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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This makes me feel so much better after spending a morning banging my head against some wild pointer arithmetic, thank you much much! (Ultimately the pointer incantations were successful, praise be!)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Three things in CS meet the qualifications for arcane runes: complex regular expressions, pointer arithmetic, and bit shifting.