
Hackers (8/13) Movie CLIP - Hack the Gibson (1995) HD
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A short clip from the 1995 film Hackers in which the characters attempt to hack the Gibson supercomputer, shown with flashy stylized visuals of digital intrusion.
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Used mostly as a punchline or example of cheesy, unrealistic Hollywood depictions of hacking and over-stylized tech UIs.
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The book was released in 1984. Could it be that his descriptions of tech were just true to the times? I imagine his stylistic embellishments were also important in the same way older movies about technology (e.g. Hackers[0]) stylize digital events. [0]: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗I only watched a few episodes, but the whole "She needs to learn to hack in 24 hours" bullshit was a little too much for me. Everything she was doing could have been a script. There was 0 reason to have her punching in commands like that, and either way that's simply using Linux. 'python hack-it.py' would have sufficed. If you haven't seen it, it wasn't much better than this: [VIDEO] and at least that was entertaining.
Read original comment ↗> 'python hack-it.py' would have sufficed. If you haven't seen it, it wasn't much better than this: [VIDEO] and at least that was entertaining. Hacker (film) was painful to watch. So much cheesyness.
Read original comment ↗These are great to look at for something like tornado data, specifically because you probably don’t care at all about what the data tells you. For a while I was a data science consultant and then chief data scientist at a major organization, and all throughout, the most common request was for an interface that looked like “Minority Report”. I don’t even remember what that was, but, in almost all cases, these visualizations are something like corporate edutainment. If you are looking for an answer to a question, it is usually a number. Visualization can be useful if you don’t know why you are looking at the data in the first place, and even then, there is a choice between a chart that is made for understanding the data, and a ‘visualization’ that is made for entertaining the viewer. When I hear about VR/AR in data science, this is what I think of: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗when i hear bollocks like "agentic UX" i think of things like this [VIDEO] i feel like someone high up in microsoft probably has this pinned in a epic or something somewhere
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