Valérian, Kurosawa, Dune… Lucas borrowed from pretty much everything.

But then again, that’s how culture worked for tens of thousands of years until Disney and other “intellectual property” trolls got their filthy rotten claws on it and started doing everything possible to kill what makes us human, so, eh, good for him, they were good films, at least the first three.

This is about being specieist against neanderthals (homo sapiens neanderthalensis), not about whatever you’re rambling about.

It’s one of the largest relative aperture lenses in the history of photography, which means it can allow cameras to shoot in very low light. It was designed and made specifically for the NASA Apollo lunar program to photograph areas of the moon not lit by the sun.

I suppose other manufacturers could make it (though Zeiss sort of is the lens company), and some have made similar or even faster lenses, but it probably would be very expensive and there’s not much of a market for it.

You don’t torture for the truth, though… causing physical and psychological harm is the whole point.

Also, wouldn’t leaving the command module in lunar orbit before landing count as staging…?

How many times are people going to post this nonsense?

Kubrick notoriously hated filming on location.

He of course did have NASA send astronauts to the moon to shoot background and reference pictures, he was a perfectionist, after all, but the official landing was filmed in Shepperton, England.

Also, no one’s going to believe this unless you tell them about the practically unique Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 lens NASA gave him as payment, which allowed him to shoot the candlelit scenes in Barry Lyndon.

Blue blistering bell-bottomed balderdash, you blabber-mouthed vegetarian pithecanthropus!

Cyberpunk 2020 / RED …?

We don’t even know what dinosaurs sound like

Yes we do. They generally sound obnoxious as fuck.

The ones from ~243 to 65 million years ago probably were just as annoying.

Lisp?

a sane language

JavaScript

Pick one.

The images don’t seem to be a sequence. And there’s clearly no spike on the bottom of the shield in the last picture, so it must be inside the top dwarf’s chest.

The top dwarf in the bottom right picture is clearly impaled on the bottom dwarf’s shield spike… 🤔🤨

Hades didn’t really seem like my kind of game, so I torrented it to try it out. Then I bought it, and later Hades 2, too.

I’ve also bought some comics I’d previously read on the computer, too, if they were good enough and I’ve come across a nice edition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6y8cqayjQI

Thinking about C# and Dapper here 'cause they’re what I’m used to, but, for example…

result = await connection.QueryAsync<ResultType>(QUERY); (where ResultType is a statically typed record, class, or struct shaped like the data you want returned.)

Given a query that doesn’t return something that matches any of ResultType’s constructors, the code’ll throw an exception at runtime complaining it needs a constructor that matches whatever it’s returning, whereupon you’ll notice it isn’t asking for it to have a date parameter, so the query must not be returning it.

That’s when rubber duck debugging comes in handy.

first time you use it the language automatically makes the variable and default value

Now, that’s just evil. 😨

The difference between experienced devs and non experienced devs is that when seeing “the experience that made me hate programming” and “date” in the same post experienced devs just stop reading (mostly due to the PTSD hit) and assume it must have been some date format issue or shudder timezone shenanigans between the database and the programming language…

The Bethesda that made Morrowind. 🤷‍♂️