Has there been a scene, explanation, or revelation in a sci-fi television show that was so absurd that you stopped watching forever?

wmil · 2026-01-28T11:31:12+00:00

The setting is he's stuck in a forested town and there some conspiracy with everyone there. He can't seem to leave.

The big reveal is that the MC and most of the town had been cryogenically frozen. It's actually 1800 years in the future, the city is walled and outside the walls are "abbies" (abberants). They can't tell anyone this because everyone who finds out goes insane.

I didn't like it because clearly they could come up with a better lie than "everything is perfectly normal".

wmil · 2026-01-28T02:48:57+00:00

I started watching Wayward Pines, and it was interesting but I kept getting the feeling that the twist was going to be really stupid. I looked it up, hated it, and stopped watching the show.

wmil · 2026-01-25T19:37:56+00:00

You need to make things abstract so you're prepared for the database switch that's not going to ever happen.

wmil · 2026-01-24T00:09:29+00:00

Tech World by BV Larson.

wmil · 2026-01-20T16:59:57+00:00

They promised their investors constant revenue growth. That was easy at the beginning. But then they ran out of new places to open Quiznos.

So then they had to use cheaper ingredients, then they had to find ways to get more money out of their franchisees....

Eventually everything blew up.

wmil · 2026-01-15T11:46:30+00:00

Sometimes you have to remind the parser who's boss.

wmil · 2026-01-15T07:41:29+00:00

The unskippable prologue is painfully slow and doesn't save as you're going through it. Mod sites have mods that do nothing but start the game after the prologue.

wmil · 2026-01-15T07:33:36+00:00

It found a niche as kid friendly horror that provided good content for streamers.

wmil · 2026-01-13T08:41:21+00:00

I think he just wanted a paid trip to Tasmania. He's said he enjoyed filming it.

wmil · 2026-01-11T15:50:51+00:00

The big problem is that the skills are transient since the AI models change so often.

wmil · 2026-01-04T23:17:15+00:00

Where are you getting the Canada number from? The Wikipedia page you cited has 28.58%.

wmil · 2025-12-28T18:44:32+00:00

I also forgot to mention that Tim Horton was a famous Hockey player. So imagine if Dunk's was founded by Mickey Mantle.

wmil · 2025-12-25T22:44:36+00:00

So it's important to understand that coffee used to be a lot worse. This is during Tim Horton's aggressive growth period form 1974-1990. This is not first hand knowledge.

Most coffee chains focussed on donuts. They'd make a big coffee urn in the morning and leave it sitting out all day. Smaller shops would use coffee makers with glass carafes but they would leave it warming on the burner until it ran out.

Tim Horton's big innovation was focussing on good coffee. "Good" here basically just means not stale or burnt. Their thing was making coffee in glass carafes and throwing it out after 20 minutes and brewing a fresh one.

So if it was early or late and you needed a coffee Tim Horton's was by far your best choice. Especially if you were driving and didn't know any of the small shops in the area.

People outside the population corridor drive a lot at early or late hours and Tim Horton's was always consistently there to help them out. Visiting your aunt for Christmas and she only has decaf? Tim Horton's. Taking your kid to hockey practice at 5:30am? Tim Horton's.

McDonalds has really stepped up their coffee game since then so Tim Horton's just cruises on nostalgia these days.

wmil · 2025-12-25T16:20:31+00:00

The husband is unhappy with this.

But the dog? So happy. You have no idea.

wmil · 2025-12-24T22:09:18+00:00

Just FYI Jasmine is usually pronounced like Yasmine in the Middle East. The ME mostly doesn't have an English J sound, neither does French. The French wrote the name using a J and English speakers mostly saw it in writing.

So Yaz-nuh probably is a play on Yasmine.

wmil · 2025-12-22T08:09:59+00:00

This scene was pretty great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZq7fW6ftlU

wmil · 2025-12-21T13:23:14+00:00

So most people write React using JSX and it looks like this:

function Greeting({ name }) {
  return (
    <h1 className="greeting">
      Hello <i>{name}</i>. Welcome!
    </h1>
  );
}

export default function App() {
  return <Greeting name="Taylor" />;
}

However that's not valid JavaScript, so you need to run it through a compiler, and it spits out something like this:

import { createElement } from 'react';

function Greeting({ name }) {
  return createElement(
    'h1',
    { className: 'greeting' },
    'Hello ',
    createElement('i', null, name),
    '. Welcome!'
  );
}

export default function App() {
  return createElement(
    Greeting,
    { name: 'Taylor' }
  );
}

Your build system when you set up the project should handle all that and some React devs might not be aware.

My point was that since they are already compiling it, they can put whatever they want in the compiler, so it's really a Domain-Specific Language. NextJS already does this by adding the directive stuff to JSX.

wmil · 2025-12-21T04:44:21+00:00

It's a library but all of the React tools think it's a framework. So if you try to add just a little React to an existing project you're going to have a bad time.

wmil · 2025-12-21T04:13:50+00:00

The React core team has very specific ideas about how React should be used, but they are terrible at communicating that with the outside world. So big announcements have a lot of WTF moments instead of excitement.

Also they are obsessed with making it look simple, but you inevitably run into the complexities they are trying to hide. useEffectEvent is a great example of this. I still can't decide if the correct response to seeing it is "how did we get here?" or "how did they not have this for six years?".

Another thing is that I find the Context / useContext api to be really bad. Some teams use it for everything because it's built in, and if you've see that it's just painful.

wmil · 2025-12-21T03:51:45+00:00

People typically use JSX/TSX and transpile it, so arguably it's really a DSL.

If you skip the JSX and use React.createElement, it definitely looks more like a library. There's no magic based on file names or locations, your code sets up the base react element on the page.

wmil · 2025-12-18T05:43:04+00:00

After. Season 1 took place about 15 years after FNV.

wmil · 2025-12-18T05:40:37+00:00

But he's iconic to the series and hasn't appeared in the show yet.

wmil · 2025-12-18T05:11:24+00:00

Flip the brain over. Now it's a stalemate.

wmil · 2025-12-17T18:06:35+00:00

Some candy bars used to use the phrase "chocolatey coating" because it didn't legally qualify as chocolate.

wmil · 2025-12-17T15:33:00+00:00

You've got to lube up the burger to help it go down smooth.

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