Ooooh, like that video where every piece fits in the square hole!

Speaking of visually engaging, Ralph McQuarrie’s artwork for the original trilogy is incredibly inspiring.

Another thing the sequels didn’t have: accompanying games. The gaps between movies weren’t filled exclusively by live action and animated series

Sure, only Revenge of the Sith actually had an actual “the movie the game”, but the 90s and early 2000s saw a number of amazing Star Wars games (and some less than stellar), most only partially related to movies, others with completely news stories, which definitely helped keep people interested in the universe, even if they didn’t like the movies. KOTOR, Republic Commando, Battlefront, X-Wing series, Dark Forces series.

Meanwhile, during the Disney years, we had Battlelootbox 1 and 2, Squadrons, Jedi Fallen Order+Survivor and… that’s about it (also some Lego Star Wars stuff). The mobile stuff might as well be SW skins of whatever is the current mobile trend.

Title crawl:

A NEW BEGINNING

After Palpatine returning, somehow, and being defeated, the NEW NEW REPUBLIC is established. But not much has changed, because not enough time has passed.

Anyway, REY, along with a redeemed BEN SOLO, have become the sole JEDI MASTERS of the entire galaxy and decided that the time was ripe to begin training a new generation of JEDI

Among the first pupils, the young TALTAPINE shows great promise, but dark clouds loom over the JEDI once more…

Drat, quick let’s think of something better… How about… uh… I got it! A New Hope! You know, because it’s a new hope for Disney and the fans to see a decent- oh, already taken? Damn!

I like to imagine Darth Jar Jar as being a goofball through and through, like a permanently drunk kung fu master, which would make even his sith peers confused and wary

I know the post is a joke, but the main difference is that Luke was on the winning side at the end of ep 6, redeeming his father and avenging old Ben, while OB1 saw his entire world, the Republic and the Jedi, being destroyed at the end of ep 3. He became a target and “traitor”, so hiding was the only sane choice.

Also, while OB1 readied himself to fight Anakin, it was the latter that jumped to strike first. Luke tried to kill Ben while the kid was asleep.

As others said, Luke retiring or wanting to be left alone because he fucked up big time isn’t a problem per se. The way his reasoning is treated, especially for trying to kill Ben Solo, is what left a LOT to be desired. “Oh, I had recurring nightmares that he’d fall to the dark side”. Well, did you confide that with anyone? It’s not like Yoda, Anakin or Obi-Wan’s force ghosts would rat him out. - My memory is hazy, but I don’t remember him saying, or the movie showing, what he tried besides cold blooded murder to avoid such a fate.

Luke didn’t need to personally kill Snoke, but helping the Republic he helped reinstate would make sense. He wasn’t just a jedi or force user, he was also a great pilot, the backwater kid that blew up the first death star and one of the many pilots that helped defend the Hoth base against the Imperial assault.

Maybe the whole jedi and force thing went way too much over his head, to the point where everything else stopped being important to him. I don’t remember how exactly it was depicted in TLJ, but I don’t recall him saying anything about the New Republic, whether or not he cares about it anymore or why.

Title mentions speaking italian

Not a single hand gesture anywhere

I’ve been duped

Get in with the full idea of being a parasite, doing the barest minimum work possible while getting friendly with higher ups. It’s not like doing a good job there would be better for the customers/end users anyway

Alcohol, the strongest bonding chemical of mankind

Or they knew they weren’t going to last more than 1 year, so why not spend all that tasty VC money?

If you do find it, be sure to tell, I’d love to take a look

Yes, you got the gist of how it works.

To give a bit more context, functions are basically snippets of code that are executed when called. One way to look at the input("What's your name?") function is this (not how the actual function looks like, just an abstraction):

function input(text_to_show):
    print(text_to_show)
    input_from_user = get_keyboard_input()
    return input_from_user

That return is something you will see often in many functions, and when you call a function, that’s the result it sends to the line that called. So, if input was actually coded like this:

function input(text_to_show):
    print(text_to_show)
    input_from_user = get_keyboard_input()
    return 1

Every time you called it, you would receive 1 as a result. In your example, nam = input('Who are you? ') would always assign 1 to nam, because the return is 1 rather than the variable that receives whatever you typed in.

That nexe looks nothing like cosmopolitan. Nexe compiles a node.js into a single exe for Windows and, from the readme, can create native binaries for other distributions (Linux, Mac), something that isn’t new to Nexe, you could do that with FreePascal way before Nexe. If you avoided OS specific calls, you could pull that since the early 90s with C, too.

Compiling the same codebase for N different platforms, generating N different native binaries, isn’t the same as having one single executable file that runs out of the box on significantly different OSs. Put it another way, she made a java that works without needing a JRE or JDK installed.

If you meant cell phones and tablets, that’s mostly due to the different architecture. RISC processors are super energy efficient, which also makes them much cooler to run.

x86-64 is a CISC architecture, which tends to be much more power hungry. There are only a couple of very low power Celeron CPUs that work under 10W of TDP, while that’s very common among phones’ CPUs.

I’d often bring a floppy with wolf3d or doom to deal with the boredom

Vandalism became theft and kidnapping

With 65 percent of projects adopting Agile practices failing to be delivered on time

They’re not “failing to deliver”, they’re being Agile in disappointing everyone involved!

Projects where engineers felt they had the freedom to discuss and address problems were 87 percent more likely to succeed.

Which shouldn’t surprise anyone, but I know some managers, directors and users loathe the idea of the people who’ll do the actual job having any say other than “yes, sir”.

In highlighting the need to understand the requirements before development begins, the research charts a path between Agile purists and Waterfall advocates.

Good documentation is critical and process-agnostic. If people can read and understand it, it’s good. It’s something that can be used as a shield and weapon against users/higher ups who want too much, it can create a trail of responsibility.

I mean, you’re using hardware from a company that is very blatantly anti consumer rights - thou shall not repair, thou shall not upgrade, thou shall not use third party anything, thou shall use Metal, for we despise OpenGL; not to mention that you have even less control on the mobile devices unless you pay a developer fee.

The fact that MacOS has some FOSS under the hood is completely irrelevant.