Trolley problem Memes

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Well, It's Not A Problem Anymore

Well, It's Not A Problem Anymore
BEHOLD! The magical power of git rebase master - where problems don't get solved, they get ERASED FROM EXISTENCE! 💀 One second you've got a person lying on the tracks about to be OBLITERATED by the trolley of doom, and the next? POOF! They've vanished faster than my will to live during a merge conflict! The trolley problem isn't a problem if you just rewrite history to make it look like there was never anyone on the tracks to begin with! Who needs ethics when you have force push privileges? NOT ME, DARLING! 💅

The Trolley Problem: Git Rebase Edition

The Trolley Problem: Git Rebase Edition
The classic trolley problem asks if you'd divert a trolley to kill one person instead of five. But why choose when you can just git rebase master ? The command magically rearranges history, making it look like the trolley was always on a different track. Sure, you might have obliterated a timeline and forced-pushed reality, but hey—the commit history looks clean! Just don't mention the merge conflicts that briefly tore apart the fabric of space-time.

The Road To Hell Is Paved With Unnecessary Refactors

The Road To Hell Is Paved With Unnecessary Refactors
Ah, the classic self-inflicted trolley problem! The code was working perfectly fine, but you just had to make it "cleaner" and "more elegant." Now you're frantically Slack messaging the team at 11 PM while production burns down. It's that special kind of self-destructive genius where you convince yourself that your unnecessary abstraction is somehow saving the codebase, right before you heroically break everything that was working. The philosophical trolley problem, but make it stupid - nobody was in danger until you decided to play code architect. Next time just write a comment and walk away. Trust me.

I'll Pick The Path With The Most People

I'll Pick The Path With The Most People
The meme brilliantly combines two classic computer science nightmares: the Traveling Salesman Problem and the Trolley Problem. In one, you're trying to find the optimal path through a complex graph (a famously NP-hard problem that makes algorithms cry). In the other, you're deciding which track to send a runaway trolley down, usually with moral implications about who gets squished. The joke is that instead of optimizing for the shortest path or making a moral choice, our protagonist is choosing the path with the most people to run over. It's basically what happens when your pathfinding algorithm has a vendetta against humanity. Dijkstra would be horrified... or impressed, depending on his mood that day.

Can You Find The Optimal Route For The Trolley?

Can You Find The Optimal Route For The Trolley?
The "Travelling Salesman Trolley Problem" brilliantly combines two infamous nightmares: an ethical dilemma and an NP-hard algorithm. While philosophers debate whether to sacrifice one person to save five, computer scientists are still trying to find the optimal route through this graph without having an existential crisis. The joke here is that finding the perfect path is mathematically impossible to solve efficiently—much like trying to explain to your product manager why that "simple feature" will take three months to implement. Just remember: whether you choose the greedy algorithm or dynamic programming approach, someone's deadline is definitely getting run over.

The Standards Committee Trolley Problem

The Standards Committee Trolley Problem
The classic trolley problem gets a programmer's twist! We've got two standards committees (TC39 for JavaScript and JTC1 for C++) tied to the nuclear option, while cancer and AIDS cures are on another track. Every developer knows the pain of dealing with language standards committees that seem to drag on forever with decisions that can blow up your codebase. The real moral dilemma: do you save humanity with medical breakthroughs, or do you finally put those endless committee meetings out of their misery? Let's be honest, we've all fantasized about nuking a standards meeting after implementing our 17th breaking change in a month.