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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Sometimes TV gets it right

Of course it's anime

I learned to suspend my critical thinking skills watching movie or TV scenes featuring a computer back in the IBM PC era. At the time, any shot of someone working on a computer was invariably paired with CLACKY TYPEWRITER NOISES, since how else would the audience know they were doing computer things?

Crack into that super-secret defense system by randomly guessing passwords because there's no lockout or MFA in TV Land? I can ignore that. IPv4 address octets > 255. No problem (though I do want a scene where a developer from the 1980's, thawed out of suspended animation, screams in horror at the sight of an IPv6 address).

At the same time when a TV show gets it right deserves praise, given the huge influence media has on public perception of technology. 

This is from Kowloon Generic Romance, episode 12:

Laptop displaying Python code

Not only is this valid Python code, whoever wrote this ensured it was harmless- because they knew someone would run it as-is.