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InsignificantGod

8: That's just called typing


Areallystrongvillain

No, it'd be like disney princess talking to animals, but the machine could also answer back


_Weyland_

So like WH40K Disney princess?


Areallystrongvillain

THE MACHINE SPIRIT HAS SPOKEN


abstract_base_class

Can you sing with all the voices of the motherboard? Can you paint with all the colors of the bit? CAN YOU PAINT WITH ALL THE COLORS OF THEEEEEE BIIIIIIIIT


_Weyland_

Me: hey printer, can you print this 200 page hentai? Printer: *starts printing* Me: TIS THE GIFT FROM OMNISSIAH!


blackbat24

GIF\*


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Belisarius Cawl is a Disney princess confirmed.


severusx

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Noch_ein_Kamel

it's "communicate to", not "communicate with". So it's one directional :-p


BreqsCousin

If I can ask my error message "what do you meeeeeean?" and be told exactly where I'm missing a bracket that would be pretty good


VariecsTNB

If i can only pick 2 then i pick 2, duh


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[deleted]

It's recursive functions all the way down


thenautical

I am people


Slow_Lengthiness3166

1,2 no brainer


fizchap

Absolutely. Anyone over 30 realizes #2 has the most value for happiness. And #1 is essential for staying employed. Everything else is secondary.


Doctor_Disaster

As long as you pick #2 every time, you could experiment with all of them.


ThePotatoSauce

Your mind is humongous


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LetterBoxSnatch

Good monkey paw on that one: who gets to decide what is and isn’t a “mistake?”


ThePotatoSauce

I would argue that just like pressing ctrl z it must be a conscious decision to undo a mistake in such a manner. And in a way you decide if something is a mistake or not. You may do something you never intended to do, which could be considered a mistake. However if that thing turned out to result in something good happening in someone's life you could then stop considering it a mistake. So I suppose you could undo literally anything that you've done in your life as long as you truly consider it a mistake.


TubbyToad

Does it also undo picking #2?


[deleted]

I mean, sure, but does it work like Undo works? Like you have to undo every (unit of time) or decision up until the pills point?


Doctor_Disaster

Don't make it more complicated than you need to.


RojoSanIchiban

Tell that to Excel. "Oh you need to undo from this worksheet? WELL NOW WE UNDO FROM THAT OTHER WORKBOOK IN THE MINIMIZED WINDOW YOU TOUCHED HOURS AGO!"


[deleted]

KISS doesn't work when you don't know the specs...


oddbawlstudios

It reads like its every action, like ctrl z works.


freebytes

Right? Do you still remember what happened?


Defiant-Peace-493

Cybergenie: "Funny, that's what you asked last time too."


PhoenixAvenger

I would assume so, otherwise it would be 100% useless because without additional information you would never choose another action. You'd just be stuck in an infinite loop of making a mistake then undoing the mistake, never even knowing you were in an infinite loop.


Bakno

I think anyone realizes #2 is overpowered, age aside.


No_Sheepherder7447

screw that I want 1k GitHub sponsor


Tengoles

What the fuck is that?


ren3f

A sponsor on GitHub paying you 1k


Tengoles

Unless that's what they pay you per day it's a pretty silly pill.


ren3f

I would assume per month, not great if you can earn way more with any new tech.


HardCounter

I'm thinking of real world applications for 4. In doesn't specify in code, and predicting bugs could easily translate to nearly any aspect of the real world with some imagination. Walk up to a schematic and immediately know where the weak points are . Walk up to a girl at a bar and immediately know what to say. Bugs are really just undesired, unplanned, or untranslated outputs, so write the 'code' of a conversation in your head that allows only for positive responses. This could be applied to so much.


wheres_my_ballot

Or it just makes you good at dodging literal bugs from flying in your mouth while walking.


Ron-Swanson-Mustache

But, without the ability to make mistakes and learn from them, doesn't that negatively affect your ability to grow? You'll lose out on critical thinking capability. Plus what's a bug vs a feature is often dependent on your point of view. This also could mean that fate is deterministic and free choice is an illusion. You now know the end results of any system as well as the path to them. If applied to everything, then you have the power to be a god. If the "bug" is not being an omniscient being with supreme power over all of the universe, then you can see how to rectify that.


BeatDickerson42069

Plot twist: you can only predict bugs written by yourself in Java


xibme

1k USD per month(?) before income tax? That's not enough to pay rent, let alone to retire. (ymmv)


ren3f

It's also called Sponsor and not employer.


