Today I learned that there is actually a lyricist credit on the song “Gonna Fly Now” from the movie Rocky.
It took two people to write “Getting strong now / Trying hard now / Gonna fly now.”
So much so that, when people figured out how to use computers themselves for the really menial parts, they were actually referred to as “self-programming computers”.
It probably didn’t take long after that for people to realize that, no, there really was still room for actual human programmers, even on a computer with a compiler.
Ah, the pipe-dream of high level language creators: a language so powerful yet intuitive that ‘even a manager could use it’… 
Those of us in the trade have probably encountered a few managers who think they are programmers because they once got a couple of Excel macros working!
Speaking from a lifetime career as a kernel-level system software engineer…
Mind you, with LLMs, the day is getting closer…
Even with LLMs, you’re still going to have managers asking for seven red lines, all perpendicular, some drawn with green ink and some transparent.
Am I the only one who gets that reference?
If you mean do they consistently produce female plants, then yes, they do !
From memory It’s done using a compound of silver somehow..
Info here.
I don’t get the reference, but I’m quite familiar with the phenomenon. I distinctly remember one manager who insisted that while the monthly figures in her budget report were correct, the yearly total wasn’t what she wanted.
…and the way they get the cat to “cha cha cha” is by a kind of looping – printing a few frames in reverse order after a forward motion. Then doing this two more times.
It’s the same way the British propagandists created a film of Hitler apparently doing a little jig of victory when learning about the Fall of Paris in 1940
There’s the interesting fact. I knew of the film and had no idea it was faked until now.
I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that…
They rolled with the gag and had all the Nazis perform the Lambeth Walk
The original short story behind Day of the Triffids, no?
And irradiating seeds is a quite common practice. Basically, you take thousands of seeds, subject them all to high doses of ionizing radiation, and then plant them and see what comes up. A lot of them die, a lot will have no apparent change, but of the few that do change, occasionally you’ll get something good (here defined as “something that you can sell”): Maybe a different color from a flower, or a fruit that’s a little bit bigger or hardier, or whatever. It’s essentially a random shotgun method of genetic engineering (and which is allowed for products labeled as “non-GMO”).
I think that man-in-the-moon marigolds are an actual variety that was produced this way, but the search results are so cluttered with hits for the story that it’s hard to find concrete information.
That was exactly what I meant and your link gives just the answer I was looking for, ignorance fought. Thanks a lot!
The process is a bit weird and unexpected, at least for me, but it makes sense. I wonder how anybody came up with the idea. Whoever it was, drugs may have played a role 
Just you and me. This link may help.
I was right up near a huge fish in Hawaii listening to it chomping on coral, when it took a massive audible poop, squirting out a long white cloud of digested coral. I heard a fish pooping. I still can’t fit that cosmic existential puzzle piece into my brain.
The master speaks
You might also b interested in this. I stumbled across a copy at the museum in St, Johnsbury VT last year when we wer up there to se the ecipse. It gave me some interesting reading while waiting for the sun to go out.
You have just supplied my top Christmas gift for this year. Thank you!
I wonder if they split it 50-50 or if they fought over who wrote 2 out of the 3 lines.
Saw the play; watched the movie