the-podcast guy recently linked this essay, its old, but i don't think its significantly wrong (despite gpt evangelists) also read weizenbaum, libs, for the other side of the coin

  • m532 [she/her]
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    6 months ago

    Just because linked lists are usually implemented with a starting point doesn't mean they have to. Content + a pointer to the next object is all that's needed for an element of a linked list. It could even be cyclic.