[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 21 points 6 months ago

That's the only reason i don't think this is real

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 19 points 1 year ago

This looks more like a solar eclipse

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

1 - popsci headlines about food are always bogus

2 - skimming through the article, it suggests that the Vit B in vinegar is the suspected cause

3 - substituting vinegar for antidepressants (which the article does not state, but seems to ~~elude~~ allude to) is a bad idea

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Use a towel

Just make sure it's not damp, or the resulting steam will burn you

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can either patch the binary

sudo patchelf --replace-needed libalpm.so.14 libalpm.so.15 "$(which paru)"

Or install paru-git

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru-git.git
cd paru-git
makepkg -si

Or do both, patch the binary, then use it to install paru-git (which is what i did)

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 17 points 1 year ago

As a furry, i approve this message

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 20 points 1 year ago

As a furry, this confuses me in ways i did not anticipate

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 20 points 1 year ago

I wonder if KDE connect could leverage the way Syncthing does device discovery and pairing

It works across networks, with no configuration

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 19 points 1 year ago

Just a software dev furry passing by

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 20 points 2 years ago

I feel like that would cause false positives

Then again, not that many people mess with their router

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