I would like to think that I’m capable of writing maintainable code like seemingly everyone else in this thread, and I have multiple code bases that have existed for decades that have included necessary updates over time to reinforce that opinion.
I’ve also seen some truly unfathomable, Lovecraftian horror code in the wild that has persisted for decades.
Seeing Will Smith’s character as a representative of humanity, and Sonny as a representative of LLM/GenAI in that context makes this joke absolutely hilarious.
I’m not sure how to interpret this since I don’t wear glasses. I can’t tell if your response was intended as a compliment, insult, joke, or something else entirely.
Full disclosure, I’m on the spectrum so there is likely something that is going over my head. I can only hope that your comment was given with positive intentions and was intended to evoke positive feelings in the reader.
My understanding is that the Dr. was referring to her glasses prescription, but the numbers he provided were misinterpreted as some sort of rating on her appearance (or perhaps basketball performance).
He didn’t intend to cause that confusion, which is why he acknowledged that his choice of wording was not ideal. I hope that clears things up.
Unfortunately a product of a writers strike at the time. Other shows also got hit, Bones was one that comes to mind.
Oof I forgot about that. Well written entertainment (not at all) surprisingly depends on talented and sufficiently compensated writers.
Theres also the fact that it didn’t really seem well thought out on what to do with prisonbreak after they got out. How do you keep that same sort of pre-planning and genius level work that micheal put in to it all. but it was an eventful show.
I wish they would have found some way to tie up the whole conspiracy and end the show with the conclusion of the first season. We didn’t need to see what happened afterwards, leave that to our imaginations. Unfortunately what followed was a clumsy attempt to reconcile the more fantastical elements with reality. We could have had another brilliant prison story like Shawshank, but instead we got a conspiracy theory soap opera.
I fear that late 00s was the last time we got a big lineup of all those types of big shows. Streaming is all well and good, but its taken away the week-by-week talking about shows that used to occur. You watch the episode, the next day everyone was talking about it, coming up with theories and ideas, now its not a given that people all watch it at the same time, and with binge watching it has, for better or worse, just killed that sort of community that existed around tv shows.
I don’t think that kind of entertainment is entirely gone today, but it’s certainly the exception rather than the rule. Outside of a few niches, I agree that you don’t really see the same level of the week by week theory crafting and speculation that used to be so fun at the time. I hope someday that experience will be the norm again.