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  • Some desktop environments set a default compose key, but you might have to set one manually. Common choices are the menu key or the right alt key if you don't use it much.

    Mostly it just defines a set of pretty standard and sensible combinations to add accents or other modifiers to existing characters, but there's quite a bit you can do with it.

  • In Time (2011). Time is currency in the dystopia in the film - paying for something decreases your lifespan, earning wages increases it.

    The movie sets up a really cool class structure, wherein there are rich people born with/inheriting hundreds of thousands of years of life, and poor people barely managing to scrape enough hours to stay alive until they can earn more the next day. There are segmented areas of the city that cost years to get into.

    Overall incredible premise, but the story wasn't exceptional beyond a couple of the cool mechanics you might expect based on said premise.

  • Oooof, good to know. I have a bit more of a low level C brain at root so I see the appeal of Go, but never had enough of a reason to get into C++. I've only really used C# and JS/JS frameworks professionally.

    Rust is an absolute joy to work with. The strong typing, the hands-on memory management, the functional elements, the build system, the helpful compiler errors and warnings, the magical feeling that comes when your first successful compile since refactoring just works, the queer-friendly community... just the perfect language for the way my brain operates.

    I'm lucky to be unemployed at the moment and have time to make my own projects with tools of my choosing. There are definitely some barriers to using it in most workplaces, but most of those come down to adoption inertia and the fact that the language is still "new" - new in the sense that it's not mature enough to have a mature enough frontend framework that has a mature enough third party component library for easy plug and play. Filling out all the corners that older languages have is gonna take a while.

  • E.g. There isn't even a standard set object, everyone just implements it as a map pointing to empty structs, and you get familiar with that and just accept it and learn to understand what it means when someone added an empty struct to a map.

    Goooood fucking gravy.

    I hate to be such an opinionated programmer, but everything I've read about Go only reinforces my negative opinion, especially since I read this now-famous article.

  • The original calculation (adding up all the ages in the genealogies in the Bible) was done a few hundred years ago, but all the young earth creationists I saw put the start at 4000 A.D., so 6000 years ago.

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  • The real answer for a black bear is make yourself look as big as possible, back away slowly, and tell it to fuck off in a deep voice. If it charges you it's hopefully feinting, but if not whack it right in the snout with whatever you have.