30 years.
So, really a rainy and cool summer here.
But yes, it's not looking good overall.

And not fly it? Or lease it to some other company or plane?
It may be a consumer protection rule though, because otherwise airlines may choose to cancel a plane if it's not filled at least 30% for example.

Shiba and Doge still up by thousands % over 1 or 2 years.
I don't think anyone after 2021 had any real moonshots with any crypto. Maybe a 2x left and right, but that would have been good timing.

Imagine the price of that delivery though. 200k engineer going on a delivery, basically loses 1-2 hrs of work. that's a 200$ delivery.
As an engineer I would actually enjoy going on deliveries half a day a month just to see what technologically could be improved from the point of view of the deliverers or the business.
But we all know these people don't get paid much. They maybe get a couple of buck per delivery, and on bike you can't really do more than maybe 3-4 deliveries per hour. So really, instead of showing the engineers how the grunt work is, for which they get paid 10x what the real delivery guy is getting, maybe give the delivery people an actual decent wage.
This sounds like social washing, where the well-paid people do a one-time action to show support to the grunt workers.

Had same though. Complex numbers are just an extended framework to solve particular problems that can't directly be solved with real numbers.

Maybe it's in the study, but if a bitcoin address has been holding many coins for close to a decade and had no transactions since, wouldn't it be safe to see that account is probably lost or burned?
There's no way someone with thousands of bitcoins would have at least cashed some at a particular price point (100$, 500$ 1000$, 3000$, 5000$, 20000$, 50000$) just to diversify the investment portfolio.

Aaaand I just heard from the 3rd friend that his boss and another close colleague caught the 'rona so office closed as well.

I know 3 people who are in the same situation (working from home is for the lazy and we don't need no social distancing or masks) and I can tell you that eventually shit will hit the fan. One company it spread through the sales department (zero social distancing or other measures) and to the rest of the company. They had to force one guy who tested positive out of the building because he didn't have symptoms and he didn't think it was necessary to stay at home since he wasn't feeling sick. Other company had to close office because the CEO infected pretty much all upper management and one other team in a meeting.

researchers claim: "because people know the area and pay less attention while driving".
my claim: "90% of the time people are driving 10 miles from their home, so statistically that's where they will most likely get into a fender bender".

High wages in certain areas are not because the cost of living is high. It's the other way around.
Tech people have flocked to the bay area because that's where the tech companies are located. They pay high wages because they need the best talent. Hence people with money settle locally and drive housing prices up.
If some FAANG is not going to pay the premium, someone else will.
Also, what about bonus and stock plans? those make up a big chunk too.