4 Billion If Statements | Prime Reacts

[@Sousa22ko]

programmers in 1969: send a spaceship to the moon with only 4KB of RAM programmers in 2024: i need 30GB to check if a number is even or odd

[@muhammadabdulsalam602]

😂😂😂

[@Mystery_Glitch]

The power of optimization and deoptimization

[@cewla3348]

@@falconheavy595 yes. i wont argue it, but yes.

[@MrAntiKnowledge]

You can't send a spaceship to the moon, you need a moonship for that, duh.

[@shroomer3867]

The benefit of AI is that it would never write this. The drawback of AI is that it would never write this.

[@davidjohnston4240]

Dynamic meta programming optimization - Take the number, write the single line of code to check that number to a file, compile it, run it.

[@smanzoli]

In case the challenge was "not to use aby math, just IFs" (not sure), we could just set a list like odd_array = [1,3,5,7,9] and check IF the last digit of the input number is in odd_array. Number is odd IF it is, else it's even. But it would not be funny and challenging, lol. Loved his solution.

[@TJackson736]

​@smanzoli depending if it is unsigned, you can just bit mask the least significant bit and check if it is equal to 1. If it is, return true in isodd. Else return false. This should also work with 2's complement representations as well. If we are going with all negative numbers are not odd, we simply have to check ifNegative before checking the odd process explained before.

[@prodkinetik]

built-in caching by checking if the if statement already exists in the file before writing to it and compiling

[@youtubeenjoyer1743]

@@TJackson736 sounds like math. No math allowed

[@anon-fz2bo]

​@@youtubeenjoyer1743 the math behid that is not that complicated, its more theory heavy tbh but yeah kinda genius ngl

[@tukan1652]

conclusion: 9:16 If windows says you can't compile a 40gb file you say yes you can

[@ThePrimeTimeagen]

never stop stopping

[@lordender_kitty_official]

but would other operating systems be chill with it? because we all know that windows is gay and everyone should convert to linux.

[@cewla3348]

@@lordender_kitty_official 1. homophobic intent, please fix yourself 2. bro who do you think uses linux???

[@treanttrooper6349]

​@@cewla3348 how do you know he isnt gay?

[@cewla3348]

@@treanttrooper6349 because he’s using gay as a negative adjective, which is homophobic. Read his damn comment.

[@dboss112]

I took my first programming class in high school and one of my assignments was to write a program that let you select a month/year and the program displayed the calendar layout for that month. I proceeded to write out every possible calendar layout for each combination of days in the month and starting day of the week all chained together with if statements. After a few hours of copy pasting calendars and moving around the numbers my program was ready to be printed and passed in. Yes my teacher graded our programs by hand with pen and paper. After several minutes of the printer chugging along nonstop my classmates began to notice the monstrosity I had created. My teacher was not happy when I handed in 100+ pages.

[@andarba2148]

He didn’t know what a loop was 🤣🫵

[@dboss112]

​@@andarba2148 I think we learned loops the following week 😭

[@tirushone6446]

bruh there is no way 💀

[@fus132]

@@dboss112 RiP

[@ZeroUm_]

​@@dboss112I love stories where the teacher is the one learning lessons.

[@nrwchd]

paid by the lines

[@grawss]

"I've written over four billion lines of code." - Every programming resume ever.

[@RubixCubed3]

Using the slowest programming language to automate writing 4 billion if statements in the fastest programming language. That is gangster.

[@Rio-zh2wb]

Indeed

[@aoeu256]

actually haskell and especially lisp programmers build real-time programs by embedding low level languages, a high level representation, and building a compiler between the low level and high level representation.

[@w0cker]

now make that an npm package for the world to depend on

[@bekiraltindal9053]

😂

[@oleksiistri8429]

That's too cruel

[@Rudxain]

`node_modules` about to bloat harder than a black-hole with the mass of all observable galaxies

[@abeidiot]

now that is true evil

[@reatcas]

For the universe to depend on

[@db_2112]

I love that the guy used modulo in python to generate the first file

[@davidboeger6766]

The algorithm wasn't self-hosting yet. This article was about the bootstrapping process. Python will now replace its current implementation of % with this one and see 10x performance increases.

