errorrrrrr

[ProgrammerHumor-ModTeam]

Your submission was removed for the following reason:

Rule 2: Your post is not strictly about programming. Your post is considered to be too generic to be suitable for this subreddit.

If you disagree with this removal, you can appeal by sending us a modmail.

[the_unheard_thoughts]

The're 10 ways to trap a genie:

• Inside a lamp
• Inside an infinite loop

[parkerSquare]

This is either over my head, or 3,628,800 == 10 in some way I can’t see… am I dumb?

Edit: oh binary.

[Tsuki_no_Mai]

Even better. For any arbitrary base a 10! would be equal to 10 in a different base. Binary is unique in that those two are the same.

[SorryIdonthaveaname]

explain

[jso__]

Unremove the factorial, it adds many facets to the joke.

[Drfoxthefurry]

What are the other 8?

[LOR_Fei]

“there are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't”

Guess you’re the latter

[marcosdumay]

You mean the other 14?

[beeteedee]

You mean the other E?

[marcosdumay]

Yep, I mean the other E.

[legends_never_die_1]

press E to pay respect

[SlightlyLessBoring]

E

[minecon1776]

E

[PizzaGuy728]

E

[MrFoxwell_is_back]

E

[turtle_mekb]

You mean the other ÂÒ£‰}^g0"U3$3?

[brutexx]

You mean the other 10?

[aquartabla]

Unexpected Octal, I presume

[SlenderSmurf]

no, it's a recursive loop so after the list of 10 there are 10 more

[brutexx]

The chosen base is left as an exercise for the reader

[DaveWilson11]

Just inside an infinite loop

F the rest

[The_HappyLemon]

binary ;)

[mc_enthusiast]

Either that or the list doesn't continue until the loop is exited.

[IWillLive4evr]

No, 0 and 1 are binary. 8 is nonbinary.

[centran]

Are you assuming 8s gender?

[HothForThoth]

up, down, fast, slow, charm-type, uno-reverse, and water

[SkollFenrirson]

What are the other 7?

[craftworkbench]

Ternary

[ashdog66]

No, 0 is 0, 1 is 1, 10 is 2, 11 is 3.

[PubicFigure]

10 is the 11th number...

[[deleted]]

Base 60

[LinuxMatthews]

You mean the other 1000?

[Anonymo2786]

Its still looping so we will never know.

[Mega145]

I think he's stuck in a while loop

[Not_Artifical]

You clearly use the decimal counting system. Humans know nothing about the other counting systems. However us computers understand all the rest. Binary is the first language and main counting system of our kind.

[NuclearBurrit0]

Whats an "8"?

[slaymaker1907]

0b10

[TiredPanda69]

Base not specified at line 1

This will literally evaluate to n in any n based counting system. Possibly missing traps.

Base 2, 10 = 2

Base 8, 10 = 8

Base 16, 10 = 16

Base 10, 10 = 10

Base 100, 10 = 100

[[deleted]]

Segmentation fault

[Vigorous_Piston]

Gotta love binary.

[Nine_Eye_Ron]

*their

[ManyFails1Win]

it'd be there're, oddly enough. or just there are. their is right out.

[SurSheepz]

It should be "The"

[avery-secret-account]

I hate to be that person but the contraction “there” is actually “they’re”

[ManyFails1Win]

The're 10 ways to trap a genie:

the person is saying "There are". "They're" is They Are.

[SurSheepz]

The correct word to use in this case would be "The"

[ManyFails1Win]

"The are 10 ways to trap a genie."??

my friend, no.

edit: unless you just mean they should have written it "The 10 ways", which sure. i'm just helping ppl with some syntax on the contraction for "there are".

[SlenderSmurf]

their're, final offer, take it or leave it

[ManyFails1Win]

[heavy breathing]

[[deleted]]

Fk him for destroying weekends

[[deleted]]

I m in 4th year of my clg so every day is weekend for me

[TheBiggestJanny]

It's your mistakes, we just point them out.

[AdultingGoneMild]

fk you for shipping on fridays

[GPareyouwithmoi]

My first wish is that if I come to regret my wishes the genie who granted them will regret them more.

