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>Such a pleasure to watch. I know, I know, many folks on HN will point out technical shortcomings After you get past the first season, (if you accept the premi
by EFruit 11y ago
>Such a pleasure to watch. I know, I know, many folks on HN will point out technical shortcomings
After you get past the first season, (if you accept the premise of an omniscient, digitally omnipotent artificial superintelligence that oversees the world), there are really very few technical errors.
In the first season, your standard crime-drama tech mistakes apply (malformed IP addresses, someone invading a computer system with a DDoS, randomly placed PCB overlays, etc.)
As the show progressed in to its second and third seasons, I was surprised to see the protagonists' computers sporting GNOME taskbars.
EDIT:
There are its fair share of minor discrepancies in various things like shell syntax and code formatting (like using Greek symbols in C code), but the point I was trying to make is that PoI's accuracy was overall very impressive. This impressiveness is amplified when compared with a series like CSI: Cyber, a show which does a far worse job of writing believable technobabble and designing realistic UIs, despite such things being arguably more critical to CSI: Cyber.
- dTal 11y agoHeh, I would hope that we crack Unicode in C before we crack omniscient, digitally omnipotent artificial superintelligences, or I despair for the world.