[@KleptomaniacJames]

@@davidboeger6766 a bit wise AND would be a far better implementation

[@katrinabryce]

@@davidboeger6766 Do something along the lines of this 💁🏻‍♀ iseven = True for n in range(4294967296): print(n,"is even" if iseven else "is odd") iseven = not iseven Substitute in your actual code in the print statement.

[@marko1395]

@@KleptomaniacJames The correct way is to go in batches of two. i is even, i + 1 is odd.

[@MisterAssasine]

before doing that I would first check if the compiler doesnt already do that for me and keep my good maintainable code@@KleptomaniacJames

[@Slateproc]

someone really saw Yandere-Dev's code and said "bet"

[@emjizone]

3:30 *"What could go wrong?"* is really THE fundamental question that drives the entire IT industry.

[@electrpaleo]

Now I needs a part 2 comparing the performance of a 4 billion switch statement

[@Ipanienko]

Actually, it could be a lot faster if the switch statement gets compiled to a jump table.

[@gregorymorse8423]

It would be a jump table with 4 billion entries one byte each as per how most compilers work. Obviously optimization could do bits or with two cases change to a conditional jump or even just recognize its simplifiable to a parity condition.

[@rosomak8244]

@@Ipanienko No. Memory access times will kill the performance.

[@icegiant1000]

That was the first thing out of my mouth, "Ya know, a switch statement would be faster..."

[@Void_Dragon]

"All unauthorized distribution of this source code will be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law" 💀

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

The law: "Uh, the prosecution would like to plead guilty by reason of insanity, your honor."

[@keshi5541]

This code should be in the geneva convention of tools that shouldn't be used.

[@aez1814]

persecuted or prosecuted lol

[@davidboeger6766]

Rust Programmer: Writes 4 billion if statements. Rust Compiler: "Cannot use moved value. Value moved in first if statement."

[@emeraldbonsai]

Thats easy to solve just use python to put .clone() behind every one that will fix it

[@zhongcena]

Integers in Rust implement Copy. Meaning they shouldn't have that problem.

[@Codotaku]

A rust programmer would always use a match statement anyway

[@BambeH]

​@@Codotaku time to match bool { true => { /* ... */ }, false => { /* ... */ }, }

[@hanszotark5098]

match and enumeration with assigned discriminate value is the recipe.

[@eitanseri-levi2169]

YOU MIGHT NOT LIKE IT, BUT THIS IS WHAT PEAK ENGINEERING LOOKS LIKE

[@kormannn1]

Yandere sim dev style?

[@emeraldbonsai]

In theory you could have several 1000 people try out this program then record all there inputs then reorganize the ifs so that more common numbers are higher up in the if list to optimize it

[@meekrab9027]

Reminds me of the story Chandler Carruth told about optimizing some C++ code written by Ken Thompson: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pInEqZ5obN-qos0

[@KariArgillander]

@@Бородатый-к2н definetly this. I would happy to give some memory to program so it can run faster.

[@knutharald9814]

Apply some bitwise magic and the storage requirements go down to 0.5GB

[@ironbard4901]

@@knutharald9814 ... what?

[@MichaelPohoreski]

@@Бородатый-к2нAside from 2 and 3 ALL primes have the form 6n+1 or 6n-1; no need to store _every_ number.

[@Jadinandrews]

You could achieve this by training 4 billion pigeons to peck a button if their number comes up.

[@M_1024]

Hear me out: trained pigeons with robotic hands working for humans and producing goods while they live in paradise. Way better than AGI.

[@real1cytv]

I think theo said it best, when he said: Imagine showing this to a programmer 15-20 years ago. They would have an aneurysm.

[@youtubeenjoyer1743]

if it works, don't fix it

[@gardian06_85]

because people actually cared about performance, and sizes back then (when the program must fit on a 1.4 MB floppy or you have to write an installer, size of everything mattered) we now live in a world where with a processor, memory, and busses run 400x faster still takes the same amount of time to determine if "hte" is a word or not.

