Bleh, gotchu, I was getting the bit boundary wrong (192.168.0.0/24 > 192.168.0.0/23; NOT 192.168.1.0. that’s not how bits work)

Thanks I hate it.

What am I missing here?

192.168.1.1/24 would also be a valid gateway for a /23, with the benefit of not having a gateway in the middle of your /23 network?

I feel like this example is a greater justification for putting the gateway on the network/CIDR + 1, like a civilized person.

The term isn’t just about which half is human though, it’s about the dynamic flip in humans relationship with tooling.

The “tool” part of the centaur is the horse body. All of the hard to duplicate bits of a human (reasoning, processing, fine motor skills) with the strength and speed of a horse. A reverse centaur is when a complex system is designed that needs a “dumb human” to do the complex bits while the system uses humans as an appendage.

Reverse centaur may sound clunky but is a really elegant one liner for Doctorow’s thesis.