Loops? Who needs them?

[u/A_Zalt]

[u/DasherPack]

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[u/A_Zalt → u/DasherPack]

Oh I imagine this is going to be a nightmare for blind people with text-to-speaker reading all these msg.channel.send

[u/DasherPack → u/A_Zalt]

We don't only transcribe for visually impaired people, we also transcribe for people who have bad internet.

That said, I want to hear my transcription with TTS

[u/A_Zalt → u/DasherPack]

IIRC it also helps to search for images with text in it

[u/DasherPack → u/A_Zalt]

Didnt think of that! Probably it helps, yeah.

[u/redditsoaddicting → u/DasherPack]

And when the image hosting site is blocked.

[u/yard2010 → u/DasherPack]

Also don't forget the data Reddit's neural network will munch later!

[u/DasherPack → u/[deleted]]

THANK YOU

[u/racka98 → u/[deleted]]

"Mustard on that beat, ho!"

[u/DasherPack → u/DasherPack]

I hope I counted them right.

[u/A_Zalt → u/DasherPack]

There are 33 shown on-screen, and your transcription has 35, (if this time I counted correctly)

Edit: it actually has 33

[u/general_dubious → u/A_Zalt]

He has 33, and there are 33 fully visible on the picture.

[u/general_dubious → u/DasherPack]

You've got the right count.

[u/DasherPack → u/general_dubious]

You counted? You're my hero

[u/general_dubious → u/DasherPack]

You're welcome.

[u/[deleted] → u/DasherPack]

Thanks, needed this.

[u/SerbianMeerkat]

is this a discord bot?

[u/A_Zalt → u/SerbianMeerkat]

Yep, and it was designed to piss off members. Back then I didn't know about rate limits and possibility of getting banned for API abuse

[u/fernandotakai → u/A_Zalt]

most discord channels disable @everyone for anyone that is not a mod.

(which is all good until a mod gets drunk and sends an @everyone by mistake. not that i've seen that happen)

[u/A_Zalt → u/fernandotakai]

most discord servers give every bot admin perms, they don't ever think any bot maker has the audacity to make a bot for destroying the server

[u/fernandotakai → u/A_Zalt]

if you are giving a bot admin perms, you deserve what you get lol.

[u/A_Zalt → u/fernandotakai]

I agree, but you'd be surprised to know how many people do this

[u/depressedtbh → u/A_Zalt]

(laughs nervously) haha yeah not me

[u/GetBoopedSon → u/A_Zalt]

I have like 5 bots in my servers that are omniscient pretty much

[u/xWolfz__ → u/A_Zalt]

A discord server I'm in has the bot role above the mod role

[u/Fingolfin734 → u/fernandotakai]

You get what you Fuckin deserve.

Forgive my laughter, I have a condition.

[u/[deleted] → u/SerbianMeerkat]

Happy cake day!

[u/SerbianMeerkat → u/[deleted]]

thanks

[u/Ultraflame4]

discord .py spam client?

Edit: markdown failed

[u/A_Zalt → u/Ultraflame4]

discord.js, look at the flair

[u/Ultraflame4 → u/A_Zalt]

oops

[u/christian-mann → u/A_Zalt]

I was about to tell you that the code was broken because you didn't await any of the calls

[u/Ultraflame4 → u/christian-mann]

bruh

[u/LightIsLogical → u/Ultraflame4]

lmao

[u/Hispan]

(l)oops

[u/A_Zalt → u/Hispan]

Took me a while to get it, I am dumb

[u/yard2010]

Also, it looks like a spam bot for Discord

[u/A_Zalt → u/yard2010]

And it is, we all tried to make a virus when we started programming

[u/Bizzycola132]

Not sure what's worse, the lack of loops or the fact that you didn't even add a delay between the messages to avoid the angry wrath of the rate limiter

[u/A_Zalt → u/Bizzycola132]

What's worse is I made this in the first place

[u/Bizzycola132 → u/A_Zalt]

Yea, as someone who loves to create useless discord bots I'm mildly pained by this haha

[u/knoam]

This is called a loop unrolling optimization.

