• @Tangent5280
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      299 months ago

      Sends original data vs making a copy of data and sending it.

      In meme context you’d be just making a copy of your consciousness and putting it in a machine. Whatever reason you’re doing it for - escape illness, survive armageddon, nothing changes for you. A copy of you lives on though.

      • @Valmond
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        109 months ago

        It’s not like the post, secont is a pointer.

      • MaggiWuerze
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        89 months ago

        I mean, just kill the host as soon as the upload is complete. at best you are not conscious during the process and when “you” wake up you are in the cloud. The version of you that awakes gets told that the “transfer” was complete.

                • @herescunty
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                  29 months ago

                  Oh I know San junipero, just suggesting the plot of season 2 of future man as another similar reference - minds uploaded to “the cloud” and bodies destroyed on upload complete. Haley Joel Osmand is pretty decent as the antagonist of that season.

                • germtm.
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                  19 months ago

                  that’s a weird way to spell Pantheon.

    • @[email protected]
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      89 months ago

      I guess you ask for C++. There Type* can be null while Type& can’t be null. When it gets compiled Type& is compiled (mostly) to the same machinecode as Type*.

    • @Valmond
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      79 months ago

      You can pass nullptr in the second example (that is not what OP wrote though, hes second is making a copy).