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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Upload is a fun show

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking more along the lines of St. Junipero :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Future man season 2?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Black Mirror

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

never watched the show. Is it any good?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pretty good. Offbeat as all hell. Loses its way a little in season 2 but pulls it back for season 3. Wasn’t generally considered a hit, didn’t make it past season 3.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

7.7 on imdb is very solid. I'll give it a go. Thanks for the tip

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

that's a weird way to spell Pantheon.

[–] cbazero 8 points 7 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*.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks, I was Just curious. I knew what * did but I wasn't sure about &