NeatNit @ NeatNit @discuss.tchncs.de

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Multilingual users have multiple keyboard layouts, usually switching with Alt+Shift or similar key combo. If you're multitasking you might not realize you're on the wrong keyboard layout. So say you're chatting with someone in Russian, then you alt+tab to your source code and you spot a typo - you wrote my_var_xopy instead of my_var_copy. You delete the x and type in c. You forget this happened and you never realized the keyboard layout was wrong.

That c that you typed is now actually с, Cyrillic Es.

What do you say, is that realistic enough?

Oh, that I agree with. But then there's the mess of Unicode updates, and if you're using an old version of the compiler that was built with an old version of Unicode, it might not recognize every character you use...

Sanity is subjective here. There are reasons to disallow non-ASCII characters, for example to prevent identical-looking characters from causing sneaky bugs in the code, like this but unintentional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack (and yes, don't you worry, this absolutely can happen unintentionally).

Yes, but the language/compiler defines which characters are allowed in variable names.

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist.

Thanks, Wikipedia.

Could have been just an obvious spambot with no relevance, but that's just a guess.

It looks like a super genetic stock image, and I always assumed that's what it is.

I am beginning to think this community is not for me, as I need every other joke explained. But I haven't given up yet... What is the joke here?

Reality is so unoriginal

I'll take your advice even further: I won't even try to look up what a "discord kitten" even is.

Wow. Only desperate marketing would call that a function.

The page says two functions, what's the second one?

(and to all smart-asses out there: what's the first one?)

I didn't sit through any of those and I don't get the joke. Do I upvote anyway, trusting that it's funny? Or just based on the conversation below? Such a dilemma...

This was the topic of an episode of the podcast That's Absurd, Please Elaborate, which I highly recommend. Unfortunately I can't find the episode right now. https://thatsabsurdshow.com/

Oh boy, have I got good news for you!

I am not an explosives expert, but I've seen enough YouTube videos about explosives to know that not all explosives explode in fire. Some are incredibly stable at extreme conditions right up until deliberately triggered. It all depends on the type of explosives.

There may still be ways to detect them, but it's not necessarily going to be that simple.

That's a problem when you get to the fourth.

Thanks, but I hope I won't have to resort to that. I didn't even really try yet, when I reached that fight I only tried it twice and then it was already time for me to go anyway. And I've been procrastinating it ever since. So I didn't give myself a chance yet.

Tunic.

I reached a really difficult fight and I kinda just noped out. Will need to give it a proper go sometime soon.

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