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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I'm in IT. It gets comical.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I had to walk out of Hackers in the theater.

"Whoah... he has a 9600 baud modem!"

(when 28,800 was commonplace and 33,600 was coming).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

hackers is maybe not the most accurate with the technology but it gets the culture dead right

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

RISC architecture is gonna change everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I mean, imagine the world without ARM.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure it's comical for most people, don't need that much knowledge to see how fake it often is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

*clickety clickety clack

"I'm in."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I like to imagine Gibbs just unplugged the monitor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Haha I'll bet! What's one of your favourites?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

All of it. All of it is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They did a pretty good job (not perfect though) on Mr. Robot and the Millenial trilogy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Person of Interest did pretty well too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Some actors actually know how to type now, but I imagine with cell phones being people's sole exposure to computers... We are going to get actors mashing keys again soon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At the end of "Stand By Me", my uncle was a typing double for Richard Dreyfuss because apparently he could not type.

https://youtu.be/l7r-R61W1DQ

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Damn, I still can't watch that clip without feeling weird when River Phoenix disappears.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Ha! Good point

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

personally a big fan of

[typing complete gibberish on multiple keyboards at once, followed by the immortal line:] "I'm in."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I've seen C++ code being used as log output

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Haha even I know that's bullshit

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hacking a missile in flight might be a tad funnier. (season finale of the worst season of Arrow)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

How can there be a worst season of Arrow?