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iVoyeur: Distributive Tracing

Author(s): 

Dave Josephsen

Last night my niece asked me if I wanted to take the “idiot test.” If you’re not familiar, the idiot test is a trollish, adolescent joke about zero-indexing, and it goes like this:

Prankster: Do you want to take the idiot test?

Dupe: Sure.

Prankster: What color is the sky?

Dupe: Blue.

Prankster: What do humans breathe?

Dupe: Air.

Prankster: What was the first question I asked you?

Dupe: "What color is the sky."

Prankster: Wrong! It was: “Do you want to take the idiot test!” You failed! <_insert
ridicule_> & etc.

Dupe:
[Feels bad about himself]

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Winter 2019, Vol. 44, No. 4
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