The Lazy Bureaucrat Scheduling Problem

I was thinking of the inefficient sorts that don't do illogical useless stuff. Here's a reddit thread[0] first search match I found.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/11qjga0/the_sl...

Interestingly, that article is uploaded, and indeed watermarked with year 2002, but the LaTeX \date is 2018. Any theories?