This shows you how fun, useful and fascinating C++ template meta programming can be but also the dark side as a perfect example of inscrutable code that can be a real pain when you run across this sort of thing in production code with no documentation.

Why is it referred to as a 'bad' floppy ad. I thought it was cool.

The "bad" is referring to the floppies, not the ad. The ad with the robots at dinner was about buying Maxwell floppies (which were considerably more expensive than no-name floppies) because otherwise the machines might "eat your files". A modern equivalent would be buying a SanDisk SD card over cheaper alternatives.

Maxell. No w.

Same. Still a great pleasure to see those ads from the past. Nothing compared to ads today.

Looks like the whole site revolves around calling ads "bad'. An approach that, itself, is rather bad. Especially in this instance.

Move the school starts later. Problem solved.

Why not just start school later?

I've heard it's so parents can get the kids to school at 0800 and then start job a 0900. But why school is out at 1500 and job at 1700 is a mystery.

It also improves the rush hours by enlarging the time range. Most jobs start at 9am or later, so if kids also started at 9am or later the morning rush hour (for traffic but also public transportation) would be even worse.

School ends at 3pm so that the teachers, who work a 9-5 like you, get two hours after class to grade homework and prepare lessons for the next school day.

I do not believe that teachers are working 9-5 if the children are arriving at 8am. Though to be fair I don't either, so doesn't much matter.

Protestant work ethic? I know it's a terrible reason. Seems to be the reason, though.

DST and time zones have been invented much later than Protestantism, so I wouldn’t worry about the ethical part specifically

Intentional.

I know.

You should be like '$10,000,000 please'

Dont be ridiculous. He needs to make it deployable by normies and hype it up on twitter first. then he could ask for 10mil

someone needs to scrape their data.

I don't have them... :/

That's a fantastic tie-in. Wow!

the Clandestine allure for clicks for sure but you know what - the comments have been pretty interesting.