[@berniecat8756]

Yeah Gigabyte was not a unit of measurement back then so a 330 GB “program” is incomprehensible

[@HrHaakon]

@@berniecat8756 In 2004? It would certainly be. We had DVDs back then which had 4.8 gigabytes.

[@FLMKane]

Um... Guys. 20 years ago was 2004. We had multi GB games back then. And 500gb hard drives. Halo 2 and half life 2 came out 20 years ago

[@1thevm1]

From the title I thought we'd be reviewing YandereDev's code lmfao

[@zambumm]

why not create an api call to chatgpt for every number?

[@macchiato_1881]

What are you? Elon Musk?

[@darekmistrz4364]

@@macchiato_1881Tesla's co-founder and CEO. Elon is inventor and maverick entrepreneur

[@captainace1277]

This is Elon Musk

[@critamine]

Careful, someone might steal your startup idea!

[@CyborusYT]

@@darekmistrz4364 lmao he did not cofound tesla

[@rave400v6]

"And they call me a madman." "Who created 4 billions if statements. " "I'm a survivor. "

[@justuseodysee7348]

This software is written and optimized for next gen hardware. You can't expect that your 10y old 4760k with 16GB of ram will be supported forever. This is unavoidable progress, it's time for an upgrade

[@flipwonderland]

so true

[@WHEELES]

16 gb ram - a NOT old PC. Old PC - it's a max 8 gb. Yes, I use really old pc...

[@NotAdachiPeople]

@@WHEELESMe with 4G of RAM and a 5th gen i5

[@tl5429]

​@@NotAdachiPeople Me with a 1GB ram laptop i found in the trash with who knows what processor

[@cewla3348]

@@tl5429just neofetch and google it?

[@baranjan6969]

My favorite compiler. Python. Just as Ross van der Gussom envisioned.

[@hungrymusicwolf]

No matter how many times I hear this story I keep laughing out loud. This guy better be a writer as a side hustle.

[@SpiritmanProductions]

I kinda did the opposite, a much more compact program than you would expect: In computer studies at school (mid-80's), we were allowed to bring our own computers in if we had one. I had my ZX Spectrum and all the Commodore and Atari fanboys laughed. The teacher set a task to write the most interesting 1-line program that we could. Fortunately, not only was the Spectrum perfectly happy with multi-statement lines, you could actually Poke a 'return' address from an imaginary GoSub which was a line number and statement index. I can't remember what I made it do, but it was basically a whole simple program, with conditionals and branching, in one line. ;-)

[@noobrebuilder8260]

Average YandereDev script

[@bumblebeegamerreal]

Like I swear, 4 billion if statements vs 1 if statement: number = int(input('Enter a number: ')) if (number % 2) == 0: print("Even") else: print("Odd") Seriously, mad respect to this guy for computing 4 billion if statements and wasting 330 GB of space for an odd/even number checker

[@IsaacFoster..]

I was looking for this comment

[@RobTheQuant]

windows leaves some of the memory mapped pages in RAM even after quitting the program. So next time you run the program, it does not have to load all of them from disk, that's the magic why it's faster than loading from the disk. On a cold start will be much slower.

[@delta3244]

(40 - 32 Gb)/800 Mb s⁻¹= 10 s, so that explains it pretty neatly.

[@davidthacher1397]

@@delta3244 With page compression, maybe.

[@thingsiplay]

What a Chad. Hats off, my dude.

[@noredine]

I'd have a foot pedal mapped to SHIFT if i was programming DirectX

[@darekmistrz4364]

Genius

[@Frommerman]

I have left click mapped to my scroll wheel and all I do is play Old School Runescape.

[@lancelotthefallen763]

and then they will ask you, why you only train your left leg on leg days

[@iyziejane]

In 5-10 years the compiler will notice that you could optimize all this with a mod function. He's just ahead of his time.

[@Sandromatic]

Ah but optimization was turned off. I wonder if the compiler *actually would* notice if optimization *was* turned on.

