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What's the Schrödinger's cat equivalent in your profession/main activity? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by Merlu@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 54 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Code is both great and terrible until it compiles.

[–] knightly@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Site reliability engineer here, your application is both alive and dead until the monitoring server pings its health status API.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

I fucking hate Heisenbergs!

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

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Kevo@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

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