help this comic is me https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=3929

@cwebber Am I strange for actually finding the use of pointer in the description to be quite enlightening?

@loke actually I did too oh nooooo

@loke likewise the description of empathy in I Am A Strange Loop as your internal emulator of other people that becomes more fine grained as you come to know them more, until they become part of your own mental processes

@cwebber Oh, that makes sense. 🙂

I wonder if there are any good examples of cases where some common process is explained using a CS analogy which would make sense to us, but the exact same analogy would work in the reverse direction in order to explain a CS concept to a non-computer person?

@loke @cwebber
Just want to check in here because, as an alter kacker I no longer have confidence in the extent to which we in social media understand things in common:
We all agree that there is a dimension of the definition of "euphemism" that this comic totally ignores, right?
There's the whole moral/aesthetic dimension...
Anyone relying solely on this comic would *not* be able to distinguish a euphemism from a pronoun...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/euphemism

@baslow @loke sure. the comic is still showing something interesting/useful, even if it is a comic that is not covering the complete idea, and also primarily designed to be funny :)