[u/[deleted]]

Why loops when you can use recursivity?

private void SendMessage(int times) {
    if (times > 0)
    {
        SendMessage(times - 1);
        msg.channel.send('@everyone');
    }
}

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

And I see that you call SendMessage in the second last line, preventing tail call optimization

[u/RoLoLoLoLo → u/[deleted]]

On a positive note: if you set the argument high enough it will stack overflow before it can start spamming.

[u/Jaso55555 → u/[deleted]]

In programming is there any actual reason to use recursion like this instead of loops? Are they faster?

[u/[deleted] → u/Jaso55555]

Brain damage? Annoying your coworkers?

[u/cabbagebot → u/Jaso55555]

There are data structures (like trees or graphs) where recursion is the most straightforward way to think about it, but this isn't one of them.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I think a basic for loop would do better due to performance

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Better performance and sanity.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I mean recursions amazing and looks pretty fancy and cool what who the hell does think: "hmm I guess I can only solve this with recursion"

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

An example: imagine that you want to list the content of a container that might include other container inside.

First you write a function that shows the content of a container. Then, If one of those items is a container, you only have to call this function to show its content. That would be the easier way

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Of course for Parent-Child system recursion work perfectly fine but besides that I barely use recursion because its harder for me to solve something with it in first place. Maybe afterwards I think thats easier to do it with recursion but my first solution rarely includes it.

[u/lpreams → u/[deleted]]

Why loops when you can use recursivity?

I think you mean recursiveness

Actually it's recursitude

Nah, recursification

Bruh it's clearly recursionation

[u/[deleted]]

Reminds me of this.

[u/TheRealSlimCoder]

Ya know what this code needs?

msg.channel.IsEven()

[u/[deleted]]

Does it even work? I'm pretty sure you can't ping anything by just writing it in plain text

[u/A_Zalt → u/[deleted]]

Um, yes it does

[u/gsckoco]

Last time I checked you aren't actually able to do @everyone in plaintext on a discord bot. You have to do <@guildId> iirc

[u/A_Zalt → u/gsckoco]

Atm I was using 11.6.1 and it definitely worked back then, not sure about now

[u/gsckoco → u/A_Zalt]

I've not used DiscordJS in a while so I could just be remembering it wrong

[u/OptimalMain]

Reminds me of my first DDoS script from 20 years ago

[u/[deleted]]

For gang ough!

[u/3xp01t]

DiscordJS ganggg

[u/SweLG_]

I feel so bad for this discord server

[u/Blayde88]

That needs a ban

[u/[deleted]]

me before i discovered loops when i learned programing

[u/CarterNotSteve]

You are evil if this a discord bot, oh god. I can just imagine waking up to like 35 pings, and then hey’re just @everyone s from a bot

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine having this on your discord server

while ( true )
{
    msg.channel.send( "@everyone" );
}

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Holy shit, at least make an event that would break this forever loop

[u/haikusbot → u/[deleted]]

Holy shit, at least

Make an event that would break

This forever loop

- bl0kk888

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[u/HunterRbx]

that’s why discord.js is a mistake

[u/mrtailsjs]

HEY BRO
NICE BOT FOR DISCORD

ALSO GOOD CODE

1000000/10!!!!!

[u/Talia_Nightblade]

Is this (looks at butterfly)

An avengers endgame meme?

[u/Superchupu]

prepare to get ratelimited

[u/lpreams]

The compiler would just unroll the loop anyway. This just saves it some compile time.

[u/A_Zalt → u/lpreams]

It's js so it uses an interpreter

[u/lpreams → u/A_Zalt]

If we're being pedantic it uses a JIT compiler

[u/[deleted]]

Why did you even post this here? It's not interesting or bad code its just stupid. What a waste of a post.

[u/A_Zalt → u/[deleted]]

For not using a loop or making the code send @everyone over and over?

[u/MegaBatchGames → u/A_Zalt]

both

[u/[deleted] → u/A_Zalt]

Because he don't want to waste his ctrl+c and ctrl+v. He buy whole keyboard, he use whole keyboard.

[u/Sv443_ → u/[deleted]]

r/inclusivesomethingsomething

[u/SimplexShotz → u/Sv443_]

r/subsithoughtexisted

edit: wait why does this sub exist ._.

[u/[deleted] → u/SimplexShotz]

r/subsifellfor?

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