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A comment on *(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with This Code? [video].

Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by yodsanklai on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @07:31PM (#37922946)
Not a big fan of the format of the talk. The guy is a good orator, but it takes ages to go to the point. A bit annoying if you're actually interested in the technical part rather than the jokes.
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by jinushaun on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @07:54PM (#37923138)
Same here. This talk reminds me why I stopped going to tech meetups with tech talks.
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by renewiltord on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @08:55PM (#37923620)
If you use GPT-4 with Browsing turned on and supply it with the title, it will find the page and use the transcript and you can ask it questions. Then you can look at the transcripts to find the spots and verify. Alternatively, if you have an AI-enabled browser you can ask it about the transcript once you open it.
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by jfbastien on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:16PM (#37923771)
I will do prompt injection in the next talk, just for you
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by renewiltord on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:42PM (#37924316)
I think that would be fun.
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by aldebran on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:46PM (#37924338)
Wait, you’re the presenter!
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by jfbastien on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @12:08AM (#37924756)
No, I’m a blade runner character.
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by sargstuff on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:46PM (#37933807)
> No, I’m a blade runner character.

Where along the determinate in the matrix?

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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by salky on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @01:25AM (#37925102)
> If you use GPT-4 with Browsing turned on

do you mean the browsing plugin, or using base GPT-4?

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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by kergonath on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @01:44AM (#37925204)
What’s the point of the LLM if you have to read the transcript anyway to check it did not hallucinate? Just read the damn transcript.
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by renewiltord on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @02:03AM (#37925297)
I ask it to quote the section and it helps to find. But if you prefer reading the transcript that’s fine too. It’s not a commandment. It’s my sharing what works for me.
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by kergonath on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:21AM (#37929095)
Fair enough. I was not criticising you, sorry if it sounded that way. I am just puzzled by instances where it seems an old fashioned approach (such as control-F in this case) would perform at least as well as fancy (and not always reliable) AI techniques.
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by renewiltord on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @01:55PM (#37932263)
The transcript is AI-generated sadly, so it isn't typo-free enough for Cmd-F always. Especially programming content gets messed up. "char" -> "car" and so on and so forth, but GPT-4 will correctly fix all that up.
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by sargstuff on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:03PM (#37937379)
no *fun() deref-ing?
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by tapatio on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @11:05PM (#37924419)
Yup, I’m not going to burn 54 minutes of my life listening to something that should take 30 seconds to convey.
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by tetris11 on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:03AM (#37925619)
Managers, meet Emails.
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by PretzelPirate on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @12:12PM (#37930811)
Your comment misses the point of the talk. It isn't to explain to the viewer what that line of code does, it's to talk about talking about what that line of code does.
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by PretzelPirate on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @12:11PM (#37930794)
> but it takes ages to go to the point

The point is the journey and the discussion around what the line of code does, and how that discussion is valuable. The point isn't to tell us what the code itself does.

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