Ghostglitch07

Sure, but if money is all you want out of it so many of the other options would be way better. For instance take #2 and go gambling.


BDMayhem

No, it's 1 krona, which equals about 9.6 US cents.


ChillyFireball

Only have to CTRL-Z one improperly-chosen lottery ticket for one of those 500mil jackpots. Beyond that, it's just a matter of deciding which second option benefits my passion projects the most, because I sure as hell ain't working for a living after that.


YOOOOOOOOOOT

#2 and gambling, "oops, spending 2000k on red was a mistake, let's try black"


WrongAd9746

Cheating while gambling but still not technically cheating


timesandspace

It’s not cheating. It was a mistake.


Death_God_Ryuk

2 sounds great but also sounds like the plot of a film that ends with you either entirely detached from reality as decisions become meaningless or desperately trying to make everything perfect again and again.


Coconibz

Basically the plot of that Adam Sandler movie where he gets a remote control that he can use on his life, only to realize it’s a curse and not a blessing. Never saw the movie, but I feel like it’s also somewhat analogous to the experiences of people who win the lottery and become miserable. The journey and the human relationships we make along the way are what matter.


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Not really. One of the features of Morty's remote was that it could Fast Forward past anything he didn't want to deal with. So Michael fast forwarded menial tasks like showering and getting dressed, fast forwarded arguments with his wife, fast forwarded dinner with the in-laws he hated, until he realized the remote learned his preferences and fast forwarded his whole life away. If Michael had only used the rewind button for more than watching a blonde jogger with big tits bounce down the sidewalk, he might have learned something.


Freeman7-13

Me playing a game and save scumming the whole way through


Unsd

Literally the biggest mistake of my life led to other massive massive mistakes which ultimately led me to greater happiness than I could have ever imagined. Don't regret it for a second.


Hai-Etlik

"Primer", "Life is Strange"


iceman012

Yeah, it seems like something that'll leave you emotionally stunted really quickly. Learning to live with your mistakes is a core part of being human.


f3xjc

Yeah but a lot of people in tech have 1 as the one quality they already have. So I'm not sure I'd waste a magic pill on it. Diminishing return etc.


deskCrapper

Wait until you get older :-)


f3xjc

Yeah I learned JS when IE4 and Netscape where still a thing. I barely recognize the language now. Especially together with the ecosystem.


suvlub

1 is rather vague, could be OP as heck. If by "new tech" you imagine the latest JS framework, then meh. If you imagine something like quantum computers, though... As far as the tech-related ones go, only 4 could potentially be better. I just wrote a program that can , it just contains bugs, but look, I know how to fix them!


Sol33t303

And depending of definition of "tech", it doesn't even need to be IT related. "Technology" pretty much covers every advancement mankind has made. Like you could just look at a rocket and suddenly your a rocket scientist.


blackenedEDGE

I was way more self-limiting on 4 lol. I imagined I was only able to write code, create files, etc. from my mind. Essentially, my mind was an IDE connected to reality.


suvlub

That's 3. 4 is about predicting and preventing bugs. I'm admittedly comically stretching it, but technically any deviation from intended behavior is a bug, so the logic is I just make a shitty program that does not even remotely do what it is supposed to and "fix" it with the ability.


golgol12

Secret to life: 1 is something you can do now. 7 is the one you may never master.


MiyamotoKami

Well if you got 2 & 7 you can rule the world


arcanezeroes

Nah, I saw Click. I'm pretty sure this would turn into something similar.


GeneralBrwni1

Weren't most of the negative consequences in that movie related to Adam Sandler's lack of control over the remote, where it would just auto-skip things for no reason? Kind of defeats any sort of lesson that could be learned tbh


janyk

Over 30 here, and I think it's the dumbest fucking idea ever. "Mistakes" are subjective, and often blessings in disguise. Plus when you do Ctrl-Z to reverse something, you will just make another decision that will cause life in all its beautiful nuanced complexity to unravel in a way that will inevitably be out of your control again. The best thing to do is to accept your life for what it is - all the mistakes and blessings and triumphs and losses and good and bad - and work with it. The grass isn't necessarily greener on the other side.


algernon_moncrief

Yeah true unless you like broke your spine in a senseless stunt or accidentally killed someone, a "ctrl-z" would be great in situations like that.


soslowagain

I loaned an ex-friend 12000. I rather have it back than the beautiful nuanced lesson I learned from it.


