... that modern system administrators will use when they want to tell their children scary stories. But this isn't a new problem, and the posited idea that before AI there was some "oral tradition" that rendered this a non-problem is laughable.

The past few years, I've had to deal with a lot of code + configuration files that are poorly documented or not documented at all. Some of them are occasionally commented... but often with references to non-existent entries in the team's wiki. I'm sure my predecessors MEANT to make those entries, but you know the saying about the road to Hell and all that...

Yes, when I look at these files I can usually determine what the particular person did. But, if I'm at the point where I'm looking for documentation, it's likely because *why* they chose to do it that particular way seems inexplicable.

Oh, forgot to link the dry density for you: here you go. 341kcal/100g. Aka 3,41kcal/g.

Which, like I said, should be obvious, since they're almost entirely carbs (~4kcal/g) and protein (~4kcal/g), and they're, as noted, dry (12-16% moisture). It would be quite the trick indeed to get something that is dry and and is almost entirely comprised of things that are 4kcal/g to be 1,38kcal/g! ;)

Just in case you need help:

Your calculation: 195g (dry weight) × 1.38 kcal/g = 269 calories per pound of cooked beans.
Correction: Because you used 1.38 kcal/g (the cooked density) as if it were the dry density, you essentially diluted the calories twice.
The Actual Math: 195g of dry beans * 3.4 kcal/g (actual dry density) = 663 kcal.

When those 195g of dry beans absorb water to weigh 454g (1 pound), they still contain those same 663 calories (since water has zero calories).

Canned beans are ALREADY COOKED. *facepalm*. You can eat them straight out of the can.

which is waaaay more than I would want to eat at a sitting.

I can't think of a single ingredient - any ingredient - that I would want to eat exclusively as my diet, so this is a really stupid argument.

*laughs in public school*

What I do remember most was one of my teachers who clearly was phoning it in every day. He'd read the classifieds looking for motorcycle parts at his desk while the class was doing some boring assignment from the textbooks. Every once in awhile he'd complain about how miserable the pay was, and how if you didn't like his minimal-effort approach to learning, you were welcome to stand in the hall for the duration of the period.

Fun times.

I distinctly remember owning one of these about 20 years ago. Granted, back then smartphones were for business users and tech enthusiasts, they really hadn't caught on with the normies yet.
 

My group of friends would futz around with computers quite a bit back in the late 90s. I still mostly keep in touch with all of them to varying degrees. One joined the military, was honorably discharged due to an injury, and now drives a long-haul truck. Another started as a low-paid IT support jockey and never really settled into anything you could call a career. The friend I keep in closest contact with, works a senior support position with a software company (not one of the major industry players, though) and makes somewhere around $100k/yr. Granted, that's a decent-ish living, but that kind of money doesn't go as far these days as it used to. I went into HVAC, which everybody and their brother seems to be doing in Florida, so there's a huge race to the bottom in this trade.

Success is a fuckin' crapshoot when you don't have wealthy parents.

Why exactly would someone "report" Drinkypoo?

He annoys some people. So do I. So does Armored Dragon, and ahem, you post ain't sunshine and puppy dogs. No one is doing anything that would get them kicked or even a stern talking to.

Relax a little, maybe enjoy an adult beverage or herb of your liking. Thoughts and prayers!

Sonavabeotch, you owe me a new keyboard, man! My soda went all over it when I read that.

+5 for making me snort! 8^)

I think that the core problem is that Disney is a terrible fit for Star Wars in any form.

Star Wars was Space Cowboy Epic,

Disney excels at making Disney Princesses.

Both are legitimate, but it is really difficult to make a space cowboy movie when your talent is princesses.

You are correct, Youtube doesn't have teh present day constraints Disney does.

As for allowing a Youtuber get involved, maybe. After all they put Harvey Weinstein's secretary with no experience direct "The Acolyte" flop, so if a Youtuber with the proper political beliefs who is willing to take on the fans surfaces, they might just hire them.

Yup, you summed up the problem. The movies Disney put out in recent years were not good movies, and the fan base became alienated. They wrote off the movies and didn't watch or pay attention

So Disney can put out a decent Star Wars movie or show, and many just won't watch it.

In this case, my analysis is that trying to have a mute puppet who seems to mostly reach for things carry the movie couldn't get enough traction. So people willing to take a look on the first weekend saw it, went "Okay", and that was it.

Once upon a time, the fans would go see individual movies many times, and purchase all the swag. One critic I don't watch often has his walls filled with earlier action figures, models and other paraphernalia. All of that added to the bottom line, and Disney intentionally threw it away with it's new arc.

Yeah, but there is good art and bad art. Unions - well, we must remember that once you have a union, you have two bosses, the Work boss and the union boss. So your concerns about the art of making games is well founded. And Unions are as much about lining their own pockets as enforcing fairness. That's the funny thing about those who claim that Unions are some sort of commie or socialist outfits - they are every bit as money hungry as the rest of us. They are not saviors of the downtrodden workers.

My point in all this is this is not a good time for programmers to organize. AI can and will take some jobs, even if the final sprucing up is handled by a few really good programmers. And if programmers refuse to return to the workplace, they better be the best in the world, people who hold the company by the short hairs, who can leave quickly and go to another place willing to pay money that is appropriate for their best in the world abilities.

and I can relive those heady days of my youth, playing Trek on a PDP-11/70 (and wasting copious amounts of tractor-feed paper)!