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I noticed watching the recent 4K release of The Terminator that the garage attendant in the final scene has a piece of paper in his top pocket with "There's a s

I noticed watching the recent 4K release of The Terminator that the garage attendant in the final scene has a piece of paper in his top pocket with "There's a storm coming“ written upside down on it.

xhevahir 1y ago
Did you notice the Terminator counts his kills in floating-point numbers? I'd hate to see the studio correct these things.
- p_ing 1y ago
  "Casualties", not kills. Perhaps using floating point is for working with another Terminator, or the decimal value being calculated based on the wound inflicted, with a whole number being a kill. Or really, just to Look Cool And Technical And Shit.
  - kibwen 1y ago
    To nobody's surprise, Skynet is a strict utilitarian who has rationally concluded that plucking one billion eyelashes is equivalent to one murder.
    - p_ing 1y ago
      There's a lot of camera-eye real estate for zeros!
- varjag 1y ago
  So T800 is indeed coded in Javascript, I knew it! What else to expect of devs in 2029
  - jimbokun 1y ago
    It’s because JavaScript has the most example code in the LLM’s training data that writes the Terminator source code.
  - tannhaeuser 1y ago
    Of course not! As is well known, T800 is coded in COBOL ([1]). [1]: https://www.theterminatorfans.com/the-terminator-vision-hud-source-code-explained/?amp=1 https://www.theterminatorfans.com/the-terminator-vision-hud-...
    - fortran77 1y ago
      By this guy: https://x.com/ThrillScience/status/1249742678532620293 https://x.com/ThrillScience/status/1249742678532620293
- adzm 1y ago
  Maybe it is fixed point though
- _wire_ 1y ago
  And that his vision readout is Motorola 6502 machine code, including comments for peeks and pokes. It was a simpler time.