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Some of you cite your favorite strips. I will too. Dilbert comes down to the caves where trolls (accountants) reside and gets a tour. The guide points to a tro

Some of you cite your favorite strips. I will too. Dilbert comes down to the caves where trolls (accountants) reside and gets a tour. The guide points to a troll sitting behind a desk, and mumbling in a stupor: "nine, nine, nine...". Guide: And this is our random numbers generator. Dilbert: Are you sure those are random? Guide: That's the problem with randomness - you can never be sure. Edit: Found it here: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-quest-for-randomness https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-quest-for-rand.... And thank you, Scott - many laughs thanks to you.

teddyh 1y ago
Better link: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2001-10-25 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2001-10-25>
ghurtado 1y ago
That reads like a XKCD comic disguised as a Dilbert strip. Very nice. And also, what a cool read that was, thanks for sharing the article.
- ThatPlayer 1y ago
  XKCD has a different random number: https://xkcd.com/221/ https://xkcd.com/221/
  - tarvaina 1y ago
    Stray thought: Why 4 and 9? Because the joke is funniest if the number is completely ordinary. 0 and 1 are special and so are all prime numbers. 6 is out because it's the maximum die throw. And one figure is more ordinary than two figures, or negatives, or decimals. That leaves 4 and 9.
    - Velorivox 1y ago
      How come prime numbers are special but squares aren’t? 4 and 9 both being squares seems to be a more striking commonality than your logic here…
      - tarvaina 1y ago
        Yeah. Alternative explanation: I'd say 3 and 7 are out because they often come up in fairy takes etc as magical. 5 is out because it's half of ten and the number of fingers. 2 is out because it is too small.
    - darkerside 1y ago
      The perfect squares are the most ordinary?
    - dreghgh 1y ago
      What about 8?
      - bee_rider 1y ago
        Maximum throw for a battle axe in 5e d&d, of course. I dunno actually. Maybe because 4*2=8? The two picks have the property of not being related really.
      - tim333 1y ago
        8, 16, 32, 64 pop up a lot in computer circles.
      - tarvaina 1y ago
        Oh, right! I forgot about it. I guess 8 would do too.
    - grahamlee 1y ago
      That makes 4 and 9 the only two uninteresting numbers, which is interesting, so they’re out too! Douglas Adams said the same about 42. It’s the answer because it’s completely banal.
    - _pigpen__ 1y ago
      Everyone knows that six is the most boring number. https://youtu.be/G4OTRRmyTAA?feature=shared https://youtu.be/G4OTRRmyTAA?feature=shared
judah 1y ago
The following[0] is my favorite because my company is hardening security by making everything difficult and painful, especially single-sign on: [Mordac] "Security is more important than usability. In a perfect world, no one would able able to use anything." [Asok's computer screen]: "To complete login procedure, stare directly at the sun." [0]: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2007-11-16 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2007-11-16
- fidotron 1y ago
  He also covered the opposite extreme: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-03-25 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-03-25
- pwg 1y ago
  I especially like this one: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1998-08-24 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1998-08-24 It has hit home a time or two when the "managers" hire in a "consultant".
airstrike 1y ago
This is a classic and probably my favorite https://devhumor.com/media/dilbert-s-team-writes-a-minivan https://devhumor.com/media/dilbert-s-team-writes-a-minivan
- teddyh 1y ago
  Better link: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-11-13 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-11-13>
kbutler 1y ago
Hardware happiness - I've enjoyed checking in to these specs every few years... 35" monitor 20 megs of ram 1.2 gigabytes of hard disk space https://web.archive.org/web/20150205042406/https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-02-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20150205042406/https://dilbert.c...
- teddyh 1y ago
  Better link: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1994-02-19 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1994-02-19>
  - kbutler 1y ago
    Thanks! Any bets which link stays valid longer? I also like this related comic: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-07-12 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-07-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20150309041557/http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-07-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20150309041557/http://dilbert.co...
    - teddyh 1y ago
      Links to archive.org always last longer – that’s the point. But they are not the most convenient to use: The web site as viewed through archive.org is slow, and any external links are also to the old archived version of the linked-to site. Therefore a live link, if such a thing exists, is better.
FireBeyond 1y ago
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fehnobieuhj4c1.jpeg https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fe... Dilbert is trapped in the bowels of Accounting. Dogbert: I understand you have Dilbert. Free him, or else... Troll: Or else what? Dogbert: Or else I will put this cap on my head backwards! Your little hardwired accounting brain will explode just looking at it! Dilbert: What was that popping sound? Dogbert: A paradigm shifting without a clutch.
- teddyh 1y ago
  Better link: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-08-25 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-08-25>
bayindirh 1y ago
I keep this taped on my cubicle: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2008-02-12 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2008-02-12 Not because somebody did that to me, but I had to migrate two racks of systems in one night under literal and proverbial heat due to former one. You can think pointy haired as the embodiment of Murphy of Murphy's laws.
bbaron63 1y ago
I still have my Etch-a-Sketch as laptop mouse pad.
profsummergig 1y ago
I remember reading this one in the late nineties. Never been able to find it again. It was probably in one of his books: ------------ pointy haired boss making making a presentation: "research shows that customers want high-quality products at low-prices. but we make low-quality products. so we are going to sell them at high-prices and call it a strategy" ------------- If anyone has a link to the original comic, please share it, I would like to see it again. It captures so many themes succinctly, and was very very astute for the late nineties when corps were doing crazy things and calling it a "strategy".
ja27 1y ago
One of my favorites. Also the one where Wally insists his towel gets cleaner every time he uses it: https://br.omega.com/dilbert/311.html https://br.omega.com/dilbert/311.html There's one somewhere where they're eating lunch and I think Wally asks Dilbert if he has any extra napkins and Dilbert says he won't know until he's done eating.
- teddyh 1y ago
  Better link: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-11-24 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-11-24> > There's one somewhere where they're eating lunch and I think Wally asks Dilbert if he has any extra napkins This one: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1994-10-29 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1994-10-29>

teddyh 1y ago

Better link: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2001-10-25 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2001-10-25>

ghurtado 1y ago

That reads like a XKCD comic disguised as a Dilbert strip. Very nice. And also, what a cool read that was, thanks for sharing the article.

