this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2024
540 points (98.6% liked)

Programmer Humor

27264 readers
586 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Feyter@programming.dev
anzo@programming.dev
BurningTurtle@programming.dev
pylapp@programming.dev
540
You can certainly change it. But should you? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by fl42v@lemmy.ml to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
60 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I will not tell my kids regular scary stories. I will tell them about embedded systems

[–] suzune@ani.social 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

When you program embedded you'll also dereference NULL pointers at some point.

More...Some platforms can have something interesting at memory address 0x0 (it's often NULL in C).

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago

In amd64/x86 kernel space you can dereference null as well. My hobby kernel keeps critical kernel structures there XD.

[–] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was thinking about telling them how in embedded systems it's a good practice to allocate the memory by hand, having in mind the backlog, but yours will come first