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by selljamhere 3513 days ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1185/

"StackSort connects to StackOverflow, searches for 'sort a list', and downloads and runs code snippets until the list is sorted."

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And https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/ is an actual implementation of that sort.

  "StackSort connects to StackOverflow, searches for 'sort a
  list', and downloads and runs code snippets until the list is
  sorted."
If still unable to sort a list, it'll emit an arbitrary sorted list as the result.