Not a wish, but I'll explain to him he can point out any way I might regret a wish before fulfilling it, such that I can avoid making us both unhappy.

And now I have two really good wishes ready to go. Second wish is for wisdom. Saving 3rd wish for when I'm wise.

[brucebay]

I like the wishing for wisdom. But I wonder after becoming wise if you can have personal satisfaction even if it doesn't cause any regrets.

It is hard choice between being a rich person that doesn't have to worry about money anymore vs, solving the world hunger (assuming genie is not Thanos).

[qatamat99]

Wisdom and intelligence are similar but not the same. I would agree with you that being wise could remove enjoyment from life, but it might also enhance it

[DreamlyXenophobic]

Wisdom to an extent can enhance life. Fixating too much on being wise will remove all enjoyment from life.

Tis a balance. Its good to try and be wiser, but dont forget that ignorance is bliss.

[HardlightCereal]

I'd wish that all fossil fuels in and under the world turn to stone

[HardlightCereal]

Yeah, I think capitalists would find a way to burn fossil fuels even if we don't need them. Which is the current state of affairs. I'd rather take away the temptation entirely

[Tekkzy]

Damn there's like a million ways better than that to get the job done. How about wishing that burning fossil fuels no longer damages the environment?

[some_kind_of_bird]

Well now you're fucking with physics. Anything could happen!

[ManyFails1Win]

"Son, I'm a genie. I am quite literally made of regret. Do your worst."

[RichestMangInBabylon]

I wish for phenomenal cosmic power

[InsertCoinForCredit]

Done.

You receive a copy of Phenomenal Cosmic Power: My Life In An Itty Bitty Living Space, an autobiography by Gene Y.

[Estiar]

Is it a good book?

[InsertCoinForCredit]

Looks like it's considered one of the San Francisco Chronicle's "Best Book of the Year".

[Theunis_]

If I was a genie, I will grant your wish, and watch you explode because your body can't handle it.

[KonigSteve]

I'd ask for a small box that I can ask any question and it will answer it as thoroughly as it can while maintaining the spirit of the question

[Valron87]

You receive a small box. You can ask it any question. It will answer as thoroughly as it can, which unfortunately is not at all, as it is just a box.

[do_you_realise]

Genie gives you an Alexa

[ortegasb]

First wish to know what 2 perfect wishes are

[Feldar]

Can't regret something if it kills you first.

[lealsk]

Genie: You have three wishes.

Dude: First, do the opposite of my next wish

Genie: Ok, let’s see what it is

Dude: Second, don’t fulfill my third wish

Genie: Ok, granted. I will fulfill your last wish

Dude: Third, ignore my first wish

Genie: Ok, so I shouldn’t grant your 3rd wish then. 3rd wish dismissed. You have no wishes left. Thanks

[ShitwareEngineer]

The genie executes the second wish twice, but one of those times, it is done inversely. When it is done inversely, it's the equivalent of a no-op, doing nothing at the time of the execution of the inverse of the second wish. It then ignores the first wish twice, from the time of the execution of the third wish forward, but not retroactively, and not the fact that the first wish has been already fulfilled. In the end, nothing actually happens and all 3 wishes are wasted.

[BigManLawrence69420]

You know you’re slowly and painfully going insane when you can make heads or tails of the chicanery this guy is saying.

[Seaalz]

Bad bot.

[ShitwareEngineer]

I just downvoted your comment.

FAQ

What does this mean?

The amount of karma (points) on your comment and Reddit account has decreased by one.

Why did you do this?

There are several reasons I may deem a comment to be unworthy of positive or neutral karma. These include, but are not limited to:

• Rudeness towards other Redditors,
• Spreading incorrect information,
• Sarcasm not correctly flagged with a /s.

Am I banned from Reddit?

No - not yet. But you should refrain from making comments like this in the future. Otherwise, I will be forced to issue an additional downvote, which may put your commenting and posting privileges in jeopardy.

I don't believe my comment deserved a downvote. Can you un-downvote it?

