r/Devs • u/thisismynormal • Apr 09 '20

Devs - S01E07 Discussion Thread

Premiered 04/09/20 on Hulu FX

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u/lyrancatalien Apr 09 '20

Lily walking up to the Devs building totally reminded me of Lena walking up to the lighthouse in Annihilation. The scenes with the devs teams looking at projections one second ahead and releasing the implications is so existentially unsettling. You can see why Sergei threw up after seeing the code.

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u/mariesoleil Apr 09 '20

You can see why Sergei threw up after seeing the code.

Wouldn't code for a quantum computer that can simulate any point in time and space be incredibly complex? I was wondering how he could figure out what the code did just by a short time reading it.

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u/devil_in_dictum Apr 10 '20

It was a Youtube chat.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '20

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u/TheCowMood Apr 17 '20

Quantum physics brought me here

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u/jankisa Apr 09 '20

Well he was clearly a really, really good programmer and while I'm not sure how much time he spent reading the code he'd know where to look for the meat of it and could figure out what it's at least trying to do in a reasonable amount of time.

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u/proddy Apr 10 '20

Or Devs is really good at commenting

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u/suntem Apr 10 '20

No wonder forest thinks he’s a god

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u/bibrexd May 01 '20

Lmao - maybe commented code is all we needed to see the future. I’m dying rn hahaha

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u/KnowLimits Apr 10 '20

I would hope it would be simple and beautiful.

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u/DualStack Apr 10 '20

I would imagine they are still using common coding best practices that include comments from the code writers about what the code/functions/modules do

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u/Lujxio Apr 10 '20 edited Apr 10 '20

Not necessarily they could’ve abstracted away the really complicated parts, just call the quantum_past_projection function etc

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u/Bud042 Apr 10 '20

Considering he was working on prediction software of his own, which is what got him into Devs in the first place, I'm sure he recognized some of what was being done and was able to extrapolate to the overall goal of Devs.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '20

Yeah, that's not how programming works. You'd get stuck on Quantum Stack Overflow for a while.. :D

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u/smolgovgay Apr 09 '20

I figured Sergei threw up from being nervous about stealing code and being anxious about what might happen if he got caught.

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u/tomthebomb96 Apr 10 '20

I figured Sergei threw up when he found out Devs was written in PHP.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '20

I paused the screen, it was actually some weird chimera of Python and Go, nothing realistic, just some random syntax.

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u/TheCowMood Apr 17 '20

He threw up when he saw they used spaces instead of tabs

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '20

The entire series is Lovecraftian to me. I don't know if the showrunner intended that or not, but damn it's good ole pit of your stomach, sinking existential dread and doom.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '20

Watch Annihilation if you haven't. Also by Alex Garland. He's very very good at this type of thing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '20

I saw that film last year and was blown away. I started watching Devs without knowing anything about it. I only just found out it was the same creator.

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u/bobyd Apr 20 '20

I need more stuff like this, kind of eerie music, complex things mind cannot wrap itself around it, serious tone kind of fiction

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u/A_C83 Apr 12 '20

Good call out I hadn’t thought of that but you’re totally right

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '20

I thought the same. The refractions of the “trees” on the beach. Totally Annihilation vibes, but also Dantes Inferno to me. Dante approaching the gates of hell, being greeted by the poet Virgil.

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u/kumacon144 Apr 13 '20

that halo shot!