Comment on The art of the sacrificial 'duck' in programming projects
monotremata@kbin.social 7 months ago
The only real objection I have to this as a term is that it's too easy to confuse with "rubber ducking": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
towerful@programming.dev 7 months ago
My dad tells a similar story of an offshore oilrig person giving a tour to some C-Suite type people. His alarm goes off, and he pauses the tour to throw an oily rag on the floor. 5 minutes later the rig supervisor person steps out of their office, looks around, shouts about oily rags and health&safety risks, then goes back into their office.
So, perhaps call it an “oily rag”?