
Quinneapolis
[PoI][for real this time] I'm being bullied by computer episodes not written by computer people

Quinneapolis
Caleb is writing some kind of revolutionary superprogram but boy please

Quinneapolis
please indent your FUCKING code

birthday snake
TV detective vs tech guy

Quinneapolis
also "implementing multithreading" is like... it's impressive as an amateur project, but it's also something we have

Quinneapolis
you can just bust open visual studio and multi some threads

Quinneapolis
like at least atomic variables are something related to multithreading but if Caleb is running into race conditions in his code and he was surprised that the variables specifically designed to not be interfered with by multiple threads operating on them

Quinneapolis
maybe he's not a supergenius

Quinneapolis
235 terabytes of data magically compressed onto one thumb drive

Quinneapolis
I don't think... compression algorithms work that way

magnet
maybe it's data with a lot of regularity

Quinneapolis
people are fighting over the project because it's going to revolutionize streaming video bandwith constraints

Quinneapolis
caleb's a good kid though

Niamh Vibes
one of the many ways PoI is weird is that there's definitely episodes where they have a tech guy and episodes where they don't

Niamh Vibes
Anything about coding though definitely has the former though

Quinneapolis
Finch: "Pi. The first 3000 digits. My number's in there somewhere. You're smart, you'll figure it out."

Quinneapolis
fucking

Quinneapolis
what?

Niamh Vibes
I'm gonna be real, that speech comes up again in a few seasons and its no less bad

Quinneapolis
oh no

Niamh Vibes
shit i meant *definitely has the latter, that's a bad mistake

Quinneapolis
I figured