• Luvon@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    I 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.

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      9 months ago

      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).

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        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.