Needless to say i’m talking about the oversimplified and misleading version of the Schrödinger’s cat paradigm, where he is both dead and alive until you watch it.

I don’t have a job but i follow theater courses at an academy. And my improvisation is both funny and awful until i show it to others.

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    Employee salaries in HR; they are both correctly paid(employer perspective often), underpaid (employee perspective often), and overpaid (company and co-worker perspective). Depending on how and how often you open the box, any of these views can be accurate.

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    I guess the best one for me may be elite university students are “just smarter” than others until I have to read their term papers.

    For some reason it’s always the non-native English speakers who write well.

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    Autonomous vehicles are at times both amazingly advanced and bedshittingly idiotic.

    I’ve ridden ~25k miles in them for work, and I trust them more than 95% of the drivers on the road. But I’ve also experienced them acting in ways that are still quite far from the way humans would.

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    As a bicyclist, I see that we have Schrödinger’s Cyclist: Too poor to be able to afford a car like “normal” people, but also a rich elitist who can afford to commute by bike.

    Also, Schrödinger’s Bike Lanes: A conspiracy by car-hating politicians to punish drivers, but also an amenity that only rich elitists get in their neighborhoods.

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    For work I use a database written in COBOL. Reports are simultaneously running and frozen until I either get the report results or sufficient time has passed that I’m certain the system has crashed.

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    Print jobs are both completed successfully and failed until someone checks the queue.

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      In programming there is also the Heisenbug: as soon as you try to observe the bug, it disappears or changes its behavior.

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        I fucking hate Heisenbergs!

        Hrm, weird reproducible bug. Ok let’s hook up the ol’ debugger and… Where did the bug go? Shiiiiiiit.

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        It’s mostly because many observation processes are invasive and change the nature of the system under test

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      My company is basically 30 startups in a trenchcoat. The bulk of our my org’s application was written 5-10 years ago by like 4 dudes, none of whom work at the company anymore. Cowboy coding doesn’t come close. We have so much legacy code and I alternate between “how the fuck does this work” in an impressed way and a horrified way anytime I look at it

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    A person that has a lot of certs or a high title is both extremely smart or extremely unintelligent. You don’t know until you start talking with them about things more than surface level.

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    Projects will either be done next month or take at least a year to complete. Also, if you ask my team to calculate how long a project will take, and then ignore the estimate, the project will take infinite time because you are an insufferable moron.

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    Another good example is reading book reviews then reading the actual monograph. Sometimes there’s just nothing there

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    “The Computer never makes a mistake” is true and also probably responsible for people believing LLM-hallucinations uncritically

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      llm’s are dangerous and should never be used; but an overwhelming majority use it nonetheless.

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    The container can both stand directly in front of me, and the system can still claim that it’s waiting for loading in Malaysia.