Hacker News with Generative AI: Metaphors

Breaching the trust thermocline is the biggest hidden risk in business (every.to)
In large bodies of water, the temperature drops slowly the deeper one dives. That change can, if the descent is slow enough, feel almost imperceptible. Yet at a certain point, the water temperature drops sharply and alarmingly. This point is the thermocline—a near-physical barrier where warm water meets cold. The shift between the two is sudden and dramatic.
The origin of the cargo cult metaphor (righto.com)
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's "cargo cult science" talk with a vivid description of South Seas cargo cults. However, this metaphor has three major problems.
Ohmaps: your image montage is a resistor network (hunsley.io)
Occasionally there’s a lovely moment when I’m working on a problem and I realise I’m also looking at some other thing that seems completely unrelated. It’s like a metaphor made flesh.
Electric chainsaws and the gorge of misery (lcamtuf.substack.com)
We need new metaphors that put life at the centre of biology Essays (aeon.co)
'It's like I drew a door and disappeared through it' (2021) (meduza.io)
The Internet Is Like a City (But Not in the Way You'd Think) (novum.substack.com)
Why the Higgs Field Is Nothing Like Molasses, Soup, or a Crowd (profmattstrassler.com)
Bronze Age Stone Anchors as Material Metaphors (springer.com)