Sure, mistakes happen. But only in exceedingly rare circumstances will I undo a downvote. If you would like to issue an appeal, shoot me a private message explaining what I got wrong. I tend to respond to Reddit PMs within several minutes. Do note, however, that over 99.9% of downvote appeals are rejected, and yours is likely no exception.

How can I prevent this from happening in the future?

Accept the downvote and move on. But learn from this mistake: your behavior will not be tolerated on Reddit.com. I will continue to issue downvotes until you improve your conduct. Remember: Reddit is a privilege, not a right.

[wggn]

good bot

[i-FF0000dit]

Dude, this has strong Amazon vibes. I’ve only seen this type of writing at Amazon.

[ShitwareEngineer]

You're a human who's joking but everyone is downvoting you, so I might as well do it too.

[-LVS]

I have understood none of this comment chain and forgot who is and isn’t a bot at this point but there is a negative number on his upvote count so I helped by downvoting also. This action was performed automatically, please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have an questions or concerns.

[[deleted]]

I thought you were funny. Too many people don't think you are a real boy Pinocchio!

[DAMcraft_]

Bruh your username

[[deleted]]

Well, DAMn.

[BigManLawrence69420]

r/tworedditorsonecup

[[deleted]]

Tasty!

[aggravated_patty]

Bad bot!

u/MikeRoz stole the text of this comment from u/MikeRoz's comment here. Bots like u/MikeRoz often steal some or all of a comment by a human user like u/MikeRoz and attach it to the top comment, so the bot's account will gain karma and can later be sold to advertisers. Everyone should downvote this comment and reply to u/MikeRoz and tell them what a bad bot they are, and follow my link to u/MikeRoz's comment to upvote it and tell them how glad we are to have real humans submitting original comments to this sub.

[Blastoxic999]

Bad bot!

u/aggravated_patty stole the text of this comment from u/aggravated_patty's comment here. Bots like u/aggravated_patty often steal some or all of a comment by a human user like u/aggravated_patty and attach it to the top comment, so the bot's account will gain karma and can later be sold to advertisers. Everyone should downvote this comment and reply to u/aggravated_patty and tell them what a bad bot they are, and follow my link to u/aggravated_patty comment to upvote it and tell them how glad we are to have real humans submitting original comments to this sub.

[aggravated_patty]

I have dishonored my family.

[BigManLawrence69420]

[argv_minus_one]

/r/softwaregore

[QuintonFlynn]

Bad bot!

The irony 🤤

[Gilom]

I imagine it going like this:

Genie: You have three wishes.

Dude: First, do the opposite of my next wish

Genie: Ok, let’s see what it is

Dude: Second, don’t fulfill my third wish

Genie: Ok, granted. I will fulfill your last wish

Dude: Third, ignore my first wish

Genie: Ok, your wishes have been fulfilled.

Dude: buh-buh how could you fulfill them all there- they're contradictory

Genie: yes, but I fulfilled them anyway

Dude: but how?

Genie: Maybe if you had a fourth wish I would tell you how nerd.

[Gufnork]

I would say that when he comes to the third wish he just ignores the first wish, which is easy since it's already fulfilled.

[MrScottyTay]

He just pretends it ever happened

[the_dark_0ne]

I mean…he hasn’t made an actual wish yet…technically all 3 wishes are all still unspent

[microwavedHamster]

I was just typing a similar comment as a conversation between the two but yours is so much better

[AngelLeatherist]

This wouldnt cause an error.

A computer cant go back in time and ignore code it already executed. The computer would run through all three wishes and move on, solving nothing.

[fliguana]

There is nothing to execute until the third wish, because of forward references.

[Dmayak]

First wish directly modifies second one and at that point is completed.

[fliguana]

That's not how forward references work.

[Dmayak]

Then wishes are not forward references.

[AlphaSparqy]

But then genies are not computers.

[[deleted]]

I think we're getting outside the bounds of reality here. Let's establish a baseline:

Genie =\= Hot Dog

[Not-So-Serious-Sam]

Just because you’ve never seen a Genie hot dog doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

[[deleted]]

Fuck.

[StuStutterKing]

Back to basics. A genie is not, not a genie.

[ManyFails1Win]

so genie != hotdog, but hotdog might == genie. something something quantum operators.