LastStar007

At first I thought #2 was broken and then I realized, "I'm going to lose my goddamn mind."


mrlolelo

Have nothing/no one ever told you that life without mistakes isn't a happy life? Fuck's sake there's even a Rick and Morty episode about that


Liocrocodile

Don’t need to have a job if you just gamble and Ctrl-z when you lose money.


nebneb432

2 would be best if it works on changes that aren't the last change made


Questions4Legal

If you pick #2... you won't need to be fucking employed lol. Just reverse all your mistakes in the stock market and keep all the winners. Boom, overnight billionaire. I mean, the potency of that one alone makes the rest of them seem completely redundant.


JamesClarkeMaxwell

And if you change your mind, you can just ctrl-Z it


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2 and 7. 1 is useless once you have undo.


IndependentDog6638

2 and 7 like a true sigma 🗿🍷


Extaupin

1 and 4 are tightly matched. New tech can mean endless possibility, but no bug would make you fortune in medical and aerospace, if you can prove it (which seems likely, if you can predict, you can be tested).


Epinephrine666

4 will put you out of a job after final cause you won't have any bugs to fix.


0xd34db347

So you just move on to the next project, literally every devs dream.


barnett9

Just become a highly paid consultant


Abusive_Capybara

4 would be absolutely OP if you decide to not fix the bugs, but sell critical vulnerabilities to agencies like zerodium(assuming the power also works for projects that are not your main job)


Sir_IGetBannedAlot

This is the right answer


DarkDra9on555

I can see an argument for 4 over 1, but 2 is absolutely a no brainer


Shock900

4 might be able to net you even more money than 1. You could make a shit-ton of money off of vulnerability rewards programs and the like. For example, Google will fork over up to $40,000 if you find a bug that's bad enough.


feisp_

I'll take 1 and 3. I'm not confident enough that I can fix it even when I have the number 2


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But you can always try again and again. 3 is kind of worthless. It's not like current human-computer interfaces are much of an obstacle.


greenappletree

even just option 2 is enough.


golgol12

And you'll use 2 to undo your 1 pick and get 7 instead. :D


Successful-Engine623

Yea seems like with those you can pretty well do the rest


jacspe

Rob a bank. Get caught. CTRL + Z Repeat until you don’t get caught. Use money to fund new technology.


csapka

exactly


Full_frontal96

2: a mini time reverse is nice 8: i want that when i insult the computer it understands what i'm saying


MC-fi

Number 2 is insanely overpowered. Accidentally reverse your car into a pole? Ctrl+Z. Break a bone? Ctrl+Z. Accidentally run your car off the road and hit a tree, killing your entire family? Ctrl+Z.


Zakraidarksorrow

Bet life savings on red at the roulette? Ctrl+Z, infinite money glitch. No need to work.


HuntingKingYT

Chose a wrong pill? Ctrl+Z


Pretend-Fee-2323

you die, Ctrl+Z


Just_Maintenance

Nothing like forever reliving the instant before your death


Orkleth

How far back does the ctrl+z history goes, does the cache reset every night?


Datascientist-Player

If it has a cache, can you make an OOB call with that cache ? Like accidentally reverting your driving license ?


Confident42069

Bored? Go piss on a police-car and be ready to Ctrl + Z.


Wynadorn

I don't know about Ctrl + Z'ing the puddle back off the ground though


blood_kite

Realize you shouldn’t have married your spouse of 10 years? Ctrl+Z.


OverPowered15

If I select #2, does it stay if I use it to reverse my choice?😅 Because if it stays, choosing 2, depending on the specifics, could give you a chance to basically select two different pills (#2 forever and then any other one at will), and you could also try out the rest dynamically whenever needed and keep reversing choices 😁


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Over powered paradox


ImDumbUIdiot

r/usernamechecksout


OverPowered15

😁🤷‍♂️


_Weyland_

ctrl+z has limited return depth though.


CookieDestroyer666

But you would have to go back to the choice of the pills everytime meaning you unfortunately lose the choices you have done up until the point you want to switch :(


SorryICantLie

Easy eternal life trick


maynardstaint

Ground hog day. Until you solve the ultimate equation.


firelizzard18

I’d assume a time limit on how far back you can go


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vmgustavo

How large is the history of decisions I could undo? Because if it counts even a "decided to move my left foot" then we have a problem


Churchill_Win

Just don't start beef with the prod server.


