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  • hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Unpopular opinion: the show was kinda cool. Not because it’s very realistic, but because it had really good writing. Well except for the computer science, but that much is obvious.

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      9 months ago

      I remember reading somewhere that TV show writers/producers are well aware of this and it’s kind of a sport to get the most ridiculous hacking scene in.

      Real hacking would be kind of boring to show, it would just be a guy staring at a screen for hours on end and occasionally typing something.

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        9 months ago

        The show that does it best is Mr robot, at least as far as I am aware it has the most realistic hacking scenes.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Well except for the computer science, but that much is obvious.

      And that’s never good. But as a computer scientist, I am of the opinion that the real thing is rarely as compelling as The Imitation Game, and even that was about people more than math/science. I’m on board with writers having fun with this stuff because it sort of challenges us to do better out in the world.

      For instance, Hackers was not a wildly-off-target take on what computing was like. Rather it’s what we wanted computing to look like.