printer ink was somehow related to breakfast

For when you want your coffee really, really black.

But if you don’t signal, how will the commoners know to make way?

Separating the trimmings from the rest of the waste isn’t the only thing that requires effort. I presume that the management doesn’t want to give ordinary employees the authority to just give stuff away, which makes sense. Even if it isn’t a problem in this specific case, it can be a problem because employees won’t always be knowledgeable or honest. Having management review what is being given away involves overhead, and deciding how much to charge you because of that overhead involves more overhead. I probably wouldn’t bother with all that if I ran the supermarket unless I really hated throwing things out, because I would assume you won’t be willing to pay enough to make it worth my time.

Mistake? He came, didn’t he?

Well, the Ninja Turtles were originally an unsubtle Daredevil parody…

(Is “parody” the right word? I think they were part parody and part homage.)

sentient brain

That’s the usual state of brains, isn’t it?

They periodically run out of integers so they have to reuse old ones.

It’s not just the posts. The neighbor used nails that are way too long. IMO that’s a safety hazard.

Galadriel and Celeborn were married in the First Age and the story takes place at the end of the Third, so they were married for at least six and a half thousand years. During that time, they had one child. How often do you think they had sex?

Looks like someone has been snacking too greedily…

She’s single, you know…

Meanwhile Simba has a perfectly good mother.

In the original Fallout you could defeat the final boss just by talking to him, but in addition to the speech skill you actually had to find and bring the evidence that his plan was doomed to failure. The issue wasn’t a matter of opinion - you needed scientific proof.

You could also choose to let him convince you that he was right, which was one of the ways to get the bad ending.

Less documentation means more job security.

Think of it as assertiveness training.

My issue with this is that it works well with sample code but not as well with real-world situations where maintaining a state is important. What if rider.preferences was expensive to calculate?

Note that this code will ignore a rider’s preferences if it finds a lower-rated driver before a higher-rated driver.

With that said, I often work on applications where even small improvements in performance are valuable, and that is far from universal in software development. (Generally developer time is much more expensive than CPU time.) I use C++ so I can read this like pseudocode but I’m not familiar with language features that might address my concerns.

always chooses the cheapest option

quality isn’t great

Capitalism is to blame!

I must be out of touch. What’s RGB in this context?

Note that this article is from three days ago. There’s still only one F-16 destroyed.

Well, at least under capitalism a few people do get to live well…