The misunderstanding here shows that we need to be careful with in-jokes and references in an asynchronous medium. Even among people who have consumed the media in question. It's even worse with the general public (or even just general HN public).
No. We don’t need to make conversations so boring as to allow you and your robotic ink to completely unambiguously understand them. For every one person that didn’t get this obvious Bluey reference deep in a Bluey thread, I’m sure that 100 more DID get it.
termdebug (used by the tool linked in the topic) basically does this for anything you can debug in GDB. It's the tightest integration of debuggers and (neo)vim I have used.
There are also DAP-based integrations, which I have put the effort into using.
Expanding on this,a very nice property of Galois Counter Mode (GCM) for AES is that encrypting one block does not require the previous block to be encrypted, like in AES-CBC.
This means that AES-GCM can take advantage of data parallelism and there are big speedups in threaded and pipelined CPUs.
In short, you can get big latency and throughout gains by using AES-GCM over AES-CBC.
That was the style at the time. There were a handful of shows that came over to the US from the UK - The Office, Coupling, IT Crowd - but only The Office took off, and really only took off once it found it's own voice for American audiences. In many cases, they were shoot-for-shoot remakes with American actors and some modifications (Jim instead of Tim, Pam instead of Dawn), but this one is down to the credits identical, even bringing Moss over.
I think there is room for British comedies in the US, as long as they're open to adaptation. David Brent was a terrible boss and awful person, but Michael Scott had to at least be a good salesman to be believable as middle management. Little differences like that made the show work.
I think they probably realized that the success of the series were due to the characters, and not so much the writing. So if its going to live/die based on the audiences response to the characters then why spend time working on the script?
And I have to say, this episode of the US IT Crowd just wasn't the same for me. This version is quirky and forgettable. The cast of the UK version is _so_ good that it elevates it to a hilarious classic.
