Workaround
by Jeff
Image text: I once worked on a friend's dad's computer. He had the hard drive divided into eight partitions, C: through H:, with a 'Documents' directory tree on each one. Each new file appeared to be saved to a partition at random. I knew enough not to ask.
As long as they are not asking you for help... as far as you know their computer is working perfectly. Ignorance is bliss.
Analogies
by Jeff
Image text: I just call all of them 'synecdoche'.
Let's recap middle school English class, link style!
Metaphors are the comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as : “A man is but a weak reed”; “The road was a ribbon of moonlight.”
Similies are a common figure of speech that explicitly compares two things usually considered different. Most similes are introduced by like or as : “The realization hit me like a bucket of cold water.”
A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which the one of the following (or its reverse) is expressed:
* A part stands for a whole
* An individual stands for a class
* A material stands for a thing
DFS
by Jeff
Image text: A breadth-first search makes a lot of sense for dating in general, actually; it suggests dating a bunch of people casually before getting serious, rather than having a series of five-year relationships one after the other.
This comic has to do with two different types of search algorithms in computer science. Depth-first search or DFS as the title implies. In this algorithm, the search agent will go through the first option as deep as it goes before moving onto the next item or option. In the comic, the character searches 50 deep into the Medical Emergency -> Snakebite option and didn't have enough time to get ready for the date.
In a breath-first search, the search agent will check each item in each level first before moving to the next one, just as the image text suggests.
Whoops, looks like LD50 is median lethal dose, not a computer science term. Thanks to commenter TCs for the link.