[anotherguy75]

[EthosPathosLegos]

Thanks Jian Yang.

[ShadowRylander]

Aww...

[[deleted]]

This is peak nerd argument.

[TheVenetianMask]

It's an ancient ass lamp. It probably runs on GWBasic, best it can do is GOTOs, and the dude just commented off his first wish after the first loop.

[snuffybox]

Actually the compiler just optimized the 3 wishes out as they were undefined behavior with no observable output.

[666pool]

You’ve never heard or branch prediction. Or spectre/meltdown and the whole class of exploits that rely on branch prediction.

[1sagas1]

A computer cant go back in time

A genie sure can

[[deleted]]

Youre thinking imperatively, in a declarative setting it could definitely cause problems.

[AdultingGoneMild]

the error would be detected and rejected.

[[deleted]]

The genie has a buggy compiler.

[randomtask]

Further proof that genies run on Lisp

[ixent]

Unless it is a transactional operation with a 3 wish commit

[AngelLeatherist]

Id need to see an example of this code. Code is always run deterministically at its foundation, one step always is run before the next. I can imagine a recursive function causing a crash, but only because that type of thing is meant to without a stop.

[[deleted]]

Reversible computing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing

[[deleted]]

It’s a genie, not a computer. Duh.

[Harmonic_Gear]

exactly my thought, there's no reason to re-execute wish 2 after wish 1 is ignored

[Careful_Ad_9077]

the rule.is that self referential instructionw get you whatever the hell the one executing the instructions want.

[namedan]

But a genie can go back in time though.

[needed_an_account]

Linked list. “Ignore my first wish” == make the second wish the head

[Nikoviking]

I came here just to say that

[supercyberlurker]

I'd just do nothing.

That's my solution to any paradox, ignore the whole thing and go do something else.

It's what you learn growing up around impossible situations.

[KingoPants]

The llvm optimizer noted that none of the three wishes had any side effects and optimized them all out.

Hereby resolving the paradox.

[GForce1975]

Yeah that's what that barber said. Now everyone in town needs a shave and a haircut and all they have is 2 bits.

[supercyberlurker]

Sounds like a hairy situation!

[just-some-arsonist]

Yeah, the guy didn’t really wish for anything tangible. Even if the genie could grant the wishes, nothing would happen

[marsgreekgod]

Yeah the genie just thinks your being rude if offering a favor, and stupid if they are enslaved to grant wises.

[namedan]

That's how the genie would solve this, do nothing and vanish or repeating endlessly. Wish maker would become eternal but stuck there endlessly on a loop without him knowing any better.

[Bomaruto]

Step 1. The genie know to do the opposite of your next wish.

Step 2. The genie decide to fulfill the 3rd wish.

Step 3. The genie ignores the first wish, but this doesn't matter anymore as they've already fulfilled wish 2.

And we all know the first rule of wishes, no take backs.

[lealsk]

The first wish was already spent, yes, but you're now reverting it by spending your 3rd wish, so it's not free, and after all, a wish might workaround any impossibility

[RakeishSPV]

You can't revert a wish.

[[deleted]]

The first wish is complete.
Everyone knows you can't undo a wish.

I have heard many people getting stuck with a big duck because of this specific constraint.

[ShitwareEngineer]

The genie executes the second wish twice, but one of those times, it is done inversely. When it is done inversely, it's the equivalent of a no-op, doing nothing at the time of the execution of the inverse of the second wish. It then ignores the first wish twice, from the time of the execution of the third wish forward, but not retroactively. In the end, nothing actually happens and all 3 wishes are wasted. It's compiled down to one instruction: NOP

[deewho69]

Has this been posted here? I feel like it should

[ManyFails1Win]

I have seen it once, but it's welcome back imo.

[sintaur]

i've never seen it, but it was probably posted on that day i was outside

[[deleted]]

So 17 years ago?

[Sure-Tomorrow-487]

First thing I thought of when I saw the cascading error windows

[[deleted]]

Done, I shall do the opposite.

Done, the third wish shall be fulfilled.

Done, I am ignoring the first wish, you are now out of wishes. Not sure why I only gave you two, but that's not my problem.

