Conversation started Oct 20, 2021 at 22:57.
Oct 20, 2021 22:57
@RedwolfPrograms I thought you lived in America
@Wezl That implies the Earth is a sphere lol
fine, in my hemicoookie
@RedwolfPrograms how tf you seeing a flag raised outside caird's window when caird is in the UK? /s
Binoculars and some mirrors
Oct 20, 2021 23:00
Those are some dang good mirrors then
We set it up the other day, took a lot of string to get the two tin cans to connect so we could talk
@lyxal Obviously, the UK government has cameras outside caird's house because they're a Jellyer and a potential threat to national security. Redwolf merely haxxed into the mainframe by overclocking their quantum GPU databases and used those cameras to see the flag outside caird's house :P
Redwolf 1337h4xx0r confirmed?!?
You don't have to be a 1337 haxxor to hack into the government's mainframe, as movies have repeatedly proven. Any two-bit script kiddy can just get in by putting on a hoodie, mashing their keyboard, and then (this is the important part) yelling "Bingo! I'm in!"
Oct 20, 2021 23:15
Why were you running rdoc on the folder containing your homework anyway?
because I'm switching from raw html to rdoc and I was testing something, but I mistyped and it has pretty bad defaults
LaTeX and MD ftw
@user With jQuery and blockchain
Can't forget those two
(tbh I don't even know how rdoc works or if MD has better defaults or whatever)
@RedwolfPrograms Of course, of course, as well as your deep clustered learning artificial intelligence algorithms amirite
@user You missed a step. Flashing, bright green terminal outputs are essential. Rapidly scrolling columns of digits are preferred, but if you want to get past a firewall they're essential.
Oct 20, 2021 23:18
I've honestly started enjoying technobabble now
@user there aren't really any advantages of rdoc over markdown that I've seen, the actual tool supports markdown documentation, and markdown is more popular (except for for ruby code), but I just don't want to be boring :P
@RedwolfPrograms Also graphics in the background of absolutely useless and irrelevant stuff
@Wezl "I just don't want to be boring" is enough justification :P
Typically you need blueprints of the server room, which can be obtained in a couple seconds, as long as you have some sort of nonsensical quip ready
I speculate that every professional and domain expert groans at how movies and TV shows portrays their field.
Doctors are probably worse off
Oct 20, 2021 23:20
what about tv professionals
I met an FBI officer the other day, and asked him if he sees detective shows, and if so, what he thinks about them.
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Idk, I'm not sure how much worse you could get than computer science/cybersecurity technobabble in shows
@user if I was going to be boring, I'd write on paper like a sane person. Markdown is the unnecessary middleground
"His heart's stopped!"
"Quick, get the defibrillator!"
*Hits chest with defibrillators a few times*
*gasps* "What happened?" *walks out of bed like nothing happened*
@Adám Well, what did he say? Don't keep us hanging
@user You have to yell "clear" first!
Oct 20, 2021 23:21
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And make a whining noise with increasing pitch!
He said that FBI is actually portrayed pretty accurately, except that it is a slow job; no case is solved in 60 minutes. And they don't just jet around to places; in his almost 30 years of service, he's only been on a Gulfstream once.
And for a few seconds, it looks like they're not going to make it...but then they do!
@Adám worse (In my extremely biased and limited personal experience solely because I'm not an "expert"), anyone who catches me in a terminal assumes I'm "hacking"
Oh yes, the usual "you're programmer – fix my phone!".
Oct 20, 2021 23:23
@Adám I'm assuming they don't get DNA results back in like 5 minutes by "calling in a favor" lol
If you're in a terminal and you're not hacking, what are you doing with your life
@user No, but apparently they can force pretty much anyone to do anything.
:|
@Adám maybe if you're working with adults
I certainly can't stand seeing orthodox Jews/Jewish life on-screen. It is almost always laughably far off.
Oct 20, 2021 23:24
@RedwolfPrograms If you have a terminal disease and you're not hacking, you mean?
Now I want to know what professional chefs think about cooking shows…
Aren't those somewhat more realistic than (non-documentary) movies because people are actually cooking?
Anything involving a court room tends to be pretty far off
@Adám What parts of it?
@RedwolfPrograms Ooh yeah I love it when they bring up some new piece of evidence on like the last day
@user Language and mode of speech, dress, customs, places, homes, schooling, food, y'name it.
Oct 20, 2021 23:26
"Objection!" then an immediate "Sustained" is so annoying
Also when the protagonist (either the lawyer or his client) goes on an impassioned rant and no one cares at all
@RedwolfPrograms And of course the obvious stupidly incorrect thing the other side does to prompt it
I never realized they took off the headrests in cars until I read about it on Reddit. Now I can't help but see it everywhere... :(
@user Explain.
Not much to explain, they take off the headrests in cars (I think they're called headrests, whatever that thing at the back of your head on top of the seat is called) so that you can see the actors' faces better when they turn around completely to face the people in the back (another pet peeve of mine, why can't they look ahead?)
Oct 20, 2021 23:34
Huh, didn't notice.
@Adám That sucks. I'd expect this to happen with entirely foreign cultures, but not when there's so many Jews in the US (assuming we're talking solely about Hollywood here, I don't watch too many foreign movies lol)
@user Very few orthodox Jews are involved in the entertainment industry. If Hollywood had just bothered to ask… But then again, they clearly don't care about accuracy when picturing other specifics, so why this?
I can only assume that image drawn up of, say, the Vatican, or far-away cultures, is grossly distorted too.
I guess all of those are considered minor details ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Conversation ended Oct 20, 2021 at 23:42.