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Achieving 'Hello World' in Brainfuck Feels Like Ultra Instinct
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Achieving 'Hello World' in Brainfuck Feels Like Ultra Instinct

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This meme uses a screenshot of the character Goku from the anime series 'Dragon Ball Super'. In the image, Goku has black, spiky hair, a serious and intense facial expression, and is surrounded by a faint blue aura, signifying a massive power-up. The on-screen subtitle reads, 'So this is the power of Ultra Instinct?'. The provided caption, 'When you successfully use the brainfuck language to display 'Hello World!'', gives the image its programming context. The meme humorously equates the god-like power of Goku's 'Ultra Instinct' state with the feeling of immense accomplishment a developer gets from completing even the most basic 'Hello World' program in Brainfuck, an notoriously difficult and minimalistic esoteric programming language. For experienced developers, the joke lies in the absurdity of applying such epic significance to a foundational task, perfectly capturing the pain and subsequent triumph of working with esoteric or highly constrained systems

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Some developers chase FAANG salaries. Real senior engineers chase the high of successfully writing 'Hello, World!' in an esoteric language just to prove they still can
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Some developers chase FAANG salaries. Real senior engineers chase the high of successfully writing 'Hello, World!' in an esoteric language just to prove they still can

  2. Anonymous

    Wrote a Brainfuck ‘Hello, World!’ that ran on the first try - suddenly I understand monads, the CAP theorem, and why prod broke last Tuesday. Is this… Ultra Instinct?

  3. Anonymous

    When you realize the junior who wrote "Hello World" in Brainfuck is the same one who suggested rewriting your monolith in Rust, implementing event sourcing, and migrating to a blockchain-based CI/CD pipeline

  4. Anonymous

    That moment when you've been debugging a distributed systems race condition for 6 hours, and suddenly the CAP theorem implications, the eventual consistency model, and the exact sequence of network partition events all align in your mind simultaneously - you don't just understand the bug anymore, you *become* the bug. Your IDE is merely an extension of your consciousness. Logs materialize before you query them. You instinctively know which microservice will fail next. This is the power of Ultra Instinct debugging: when 20 years of battle scars and production incidents have trained your subconscious to pattern-match faster than your conscious mind can articulate the problem

  5. Anonymous

    So this is the power of Ultra Instinct? When your hands do 'kubectl rollout undo,' flip the kill-switch flag, and mentally trace the hot path before Grafana renders the first panel

  6. Anonymous

    03:17 - PagerDuty screams, brain still in BIOS POST, but your hands already kubectl rollout undo’d the canary, flipped the kill‑switch flag, and tailed p99s - turns out Ultra Instinct is just bash aliases and scar tissue

  7. Anonymous

    Ultra Instinct: 20 YoE letting you refactor that race condition instinctively, CAP theorem dodged like a ki blast

  8. @pyproman 5y

    >++++[<++++++++>-]>++++++++[>++++<-]>>++>>>+>>>+<<<<<<<<<<[-[->+<]>[-<+>>>.<<]>>>[[->++++++++[>++++<-]>.<<[->+<]+>[->++++++++++<<+>]>.[-]>]]+<<<[-[->+<]+>[-<+>>>-[->+<]++>[-<->]<<<]<<<<]++++++++++.+++.[-]<]+++++

    1. @TERASKULL 5y

      How did you call my mother?

      1. @pyproman 5y

        Is your mother's name a Sierpinski triangle?

        1. @TERASKULL 5y

          perhaps

  9. @dellism1 5y

    why would I even use brainfuck

    1. @mmddvg 5y

      mostly for fun

    2. Deleted Account 5y

      to fuck your brain

    3. @pyproman 5y

      --------[-->+++<]>.-----.[--->+<]>-----.---[----->++<]>.-------------.----.+++.-[--->+<]>-.---[->++++<]>.------------.+.++++++++++.+[---->+<]>+++.+[----->+<]>.--------.[--->+<]>----..++[->+++<]>++.++++++.--.

      1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

        Isn't brainfuck a waste of storage?

        1. @sylfn 5y

          pifs is also waste f storage

          1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

            Yeah

        2. Deleted Account 5y

          it compresses 3 times

          1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

            Loool

            1. Deleted Account 5y

              what i meant is that each instruction takes 3 bits and not 8, so 8/3≈3 is the compression ratio

              1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

                Oh okay so it is not saved as a txt file lol

                1. Deleted Account 5y

                  well, you can compress it

                2. Deleted Account 5y

                  basically it depends

              2. @sylfn 5y

                one instruction in brainfuck is not one instruction in 8bit machine codes

          2. Deleted Account 5y

            what did i just write

      2. @dellism1 5y

        >to read this message outstanding move

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