One is a deeply human drama, the other is a spy thriller. Not sure why you'd even make the comparison.

I'm assuming Mr Robot is the spy thriller? It feels like more of a deeply human drama to me.

You have a very different perception of 'human' than I do!

The main character suffers from DID. From trauma that happened when he was little. Maybe you didn't watch the whole thing, that seems pretty "human drama"-ey to me.

That's not human drama. That's a sensationalized depiction of a really rare disorder that 99% of the audience has no experience with and cannot relate directly to.

Of course that's human drama, the entire show is drama. Even the "spy thriller" subplot is motivated by death of Whiterose's partner and the need to put the world back the way it was.

They ran contemporaneously and tended to come up on the same lunch table conversations.

it's just addition and subtraction, how hard can it really be???

It's the wage theft versus retail theft problem, no matter which one has higher 'real' costs, society has decided that one is the 'real' problem that we should prioritize.

Basically, yes.

Working for a major SaaS provider, lol yes.

He's helping with a fascist takeover of the country, why wouldn't they be happy?

Back in the day, Google eng had pretty unguarded access to people's gmails, calendars, etc. Then there was a news story involving a Google SRE grooming children and stalking them through their google accounts...

what was the name? and how did you possibly spend ten minutes on it

I tried many names, including just gibberish keyboard smashing, there is no way they were all already taken.

Yes, and the person you are replying to is clearly referencing Windsurf which was another vscode fork...

It was the classic "oh no we did caching wrong" bug that many startups bump into. It didn't expose actual conversations though, only their titles: https://openai.com/index/march-20-chatgpt-outage/

ah there it is. thanks for jogging my memory. funny to think of how niche chatgpt was considered then to now.