*x = dereference or “point to”. Treats the variable x as containing a pointer value. Evaluates to a variable existing at the address in x.
&x = reference or “get address of”. Evaluates to the address of x.
They’re complimentary operators, so *(&x) cancels out and is equvalent to just x.
I’m watching Hell’s Paradise right now. It’s clearly done on a decent budget, but the animators are pretty good at knowing where they need to focus that cash. Meanwhile, the story is actually pretty good. For something like a Shonen-style power-system story, there’s a lot more going on than just flashy martial arts. I’m enjoying this one, and am surprised I haven’t heard of it before last month.
FWIW, its getting the TFS abridged treatment, so maybe that’ll boost its popularity a little bit.
Or a Moclan one.
Weather?
Oh! You mean outside.
Yeah, we don’t do that here.
Yup. You can’t say “the one leaning to the left” because, and trust me on this, there’s a number of ways a person can screw that up.
FWIW, this used to work better when “cascade windows” was a standard thing.
Page up, down, space, home, and end are WAY more responsive and faster.
Problem is, some pages do funky things with keyboard inputs and/or focus odd elements. This basically shoots a 30-year-old page navigation standard in the head.
Also, don’t get me started on apps crippling back-navigation.
Honestly, the fact that here in 2026, we still can’t get peripherals like audio, video, and printers to work in a 100% reliable and seamless way, is just embarrassing. It’s been over 30 years of having this stuff mostly standardized (and then re-standardized) and it’s still a shitshow.
To be fair, we are looking in the entire world for birds entirely located in Brazil. Task seems deliberately harder than it needs to be.
Linux shell also has… a thing going on.
touch
top
mount
man
fsck
Maybe its to saturate production so nobody else gets them first?
That’s hilarious.
But also, who the hell trades in a car with barely four years of payments on it?
Poor little Johnny, for he is no more.
As what he thought was H2O, was H2SO4.
Consider the mere fact that Doctors exist, and have been a thing for thousands of years. I think this tells us that for every person that is incapable of keeping themselves alive, there’s at least a hundred more just like that, and just one person smart enough to keep them all going.
1990’s Dracula had a catfishing game on a whole other level.
Peasant: How was the vampire castle?
Richter Belmont: It was… okay, I guess? I don’t really know. Too busy killing night terrors and vampires to take in the scenery. I guess if you’ve seen one enchanted castle, you’ve seen them all.
Alucard: ::groan:: You can be such a philistine.
I have never seen the word “forgiveness” so subtly weaponized before.
I misread “mystery over” as “mystery solved” instead of “mystery about”.
Holy cow is this messed up.
All I’m going to say is that squeezing the middle class like they have been is going to create a lot terminally ill people with otherwise treatable disease. Those people may very well be incredibly pissed off, along with family, and also have the time and resources to do things that might be life-ending anyway.