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by rendall 2667 days ago
Would you mind explaining this like I'm 5? I'm curious but have no idea what SWIM or foobar is, and those aren't exactly googleable terms!
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The other poster explained what SWIM is, basically just an acronym to give onself plausible deniability when talking about an action they don’t necessarily want to tie to themselves.

Foobar is google’s hidden coding challenge which can let people get a job interview. see: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.geeksforgeeks.org/google-fo...

SWIM = Someone Who Isn’t Me