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Average Performance Of My Brain While Debugging
Debugging Windows Programming
14 days ago 54.3K views 0 shares
Average Performance Of My Brain While Debugging
The human brain: allocating 23% CPU and 2.4GB of RAM to thinking about sex, 8% to lunch plans, and a measly 2.4% to actually finding that seg fault. Meanwhile, writing documentation and unit tests are running in the background with 0% CPU utilization. Priorities perfectly aligned for maximum debugging inefficiency. The real kicker? Those embarrassing memories from 2007 somehow consuming 1.2GB of memory that could've been used to solve the actual problem. But hey, at least "Incoming Bowel Movement" is only using 0.1% CPU - small victories.

People Are Unfamiliar With Memory Efficient Coding
Programming Algorithms Math
15 days ago 74.0K views 0 shares
People Are Unfamiliar With Memory Efficient Coding
Journalists discovering that 256 is an "oddly specific number" while every developer is facepalming so hard they've left a permanent mark. For the uninitiated: 2^8 = 256, which is a power of 2 that makes perfect sense when you're allocating memory or designing data structures. It's like watching someone be confused why pizza comes in 8 slices instead of a "nice round 10." Next headline: "Developer uses 65,536 as maximum file size - sources say he 'just made it up'."

Depends If You Clone By Reference Or By Value
Programming C++ Javascript
20 days ago 102.6K views 0 shares
Depends If You Clone By Reference Or By Value
When philosophers ask if a clone is the same person, programmers swoop in with the actual technical answer. Clone by reference? Same memory address, same person. Clone by value? New memory allocation, different person. Leave it to devs to solve ancient philosophical debates with a one-liner about pointers. This is why we're not invited to dinner parties.

Uninitialized Pointer Go Brrr
C++ Programming Debugging
24 days ago 95.4K views 0 shares
Uninitialized Pointer Go Brrr
Ah, the classic uninitialized pointer bug. You spend 8 hours debugging, questioning your career choices, contemplating a life as a goat farmer, only to discover you forgot to write ptr = malloc(sizeof(int)) . Meanwhile, your program's been happily accessing random memory addresses like a drunk tourist navigating Tokyo subway. The wall behind the character is a perfect representation of your sanity after staring at memory dumps for half a day.

Pointers Are Good Too
C++ Programming Debugging
29 days ago 114.6K views 1 shares
Pointers Are Good Too
The ultimate C programming trauma in six panels! When Patrick says "I don't like C," Squidward immediately diagnoses this as pointer-phobia, while SpongeBob desperately tries to defend Patrick's dignity. But then Patrick commits the cardinal sin—declaring a pointer variable with int *y = &x; —proving he actually understands pointers perfectly fine! It's like someone saying they're afraid of heights while casually tightrope walking between skyscrapers. The memory management PTSD is real, folks—we've all pretended to hate pointers while secretly using them like pros.

Great For Learning
AI C++ Programming Debugging
1 month ago 125.0K views 0 shares
Great For Learning
Oh snap! ChatGPT out here teaching C programming like it's handing out candy! 🍬 The joke is that when someone says "ChatGPT is useful for beginners," ChatGPT responds with some hardcore C code using malloc() to allocate memory for a string. That's like saying "swimming is easy" and then throwing someone into the deep end with sharks! Memory management in C is basically the final boss of programming that makes grown developers cry. Nothing says "beginner-friendly" like manual memory allocation that can crash your entire system if you forget to free it later! 💀