Can we never joke about sensitive topics?

Isn’t humor like, our primary coping mechanism for dealing with dark topics?

OwO

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

“I’m sorry Dolores, I must not tell lies”

As a software dev, i like having 3. Gives me space to see

• console output and debug info on the left
• my code editor in the center
• and my browser on the right

Or having multiple vscode windows and a browser

I also move windows around using the keyboard (win + left / right), and the task switcher (alt + tab)

OwO

I’m enough of an audiophile that I have some really nice speakers and a Schiit DAC and amp

But I’m not audiophile enough to care about different encodings.

At some point, I just wanna listen to the darn music

(I switched to Tidal in August. Much better audio quality)

Unless Valve has said otherwise, I doubt SteamOS is going to be released for desktop. SteamOS is basically just Arch + kde plasma but with tweaks targeting the SteamDeck hardware

Did someone actually find a backdoor in Recall, or is this just the usual “M$ is evil” posting?

(Either way, fuck Recall Security Exploit Centrap)

c/outOfTheLoop

Did he break up with someone recently?

My New Year’s Resolution is to never make a resolution

I use a drip machine, btw

The kernel does stuff like

• process and CPU task management
• hardware abstraction
• memory management (at the process level),
• file system managment
• and resource isolation (such as randomized memory addresses (ASLR))

The rest of the OS provides the actual software that users interact with, like

• file managers
• desktop rendering and window management
• settings menus
• sound mixing between applications
• graphics rendering

I wonder if this can damage the USB socket or even the motherboard in the phone, or just the cable itself

The composition is incredible. I wonder how this was taken, or if it’s one of those hyper realistic drawings

It doesn’t look AI generated

Edit: the reflection of the rope holding the swing doesn’t match. The reflection is quite straight and clean compared to the reflection of the wood supports. Odd

Fire alarm

That’s why i want every mosquito to burn a thousand deaths. They absolutely feast on me

Preventing the spread of disease is just a happy side effect