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@siracusa my first exposure to ‘The Plumber’s Problem’ was sitting in a theatre with my dad in 1973 watching ‘Emperor of the North’ and my dad leans over to whisper “they didn’t make culvert pipe like that back in the 30’s, it was plate not corrugated”
@snowdolphin Hah! But note that it’s “The Plumber Problem” (no possessive).
@siracusa in this case the “civil engineer problem” :-)
@snowdolphin @siracusa I’m very intrigued but “plumber problem” has poor SEO 
Can you expand?
@gretared @snowdolphin It’s a phrase I made up for when you’re watching a movie and they touch on some subject area that you know way more about than the average person, and some inaccuracy in what’s depicted takes you out of the movie for a moment.
An example is a plumber watching a movie where suddenly there’s a scene where something having to do with pipes is integral to the plot, but it’s all wrong, and the plumber’s mind rebels momentarily.
@siracusa @gretared @snowdolphin there are digital™ VT100s in Kong: Skull Island, which is set in 1973. They weren’t made until 1978.
Nothing was believable after that ;)
@daycoder @siracusa @gretared @snowdolphin I was watching some time travel show where they go back in time to a secret lab in the 1980s and all of the terminals had text with syntax highlighting
@truethomas @daycoder @siracusa @gretared @snowdolphin Ooh! The HTML in the latest season of Stranger Things!
@truethomas @daycoder @siracusa @gretared @snowdolphin I had syntax highlighting in the 80’s.
@ahltorp @daycoder @siracusa @gretared @snowdolphin Yeah, I looked it up at the time and there were color terminals as early as 1987 but this was not that and I'm pretty sure the scene was set much earlier. It was jarring to anyone who ever used any of the DEC terminals.
@truethomas @daycoder @siracusa @gretared @snowdolphin Syntax highlighting doesn’t have to be color, but I understand your point.
@ahltorp @daycoder @siracusa @gretared @snowdolphin I was going to ask if you just meant monochrome.
@truethomas @daycoder @siracusa @gretared @snowdolphin That’s plausible, as the Cornell program synthesizer dates from the early 80s.
@guy_middleton @daycoder @siracusa @gretared @snowdolphin I knew this was going to happen.
@guy_middleton @daycoder @siracusa @gretared @snowdolphin This was color on deep true black, in screen fonts that I'm pretty sure didn't exist in 1983, at high resolution. I wish I could remember the show.
@truethomas @daycoder @siracusa @gretared @snowdolphin If it was a secret lab I bet they had all kinds of cool stuff the rest of us wouldn’t see until years later.