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dereferencing movies (thejenkinscomic.files.wordpress.com)
submitted 9 months ago by quantenzitrone@feddit.de to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] gianni@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Conflating two concepts can be funny (e.g. puns) but this isn’t that. “Dereferencing a movie ” has no meaning outside of manual memory management.

I understand humour is subjective but some jokes aren’t as strong as others (and some jokes aren’t jokes at all).

[–] Luvon@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

Referencing is the term that is being conflated.

Enough people apparently find this funny here. Not everyone needs to find every bit of comedy funny.