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by weliketocode
2695 days ago
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Meh. For reference, I'm an expert level (~2000 ELO) chess player. I'd say only very casual players or nitpickers watch the movies and say... > "Ah ha! That is against the rules/wrong/a clear mistake! I'm so smart! Silly filmmakers for not knowing such things!". It's the same as watching a Doctor or Lawyer show. Many of these 'mistakes' are made for dramatic effect, for better storylines, or to make the situation in some way or another. In classical time controls, chess games can easily take upwards of 4 hours, and periods of 10, 20, or 30+ minutes with NO MOVES are quite common. It's not a game that fits easily into the mold of other mass spectator sports. |
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Or show involving anything HN readers would be familiar with.
“I wrote a program that reconfigures the warp drive computational algorithms to give us 50% more power.”
“In an hour? Last I looked, that whole thing was like 50K LoC. How much did you test this before you deployed it to OUR ONLY PROPULSION OUT OF KLINGON SPACE?! Someone code reviewed it, I take it?”
<Six weeks later...>
No, no one’s going to watch that (“goddamn it, Bob, quit mixing formatting commits with functional commits!”) So the director takes a few liberties, we shut up, eat our popcorn, and pretend it’s perfectly reasonable to knock that out over lunch.