In this thread - tons of smart people thinking that the tools we use to replace “make a backup of a file on a server somewhere” should require entire reference books, as if that’s normal.

Saying “it’s a graph of commits” makes no sense to a layperson. Hell the word “diff” makes no sense. Requiring training to get something right is acceptable, but “using CVS” is a tiny tiny part of the job, not the whole job. I mean, even most of the commenters on this thread are getting small things wrong (and some are handwaving it away saying “oh that small detail doesn’t matter”).

Look, git is hard. It’s learnable, but it’s hard. The concepts are medium hard to understand, and the way it does things is unique and designed for distributed, asynchronous work - which are usually hard problems to solve.

Dragonlance is a good one.

• Wheel of Time
• Mistborn
• The Uplift Saga
• The Alex Benedict Series

They turned the inside the suit moments of Iron Man into pop culture. They could figure it out, I bet!

And we were teased about it on the SciFi channel a bunch of years ago before they instituted cost savings measures.

Small price to pay for keeping your dream alive!

Same here when I can get it. Otherwise just coffee and movement. Getting my brain into another task helps too.

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Counterpoint, capitalism has existed for only a few hundred years and yet hunter gatherer societies by and large faded out a few thousand years ago. I’m not saying there’s a magic bullet solution here and/or we should revert to feudalism. But you didn’t make the point you thought you were making.

“Heyimatthemallcomegetmebythefoodcourt” is my one word. It’s what you would use as your name when using 1-800-collect.

I feel the opposite, heh. I feel like it’s a fun gimmick that’ll make things too disjointed and hard to follow. But i bet it’ll last until the end of the second act, or middle of the third, and they’ll get their powers back just in time to fuck up the big bad.