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I noticed watching the recent 4K release of The Terminator that the garage attendant in the final scene has a piece of paper in his top pocket with "There's a storm coming“ written upside down on it.


Did you notice the Terminator counts his kills in floating-point numbers? I'd hate to see the studio correct these things.


"Casualties", not kills. Perhaps using floating point is for working with another Terminator, or the decimal value being calculated based on the wound inflicted, with a whole number being a kill.

Or really, just to Look Cool And Technical And Shit.


To nobody's surprise, Skynet is a strict utilitarian who has rationally concluded that plucking one billion eyelashes is equivalent to one murder.


There's a lot of camera-eye real estate for zeros!


So T800 is indeed coded in Javascript, I knew it! What else to expect of devs in 2029


It’s because JavaScript has the most example code in the LLM’s training data that writes the Terminator source code.


Of course not! As is well known, T800 is coded in COBOL ([1]).

[1]: https://www.theterminatorfans.com/the-terminator-vision-hud-...


By this guy: https://x.com/ThrillScience/status/1249742678532620293


And that his vision readout is Motorola 6502 machine code, including comments for peeks and pokes.

It was a simpler time.


Maybe it is fixed point though




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