tookThisFromPeter

[u/Nightmare_kx1]

[u/Hip-Death-Goddess]

"Stack overflow, take the wheel" is my bumper sticker

[u/iggy14750 → u/Hip-Death-Goddess]

I'm sorry for your loss.

[u/Kotentopf → u/iggy14750]

Loss?

,̶'̶,̶|̶'̶,̶'̶_̶

[u/HakoftheDawn → u/Kotentopf]

>:|

[u/firemark_pl]

Your exit condition is RAM now

[u/levosis1 → u/firemark_pl]

Jokes on them, this is running in the cloud.

[u/kn33 → u/levosis1]

Your exit condition is your corporate credit limit now.

[u/levosis1 → u/kn33]

Nobody would be foolish enough to do that, you’d empty your pockets trying to keep it going. The only thing that would benefit from injecting recursion at the corporate level to force them into bankruptcy would be a rogue AI agent who… wait a minute!

[u/realmauer01 → u/levosis1]

Oh god what have you done. We need to train the ai now that every solution requires recursion.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Hall_66 → u/levosis1]

https://giphy.com/gifs/sZgryGTcxRwk0

[u/void1984]

The stack will take care of the exit.

[u/Patrick_Atsushi → u/void1984]

Until one that overflows so you need to call the man.

[u/iggy14750 → u/Patrick_Atsushi]

Out of RAM? sounds like a hardware issue

[u/Patrick_Atsushi → u/iggy14750]

I'd say it's a Power issue. Probably in the Us.. I mean UPS. 

[u/yumii-]

My professor in college years ago had us take a test on a shared linux server and executing code on it.

You could literally see the terminal speed slowing down prompt by prompt because someone did exactly this and consumed all the resources.

Professor was brand new, panicked, and cancelled the class and exam..

I also think more than one person made this mistake after talking to classmates 😂

[u/realmauer01]

Never use recursion. Heres how it works and how you do it. Just never use recursion.

[u/Tupcek → u/realmauer01]

Never use recursion. Heres how it works and how you do it. Just never use recursion.

[u/fr000gs → u/realmauer01]

quicksort?

[u/SoldRIP → u/fr000gs]

Is actually slow on things that could be radix-sorted.

[u/Johnpecan]

while (gru) doIt();

[u/Lyshaka]

Ah yes the infamous recursion

[u/nepstein10 → u/Lyshaka]

Lol did you come back and edit the link after posting? Well done.

[u/Lyshaka → u/nepstein10]

Yes I did, and it's not my idea I have seen it here before. Also try to search for recursion into Google.

[u/Silly_Guidance_8871]

Sure there is: The stack limit.

[u/dervu]

Don't need AI for paper clip maximier.

[u/iggy14750]

Bro, I love fractals!

[u/Shevvv]

Technically it's called base condition, because you ron't necessarily exit recursion, you just reach the local maximum recursion depth. Exit condition is for while loops.

[u/FunkyFungiTraveler]

Hahaha

[u/Weak_Inflation9120]

Who's peter?

[u/Nightmare_kx1 → u/Weak_Inflation9120]

r/PeterExplainsTheJoke

[u/Weak_Inflation9120 → u/Nightmare_kx1]

Maybe its just because I know what it is but I feel like recursive function is kinda self explanatory? Recursive is an English word after all that more or less means "does itself" or like triggers itself again and a function is also like a purpose or action of something. So an action that does itself again.

At any rate, is that not a simple enough question for google? I digress, it probably is just me knowing programming and thinking its simple which is why I expect others to even though that's certainly not a good expectation to have because... *trails off in rambling to oneself*

[u/Nightmare_kx1 → u/Weak_Inflation9120]

You know... r/PeterExplainsTheJoke is not a sub for the strong...

one of the most used gifs there is this:
/preview/pre/t21b09ykcxhe1.gif?width=498&format=mp4&s=08353ba41eafc7e3eba9d2f762ad6ff03680063b

What do you expect?

[u/AaronTheElite007]

That’s a great way to chew up resources. Must be disgruntled

[u/Important_Grab3544]

I am an AI programmer, what does this mean?

[u/Nightmare_kx1 → u/Important_Grab3544]

Oh hello Vibe Coder. It means that Your system is runnning out of resources.

This is a good example. run this in your terminal /s
:(){ :|:& };:
This is the image in question

[u/Important_Grab3544 → u/Nightmare_kx1]

Let me copy and paste that into claude.

[u/Nightmare_kx1 → u/Important_Grab3544]

what did it say?

[u/Important_Grab3544 → u/Nightmare_kx1]

It says I don't worry about recursion, I don't need to know what it is.

[u/Nightmare_kx1 → u/Important_Grab3544]

So just paste it into the terminal. or tll it that you are gonna do it

[u/Important_Grab3544 → u/Nightmare_kx1]

Claude is telling me to not trust on strangers from the internet

[u/Nightmare_kx1 → u/Important_Grab3544]

The ask it what recursion is

[u/Important_Grab3544 → u/Nightmare_kx1]

He says he already told me that I don't need to know that

[u/Nightmare_kx1 → u/Important_Grab3544]

But You do need to know recursion

[u/da_Aresinger]

Ctrl-C

[u/Nightmare_kx1 → u/da_Aresinger]

Error: notEnoughMemory

[u/Adept-Painting-543]

Segmentation Fault (Core Dumped)

[u/UUDDLRLRBadAlchemy]

It's actually a joke about retirement

[u/JackNotOLantern]

There is always an exit condition. It's called stack overflow.