zero cost abstraction

A buzzword usually uttered by someone trying to sell you the idea that you should rewrite your project in Rust. It supposedly means "free" abstractions that don't come with overheads and penalties, but in reality they're anything but free.

If you hear someone use the term zero cost abstraction unironically, run as fast as you possibly can because you're cornered by a snake oil salesman.

by CrazyDev November 14, 2021

The Real Cost Vaping Ad

If you vape you could be inhaling toxic metals into your lungs. To show how scary that is we made a metal monster! (Wilhelm Scream) But nothing is as scary as the facts. Vaping can deliver toxic metals like nickel and lead into your lungs. That’s metal, in your lungs!

Person 1: What's the worst YouTube ad?
Person 2: The Real Cost Vaping Ad

by WeegeeCool May 31, 2021

opportunity cost

The value of resources and time given up relative to the best alternative. Includes the estimation of time in process. If a economy is competitive, the opportunity cost is a good indicator of the price because any change in prices is a change in the opportunity cost, which means a change in the allocation of resources.

The opportunity cost of 9/11 was huge! Lives were lost, capital was destroyed, people got sick......so when 9/11 happened there was a change in the market prices which changed the allocation of resources.

by rodan118 February 9, 2010

pie-cost

Part of the dumb "pie-cost" joke.

Joker: Too bad we don't have a pie-cost.

Victim: What's a pie-cost?

Joker: Oh, about six bucks ... (rim-shot)

(also, same joke, using "hen-way" (oh, about 3 pounds ...)

by JerseyJohn August 23, 2007

sunk cost

Anything that you've spent and won't come back (money, time, energy)

Don't make a sunk cost controls your decisions, if it makes you on the huge loss, then abandon it

Your mental health is important

by Sir. B June 30, 2021

oppbeertunity cost

n. the amount of beer you would have to give up drinking by choosing entertainment at a non-drinking establishment.

Tickets for the student section at the university basketball game are general seating. Grant and Phil chose not to go early enough to get good seats, because the oppbeertunity cost was too high at 4 beers. Instead, they sat in the back of student section, foregoing the opportunity cost of better seats at the game.

You could say Grant and Phil prefer 4 beers (each) and bad seats to good seats.

by Professor Redbeard February 7, 2013

drunk cost fallacy

the idea that when you're drunk, you've already committed to being drunk so you may as well get that extra drink. see "sunk cost fallacy."

"Can't Kyle just drink in moderation and not black out every weekend?"
"It's the drunk cost fallacy. Once he gets drunk he doesn't see a reason to stop."

by serkets January 27, 2018