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  • Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows.

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  • Space Flight.

    I walked in on my roommate watching "Don't Look Up" right during the space shuttle launch scene. Literally every single thing was wrong. The trajectory the shuttle took off the launch pad. It flying RIGHT SIDE UP as it did the gravity turn like a fucking airplane. The fact 50 other rockets were in formation with it despite that being stupidly dangerous, them all having different TWR ratios, there not being nearly enough launchpads anywhere in the world to do that, etc. Just everything.

    We have existing video footage of shuttle launches. It's not some crazy mystery. This isn't Gravity where they add a window that doesn't exist on the ISS for dramatic tension. It's not Star Wars where the X-Wings behave more like airplanes than spacecraft for visual appeal. This was deliberate negligence.

    A very common one is spacecraft seem to always launch in a direct line away from the planet. They just go straight up. That's the least efficient way to get into space. But I usually let it slide because explaining orbital mechanics and Hoffman transfers isn't necessary for good story telling.

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  • In Criminal Minds, there's a super hacker that can basically infiltrate any system at will and do impossible things (like simultaneously scanning every street cam to find a specific license plate). Government supercomputers with elite security are no match for her.

    Okay, I get it. This is a work of fiction and she's basically a mechanism to speed up the plot.

    In one episode they find some kid's password protected laptop. The super hacker goes "oh no, I can't hack that. It's running Anti-Hack OS! We need the password". The password ends up being plain text password that a brute force dictionary attack could break in seconds.

    I've never facepalmed so hard.

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  • Basically searched through the comments for this one. I knew it would be here. I know there's a lot of "movie logic" for hacking, space flight, how guns work, etc. but how do you fuck up elementary physics? Even kids know ice floats.

  • Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era

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  • Fucking PHONES had more RAM. It was so fucking stupid. And despite their arguments, it was proven time and time again 8GB was not enough.

  • The Magic Keyboard, Trackpad and Mouse now use USB-C!

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  • I think you're confusing Thunderbolt with the lightning cable. Hell, even basic USB-C is faster than lightning cable.

  • The Magic Keyboard, Trackpad and Mouse now use USB-C!

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  • False. I was issued that mouse at a previous workplace and it pissed me off so much I brought in my own mouse. And my experience was that when the mouse was fully dead it needed to charge a long time to be usable again.

    If it just simply let you use it while it was plugged in there'd be absolutely no issue. It's a dumb design.

  • Programmers of Lemmy, what are your interviewing horror stories?

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  • The candidate said they were going to use Java. I asked them if perhaps they weren't coding in Python instead? They insisted it was Java. I forget the details but they proceeded to "fix" their code by doing some stuff that made absolutely no sense no matter what language they were using.

  • Guess who’s suing the FTC to stop ‘click to cancel’ | Companies fight back to make subscription services harder to cancel

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  • It's so fucking stupid. If you can sign up with a click, you should be able to cancel with a click. There's no justifiable argument against that other than corporate greed.

    I do remember one of my most satisfying cancelation calls though. I just kept saying, "No." Just "no". No added explanation. No added reasoning. It frustrated the retention employee so much. They were like "but WHY?" They couldn't try to convince me not to quit since I didn't give them any reasons for why I didn't want it, just that I didn't want it.

  • My portfolio looks much cleaner though

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  • IIRC the original post was something like "My sister and I are like polar opposites". I still find it adorable.

  • Programmers of Lemmy, what are your interviewing horror stories?

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  • At the time it was like watching a train wreck. This was much earlier in my career and I was like, "there's just no way, right?"

    I did get lunch out of it.

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  • lol. I kid you not, someone did that. Then completely imploded when I pointed out that it'd just print the object reference and not the list contents.

    Can you start next Monday? :p

  • Programmers of Lemmy, what are your interviewing horror stories?

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  • Dude, so much of your experience resonates with me! I was applying to a small start-up and they were like "oh, our new CEO is former Amazon so you'll be doing a half-dozen hour-long interviews over the course of a couple days." Wut? Other times the company would claim they don't care that most of my experience is in Java and then after final interviews they'll turn me down because most of my experience is in Java and they think it's not possible for someone to use a different programming language or something. And people who reach out to ME then ghost me.

    Sadly I'm still trying to find a new role.

  • Programmers of Lemmy, what are your interviewing horror stories?

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  • As the interviewee?

    I show up at their office for a round of interviews. IIRC it was 4 interviews of about an hour each. Every single interviewer comes in 5-10 minutes late. They all look completely exhausted. Unprompted, they all commented that "yeah, this is a start-up so we're expected to work 80 hour weeks. That's just how it is." I did not take that job.

