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To understand terminal capitalism, first you must understand recursion.

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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Love how every reply mocking them got hidden as off-topic

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 47 minutes ago

Yeah it's like the Microslop AI is so committed to the importance of smelling its own farts.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

To understand recursion, first you must understand terminal capitalism.

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Funny but I have an itch to note that this is a simple infinite loop, not a recursion.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What is capitalism if not recursion? Spending more and more resources on falling into a bottomless pit.

[–] neatchee@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago

Not to be pedantic, and I do appreciate the humor, but that's not recursion either :3 Recursion doesn't need to be endless. Recursive functions can absolutely have logical termination.

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 16 points 11 hours ago
[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

For anyone who opened this link in the GitHub mobile app and got confused, make sure to read from the very beginning of the comment thread - the mobile app only shows the very last comments, which cuts out the actual interesting part.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 hours ago

Thanks for the notice! Did not know Microslop does that on the mobile render.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Computer users are stupider every day. The internet was a mistake, or at least we should have required some kind of license to access it.

[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

And they say that LLMs are going to replace humans and programmers.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 hours ago

To be fair, LLMs can repost the same crap much faster than my tired ~~furry~~ human operator hands can.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

So it's stuck in a loop but also can hide replies coming from any source but itself.

Awesome job there, Gemini programmers.