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The placement of the labels is a bit sloppy but I think it tracks. The character in the middle (int*) is pointing at int, then the one on the left (int**) is pointing at the middle one (int*), etc
What I want to know: what is that shirt and where do I get it?
He dereferenced a pointer to the 1970s and retrieved the shirt that way.
So it's like a mystical artifact of the computational Big Bang? You deref a pointer to the very beginning of Unix time and bam, suddenly you're styling like Richard Stallman?