What does the phrase 'flipping the bozo bit' mean?

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Flipping the bozo bit means you know someone is reliably wrong. The person has been permanently switched off in your mind as being intelligent.

Apparently the term was coined by Jim McCarthy in his book "Dynamics of Software Development."

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