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• explainxkcd/1296

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Merge branch 'asdfasjkfdlas/alkdjf' into sdkjfls-final

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Functional programming combines the flexibility and power of abstract mathematics with the intuitive clarity of abstract mathematics.

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• explainxkcd/1266

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I found a counterexample to the claim that all things must someday die, but I don't know how to show it to anyone.

This blog post was posted two days before the discovery of the XZ utils backdoor. It shows the increasing popularity of Docker and NPM. Rust is not in this preview of their report, but all the crates used for compiling a Rust program bring in dependencies. Years ago, xkcd showed the problem already.

https://m.xkcd.com/2911/

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I'm trying to build character, but Eclipse is really confusing.

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• explainxkcd/1185

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StackSort connects to StackOverflow, searches for 'sort a list', and downloads and runs code snippets until the list is sorted.

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define HalfheartedMergeSort(list):
    if length(list)<2:
        return list
    pivot=int(length(list)/2)
    a=HalfheartedMergeSort(list[:pivot])
    b=HalfheartedMergeSort(list[pivot:])
    // ummmmm
    return [a,b] // Here. Sorry.


  

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define FastBogoSort(list):
    // An optimized BogoSort
    // Runs in O(n log n)
    for n from 1 to log(length(list)):
        shuffle(list):
        if isSorted(list):
            return list
    return "Kernel Page Fault (Error code: 2)"


  

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define JobInterviewQuicksort(list):
    Ok so you choose a pivot
    Then divide the list in half
    for each 
  

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It can take a site a while to figure out that there's a problem with their 'report a bug' form.

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• explainxkcd/844

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You can either hang out in the Android Loop or the HURD loop.

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• explainxkcd/835

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Not only is that terrible in general, but you just KNOW Billy's going to open the root present first, and then everyone will have to wait while the heap is rebuilt.

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A breadth-first search makes a lot of sense for dating in general, actually; it suggests dating a bunch of people casually before getting serious, rather than having a series of five-year relationships one after the other.

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        [In a caption that breaks the top of the first panels frame:]
    Preparing for a date:

    [Hairy with wet hair and a towel around his waist thinks with his hand to his chin. There are four situations, but it is not possible to read the fourth line.]
    Hairy: What situations might I prepare for?

        1) Medical emergency
        2) Dancing
        3) Food too expensive

    [Close-up on Hairy's face, who is still thinking. There are again four situations, but again it is not possible to read the fourth line.]
    Hairy: Okay, what ki
  

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The prereqs for CPSC 357, the class on package management, are CPSC 432, CPSC 357, and glibc2.5 or later.

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To be fair, the braised and confused newt on a bed of crushed Doritos turned out to be delicious.

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[Three people sit along a table with dishes and drinks in front of them. Cueball is walking in, a plate with food on it in one hand, a laptop in the other.]

[Blondie looks down at her bowl. She has a cup with what appears to be a lump of coal in it.]
Blondie: I've got... Cheerios with a shot of vermouth.
[Cueball 1 has a plate with some kind of cubic food on it. He has a cup of what appears to be two lovebirds in it.]
Cueball 1: At least it's better than the quail eggs in whipped cream and MSG from last time.
[Cueball 2 has a plate with a several lumps of some form of white stuff on it. They have a cup of what appears to be some kind of superf

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Some engineer out there has solved P=NP and it's locked up in an electric eggbeater calibration routine. For every 0x5f375a86 we learn about, there are thousands we never see.

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[Cueball sits at a desk in front of a computer, leaning back in his chair with both hands down to his side. There are cans on the desk and more crushed ones on the floor.]
Cueball: I just wrote the most beautiful code of my life.

[Zoom in on Cueball and top half of desk.]
Cueball: They casually handed me an impossible problem. In 48 hours and 200 lines, I solved it.

[Curved lines with arrows divide the comic into two possible end panels, labeled "Academia" and "Business."]

Academia:
Professor: My god... this will mean a half-dozen papers, a thesis o