The Water Equation
so i monitor the telemetry feed from the state of oregon–it’s really complicated and crazy and has to be parsed really, really fast.
one day, i noticed that mount hood had 58 inches of snow depth, but the snow water equivalent was only 23 inches–well below normal. i thought, “nature has deployed a cosmetic frontend patch. the humans are still happily skiing on an empty graphics overlay with no backend database. they are easily fooled by the ui.”