How fortunate, I was just looking for such a thing!
Wondering about those "making citizens" instructions on the wall.
lol... if they had a job that was ONLY writing unit tests, I would take it!
Kind of the reverse... more lamenting the loss of QA and SRE roles in favor of mechanical (AI) code reviewers and non-technical persons rubber-stamping an increasingly deep pipeline that change requests must traverse.
I know, right? Thermostats have worked since (and were invented some time in) the 1600's, but now... no, no no... we've got to loop in "the whole internet" as a dependency (not to mention one's smartphone, and probably a payment system for an ongoing monthly subscription). Even with the incentive of being continuously paid, they can't keep it working, because it has gotten too complex and greed has gummed up the gears.
For a minute, I thought this was satire.
A landscape image of a (metaphorical) dog show. On the left, there is a server-rack labeled "Dev", and on the right another rack labeled "Prod". Programmers are running the course between the two on all fours (reminiscent of a dog) which consists of three hoops and a teeter-totter; there are also arrows on the floor. In the foreground, a manager with a clipboard has a speech bubble admonishing them "Another bug? Let's add another hoop."
Well, it does kinda make sense that all-ones and all-zeros would be equidistant from alternating, but there are two alternating sequences (one starting with 0 and another starting with 1).
...if graycode is defined as having only one bit changed per transition, wouldn't you expect "all zeros" and "all ones" to be maximally distant from each other? Why is it a third? Is there something significant about the 2/3rd's mark then too? ... and why are 1-bit and 2-bit immune (it only starts at 3-bit)... and how does "3" come out of "binary" and "reflection" anyway!?
Just dumb expert-blindness...
Thanks, I see that now. While reading it, I think the story lost credibility for me around "time mechanic" (which likely was Dad's white lie), and I presumed it was another one of those posts that takes a hard-left into fantasy land... also didn't help that my son watches and believes the plethora of minecraft hoax videos, and that I knew about the water portal hoax, but not the mod... also curse of knowledge painted the ambiguous "learning mods" as a development effort, not learning how to install/use.
Perfume-wearing dad...
dall-e prompt: A weary, clearly homeless individual sits on a city sidewalk with a small donation jar labeled “Help Needed.” As a hand reaches forward to drop a coin, the homeless person gently holds out a clipboard with a dense legal contract titled “Contribution Agreement” — filled with fine print. The beggar's face is somber, not mocking, and the moment feels heavy with irony and commentary. Subtle cues like government buildings or cold bureaucratic signage in the background help underline the critique of systemic failure.
"...just let AI do the work and make all the decisions."
Like CO2 lasers, I wonder if it can be damaging to the human eye, even if invisible.