    Another place wanted to do a coding "pre-screening" thing. You know, where you go to a website and there's a coding question and you code it and submit your answer. THIS place wanted you to install an extension that took full control of your browser, your webcam, your mic, etc. So it could record you doing the coding challenge. No, thank you.

    As the interviewer? omg, the stories I can tell.

    We had a guy come in for an hour interview. We start asking him the normal interview questions. Literally everything he says is straight up wrong or he says, "I don't know" and then just gives up and doesn't try to work out a solution or anything. But we have a whole hour with this guy and as interviewers we've been instructed to use the full hour otherwise candidates complain that they weren't given a fair chance even when it's TOTALLY obvious it's going to be a "no-hire." So we start asking this guy easier and easier questions... just giving him basic softball questions... and HE STILL GETS THEM ALL WRONG. We ask him what type of variable would you use to store a number? He says, "String." WHAT?! I'm totally flabbergasted at this point. So finally I get a brilliant idea: I'll ask him an OPINION question! There's no way he can get that wrong, right? Looking at his resume, it has something like "Java Expert" on there. So I say to him, "It says on your resume you're a Java Expert. What's your favorite thing about Java?" His response? "Oh, I actually don't know anything about Java. I just put that on my resume because I know they used that at a previous company." So now on top of this guy getting every question wrong, we've established he has also lied on his resume, so basically just red flags EVERYWHERE. Finally, after a grueling 45 minutes we decide to give up asking questions and just end with the whole, "So we like to reserve the last bit of time so you can ask us questions. Do you have anything you'd like to ask?" Without missing a beat, this guy goes, "When do I start? I feel like I NAILED that interview!"

    At another company I worked at, we would do online interviews that took only an hour. The coding portion of the interview had a single question: "Given a list of strings, print the contents of the list to the screen." That was it. Sure, we could make the coding question harder if they totally aced it, but the basic question was nothing more complicated than that. The candidate could even choose which programming language they wanted to use for the task. That single question eliminated half the candidates who applied for the job. Some straight up said they couldn't do it. One person hung up on me and then when I tried to call back they said the fire alarm went off at their place and they would reschedule. They never did. Many people forgot that I could see their screens reflected in their glasses and I could see them frantically Googling. There was one candidate that did so insanely poorly during the interview that we believe it must have been a completely different person that had gone through the initial phone screen, so basically they were trying to bait-and-switch.

    I have a bunch of other stories but this post is already getting quite long.

  • Walking into Pfizer or Eli Lilly

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  • In case anyone is curious, the image is from the DreamWorks movie Over the Hedge. It's pretty good and I would recommend.

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  • I typically use the fact that there are trees older than 4000 years old based on tree ring data. Or that there are stars in the sky further than 4000 light years away that we can see in the sky.

    That usually makes them say something like how their God created an world that was already aged. So I usually counter with the fact that would make their God a lier and deceiver.

    Some hold firm and say God did it to test faith. Others back pedal and try to blame it on Satan. That Satan scattered all this false evidence just to make us question the notion that Earth is 4000 years old to make people lose faith in God. And then I have to laugh at how stupid their argument is and how weak their God is. Naturally no amount of evidence or logic will make them change their belief.

  • What Ever Happened to Netscape?

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  • Oh shit.... core memory unlocked. I forgot I used to do this. I forgot there was a time you would do this otherwise everything just had the same icon.

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  • I remember arguing with dipshits the last time this was a hot topic. Their lame arguments basically boiled down to "think of the children" as if the only reason people were using a particular restroom was they were perverts spying on women.

    First, obviously this isn't true. Not even a little bit.

    Second, even IF it were true, which I remind you, it isn't, wouldn't a better solution be to allow either parent to accompany the child to the restroom?

    "What if a pervert follows my daughter into the bathroom?" "Okay, so you want to make it illegal for you to go in with her?"

    And let's not forget that this is unenforcable to begin with. What, are they going to require ID check? Make you present your birth certificate? Have you pull down your pants before you can enter? FFS due to a clerical error my ID mistakenly said I was female for a time. I would've been legally required to use female restrooms.

  • It's not an act. I'm a very sexy Borgy

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  • I love Ryan and she definitely came into her own with great acting, but initially she wasn't as great an actor. BUUUT that totally worked because she was Borg so her wooden acting was perfect for the role! And as she improved as an actress that came off as 7of9 becoming more human.

    IIRC there was a late season episode where different parts of Voyager were stuck in different time periods and 7of9 was supposed to be her original Borg self and Ryan had such a massive problem with it because she'd essentially forgotten how to be a bad actor.

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  • I thought it was just a given that you need to constantly remind your feline companion that they are, in fact, a cat.