I saw a cool line in a play once where the protagonist - an English major who ended up going into coding as a career - gets mad that his fellow programmers don't understand what he means by "Scylla and Charybdis" Ranting about how it's a failure of abstractionhttps://twitter.com/NarandiaOwl/status/1302537758720876545 …
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first thing I see on google is using them as an analogy of "choosing the lesser of two evils"
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Yeah that's not completely it though Part of the point is Charybdis is invisible and there's a huge temptation to gamble by steering closer to it
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I’d argue that if there was an actual genuine resonance for this specific concept it would already exist in meme form
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two buttons, sweating
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Heh, but the interesting thing is that (at least in ones I see) the sweating hero would usually like to press *both* buttons rather than neither
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