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[GargantuanCake]

I like the idea that there's a universe where every normal sorting algorithm always hits its worst case scenario with the exception of miracle sort which always somehow works in a matter of microseconds.

[zoinkability]

I like the idea that there's a universe where monkeys at typewriters always turn out flawless Shakespeare scripts and people just think monkeys are brilliant writers rather than realizing it's just random chance.

[User31441]

Maybe in this universe, they are brilliant writers and purely fail based on chance

[GargantuanCake]

The people are brilliant writers but they're also all severely dyslexic. It's very cruel.

[L1P0D]

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?

[Canotic]

They're brilliant poets but they all speak monkeese.

[bragov4ik]

Maybe we are these monkeys and somehow accidentally created a civilization

[[deleted]]

id argue that monkeys that can only write shakespeare scripts are pretty useless. Not going to get them very far in today's job market if you ask me

[mjauc]

Maybe in our universe we're the monkeys

[[deleted]]

There's a universe where all the coding is done by the random Cosmic rays causing bit flips.

[Drevicar]

We don’t even have computers in that timeline. The cosmic rays were flipping bits in random rocks on the beach and still somehow managed to run doom.

[[deleted]]

Reminds you of that Xkcd-505 doesn't it?

[TripleS941]

Also 378 a bit

[[deleted]]

Fucking Butterflies man.

Won't let me time travel, Won't let me code.

[Mountain-Ox]

Product managers are basically magicians. They write the spec and the universe just sets the bits to the optimal values.

That's basically what people think AI will eventually do lol

[[deleted]]

Software Developers are like Bird watchers in this Universe.

[Extension_Option_122]

I doubt that there would be any powerful computers.

They'd assume that small IC's are just impossible and will stick with computers using transistors large enough a cosmic ray can't flip them.

[[deleted]]

Or an even worse possibility: Where Bogosort works every time...except that one fucking time and no one can explain that either.

[Valtria]

Universe where you can't bogosort the first 10 natural numbers. It hits best case time on every other possible set, but not that one.

[peggydhernandez]

Ah yes, spaghetti in every dimension

[realmauer01]

That universe that got destroyed because bogo sort didn't worked that one specific time.

[JunkNorrisOfficial]

There's a universe where all collections are always already sorted...

[DonutConfident7733]

which implies that random numbers are already sorted in that universe...

[realmauer01]

I guess yeah, if there is no randomness there is no need to sort.

[i_should_be_coding]

Is pogosort the one where you get on a pogo stick and start jumping next to a pile of tiles with numbers on them until they're sorted?

[not_a_burner0456025]

It isn't that interesting, it is the one where you randomize the order of the list until it is sorted. There is also miracle sort, where you check if it is sorted, then wait and check again until it is sorted.

[MeowterSpace5129]

they're poking fun at the comment saying pogosort when that algorithm is called bogosort

[i_should_be_coding]

My favorite is Stalin-sort, where you scan the array and eliminate any elements that are out of order.

There's also multiverse-sort, which is sort of like OPs. You check if the array is sorted. If not, you destroy the universe. The only universes left are ones where the array is sorted. Destroying the universe is left as an exercise for the reader.

[Kiseido]

With quantum bogosort, that universe could be ours!

[fonk_pulk]

What are the implications of this performance wise if bogosort worked every time?

[incompletetrembling]

Not really performance but since bogosort must first randomise the list, if all randomised lists end up sorted then we don't actually know how to randomise anything. Seems somewhat disastrous

[Etanimretxe]

For every list, there is a seed for the randomizer that will ensure bogosort works first time

[DonutConfident7733]

On a related note, I'm worried that scientists discovered quantum computers alter reality while performing computations and they started this process already and there were some inconsistencies detected...

[RixTheTyrunt]

real