TILA - Today I laughed about
There are specific types of jokes out there revealing the knowledge or experience of someone that can truly laugh about them. Some reveal depth in knowledge and others common pain. I think humour is an underestimated way of transferring knowledge. Analog to TIL - Today I learned this growing site contains jokes I stumble over that I want to share.
It’s a layer 8 problem
The OSI reference model for defining distinct responsibilities of a network stack contains seven layers, from the physical layer one flipping some bits on the medium (wire, radio,…) to the application layer seven which faces the user. The next layer after seven would be the user itself. In conclusion if there is problem on layer eight, the problem sits right in front of the monitor.
Laying under the car
Based on a scene of Malcolm in the middle where Hal just wants to fix one thing which turn out to depend on another thing. The dependency chain continues from just changing a light bulb to laying under the car for fixing it to get to the hardware store. This phrase is often used in our team to make some hidden or non-obvious dependencies of an easy looking task transparent.
Used in a sentence:
- A: Could you just make the button red?
- B: Well, the color is not hardcoded but retrieved from our corporate-identity-ensurance-service where I need to implement a migration. This wouldn’t be enough as I’d need an approve from the corporate-identity-board. Afterwards I’d need to drain all color-caches in order the old color is not served anymore to have a consistent corporate identity. Well in the end I’d lay under the car.
It’s a layer -1 problem
The problem is around the medium, like in the surrounding earth of a fibre cable. I guess it’s -1 and not 0 to show the absurdity going lower than layer one and location-wise negative values indicate a place below the ground like a basement.
ACK
While the meaning to acknowledge something is more obvious than other entries in here, it’s originated from TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) where ACK is an acknowledgement packet telling the opponent that a previous packet was retreived successfully.
Used in a sentence:
- A: I scheduled our lunch to 12am
- B: ACK