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xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers

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42 is from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. They built an enormous computer called Deep Thought that was the most powerful ever built to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. The computer, after 75 million years of processing, came up with 42. The confused crowd that gathered to hear the answer did not understand. Turns out, 42 is the correct answer, but what is the question?

So after that, they decide to build another computer, which is planet Earth, to figure out the question.

It was still calculating when it was destroyed by the Vogons to make space for a hyperspace bypass.

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Stack Overflow usage has always come with the condition that you understood what the answer was doing and that it actually applied to your problem, on top of feeling that it looked like a high quality solution to it instead of crappy code. I mean, I guess in that sense, the people who blindly copied everything from the internet were the first vibe coders…

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Iit’s an internal error that is not handled properly. They don’t want to tell you the exact error message and detailed information around that, because it would expose the internal state of the backend and that would be a security issue. There is really nothing more that they can tell you, except that a developer needs to look at this (and possibly thousands to tens or hundreds of thousands of similar logged errors) and they probably already are.

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Essential movies to watch

  • Airplane!
  • Ghostbusters
  • The Naked Gun (Already mentioned)
  • Gremlins + Gremlins 2
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom + Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • The Great Dictator
  • Forrest Gump
  • American History X
  • Grave of the Fireflies
  • Rear Window
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • Braveheart
  • Highlander
  • Resevoir Dogs (Already mentioned)
  • Children of Men (Already mentioned)
  • My Neighbor Totoro (Already mentioned)
  • The Exorcist
  • Rambo: First Blood
  • Groundhog Day
  • What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
  • Scent of a Woman
  • Predator