[HN Gopher] Jurassic Systems
___________________________________________________________________
Jurassic Systems
Author : wannacboatmovie
Score : 151 points
Date : 2023-12-15 08:20 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.jurassicsystems.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.jurassicsystems.com)
| willis936 wrote:
| It's a unix system. I know this.
| hiccup wrote:
| Clever girl
| josiahpeters wrote:
| They're problem solving smart.
| HanClinto wrote:
| This is delightful.
|
| Anyone found a way to beat this?
|
| I particularly enjoyed the "live docks" clip saved on the Mac
| desktop.
| tempodox wrote:
| I made it beep!
| divbzero wrote:
| I really thought _sudo_ would do the trick.
| batspit wrote:
| Yup. I politely used the magic word and was rewarded with an
| ASCII image. I assume that's the hidden feature.
| airstrike wrote:
| Indeed, but it's almost more fun to get it wrong 3 times ;-)
| staplung wrote:
| I think the hidden feature is summoning the second desktop
| where Nedry is taunting you. There is a fun level of detail
| in the keychecks command: if memory serves it shows exactly
| the output that's given in the book.
| gostsamo wrote:
| man access
| cm2187 wrote:
| Movie directors were deliciously non IT savvy at the time, I
| remember as a teenager growling every time an actor switched
| off the monitor when he meant to switch off the computer.
|
| But I guess taxi drivers still growl today at all those
| characters leaving the cab without paying in movies!
| jessriedel wrote:
| Do any taxis allow you to swipe your credit card and select a
| tip during the middle of the ride, rather than waiting until
| the end? You could just set up the whole transaction and then
| when the taxi stopped the fare+tip+tax would display and you
| could just hit "approve". Seems like such a waste for people
| to twiddle their thumbs during the ride and then spend 60
| seconds checking out while the cab is blocking a lane. (Not
| to mention that Uber/Lyfts don't have this downside, which
| puts taxis at a disadvantage.)
| airstrike wrote:
| > Do any taxis allow you to swipe your credit card and
| select a tip during the middle of the ride, rather than
| waiting until the end?
|
| In NYC you can use some apps (e.g. Arro or Curb, which are
| apparently sort of the same thing) to connect to your
| current ride so that it pays when it is over
| scrapcode wrote:
| man access
|
| access main please
| willis936 wrote:
| I'm not sure if there are special system names. Both access
| and system commands seem to respond the same way to nearly
| any string given as the system name.
| wmf wrote:
| Re-watching Jurassic Park after working in the corporate world
| was eye-opening. The entire park is controlled by a centralized
| computer system maintained by one extremely disgruntled guy and
| Hammond just tells him to suck it up. Worst management ever.
| sdenton4 wrote:
| And a notorious mail thief, at that...
| tempodox wrote:
| Mad scientists are infamous for their bad management skills.
| charles_f wrote:
| He's not a scientist, he's a businessman who spared no
| expense (except, apparently, on his main systems staff
| salary)
| swagasaurus-rex wrote:
| Hammond's justification is that he is not responsible for
| Dennis Nedry's gambling debts
| wannacboatmovie wrote:
| If you listen to the dialogue closely, Nedry was a contract
| employee who apparently set his own lowball price ("for
| what I bid on this job").
| noduerme wrote:
| Just speaking from personal experience, never take a job
| that makes it sound like living on-site is a "perk".
| sircastor wrote:
| I assumed that it was non-negotiable. Like, part of the
| secrecy of the project was being onsite.
| speed_spread wrote:
| You're right but that doesn't contradict GP. Having to
| live onsite in not a perk no matter how the employer
| frames it and should be priced in accordingly unless
| you're desperate.
| willis936 wrote:
| I feel that an egotistical businessman not seeing the
| obvious single point failure of an essential disgruntled
| contract employee is one of the most believable parts of
| the movie.
| jedberg wrote:
| The book goes into a lot more detail. Hammond is much more evil
| in the book. He basically has no respect for IT so he shits on
| Nedry constantly.
| jstarfish wrote:
| No respect for biology either, which is why everything went
| to shit in the first place.
|
| He could not have been a kindlier villain. The guy had
| terminal Narcissism.
| kinlan wrote:
| I only just realised after reading this comment that Nedry is
| an anagram of Nerdy.
| jedberg wrote:
| Huh. Today I learned. And it's a pretty low effort anagram
| too!
| tempodox wrote:
| One can only hope that everyone learned their lesson: If you
| disregard IT, dinosaurs will eat your investors.
| marcosdumay wrote:
| > He basically has no respect for IT so he shits on Nedry
| constantly.
|
| Well, hiring Nedry's prosperous company and bringing it to
| bankruptcy due to a constant stream of fraud is more than
| enough. The movie cuts that part out.
| Xenoamorphous wrote:
| Hammond did spare some expense it seems.
| ModernMech wrote:
| The guy who constantly had to claim he's sparing no expense
| turns out to be a cheapskate. No surprise.
| willis936 wrote:
| When I watched Jurassic Park recently I felt that this was
| a subtle dig and commentary. As a kid you just think he's
| Willy Wonka Santa Claus magical adult figure who makes
| dinosaurs because none of the characters ever show anything
| other than respect for him. As an adult you can see how
| they might just be giving him the benefit of the doubt and
| handling the crisis gracefully. I had my own set of
| character criticisms that weren't just handed to me by the
| creators. Good stuff, really.
| iamdbtoo wrote:
| What's notable to me about this is that he clearly does
| believe he is sparing no expense because he's shelling out
| so much money on tech and everything, he just doesn't view
| human labor as valuable.
| ReactiveJelly wrote:
| He also doesn't think about bus factor and that lack of
| respect for safety / quality ends up undoing the whole
| company. Leaders can't buy quality if they don't want it
| kayodelycaon wrote:
| It seemed intention to me. If leadership had been
| competent and thought about safety, there wouldn't have
| been much of a movie. ;)
| stephenr wrote:
| As pointed out by Pitch Meeting: he invites his young
| grandchildren to the under construction park where a worker was
| just _eaten_. He 's pretty terrible as a person, not just as a
| manager.
| echelon wrote:
| I would really love to have wall art that resembled the LED
| patterns from the supercomputers in the Jurassic Park film,
| specifically the CM-5 [1, 2]
|
| [1]
| https://www.starringthecomputer.com/appearance.html?f=11&c=1...
|
| [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
|
| [3] https://youtu.be/T4kBRC2co7Y?t=65
|
| [4] https://youtu.be/W24ItFdsL7k?t=370
| miffe wrote:
| bigclive has a video over at youtube on how to build one.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f8jgvvJe-Q
| k2enemy wrote:
| https://housedillon.com/blog/resurrected-led-panels/
| Keyframe wrote:
| >hinv
|
| >>hinv: command not found
|
| this is phoney
| kirykl wrote:
| Can't seem to find if it runs FSN or not
| https://github.com/jonathanlyonmoore/3d-file-system-navigato...
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2023-12-17 23:02 UTC)