Bronco1676 ( @Bronco1676@lemmy.ml ) 21•5 months agoCan anyone explain the funny for me?
gianni ( @gianni@lemmy.ca ) English11•5 months agoI personally don’t find it funny because these types of jokes essentially boil down to “I used a concept outside of its context, and for that reason alone it is funny”. However, with a lot of these jokes the context is so narrow (i.e. programming) that they are almost universally not understood by wider audiences.
Luvon ( @Luvon@beehaw.org ) 2•5 months agoI mean programmers is a pretty big audience. Sure this probably would pan at a comedy open mike night but it’s literally on programmer humor.
And using concept outside its normal concept or conflating two concepts is pretty standard humor.
gianni ( @gianni@lemmy.ca ) English2•5 months agoConflating 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 ( @Luvon@beehaw.org ) 2•5 months agoReferencing is the term that is being conflated.
Enough people apparently find this funny here. Not everyone needs to find every bit of comedy funny.
outer_spec ( @outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•4 months ago🤓
survivalmachine ( @survivalmachine@beehaw.org ) 11•5 months agoTo reference a movie in common vocabulary is to bring it up in conversation.
Referencing in programming terms like C refers to assigning a value to a variable. You can re-assign those variables to new values and then de-reference (read) the new value.
They are conflating the common meaning of reference with the much more obscure programming definition (obscure at least among non-programmers).
Star wars = “no, I am your father” (reference) Jaws = movie about hunting killer shark (reference) Star wars = movie about hunting killer shark (OP is pretending we can treat movie references like variable references and re-assigns the star wars variable to mean something else) “Hey, have you seen star wars? The movie about hunting a killer shark?” (De-referencing your newly re-assigned variable)
Overzeetop ( @Overzeetop@beehaw.org ) 12•5 months agoIn that case we’re going to need a bigger Death Star.
s12 ( @s12@sopuli.xyz ) 5•5 months agoLet’s reassign “The Mario Movie” to reference some Mario fan content!
MajorHavoc ( @MajorHavoc@programming.dev ) 2•5 months agoGreat idea. Alternately, the Super Mario Brothers Super Show
Maeve ( @Maeve@kbin.social ) 2•5 months agoHe’s still your daddy!