6/3/2026 at 2:28:25 PM
> To answer that, we need to look at where this macro is actually used.You could have just told us without that structure but that was exactly where an ad started. What a miraculous synchronicity!
by hyperhello
6/3/2026 at 4:42:47 PM
I always hate when authors waffle around instead of just getting to it.Why couldn't:
> Today, in weird C code tricks, I want to show you a small example from Git’s source code.
> Recently, I was poking around the Git source when a directory name caught my eye, it was named “compiler-tricks”. I thought, “This is a promising name, let’s see what’s inside of it”.
> Inside this directory, there was a file called not-constant.c, and the whole file contained just this:
Have been:
> In the land of weird C code, there's an example in Git's not-constant.c:
The entire article is exhausting. So many "so why this" and "to understand this, x". Could have gotten the entire point across in perhaps 10% of the space.
by goodmythical
6/3/2026 at 5:17:44 PM
It's the televisionization of the Internet. You should imagine it as a guy walking down a beach as the camera follows him looking sincerely and speaking to alleviate your loneliness and then there will be a shampoo ad!by hyperhello