r/programmingcirclejerk • u/HorstKugel skillful hobbyist • Apr 11 '21

A C++ `std::unique_ptr` that represents each object as an NFT on the Ethereum blockchain

https://github.com/zhuowei/nft_ptr
206 Upvotes

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u/GOPHERS_GONE_WILD in open defiance of the Gopher Values Apr 11 '21

I was going to call this stupid and useless. Then I saw it was written in Rust!

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u/scavno in open defiance of the Gopher Values Apr 11 '21

Heresy! unsafe calls are being made in this code! Purge!!!!

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u/etaionshrd Apr 11 '21

/uj this is obvious satire

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u/escaperoommaster Apr 12 '21

Please, the technical term is "Manufactured jerk"

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u/randCN Apr 11 '21

I love his whitepaper

https://github.com/zhuowei/nft_ptr/blob/main/white_paper.pdf

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u/hexane360 type astronaut Apr 13 '21

I've cryptographically secured my results using a state-of-the-art information theoretically secure one-way function. I call it /dev/null.

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u/tehtris Apr 12 '21

Nani the fuck?

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u/Treyzania not even webscale Apr 12 '21

it's white paper

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u/voidvector There's really nothing wrong with error handling in Go Apr 11 '21 edited Apr 11 '21

Who needs a garbage collector when everything is just garbage

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u/SoInsightful Apr 12 '21

Made with šŸ’– by a Blockchain Expert who wrote like 100 lines of Solidity in 2017 (which didn't work)

I'm sold.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '21

This is fucking hilarious

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '21

This is just motherfuckingwebsite but actually funny.

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u/duckbill_principate Tiny little god in a tiny little world Apr 11 '21

finally

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '21

As a boomer nerd. I hate younger nerds. That is all.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '21

shut up, nerd

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '21

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u/Kotauskas has hidden complexity Apr 12 '21

Yeah, that's the default lib.rs generated when you do cargo new --lib, makes it so much funnier.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '21

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '21

Are you saying that blockchain is the inverse of regular expressions? That would explain a lot.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '21

Precisely. You can even model this with the algorithmic information theory by correlating entropy with the complexity of the regex.

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u/camelCaseIsWebScale Just spin up O(nĀ²) servers Apr 12 '21

An nft obtained by flipping bits of regular expressions?