ThatPlayer 1y ago
XKCD has a different random number: https://xkcd.com/221/ https://xkcd.com/221/
- tarvaina 1y ago
  Stray thought: Why 4 and 9? Because the joke is funniest if the number is completely ordinary. 0 and 1 are special and so are all prime numbers. 6 is out because it's the maximum die throw. And one figure is more ordinary than two figures, or negatives, or decimals. That leaves 4 and 9.
  - Velorivox 1y ago
    How come prime numbers are special but squares aren’t? 4 and 9 both being squares seems to be a more striking commonality than your logic here…
    - tarvaina 1y ago
      Yeah. Alternative explanation: I'd say 3 and 7 are out because they often come up in fairy takes etc as magical. 5 is out because it's half of ten and the number of fingers. 2 is out because it is too small.
  - darkerside 1y ago
    The perfect squares are the most ordinary?
  - dreghgh 1y ago
    What about 8?
    - bee_rider 1y ago
      Maximum throw for a battle axe in 5e d&d, of course. I dunno actually. Maybe because 4*2=8? The two picks have the property of not being related really.
    - tim333 1y ago
      8, 16, 32, 64 pop up a lot in computer circles.
    - tarvaina 1y ago
      Oh, right! I forgot about it. I guess 8 would do too.
  - grahamlee 1y ago
    That makes 4 and 9 the only two uninteresting numbers, which is interesting, so they’re out too! Douglas Adams said the same about 42. It’s the answer because it’s completely banal.
  - _pigpen__ 1y ago
    Everyone knows that six is the most boring number. https://youtu.be/G4OTRRmyTAA?feature=shared https://youtu.be/G4OTRRmyTAA?feature=shared

judah 1y ago

The following[0] is my favorite because my company is hardening security by making everything difficult and painful, especially single-sign on: [Mordac] "Security is more important than usability. In a perfect world, no one would able able to use anything." [Asok's computer screen]: "To complete login procedure, stare directly at the sun." [0]: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2007-11-16 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2007-11-16

fidotron 1y ago
He also covered the opposite extreme: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-03-25 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-03-25
pwg 1y ago
I especially like this one: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1998-08-24 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1998-08-24 It has hit home a time or two when the "managers" hire in a "consultant".

airstrike 1y ago

This is a classic and probably my favorite https://devhumor.com/media/dilbert-s-team-writes-a-minivan https://devhumor.com/media/dilbert-s-team-writes-a-minivan

teddyh 1y ago
Better link: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-11-13 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-11-13>

kbutler 1y ago

Hardware happiness - I've enjoyed checking in to these specs every few years... 35" monitor 20 megs of ram 1.2 gigabytes of hard disk space https://web.archive.org/web/20150205042406/https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-02-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20150205042406/https://dilbert.c...

teddyh 1y ago
Better link: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1994-02-19 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1994-02-19>
- kbutler 1y ago
  Thanks! Any bets which link stays valid longer? I also like this related comic: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-07-12 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-07-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20150309041557/http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-07-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20150309041557/http://dilbert.co...
  - teddyh 1y ago
    Links to archive.org always last longer – that’s the point. But they are not the most convenient to use: The web site as viewed through archive.org is slow, and any external links are also to the old archived version of the linked-to site. Therefore a live link, if such a thing exists, is better.

FireBeyond 1y ago

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fehnobieuhj4c1.jpeg https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fe... Dilbert is trapped in the bowels of Accounting. Dogbert: I understand you have Dilbert. Free him, or else... Troll: Or else what? Dogbert: Or else I will put this cap on my head backwards! Your little hardwired accounting brain will explode just looking at it! Dilbert: What was that popping sound? Dogbert: A paradigm shifting without a clutch.

teddyh 1y ago
Better link: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-08-25 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-08-25>

bayindirh 1y ago

I keep this taped on my cubicle: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2008-02-12 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2008-02-12 Not because somebody did that to me, but I had to migrate two racks of systems in one night under literal and proverbial heat due to former one. You can think pointy haired as the embodiment of Murphy of Murphy's laws.

bbaron63 1y ago

I still have my Etch-a-Sketch as laptop mouse pad.

profsummergig 1y ago

I remember reading this one in the late nineties. Never been able to find it again. It was probably in one of his books: ------------ pointy haired boss making making a presentation: "research shows that customers want high-quality products at low-prices. but we make low-quality products. so we are going to sell them at high-prices and call it a strategy" ------------- If anyone has a link to the original comic, please share it, I would like to see it again. It captures so many themes succinctly, and was very very astute for the late nineties when corps were doing crazy things and calling it a "strategy".

ja27 1y ago

One of my favorites. Also the one where Wally insists his towel gets cleaner every time he uses it: https://br.omega.com/dilbert/311.html https://br.omega.com/dilbert/311.html There's one somewhere where they're eating lunch and I think Wally asks Dilbert if he has any extra napkins and Dilbert says he won't know until he's done eating.

teddyh 1y ago
Better link: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-11-24 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-11-24> > There's one somewhere where they're eating lunch and I think Wally asks Dilbert if he has any extra napkins This one: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1994-10-29 https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1994-10-29>