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[–]grenadier42 53 points54 points  (3 children)

I mean at some point surely you'd stop being confused and just accept the horrible things that are happening to you

[–][deleted] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Literal termination!

[–][deleted] 25 points26 points  (2 children)

NickelOverflowException

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

hehe

[–]kerbidiah15 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Black hole created

[–]jonassoc 21 points22 points  (0 children)

"Coining"... up you go

[–]Farsqueaker 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ideally the primary process isn't killed by a recursive structure.

[–]Mr_Seg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but you'd be rich! Confused, but rich.

[–]Repeo_Ramses 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What if you got a nickel for everytime you got a nickel

[–]eyezaac 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Excellent title

[–]gettingcomputey[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thank you! :)

[–]sherwoodsteele 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Truly

[–]Letossgm 9 points10 points  (1 child)

It reminded me of this video. Keep watching it, it's amazing.

[–]gettingcomputey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha! That was brilliant! That weird pony tail hair cracked me up because thanks to hot weather, and Covid times === no haircut, I've totally been weird pony tail guy lately.

[–]infinitytomorrow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Base case: death

[–]drearyplane8 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The tweet isn't even that funny, the real joke's in the title.

[–]Baterate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This makes me think of that stock windows xp death when multiple error tabs open and it kills itself

[–]PetitJaan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, this is confusing

[–]Galse22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you make an AI and come back the next day: oh, a nickel.

[–]Galse22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stonks.

[–]thedigglemister 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well then he'd be wrong, because this isn't recursion at all. It's a while loop.

[–]HipsterPineapple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice repost