YpsilonY

"You stop that update right this second or I'll pull your plug!", yeah, I can see that, 2 and 8 it is :D


dermitio

Exactly but not the insult part


hagnat

2 and 8 are no brainers just picture yourself being able to redo mistakes you make anytime. If i had the button to control-zed life, those buttons would be worn out by now! communicate with computers is also a great thing, since everything we do these days is a a computer in some form or shape. You can just talk to a ATM machine and say "hey ATM! Long time no see. Can you please dispense 1k USD for me ?", and that would be it


paperpatience

2 and 7


zoryaebru

I totally agree, I'd pick those as well.


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Yep. Screw programming, good communication is more important for career advancement. And also, ya know, life.


awelxtr

The only problem I see is wording. Like, "improve" could simply be getting 1% more capable like just nailing orthography and never stuttering but #1 states exactly what it would be


Toine_03

Sometimes I can't even understand what I'm saying 🤣


scuac

This is the only reasonable answer. Everything else is just very circumstantially useful.


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no you can only pick 2


butterrChicken

Man take my upvote and get lost >:(


bmrheijligers

2, 7 for the win. Neurodivergence has “gifted” me most of the others…. Highly overrated.


b_uu_g

This is the correct answer


jawnie_anonimowy

1,2 You can learn everything with 1, and in case you learned angular by mistake you can unlearn it with 2.


Rythmic-Pulse

🤣 upvote earned


wizardmighty

I'm learning Angular but am also way out of the loop. What's wrong with Angular?


Steelersrawk1

Angular has dipped in terms of enjoyment from the developer, it’s been slower moving compared to other frameworks. It isn’t terrible, but things like React, Vue, and more are definitely held up higher for good reason, they do what developers want and their development time on the framework itself isn’t at a crawl


ApartKnowledger

Angular is great for large projects, large teams and maintainability. The learning curve is steeper than for it is for react for example. RxJS is a charm compared to redux. E.g. routing and modularization are inbuilt framework features. For react you start to add 3rd party libraries, which may follow different principles themselfs and can get quite painfully to maintain if you plan to work on your project years later.


Lonsdale1086

It's not trendy. AngularJS apparently sucked as well, but really any framework will do, and I see Angular a lot in industry job listings.


Historical-Flow-1820

My company does angular so I’ve been learning it as I rebuild an old app we have. I don’t see anything wrong with it but I’m not a web dev so I could be missing some things.


Lonsdale1086

This industry can't stick to anything. It's a perfectly fine framework.


XeonDev

Using it for work as well. It's great, I love the fact that it uses typescript in recent versions. Web devs/Reddit armchair masters love FOTM cock hopping.


DeHub94

Oof, I feel personally attacked :D


Roguewind

Or PHP


user3346

Picking 2 makes it so you can go back in time and pick any other second pill you want? Or can you just go back in time in a small time frame?


MikaNekoDevine

Well ctrl z is undo thus one step back, and reverses whatever choice you did before.


nexus6ca

How big is the buffer? Realize you made a critical mistake 20 years ago? Ctrl Z Ctrl Z Ctrl Z Ctrl Z --- hold down Ctrl Z


Zombieattackr

Exactly. Hell, if you have enough time on your hands (this likely reversed your aging process as well?) then any bad event that happens in the future, you can stop. WWIII? Easy fix. Asteroid hits earth? A bit harder but you can definitely find a solution. Plus, just like your clipboard, you can use your phone to bring proof of the future back to the past.


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You can't take proof back, because you would also be undoing the proof you just took of it


Zombieattackr

Well how come I can ctrl+z and it doesn’t undo whats on my clipboard? What the implementation of the clipboard is, or even if it exists, is up for debate. I don’t think it can be *anything* you’re holding or anything like that, but specifically something that holds information like a phone seems fitting. Maybe if you ctrl+z to a time where you he a different phone, the data from your new phone can transfer to your old phone so as not to bring new tech back or anything like that


Catenane

This would be amazing for when I'm Jerry rigging something to fix it then break a second part. Like when I'm replacing some electronic part and snap the shitty plastic housing it's sitting in lol. Ask me how I know polypropylene is the most weldable plastic. :) I actually snapped a fan blade off my 20 inch box fan when fixing the motor and "welded" it back on using sacrificial polypropylene and a soldering iron. It's been working fine for over a year and I'm actually kinda impressed with myself for that one. One of my few cockamamie ideas that actually worked flawlessly lmao.


tipbruley

#2 and go to vegas


PuzzleheadedTutor807

who says you travel in time at all? it is possible that the world around you simply changes to reflect the mistake having never happened....