[@Burgo361]

This reminds me of some advice I got at uni, if you have to jump through a lot of hoops to do something you might be doing it wrong. (paraphrasing a bit here but it applies)

[@1DJRikkiBee]

True, unless you're trying to win a hoop jumping competition.

[@robonator2945]

Borrow Checker : "Finally, someone who appreciates my work!"

[@robonator2945]

​@@nathanielalderson9111 and I'm sure your users will appreciate that explanation when your software doesn't work because 'well the API to do the thing I'm trying to do is made in a way I find inconvenient, so until they refactor it how I want I'm not making anything' You can either complain about the world being imperfect or put in the work to make it better. You are the only variable that you can control, blaming external factors can't solve much of anything but it can break a hell of a lot. Sure, you *can* give european politicians the right to dictate the hardware on the devices you (and everyone else) are allowed to buy, or you can just stop buying from Apple - which of those routes has more knock-on cobras?

[@robonator2945]

​@@nathanielalderson9111 because the lifepsan of the joke is shorter than the length of time we've been churning out shitty sub-par software and it's quite hard to keep laughing all the while you keep getting kicked in the balls because it's always [someone-else]'s fault. More generally because this 'I'll just force the rest of the world to change because I know I'm right and don't need to rethink anything' philosophy is just plain really fucking annoying. Once yesterday's parody becomes today's philosophy it's kinda hard to laugh at the parody anymore.

[@nathanielalderson9111]

@@robonator2945 good grief man! Go away! Go take your bitterness and harshness elsewhere. No, seriously. Go get some therapy. Programming is always going to be a headache, and it really sounds like you either need to deal with some heavy stuff, or find a way to let it go. Aggressively attacking (with words) a random on the net just shows me that you also have the attitude of "I'll change the world because I'm right" attitude that you seem to think I have, from a freaky dumb joke. Go kick rocks.

[@OneEyeShadow]

I like the idea that at the end of it all there's some variation of "else: return x%2==0" Just in case there are any numbers not covered by the 4gb if statement.

[@privacyvalued4134]

The 4GB file size limitation in the Windows PE file format is an artifact of its design and also how the Windows loader handles loading binary files. However, you can load multiple EXEs and DLLs into main memory that are each up to 4GB in size. The Windows loader performs a LOT of work when it loads a PE file into memory, including spending time remapping addresses in the code section so that the code inside executes properly. So to get it to compile, they could have broken up the file into multiple 4GB DLLs and then...loaded all of them with each one dependent upon the next one.

[@Sancarn]

0:28 You should see some of the code I've seen in our core business critical systems...

[@janbrtka4322]

The logical evolution of this program would be, to publish it as a npm library which uses performant C library under the hood. I'd bet it would get 100k+ downloads within a year - if we figure out a nice, short and catchy name for it!

[@HrHaakon]

StEven. Saint Even, written by Steven, answer the holy question: Is this thing even?

[@Average-Lizard]

Dang that’s bad…. Ever heard of a switch statement? That’d clean that right up

[@Tntpker]

"The CIA wants you to think ifelse is the same as switch" - Terry Davis

[@kiwikemist]

Switch? What are we, gay?!

[@wolverine9632]

Amazing solution! Now we just need a JS version so we can add this to npm!

[@peterbonnema8913]

Imagine the CPU franticly trying to pre-execute all those alternative code paths right from the start.

[@Jason9637]

No need to pre execute, it's comparing a register with an immediate, so there is nothing to wait for, the only limitation should be how fast the CPU can load the code

[@FLMKane]

@@Jason9637 my dude. Most of us don't understand assembly so most wouldn't be able to predict that. But that means with 4 billion comparisons, there are 4 billion data chunks to compare, and assuming they're all integers that should mean each input for comparison is 4 bytes. That means 4 billion comparisons would result in 16 gigabytes of data flow through the CPU, which means you'd better have a lot of ram. I'm not even going to bother thinking about floats or strings

[@Jason9637]

@@FLMKane That's not at all how this works. The CPU doesn't need to store every value in system memory then wait for it. Maybe it would be helpful to learn the basics of assembly (it's really not that hard)

[@CCCW]

this is absolutely deranged, and I mean in in the best possible way. I love it

[@darekmistrz4364]

Pushing the limits of computing!