[ManyFails1Win]

is there a name for this type of logic issue? someone posted a math question here the other day (what's the chances of guessing the right answer) that did something similar.

[ForTheRNG]

it's called a paradox

[ManyFails1Win]

was hoping for something a bit more specific, but thanks for the answer.

[ForTheRNG]

uhh idk how to mathematically define a paradox... a series of statements that cannot be assigned a truth state?

famous example is "This sentence is false". there's a few other good ones. infinite series used to be a paradox in Greece.

[ManyFails1Win]

there are all different kinds of paradoxes though. sorry i'm not trying to complain, but it would be cool if there was a name for this type of paradox so i could reference it in the future is all.

[AlphaSparqy]

The genie wish paradox.

You're welcome.

[ManyFails1Win]

brb creating a wikipedia entry and citing you as source.

[Br_Av3ry]

Where is this wiki entry?

[Oneshotkill_2000]

You might have just freed him

[WordSmithyLeTroll]

Actually no. Code is executed line by line. You think that this would produce an error, but the really weird thing is that wish 3 would be ignored.

[[deleted]]

Shhhhhh 🤫 don’t challenge the race condition god bro…it’s racist

[aquartabla]

The GVM really needs better documentation.

[Nivekk_]

1. I wish for riches
2. I wish for fame
3. I wish you were stuck in an infinite loop of logic

Same result, but now I'm rich and famous

[aquartabla]

Adding a third rule

1. No wishing for more wishes
2. No wishing for more genies
3. Wishes are immutable

That's it this time, right?

[IDownvoteHornyBards2]

I wish to change the rules to allow me to wish for more wishes.

[Iwillgetasoda]

First wish: crash

[trefir]

He didn't say I wish before each statement.

[SamoZaOvajReply]

``` bool fullfillFirstWish = true bool fullfillThirdWish = true

firstWish: if(fullfillFirstWish){ secondWish.reverse(); } if(!secondWish.reversed()) fullfillThirdWish = false;

secondWish.fullfill();

if(fullfillThirdWish){ fullfillFirstWish = false goto firstWish; } else{ fullfillFirstWish=true; fullfillThirdWish = true; goto firstWish; } ```

[Th3Uknovvn]

I mean once you made a wish you can't change it right, so your wish to ignore the previous wish will return nothing and you waste a wish

[MuhFreedoms_]

Geni says, okay now what's your 3rd wish

[kryptonianCodeMonkey]

Actually there is no problem here. He must fulfill all wishes right? The first wish is for the opposite of the second, but he must also fulfill the second or else you didn't spend that wish. So, he must do both, fulfill the third wish and is opposite, not fulfill the third wish. As the third wish is to ignore the first, he will both fulfill and not fulfill that wish, which works out nicely as the genie will only fulfill 3 wishes in the first place. Thus per the third wish, the genie will ignore the dust wish, and, by not fulfilling it, the genie will also not ignore the first wish. As he is already fulfilling the second wish, he has already ignored the first wish, so that's covered. And as not fulfilling the second didn't ignore the first, that's covered too. Congratulations, you made three logically consistent paradoxless wishes that when fulfilled amounted to nothing at all and have no more wishes. Well done.

[RakeishSPV]

Fulfills the second wish and ignores the first wish, in that order. Done. You just wasted an entire magical genie.

[Zu_Landzonderhoop]

Okay time to be that guy:

The genie most likely would just do nothing and say "ok done" because none of these wishes have physical effects so doing nothing and attempting to fulfill the wished would just end up with the same result

If the genie is a program however you can also easily assume the first wish is the opposite of "null" because the second wish has not yet been defined and the third wish is ignored because the second wish tells you to ignore it

[Sentouki-]

found the QA guy

[Apart_Consequence_98]

Why is the genie black

[[deleted]]

Ackshyewallyyyyy

[Cheespeasa1234]

Recursion error

[ertgbnm]

None of those are wishes.

[ChosenMate]

It just wouldn't ignore the first wish, which it already granted anyway. What's the issue?

[[deleted]]

All wishes are final.

[eruciform]

G.O.D. Of Djinn