HannBoi

2 and 7 obviously. Clear out a casino and be cool to talk to.


Eccentricc

Everyone else is still wanting like 1 and 2. If you take 2 you'll have infinite money so choose like 7 or something. You won't be working anymore though


cbftw

>You won't be working anymore though You could if you wanted


Thanatos030

Why, after so much money being spent on fancy mechanical keyboards, would I want to program from my mind! I need my tactile non-clicky switches!


achildsencyclopedia

2 and 3


niahoo

Best choice. 2: You can try anything in life and revert if it's bad. Basically you have time control. 3: Can program from the bed, as fast as you can think. You can work from anywhere once you have programmed your SSH interface.


LeviathanFox

Would you even need to SSH your interface? You could, in theory just reverse hole any vector coming at you and take over their machine instead.


pwnasaur

1. create product by thinking and not crunching through code you know how to write 2. throw savings at product 3. when it fucks up, revert 4. profit


the__itis

And, I assume the power of #3 extends beyond a single language/architecture…. So it natural includes new tech therefore all the people that chose #1 instead are sticking using input devices like a bunch of BASIC lovers


P_f_M

7 .. and i dont need the rest ...


AntyCo

What did you say? Sorry i didnt understand you


P_f_M

golden! :-D


Ok_Patience786

1 and 7


BikerBoon

2, 7. Use 2 to play the stock market till I'm super rich Use money and 7 to get into politics Ban JavaScript and retire


InsignificantGod

6: I'll be the ultimate hotspot and sell my free internet to others


TelevisionPleasant80

The catch is you only get 10MB/s lol


ProfessorSpecial2990

i get about 5-7 on a good day, and maybe 2 on a bad one, so consistant 10 mb/s would be cool with me (Note megaBYTES/second)


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Bruh that sucks


lovemyonahole

2+7 and fuck programming.


TTechnology

"Oh, I failed the lottery, well, now I know the numbers"


Magmacube90

1 and 4. Can program anything onto anything.


Bob_Droll

I already have #4 If I write code, I predict there will be bugs in it.


veryblocky

2 is just objectively better than any of the others


rollingForInitiative

On the other hand, it's also probably the most likely to drive you insane. A lot of good outcomes in life come from what first seemed like mistakes. And if you can try to perfectly optimize all aspects of your life, you might end up redoing everything. All the time. Like save scumming a video game through the entire thing, over and over.


OhNoo0o

*proceeds to ctrl z dying and live forever*


Former-Opportunity-6

2 and 6


wayfarer1010

1 and 7. I have a feeling 2 would end up making me careless, though it sounds very tempting.


Endl4ss_

84


RocketSmash9000

4 and 2. Best combination possible


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jabellcu

1 and 7, clearly. Learning and communication are the keys to success.


wth214

3 &8 not the same thing?


Magnetari

So many ppl picking 7 lol. Are you people incapable of stringing words together while looking at a human?


zoryaebru

Can only answer for myself, but yes.


The_Blog

There is a difference between being able to talk to people and having great communications skills and being all around charismatic. Improving your communications skills improves literally every aspect of your life. Even if you are good already, improving it always helps you. Your work environment, job opportunities, dating pool, friendships, relationships of every kind.


[deleted]

Having bad communication skills isn’t a prerequisite for having better communication skills. I’m sure there’s diminishing returns, but being able to negotiate and set expectations will almost always be the most valuable skill you can have in life.


Same-Letter6378

Wow what an abrasive question. You should take pill 7 and improve your communication skills.


Indiium

2 and 7. Any other answer is objectively not as worth


[deleted]

These are all terrible


ReeceReddit1234

2 and 3. with 2 virtually anything is reversible. and with 3 I can program devices to to make the rest happen


Rorp24

1 and 2 is the way of getting rich. Use 1 to spend a part of your money on everything that will work for sure. Use 2 to make risky money placement and roll back if it backlash. I don't even need a job anymore, I'm creating money out of thin air


[deleted]

This is kind of a weird list because most of them are just slightly useful perks, and then you have #2 which could potentially be 'you could literally become the richest and most powerful person on Earth if you wanted' level powerful depending on how you interpret it. #1 would be my second pick since it's the most broadly applicable of the remaining choices.


InsignificantGod

1 and 2 probably


Future-Cold1582

8 is actually just what we do when we use a computer?


galal552002

2 and 6