When someone asks you to verify everything, but there is no complete description of what "everything" encompasses.
e.g. When you have a complex system with tens of thousands of moving parts, and your boss asks you to check that everything works.
When someone asks you to verify everything, but there is no complete description of what "everything" encompasses.
e.g. When you have a complex system with tens of thousands of moving parts, and your boss asks you to check that everything works.
ambiguous looks a simple word to describe 'there is no complete description of what "everything" encompasses'. At the same time, 'unreasonable' does not fit here.
There is "I want a pony" ...
A sarcastic/snarky reply, used mostly when someone says "We want a..." followed by a very hard/impossible request.
The short form of saying "It would probably be neat, but it's just NOT possible."
"We want a copy protection solution that's 100% unbreakable."
"Yes, and I want a pony."
It could be a Sisyphean task.
(Of a task) such that it can never be completed.
This refers to the Greek myth of Sisyphus, who was punished by the gods by being ordered to to push a boulder up a hill, but whenever he was nearing the top it would slip out of his grasp and roll back to the bottom. So he would have to start over, and repeat this forever.