[@Cethris]

That article is a work of art

[@nox5282]

I’m ashamed to say, it took me a few rewatches until I grasped every step in this article.

[@darekmistrz4364]

Most important is that you enjoyed it (probably?)

[@hodayfa000h]

This code is STILL more efficient than the code game devs make today

[@energistixgames]

I love how those programs that generate the code to check if the number is odd or even, always have a "x % 2 == 0" somewhere

[@kmcat]

2:26 I love it, the solution is there.

[@moharexx3128]

still faster than python

[@karaczan5839]

Python programers when they see this: 😡😡😡😡😠👺👺👺👺🤬🤬😡🤬👺👺👺👺😡🤬🤬🤬🤬👺🤬🤬👺😡😡😡😠😠😡😠😠😠

[@rubansrirambabu7771]

"Can we have O(1) code mom?" Mom: "We have O(1) code at home" The O(1) code:

[@KrisRogos]

I strongly suspect the speed came from the CPU's branch prediction. After a few iterations, it would realise all previous cases are false and start pre-loading page after page of the code for the false paths only. Eventually, when the correct number rolled around, it would be true and, therefore, a prediction miss, but it only needs to go back and re-evaluate the true branch once and then quit the program.

[@Garlic_Bread69]

In assembly, you can actually check if a number is odd, with one operation (or two if you want to store it as a bool and not just do a conditional jump)

[@Kuratius]

You don't even need modulo for this. Bit mask the input with bit wise & 1 and checking if it's >0 works. Probably faster than running the division instruction that gets run when you do a modulo operation.

[@williamdrum9899]

That's how modulo is actually implemented- bitwise ands for powers of 2 and "magic number" multiplication for the rest

[@estranhokonsta]

Wow. That was fun. Reminded me of what programming was all about when i was younger. That guy deserves respect.

[@niks660097]

7:28 WIN32 and their handles, messages, dwords was designed by a polish engineer who first introduced the idea of dynamically defining APIs with just prefixes.

[@sergokovaltsov3427]

That's some NPM worthy algorithm. Hats off

[@Tobsson]

Couldnt stop thinking that finding this as an npm package would not seem unimaginable to me.

[@BillyHudson1]

I love chat jippity

[@lxmcf]

The person who rote the article woke up and chose violence with no witnesses, 11/10

[@kiyopawn]

I once did something that could be done in 50 lined but in 1000 to piss off my teacher. It's in c++, where instead of using "for" or "++", I wrote each line checking each possibility one by one. I even wrote "arc names" for each area of code.

[@andriychuck1194]

it would be founny if you also used loop in some other place, showing that you know how to do it.

[@hoodiegal]

If you were to write these 4 billion if statements by hand, and you are able to write one per second, it would take almost 32 years of active work to finish this program.

[@tuureluotonen1631]

More like 126 years. 4 billion ÷ 60 ÷ 60 ÷ 24 ÷ 365 ≈ 126

[@hoodiegal]

@@tuureluotonen1631 Yep, I messed up, 1 billion second is just under 32 years. I forgot to multiply by 4 lmao.

[@whiskeytuesday]

Why are we calling Guido van Rossum Ross van der Gussom? Is this a meme i missed?

[@VodShod]

7:25 I think you should get a pedal that you can map to a specific button like caps lock and/or shift, that way you are not causing problems with your hands. After all your feet are just laying around being lazy.

[@christophmuller3511]

Reminds me of my attempt of writing the least efficient LED blink program by filling all the memory of the 8051 uC except for the very first and last instruction with “NOP” - which resulted in the IDE corrupting the project file…

[@thygrrr]

I think you could short-circuit this and jump directly to the address where the comparison for the input number is done. Then, you can pre-compute the result. Then, you can pack this, because the result is always just a bit. PROFIT!

