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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Inefficiency Memes

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3... 2... 1... Sort!
The champagne celebration quickly turns into a computer science lesson. Bogosort, the algorithmic equivalent of throwing papers in the air and hoping they land in alphabetical order, has a time complexity of O(n!). That's math-speak for "you'll die of old age before this finishes sorting." Meanwhile, algorithms like Quicksort are actually useful with O(n log n) complexity. No wonder our champion is celebrating - he's created the most spectacularly inefficient sorting method possible. That's like winning a medal for building the world's slowest car and being genuinely proud of it.

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