If you do that, you lose formatting and comments every time you load the source from disk

Why he droppa da fish?

As much as this hurts, yeet; as an alias throw; is hilarious

Sanity checks

Always, always check if your assumptions are true

• am i even running the function?
• is this value what i think it is?
• what is responsible for loading this data, and does it work as expected?
• am i pointed at the right database?
• is my configuration set and loaded in correctly?

Only eggs can sustain me

I’m more talking about theory than practical.

I’ve not developed anything in C/C++, so I don’t know practical uses for a double pointer, aside from multidimensional arrays, or arrays of pointers

My point was that, conceptually, pointers to pointers is how most complex data structures work. Even if the C representation of said code doesn’t have a int** somewhere

The distinction is meaningless in the land of Opcode’s and memory addresses

For example, a struct is just an imaginary “overlay” on top of a contiguous section of memory

Say you have a struct

struct Thing {
  int a;
  int b;
  Thing* child;
}

Thing foo {}

You could easily get a reference to foo->child->b by doing pointer arithmetic

*((*((*foo) + size(int)*2)) +size(int))

(I’ve not used C much so I’ve probably got the syntax wrong)

Mostly because at the lowest level of computing (machine code and CPU instructions), pointers are the only method (that I know of) of any kind of indirection.

At the lowest level, there are 2 types of references:

• CPU registers
• memory addresses (pointers)

Every higher level language feature for memory management (references, objects, safe pointers, garbage collection, etc) is just an abstraction over raw pointers

Pointers themselves are really just abstractions over raw integers, whose sole purpose is to index into RAM

With that in mind, pointers to pointers are a natural consequence of any kind of nested object hierarchy (linked lists, trees, objects with references to other objects, etc)

The only other kind of indirection would be self-modifying machine code (like a Wheeler Jump). But the computing world at large has nixed that idea for a multitude of reasons

c/outOfTheLoop

Did he break up with someone recently?

I use a drip machine, btw

Oh, so that’s what all of you are talking about.

I still don’t really see what all the fuss is about

You might be able to clear (or at least relieve) some of the pressure by doing a Eustachian Tube Massage

Apply pressure to the area below the ear and just behind the jaw bone, then follow the jawline down to the neck (I’m not sure if you go under the jaw or straight down the neck. I do both)

Obviously, if this causes pain, don’t continue

(I am not a doctor)

It might be your phone getting a notification, and sending that to the BT speaker, which then takes precedent over the laptop

I usually just disable BT on my phone when stuff like that happens (on android, you can change the playback device without disconnecting, and that should also prevent the phone from stealing your headphones)

You got a purty mouth

This smells of bot/troll account

Maybe some reddit mod or admin taking the piss?

Lol

To be fair, i think making an effort to de-radicalize and deescalate american politics would go a long way

I don’t watch Mr Beast, nor do i know anything about him, but my gut says he’s not a good fit for this purpose

I don’t know, i just wish politics wasn’t such a cult-of-personality, us-vs-them scream fest. I just can’t be bothered to care when everyone is at each other’s throats over everything

It’s possible whoever made the meme just flipped a screen cap, so all 3 Thomas’s would be facing the same direction

Shell scripts don’t count

That’s not a programming language, that’s hieroglyphs

I like Reddit / Lemmy’s system best

Auto up vote your own stuff (or just don’t allow self voting, same difference), and being able to see both up and down votes separately

Although i think the latter isn’t a thing on Reddit