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Pointers explained: (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] addie@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He dereferenced a pointer to the 1970s and retrieved the shirt that way.

[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 2 points 2 days ago

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?