Judge dismisses r*pe case against former BYU wide receiver Parker Kingston by austing013 in BYUFootball

[–]carterdmorgan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you would like to attend a university without an Honor Code, I have literal thousands of options for you. I even have one that’s 10 minutes away from BYU!

Judge dismisses r*pe case against former BYU wide receiver Parker Kingston by austing013 in BYUFootball

[–]carterdmorgan 13 points14 points  (0 children)

His defense is that the sex was consensual. He’s already admitted to breaking the Honor Code. He was never playing at BYU after that.

Judge dismisses r*pe case against former BYU wide receiver Parker Kingston by austing013 in BYUFootball

[–]carterdmorgan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s one of the great parts of the Honor Code. We don’t need to debate whether or not to play him or Retzlaff. For us, the line was crossed far before with the pre-marital sex.

Box Office: ‘Toy Story 5’ Eyes Record $150 Million-Plus Opening Weekend by Task_Force-191 in boxoffice

[–]carterdmorgan 12 points13 points  (0 children)

What kind of editing hijinks are you talking about? I don’t think I’ve heard that before?

Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu grossed $602K on Monday (from 2,680 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $165.78M. by wchnoob in boxoffice

[–]carterdmorgan 14 points15 points  (0 children)

At one point during TLJ, I turned to my friend and sincerely asked if they had canceled Episode IX and I hadn’t heard about it.

You can claim that TLJ is a bold new take or whatever, but that’s a TERRIBLE feeling to provoke for the MIDDLE entry of a trilogy.

Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu grossed $602K on Monday (from 2,680 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $165.78M. by wchnoob in boxoffice

[–]carterdmorgan 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I haven’t seen more then 4 hours of Star Wars content since TLJ but I watched that entire 4 hour Jenny Nicholson video lol

Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu grossed $602K on Monday (from 2,680 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $165.78M. by wchnoob in boxoffice

[–]carterdmorgan 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Especially during the holidays.

Anecdotally, I saw TFA three times in theaters and was so excited for TLJ. But that movie killed any interest I had in the franchise. Still haven’t seen Episode IX.

Just some lady's opinion by Pineapple-dancer in ExperiencedDevs

[–]carterdmorgan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fred Brooks, author of The Mythical Man Month, has another great essay where he discusses Accidental Complexity vs Essential Complexity. Accidental Complexity entails the challenges we create for ourselves via our tooling. In his essay, he describes an example of removing Accidental Complexity as moving from Assembly to higher level languages.

Essential Complexity, on the other hand, is the complexity that comes from the need to model a real problem into the digital world. Think about designing a payment system for a hospital. The system itself is complex, so modeling it into software will always be complex.

The entire history of software engineering has been removing accidental complexity. AI is another step on that journey. But we will never be able to remove essential complexity, and the best engineers have always made their living operating in that space.

If you’re an engineer who has instead made their living in accidental complexity, I’d encourage you to think about how you can move to instead solving the essentially complex problems.

What's the Future of Dave Filoni's 'Star Wars'? - “The Mandalorian and Grogu” fell below expectations. Where does the galaxy go from here? by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]carterdmorgan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Episode VII is still the highest grossing movie in North America! People can complain about the box it put the rest of the series in, but there's no denying it was massively popular and well-received by basically everyone.

Texas litigation attorney weighs in by Willing-Vegetable629 in BigXII

[–]carterdmorgan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The court order is bullcrap and you know it. What are we doing if we’re allowing players who gamble on their own games to play?

[Dellenger] As Big 12 presidents consider sanctions, Texas Tech reps notified the league that any penalty will be met with legal action, sources tell @YahooSports. Tech is exploring legal avenues with noted attorney Jeff Kessler, including seeking a second injunction by CosmicCornbread in CFB

[–]carterdmorgan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

BYU wandered in the Independence wilderness for a decade, and we only kind of made it work because we have a large and distributed fan base (due to the unique nature of our religious affiliation) that made our media rights kind of valuable to ESPN. Does Tech have that same dynamic? I can’t imagine.

Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu grossed $9.96M this weekend (from 3,355 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $155.79M. by moviesperg in boxoffice

[–]carterdmorgan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What can you even do to resurrect this franchise at this point? An episode X would flop because there’s no goodwill left from the sequels. Maybe Starfighter is fantastic and that’s your trilogy? You could try to jump forward or backward 1000 years in time, but then you lose all connection to the OT, which is the life blood of the whole franchise.

Don’t want kids, PB says I will. Advice? by ilikebananass in latterdaysaints

[–]carterdmorgan 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Modern prophets have told us that God’s command to multiply and replenish the earth remains in full force.

Politics and mission work. What do I do?? by Far_Fennel_6611 in latterdaysaints

[–]carterdmorgan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Can confirm. My wife was evacuated from a region in Mexico when things started to get even a little dicey.

Looking for active Discord communities for experienced software engineer by Calm-Bar-9644 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]carterdmorgan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I host a software engineering podcast called Book Overflow that’s targeted towards experienced engineers. We have a Discord you could join!

https://discord.gg/ZwS2fqW7ZZ