• gianni@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    I personally don’t find it funny because these types of jokes essentially boil down to “I used a concept outside of its context, and for that reason alone it is funny”. However, with a lot of these jokes the context is so narrow (i.e. programming) that they are almost universally not understood by wider audiences.

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      10 months ago

      I mean programmers is a pretty big audience. Sure this probably would pan at a comedy open mike night but it’s literally on programmer humor.

      And using concept outside its normal concept or conflating two concepts is pretty standard humor.

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        10 months ago

        Conflating two concepts can be funny (e.g. puns) but this isn’t that. “Dereferencing a movie ” has no meaning outside of manual memory management.

        I understand humour is subjective but some jokes aren’t as strong as others (and some jokes aren’t jokes at all).