[@Oler-yx7xj]

This is essentially a lookup table, which is essentially a switch-statement, which is definitely not 4 billion if-statements

[@aeghohloechu5022]

The thing is that he specifically turned off all optimisations, otherwise the if blocks would have gotten compiled down to jump tables

[@adamrak7560]

You all laugh at this, but some form of this is actually _really_ highly performant for ab-initio quantum chemistry. It has really complicated numerical algorithms for the integrator, which if unrolled may be gigabytes of code, but the unrolled code runs on GPU an order of magnitude faster.

[@Jake9066]

Here I was thinking an "is-even" would be done well enough just by returning the inverse of the final bit of the number. This is so much better!

[@IsaacFoster..]

You guys are saying it's yandere-dev code, nah man. This dude made the entire code in assembly, making it crazy efficient to the point those billions of if statements ran in 10 seconds. His compilers said it's impossible, he said "why not possible, you stupid bastard"

[@onanahavannaa4554]

Aint no way even as a beginner i ain't writing that much if statements. Too lazy

[@jerichaux9219]

If you wrote one entire if statement per second, it would take you 138 years.

[@FlorianWendelborn]

@@jerichaux9219 that’s a short time to finally solve isEven

[@PristinePerceptions]

You write a program to generate the program. Simple 🙂

[@prukenope]

You come the right way. If you're lazy, you can make a great code lol

[@AxidoDE]

And now we just need another 4 Billion of these and another function that determines which of them to use to get a universal modulo function. It's just that easy.

[@GRHmedia]

Hmm, I think we can go larger, we use compression to store the machine code pull out the section we need and set the instruction pointer to it. What could go wrong. Or maybe we could generate the next if statement at the end of the last one.

[@grex2595]

Modified this for fun. Did a while loop with with a fll where the odd node pointed to the even node and vice versa and just moved to the next node and added one if the number didn't match. Not as impressive, but still a fun way to do it in the spirit of doing almost no math.

[@DankMemes-xq2xm]

*ahem* For those new to programming, the correct way to check if something is odd in Python is: listNum = list(num) odds = ["1", "3", "5", "7", "9"] if listNum[-1] in odds: return "Odd" else: return "Even"

[@mzhvis]

"This is where the machines can rise up" 😂

[@sammyb3323]

I came across this problem myself, I sufficed for mod 2 like any other normal person, 1 line to read number, an if statement to determine what the result of mod 2 of the input was *dab*

[@georgecop9538]

6:14 We need long long long(or int128_t I suppose). what exfat and ntfs, if an fs could support 2 ^ 128 - 1 bytes/blocks/etc. then it's next level

[@piotrprs572]

it's OS 'magic'.. that jump multiple block of mapped memory, to find a proper one. Mapped file is used by Memory Manager and split into blocks to fast access. Also ALL 'if' are linear, so system can do proper predictions. It will take much... much longer if this "if"s ware more random.

[@da40au40]

1:47 😂. the way he said what he said gives me chills.... this guy is the coldest and most badass KZbinr😂

[@noyza2132]

for the problem you mentioned at 7:25 - consider getting a shift key foot pedal.

[@markusjohansson6245]

Funny ;-) Reminds me when I started to learn to program using the manual for C64 back in the days. I wrote a text-based adventure game using like only if, goto, print and input. Storage took up two sides of a cassette tape and the game wasnt long at all. Nevermind that when you played you had to type in the exact correct string to move on in the game.

[@illoominate]

Could optimize by making a routine is_even that returns 0 or 1. if (n == 0) return 1; if (n == 1) return 0; if (n == 2) return 1; // ... continue thru 2^32-1 Then main just does: printf("%s ", is_even(n) ? "even" : "odd"); That'll save a lot of compile time and memory by avoiding repeated string constants. The optimizer might unify the strings automatically, but still costs a lot of compile time which is easily avoided. The great thing is he has great tooling with his code generator, so it's easy to change!

[@illoominate]

Another optimization would be binary search! He could have his code generator produce the nested ifs.

[@illoominate]

Oh, and then handle negative numbers with single "if" up front, calling is_even with the absolute value. Then the code will be production ready.

