“Tron: Legacy” feels under-rated in hindsight, with the aesthetic and the soundtrack.

The new one (“Ares”) seems plot-less by comparison though.

Application development without programmers This book by James Martin, published in 1982, includes the following in the preface: Applications development did not change much for 20 years, but now a new wave is crashing …

Enjoyed the preface from this book "Application Development Without Programmers" from 1982

> Application development did not change much for 20 years, but now a new wave is crashing in. A rich diversity of nonprocedural techniques and languages are emerging.

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social • 23h Our government today is overrun by people who demand others adhere to the dictates of a religious text they have never read, don't understand, and/or leverage and lie about to suppress and subdue. This is why in The Handmaid's Tale, actually reading the Bible was forbidden. [IMAGE] "You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it." - Friedrich Nietzsche ALT 1368 © 952 ・・・ Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social • 13h This is the least Nietzsche thing that never Neitzsched. Because it's not Nietzsche. O 1 Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social + Follow You're correct that it's not an actual quote from Nietzsche; my bad there. I stand by the ideas presented in the post.

A Turing test to determine if you are conversing with a bowl of pudding would be great.

sorry i don’t think Zohran’s win indicates how state or national races will go. Zohran campaigned against unaffordable basic needs and an old pervert. problems that are unique to new york city and no where else in the country

Which was the last #StarWars movie that you really enjoyed? I'll go first - "Rogue One" (2016).

It blows my mind that NASA is able to receive data from 4.67 billion miles away, but I lose Wi-Fi signal in my kitchen.