MajorHavoc @ MajorHavoc @lemmy.world

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I don't think it's an insult to Asimov's work.

Asimov didn't write action movies or stories that could become action movies at all. But the elements in the movie I Robot are all solidly woven into Asimov's work.

But I agree it's a tradgedy that it's a lot closer to Minority report than to Bicentennial Man, Total Recall, or Blade Runner, as far as adaptations go.

I'm not mad at what we got, but we could have had a lot more Asimov and a lot less action movie tropes.

All that said, Will Smith's deliver of "11% is more than enough. A human being would have known that." is an incredibly worthy condensation of Asimov's core tension across the books.

Yeah. There's so many bad hacking movies.

To me, the worst offender is the pocket sized brute force device that displays one character at a time as it figures out a door passcodes.

1. On any reasonbly secure system, it would try 15 combinations and the doors would lock and an alarm would sound.
2. When I write a password checker that awards partial credit, I will be fired immediately for gross incompetence.
3. Door security systems are frequently the weak point in an otherwise modern system, and the pocket flashy device is actually unrealistically slow in letting the hacker in. An instant happy beep and a green light and an unlocked door would be more realistic.

That said, a surprisingly high quality hacker movie is "Sneakers".

I'm impressed you could take your eyes off of it.

When I see it, there were important things I needed to do, but I had to accept that those things were going to have to wait.

Wow.

Pitch Black put Vin Diesel on my radar as an actor.BI expected less than nothing from that film, and Vin has like 3 lines of dialog, and just carries it.

It's refreshingly daring hard scifi. And yes, it's also charming SciFi channel schlock. Both are somehow true.

A thought that may help you enjoy Tron: Legacy - The pacing and style changes are meant to represent the changes in computer technology and specifically gaming, between the eras when the two films came out.

In TRON, there's a mechanistic pacing that reflects the early computer clock cycles.

In TRON: Legacy, there's a lot of imagery and plotting around characters trying to find peace, or achieve slowness, or even just rythm - trying to escape the attention starved modern algorithm.

Yeah. Robocop 2016 is so good. I get that it's different, and it's reboot no one asked for.

But it's also a solid movie.

That makes more sense. Thanks.

Yeah. I don't understand why it doesn't get a lot more attention as one of the early solidly made comic book movies.

"You can't name a planet Bob."

"Then you are truly lost."

And a hearty handshake and a high five. Then start selling their assets and departments to competitors.

Wait... This is photoshopped? /s

Perfection.

I've always assumed this was an intentional reference by the DS9 creative team - right down to the running gag about Morn never shutting up.

The joke is that there's no way Morn answered a question in just five words!

Fantasticly written. I'm going to quote you in my team onboarding documents.

Whereas I...uh... Give the youngins a memorable story to tell later, when I git rebase.

Makefile club for life.

Check into the available plugins for your language. VsCodium's architecture pushes everything that not everyone needs into plugins, so unless you're just taking notes, you'll need a plugin for your chosen programming language, and eventually another for your chosen deployment environment (AWS, Azure, etc).

VSCodium's debuggers do have point-and-click configuration.

I think your point stands, though - the easy-button debugger setup has plenty of room to improve, and the majority of the user community focuses on the JSON debugger config - so most developers using VSCodium are going to be hand-crafting JSON configs to set up their debugger.

It does not integrate a debugger, build system, test system, execution, etc.

All of those things have been available in VSCode and VSCodium as production-ready plugins, supported by major vendors (mostly Microsoft) from almost day one.

Weirdly, as an extreme example, VSCodium with the MSSQL plugin is a better SQL IDE than most dedicated SQL IDEs.