[@illoominate]

Oh dude, I just thought of something! Just return (n ^ 1). Ah hell that's no fun though.

[@JordanMetroidManiac]

Wouldn’t the slowest language actually be Ruby or Lua?

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

Loving these challenges!

[@tutacat]

When dealing with python nesting limitations, all you need to do is believe. Convert it to single if statements, when when Python still says no, write your own mapping python interpreter in C (or python)

[@chrisclark5746]

Laughed so hard I almost snorted my coffee :-) classic episode, thanks again primeagen

[@danielphil80]

0:17 who researches social media?........3:30 What could go wrong? A good question to ask yourself if you are to think outside the box. It's the greatest question to ask. Among the six honest men. Dale Carnegie - stop worrying

[@darkquaesar2460]

This is the funniest goddamn thing i've seen all week. People don't even know how efficient if statements are compared to switch statements or even if else statements.

[@alex_hey]

Missed the first step in TDD. Needed to write tests for all 4 billion cases.

[@waperboy]

Once worked with guy, we were supposed to convert data to a flexible third-party api, and different customers had different needs. He started coding, and his approach was code with lots and lots of if-statements. I had to step in and build a more abstract per-customer configurable solution that didn't involve hundreds of if-statements per customer. But I'm sorry I had to watch this to the end... :-/

[@bruxinth4660]

“Are these the world’s crispiest fries? Let’s find out.” :Starts evaluating with this program and sits there waiting for an answer until video abruptly cuts off (stream ended with blue screen: memory overflow):

[@danielvest9602]

I was actually naive enough to attempt something like this. Around 1992 I began learning C. My only experience before this was with gwbasic. I wanted to display a bit maped picture and wrote a basic program to create a C source that was just a bunch putpixel calls, one for each pixel of a 640x480 image.

[@bug5654]

Reminds me of making PHP code that wrote javascript functions for each column dynamically based on the type of column because javascript didn't like polymorphic sorts.

[@0smannnn]

Basically a Yandere dev coding style.

[@aidynladouceur8369]

This might be my new favorite piece of programming media ever

[@averytheloftier]

having not yet finished the video I think the solution to the line limit problem is fairly obvious. make separate executables for each possible number. convert the number to a string and then call the file associated with that number.

[@HimanshuSharma-sd5gk]

i can imagine the cpu pipelining and branch prediction dying there in cold blood.

[@Chrome_Cat]

Whilst on the topic of bad solutions. You could do it with recursion. Define base cases, and subtract 2 till we get to the base cases.

[@tetsuoshiva]

The assembly version returns after finding the value though, it's not the same code as the C version that keeps comparing every value.

[@rika0729]

fun fact... u cn write a 3-4 line code to get that abomination of aa list of IFs.. and then copy paste it in the code to quickly write thousands of lines of code

[@Jeremyak]

00:38 Exactly, my favorite thing to do with the internet is to make jokes like this one and watch the presumably "smart" people not get it and go into full meltdown mode, it's glorious.

[@BusinessWolf1]

Say what you will about deoptimization but it's allowing us to make a whole lot of technology. And we're also looking backward and optimizing ground-up whilst keeping the knowledge of what's possible which we gained by shipping to production on save, and saving on alt tab.

[@imblackmagic1209]

i would've tried to make multiple dlls to call from the main program, so we check every number every time, just in case, one can never be too sure

[@Katsaguro]

My first thought would be reading the final bit of the input's binary code, 0 even 1 odd. This man went above and beyond with his dedication to one method.

[@alexeyklepikov2770]

These articles are so fun and very well written compared to the geniuses at the ny post who came up with such bangers as “Reddit user praised after refusing to swap airplane seats with pregnant woman”

[@finesseandstyle]

I have done something like this for uni cause I wanted to do a little trolling, I created a python script that generated files where it stored the result for calculations like (1.1.txt), if I selected the addition operation it would return 2. And I stored 4 giant folders for every result of operation lmao

[@alexander-yermolenko]

I am just new in programming(start in the end of 2022 with C++, and now from November 2023 use C#), but that sounds so crazy😵