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Turtles all the way down... (reddthat.com)

submitted 3 months ago by iamdisappoint@reddthat.com to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I was working as a mobile programmer at a large ISP (rhymes with "bombast") circa 2010 when my (very non-technical) boss came to me and showed me an article he had just read about APIs. He told me he thought they were the "next big thing" and he wanted us to start using them in our project. I told him I would research it.

What depresses me the most about this story is that I'm sure he's now a C-suite denizen somewhere making millions and forcing everybody to use AI, while I'm now a school bus driver.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I’m now a school bus driver.

In the States? They are often portrayed as poor weirdos in cartoons, but how is it as a job? I could imagine much better; at least around here bus drivers in general make pretty good money.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a decent gig as long as you're in a good district. We make over $30 an hour plus health insurance and a small pension. You only get 4-5 hours a day unless you're high on the seniority list. There's an unfortunate tendency for school districts to privatize their transportation and then the good jobs go away.

Bus drivers deserve their reputations as cartoon weirdos, for the most part.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You only get 4-5 hours a day

Ah yes. If the pay is good enough to make a living, that's a boon imo. OTOH, half of it's in the morning, the other half in the afternoon?

Bus drivers deserve their reputations as cartoon weirdos, for the most part.

Including yourself I presume ❤️

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

half of it’s in the morning, the other half in the afternoon?

Yeah. For me it's perfect since I can go for a 25 mile bike ride after my morning run then have a nice lunch and a nap before I have to go back to work in the afternoon. It also allows me to take my elderly parents to doctor's appointments and such. And I live about two minutes from the bus lot.

Including yourself

Most definitively.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

lol, lmao even

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But he aint got nobody to
listen
listen
listen...

[–] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago

M blew the body, the bowtie, the body, the bowtie, the body, the bowtie.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Reminds me of when our CEO told me to look into building those displays that make an image with blinking LEDs as they spin. My team was working on a website, the company didn't have any manufacturing capabilities, we sold digital products, and I was a graphic artist.

[–] rah@hilariouschaos.com 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The comic is not fractal, it's recursive.

Epic fail.

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This comic is about LLM.

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

...or it is old and about blockchain

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This comic is about LLM.

…or it is old and about blockchain

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

This comic is about LLM.

…or it is old and about blockchain

This comic is about LLM.

…or it is old and about blockchain

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago

Self-similar fractal no doubt!

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

don't forget golden ratio

[–] PastelKeystone@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

This comic reminds me of the edits people do on short form video like TikTok to make a video end on the same beat that began it.

Not quite the same though. Making a tight loop rather than actual recursion.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago

As a teenager on LSD, I was trying to explain to a friend that I saw fractals in the shadows but I couldn't remember the word.

"I see that thing, you know, patterns that are part of math…"

"When you take acid you see math?!"

It was really frustrating. I don't know that I ever explained to him what word I wanted after we came down.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is the joke that this isn't a fractal either?

[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Isn't it a fractal in the broadest sense? I.e., a self-similar figure